We’re down to one car this week, so I had to dust off the bicycle this morning. Peel off the cobwebs. Pump up the tires. My commute is only a couple of miles, so it’s not bad, and the weather is perfect. Tomorrow: less so. Might have to hitch a ride.
I was notified last night that my contributor copy of The Crane House is on the way from Cemetery Dance. I’m looking forward to seeing how this story turned out.
I abandoned Harbor Nocturne by Joseph Wambaugh in the middle of my other work, so now I’m back at it. It’s the latest in his series featuring cops working Hollywood. I can’t say that I like these as much as his older, classic novels, but they’re okay.
Law & Order: SVU was crazy this week. Must have been an episode that was bumped from earlier in the year, as it is set on Valentine’s Day. It was about a woman who had multiple affairs, often with delivery men, who gets caught in a nest of lies and still manages to bluff her way through. I wonder what Amaro thought he saw in her that made him suspicious of his wife. I’m betting the whole thing blows up in his face and that she’s actually seeing a counselor.
A rousing episode of Survivor. It always make for good drama when someone starts to go off the deep end a little, as Troy-zan did this week. I also think the crew relishes contests where the players have to gorge themselves on food in a very short period of time, as with Kat’s cake. What can you say about Leif? The guy didn’t leave much of an impression. It was like the producers had to go out of their way to show him in reaction shots because he didn’t seem to do anything else. Even on the Ponderosa clips, which are usually 95% about the most recent evictee, they were hard pressed to show much about him. One of the three segments was about Jonas prepping sushi (with Leif as his assistant).
The women are now firmly in control and Troy-zan can’t afford to make any mistakes. It was smart of him to lead the others into thinking he might have found an immunity idol, but that just means that if he doesn’t win immunity next week they’ll split the votes between him and the other -zan to hedge their bets. Kim is still running things, but I wouldn’t count Chelsea or Kat out of it yet.
Eureka is back for its final season and, true to form, they did another timeline reboot. This must be at least the third or fourth time that they’ve completely juggled things around. Poor Allison and Carter. Will they ever get together permanently? I wasn’t terribly fond of the way the first episode ended, because it made everything that had happened up to that moment seem unimportant and moot, but it’s a fun show.
