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power outage leads to cable off leads to cable modem resetting leads to me not getting online yesterday to write any blog entries, so, here's a quick rundown of the past couple days:

• jeopardy
• the simpsons x 2
• family guy - "ptv" - i've said it before and i'll say it again, since coming back from being cancelled, the folks at family guy can get away with anything, and i for one am glad about that
• american dad - "stan of arabia" - this show has gotten much better but this week got overshadowed by a brilliant family guy episode
• house - "daddy's boy" - great ending, great bits throughout, but finally seeing house's parents wasn't all that revealing, which might have been the point
• nip/tuck - "tommy bolton" - only bugged a little by issues with reality this episode. with all the directions this season is going, i still contend there's no chance there will be another season after this one
• the daily show x 2
• the colbert report x 2
• boston legal - "truly, madly, deeply" - remained surprisingly serious in dealing with the bestiality, and played denny's case nicely. some of the new characters already seem extraneous, though
• extras - (patrick stewart) - stewart's obsession with nudity was hilarious and gervais' style with the uncomfortable bits being the funniest is making for a great show. can't wait for the second season
• lost - "abandoned" - odd thing, until about 10 seconds before shannon was killed, she was about the only possibility for death--since the folks behind popular tv never have the guts to kill off major characters who still have important things to do... part of why i killed off some characters at the end of my lion horse tree, to get off on a tangent--i was trying too hard to try to guarantee one character in particular and a couple others sorta would survive, so i deliberately put them in a situation they could not survive... anyway, great episode, advancing numerous subplots and possibly being the only episode not to include jack (except in that brief shot in the hospital hallway, letting the audience know of a connection the characters will never know) or kate. and, interesting detail, sixth episode last season was the one in which locke helped charlie get off the heroine. this episode, the sixth of this season, brought charlie's acquisition of some heroine to locke's attention. looking forward to "the other 48 days" next week
• recorded veronica mars and invasion, haven't watched them yet
• designed a new shirt (hence the blog title today)
• wrote some on my horror-ish gardea short story
• got to thinking about wannabeheroes again, maybe doing even more detailed research on some so-called revolutionary groups (sla, weathermen, etcetera) and simplifying even more the character designs to make it easier to keep up the drawing--a page a day would get the book out quite regularly--and i'm still thinking on the project as a half hour drama tv thing, not that i've got the clout to get anyone to try to make it
• gotta go to the post office to send out part of lion horse tree
• and, should consider sending hindsight (after a quick edit) to a magazine or two

and, that's that, no against the world blog today, as it seems the governor's pet project propositions didn't get much support and i don't feel like rambling about iraq or bush today