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Empire Magazine has revealed its list of the 50 Greatest TV Shows ever.
1. Bold the shows you watch/used to watch.
2. Italic the shows you've seen at least one episode of.
3. Post your answers.


50. Quantum Leap
49.  Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars
47. Star Trek:  Deep Space 9
46. Sex & The City
45. Farscape
44. Cracker
43.  Star Trek
42. Only Food and Horses 
41. Band of Brothers
40. Life on Mars
39. Monty Python's Flying Circus
38. Curb Your Enthusiasm
37. Star Trek: The Next Generation
36. Father Ted
35. Alias
34. Frasier
33. CSI: Las Vegas
32. Babylon 5
31. Deadwood (I would like to watch this, but lack the cable channel to do so)
30. Dexter
29. ER
28. Fawlty Towers
27. Six Feet Under
26. Red Dwarf
25. Futurama
24. Twin Peaks
23. The Office
22. The Shield
21. Angel
20. Blackadder
19. Scrubs
18. Arrested Development
17. South Park
16. Doctor Who
15. Heroes (only the first season)
14. Firefly
13. Battlestar Galactica (all the original, none of the new)
12. Family Guy
11. Seinfeld
10. Spaced
09. The X-Files
08. The Wire
07. Friends
06. 24
05. Lost
04. The West Wing 
03. The Sopranos
02. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
01. The Simpsons

Image is the cast of the now defunct series Pushing Daisies

Ms. Joslin takes the skeletons of animals and, using the actual bones and bits of antique mechanisms, makes sculptures out of them.
The results are interesting, and I'm not sure if I like them or not.  Part of me finds them fascinating and deliciously macabre.  The other part, the small squeamish part that seldom so much as whispers a word, finds them disturbing.  However, that seems to only delight the twisted part all the more.

Image is a cat skeleton with some of the bones gilded.  It is wearing a black and white stripped beanie hat.  Its curled tail is attached by a string to a little two-wheeled cart.  A two headed bird with moth wings rides in the cart.  The joints of the cat are brass hinge balls. 

You can read an interview with the artist and see more of her pieces HERE.
Her "Brass Menagerie" is Here.

I had always thought that "sodomy laws" were anti-gay. Apparently not. They also involve other individuals--one NOT capable of "giving consent". Of course this just HAD to happen in Michigan!

No sex registry for sheep offense

Um, I can only speak for myself, but...
I personally would want to know if I had to worry about my animals around certain people just as much as I want to know if children are safe.

BTW:
WHY can I only post in HTML???? WTF???

This is the first year I have not had to watch So You Think You Can Dance on syndication.  I caught it right from the beginning of auditions and insisted we watch it.  At first I watched alone, on a different t.v. than we normally watch, but Charlie finally agreed to watch it with me.  He wasn't crazy about the show and would sometimes read while it was on...now he watches.  I had said I would love to go see them when they tour and he frowned upon it.  After Wednesday's performances, which were ***FREAKIN' AMAZING***, he told me to check into seeing them.

Yes, we have vet bills and a million other things to spend our money on.  However, we haven't been to a theatre show in endless, literally *years*, and the thought of going to see such an entertaining live performance was just too good--I was excited and delighted.  Sadly, instead of playing The Fox Theater, the venue where we saw Les Miserable and where I saw Phantom of the Opera, a venue *for* theatre, they are performing at Joe Louis Arena.  JLA is a hockey stadium.  We went to see Olympic Skaters there, but they were performing on the entire floor, moving across the ice.  The dancers will be on a stage at one end of the ice, the rest of the floor used for seating.  We have seen several concerts there, but you are going to a concert as much for the live music as you are for the show.  To pay $40+ per ticket to watch the dancers on a big screen...well...that would be a waste of money.  The ticket sales don't let you pick your seats, you don't know what you've got until you've bought them...I just can't see it. 

I'm disappointed.  I'm disappointed because FOX chose a stadium for sporting events and rock concerts rather than an actual theatre that is designed for stage productions and where there are no bad seats.  I'm disappointed because I managed to get my husband interested in dance and got him to understand that it can be entertaining *theatre* and a delight to watch, yet we do not get the sure joy of seeing a live performance because somebody was greedy and chose a venue with more seating rather than one that fit the performance.

Shame on you Fox Network!  Shame on Nigel Lythgoe (one of the show's executive producers), too, as I thought from all he has said about perpetuating love of Dance and it's place in the theatre that perhaps he would have tried to ensure that it was shared with the public AS THEATRE not a  run of the mill circus act to be watched from a half a  mile away.


It all comes down to *Greed*, wanting to sell more tickets even though *most* of the audience will not *really* get what they are paying for--to watch these talented dancers *LIVE*.  *Most* of the audience at Joe Louis will watch them on a huge big screen T.V. because they will be too far from the stage to  see the performers properly.  I have already watched them on television for free, I am *not* paying $48 to watch them on *another *T.V. surrounded by strangers, miles from home (round trip would require about a half a tank of gas), where I have to stand in line to use the bathroom and pay $6 for a four ounce beer. 

The true shame of this is that if more people said "What you are doing is greedy and wrong and I deserve to see the show I pay for, so I am simply not going to buy your tickets *unless* you put the show in a *proper* venue," the promoters might actually stop booking shows in inappropriate venues.  Sadly, that will probably never happen.

Again, because I have female genitalia, I have been grossly excluded from the demographic.

In addition, because I have a brain, apparently I have been excluded from the demographic.

 

I’ve seen the commercials for Molson’s latest advertising/”click” campaign.  They are now putting either/or questions on the back of the bottles’ labels.  It sounded like a cute, fun, interesting idea…

 

BUT

 

1)      Judging by the questions, they are assuming you have consumed four or more beers before noticing that there are questions on the back because…

 

2)     Unless you have that much alcohol in your system they are not even mildly amusing

 

3)     Apparently there are not many women who drink Molson beer because none of the questions are female oriented while several you have to be male or lesbian in order to answer them.

 

Samples Questions from Molson Beer Bottles:

 

ALL START WITH “ANSWER HONESTLY, WOULD YOU PREFER…”

 

To be smarter than your girl OR Make more money?

(This one really bugged me...OK, I can replace "smarter than my guy"...but...so you are assuming I am dating/married to a Rocket Scientist?  Or am *I* da stoopid one in the partnership?  It just doesn't make much sense to me...maybe I need to drink some beer, or Rum...something....)

To marry a supermodel OR an heiress to a brewery?

To date someone who talks too much OR who rarely speaks?

To ride a skateboard OR roller skate everywhere?

To be stuck on a deserted island with a supermodel OR a boat builder?

 

Can you say “DUH” boys and girls???

nikon6 aren't you EVER so glad you don't work there anymore???

SNOOP DOGG is now doing...



Country Music.



ZOMG!

It Burns my Brain!  It BUUURRRRNNNSSSS!

“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating...


...and you finish off as an orgasm.”

~~George Carlin

I have never been able to “get into” the Harry Potter books.  While the rest of the world raved about them, I could only sit back and listen and, occasionally, “catch the movie”.  Thus, when Sarah Pirneas, whose short fiction I have devoured for years, announced her first novel was about a young wizard’s apprentice, I became a bit nervous.  What if, after waiting for years for her to publish a full-length book, I didn’t like it?  My husband said I should not lie in writing this review, so I will admit, I did NOT like The Magic Thief—I loved it! 

My delight began the very moment I laid hands on the book.  The slipcover is made to look like blue leather with gold leaf and the pages are deckle-edged, giving it an “old book” appearance.  The inside has beautiful illustrations by Antonio Javier Caparo, a map, journal entries by the wizard Nevery written on stationary, and recipes for biscuits at the very end, because inside The Magic Thief there is a great deal of eating biscuits and bacon.

The story had me hooked within the first few pages.  Conn is a gutter boy who survives on the streets of the bad side of town by picking locks and pockets.  One cold night he unwittingly chooses a wizard as his mark, pinching a magical item that should have killed him, but does not.  Intrigued, the wizard Nevery takes the boy on as his servant.  Nevery was banished from The Magic City of Wellmet twenty years ago.  He has only returned because something is draining the city’s magic.  Can a former exile and a reformed thief save the great city of Wellmet?

The Magic Thief is well written, delightfully entertaining and, well, magical.  It is a book that can easily be read out loud to younger children and the 10 to adult crowd will find it equally enchanting.  Harry Potter and Artemis Fowl had best keep a sharp eye on their biscuits and bacon, because I have a very strong feeling that they have met their match in the quick hands of Conn and the imaginative talent of Sarah Pirneas.