Category Archives: television

things I miss…

17 Sunday Feb 2008

Posted by in books & writing, films, food & drink, friends, language, life stuff, retail therapy, television

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I came across this old post from last year on Letters Home the other day. Oh how I wish everyone had a ‘recent comments’ widget for people just passing through or for when I’m just having a quick look around a few blogs without using my feedreader. In fact, I probably would have just read the comment to this post on my feedreader without clicking on the post itself. But seeing it on ian’s sidebar I clicked on the comment and saw the original post. Anyhoodle … it was all about things ian misses from the places he used to live after having moved on to somewhere else.

Like ian, I’ve lived in a few different places since leaving my birthplace Winnipeg, Canada (aka Winterpeg) at age 25. Since then I’ve lived in Toronto, Bristol in England, and Salamanca & Seville in Spain. Here is my list of things I miss …

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the wire

19 Saturday Jan 2008

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Have just started watching series one … it’s very good!

The Wire was recommended awhile back and last week I saw the first series DVD on Amazon for a good price, so I decided to try it out. Very impressed. I love the grittiness of it, that the actors all look like real people … and I totally l-u-r-v-e the groovy cool soundtrack.

Compared to Anne Tyler’s Baltimore, it’s quite unrecognisable.

house series 4

09 Wednesday Jan 2008

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~ note to nursemyra … this is my idea of eyecandy ~

The first episode of the fourth series was on TV last night and it was fabulous. The writing is as sharp as ever and I didn’t actually miss the three characters that ‘resigned’ at the end of last season. In fact, I think they had probably run their course and a shake-up like this was what the series needed for it to stay fresh.

Funny how hearing the theme music come on made me realise how much I’d been missing this programme. I got all nostalgic, especially as it was my first foray back into television watching last February, after about 15 years.

No spoilers please! 🙂

chapter and verse

28 Friday Dec 2007

Posted by in media, religion, television, video

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I’ve spoken here before about my West Wing addiction…

Have recently finished all seven series and am now rewatching them to use as a teaching tool with a couple of my students, which means I have to come up with questions for each episode. Today I got up to episode 3 in series 2 and loved this scene so much I wanted to use it on a debate forum on h2g2 … and hey, there it was on Youtube. And now here it is for you. 🙂

the west wing

11 Tuesday Sep 2007

Posted by in home, media, politics, television

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But before we go any further … no spoilers please! Nog and I are about half-way through season two at the moment.

What I was mainly curious about was what US citizens think of it – though all opinions are welcome, of course. I know it won tons of Emmys, mostly for the writing (which I think is fabulous), but how did people feel about seeing the president and government presented in that way? I mean, having an intelligent, caring and principled president and a support staff that seemed to know their elbows from their arseholes. Too pie in the sky, as in … it ain’t never gonna happen? Or what?