Strangely, I miss this, too

Every time I start to try to sell Diana on moving to Denver - the city, the scenery, the seasons! - the season have to come along and actually be, um, season-y. This is my parents' front yard last night:



And the back:



What else?

I seem to have been blogging a lot lately, but I don't know if it's been especially good blogging. Too cerebral, too serious. But one or maybe two people mentioned they thought the blog was funy and ... ack! Performance anxiety, blog style.

Does anyone remember when TV shows only went into syndication after they weren't airing new episodes anymore? It was one thing when Law & Order became unbiquitous on cable, at least it had been around long enough to feel like an old show. Same with The Simpsons. Then Friends went crazy with two syndicated episodes every day. But this is too ridiculous: TNT now has both Las Vegas and Cold Case in syndication. These shows have only been around for - what? - two seasons? Crazy.

And nevermind the fact that Las Vegas (yes, I'm basing this assessment on having watched all of about half of one episode) is one of the truly worst shows ever.

Nip/Tuck is also on now, but I'm saving it to watch with the girls tomorrow night. It made the cover of EW before the season and it was also in this week's "Must List," but ... I haven't honestly thought very highly of season three so far. Watching it last week, I realized that it’s not really a question so much of whether the show has jumped the shark, but how long ago it happened. Does anyone else remember when it was a show about plastic surgeons who happened to have some crazy stuff going on in the periphery? Now it’s a show that is desperately trying everything the writers can think of to continue to shock us (Transvestites beating someone up and pissing on him? Gratuitous shots of man ass? Threesomes? Foursomes?), oh, and also these people just happen to be plastic surgeons.

It was always a show that required a lot of suspension of belief. But now it’s just getting desperate, and that’s too bad. Of course, the show went places in the first season that a lot of shows would need four or five seasons to get to, so maybe it’s no surprise that the writers are struggling. Pity though. Hope it gets back to a more typically Nip/Tuck level of insanity soon.