GLEEKS of the World Unite!

I am a GLEEK and proud of it! If you don't know what a gleek is you must have been living under a rock for the last year and a half. Glee is Fox's hit show that has the whole country loving showchoir! Glee focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationship, sexuality and social issues.

From Rachel, the talented but social awkward girl who wants to shine, to Quinn the pregnant captain of the cheer squad and president of the school celibacy club, to Kurt the only out and proud gay kid at a school who can't always accept him, Glee has something for everyone!

But it's not just the story line that gets people coming back for more, every episode is filled with wonderful music that any age, race, or religion can enjoy! The pilot episode featured Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" which has become the defining song for the show as well as the only song to have been used twice. I love being able to watch their talent grow but also growing as people.

If you haven't been watching this show for whatever reason you need to be! I watch every Tuesday night at 8pm and so should you!

Scary Theatre

I am addicted to weird shows.  I guess you could call them Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror genre shows.  I love them all.

There are old ones:  The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Star Trek (Original), Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica...

There are old/new ones:  Star Trek (Next Generation, Voyager, Deep Space Nine, Enterprise), V, Outer Limits (Remake)...

There are new ones:  Lost, The Event, Fringe...

I love them all.  I even (I'm embarrassed to admit this, so please don't tell anyone else) sometimes love watching those old B-Horror flicks (or are they C or D flicks?).  You know the ones.  Black and White movies interrupted by badly costumed people with little or no acting skills, who are themselves interrupted by scenes of theatre crowd heads with belching, farting, nose picking crude and rude dudes.

Okay, so that's the part where I go burn popcorn in the microwave.

But sometimes, those old silly, can't possibly happen, Giant Blob-vs-Giant Bat movies are the perfect thing for a rainy or snowy, cold or damp, dark or dismal, afternoon or evening... curled up under a warm blanket on the couch, with a sympathetic dog or cat - or both.

Just the thing to make me forget, for a little while, that I have a paper due and I can't think of a thing to write for it.

I love trying to figure out the puzzles of the good ones.  And the bad ones?  Sometimes it's nice to be able to see something someone else published and think, "Criminy!  I can do better than that!"