According to the teaser on the TV monitor at the gym today, Canadian Air is coming. Don’t they know that airline was bought out by Air Canada nearly a decade ago? I guess they’re alluding to the fact that it’s going back down to freezing temperatures tonight. Blame Canada. Right.
Speaking of Canada, there were some freaky high tides along the East Coast this week. Here’s a YouTube video of the waves crashing up against Inch Arran Park in Dalhousie, New Brunswick. The Bay of Chaleur doesn’t get riled up like this very often. Listening to the audio on this clip is a little like being back home. The guy’s accent is so familiar to me. More pronounced than mine, I think, but then again I don’t have an accent.
Stephen King is doing a live chat on UStream this evening. Check the link for the local time.
Got another story into circulation this morning. It’s one that had been accepted by a magazine that underwent a shift in model to anthologies that were never published. I’d almost forgotten about the story, but it’s a cool one. Only 1000 words, but every one counts.
The Eureka Christmas special was cute. They managed to work a normal Eureka-like science catastrophe into a seasonal story, including a return by Matt Frewer with his holographic reindeer.
Men of a Certain Age is back for a limited engagement, too. I’m pretty much exactly the same age as the three characters are supposed to be (Ray Romano’s Joe said he’d be turning 50 in a few months), even though two of the three actors are well into their 50s. Only Andre Braugher isn’t — he’s a year younger than I am. I don’t have any of the issues these guys have, either. Much was made of Joe having to wear reading glasses. Hell, I’ve been wearing glasses since I was 16, although the addition of a reading component to them is something new in my forties. I don’t have Peter Pan syndrome (like Bakula’s Terry), I’m not divorced like Joe, and I’m not stuck in a job I don’t like or trying to live up to my father’s high expectations like Braugher’s Owen.
Terry is on a clock, perhaps for the first time in his life (he even responds to an alarm going off during sex). He’s trying hard to conform (wearing a suit, although he bikes to work) and just as he’s about to flake out again, Owen’s father gives him a pep talk that might connect.
Joe’s trying to make it to the senior golf circuit, and also learning that it’s okay to dabble with interesting women with whom there are no long-term prospects. He needs to get rid of that bookie friend, though. That can’t end well.
A low-key first episode. The fastest thing about it was Owen’s little macho outburst when the guy tore off from the red light. Man, was that an ugly green car he was driving, though? Favorite line of the episode was Owen responding to Joe’s angst over being flirted with by a single mom. “It’s probably all in your head, although there’s probably not enough room with all that other crazy shit going on up there.”
