Entries tagged with “TV” from CrabAppleLane Blog

We’ve been catching an ad for a new show called In Plain Sight on the USA Network. Its website has the ad and the show has a prominent spot on the network's main page. We started seeing this ad in January and have been looking for the show on TiVo ever since. It looks like fun. They offered us no date or time for the premier ... until yesterday. My DVR has about two weeks of programming available for us to see. It's nowhere to be found because this show premiers in June. Six months of buildup? That show better work.

I’m really not much of a basketball fan but this first weekend, particularly the first two days of March Madness, are about as exciting as anything in sports. Live underdogs abound.

The Eagle That is Forgotten. Just lovely. Thanks, Marie.

Quote of the Day

Sleep softly … eagle forgotten … under the stone
Time has its way with you there, and the clay has its own

Vachel Lindsay, The Eagle That Is Forgotten

Blog of the day via Marie is here.

Quote from said blog: "The Vachel Lindsay Home State Historic Site, administered by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, is the birthplace and longtime residence of poet, author and artist Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, 1879 - 1931."

Happy Mardi Gras

For those going, be safe.

I’ve been delaying writing about Chuck since it premiered mainly because I didn't think it would last. My friend, Cullen, did it a few months ago but he doesn't have the power I have when it comes to the networks canceling shows that I like. Ask Firefly, Sports Night, and The Black Donnellys. 60-minute sitcoms are rare these days. High-quality 60-minute sitcoms are almost non-existent. Moonlighting was the last show to try. Zachary Levi, who plays the title character, comes to Chuck mostly unknown much like Bruce Willis came to Moonlighting. The show revolves around his character and the writers have done a marvelous job of informing the audience about who he is and why he does what he does. If this show survives, it will be because of him. I hope it does. Chuck is the best show on network television right now. It is funny and warm and worth your time. It's on NBC and you can watch back episodes online if you like but I suspect reruns are forthcoming soon if the writer's strike doesn't end.

I’ll not be in the Mardi Gras crowds in New Orleans today. Haven’t done that in many years. Mardi Gras has become just a day off for me. Some garden work was planned but a backache is putting that on hold until the weekend.

Quote of the Day

This show is victory.

Cullen, Half a Pica Distance

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: "When we came up with the name for the character, there were no other "Chucks" out there; it felt like an everyman name and Chuck is an everyman and that kind of character is ubiquitious in the culture now so that's reflective of that and probably why you're seeing a lot of "Chucks.""