The Mooresie

Let’s see.

• Big Bang Theory, pure rubbish sitcom television but i can’t stop watching it.  Kaley Cuoco’s performance is very subtle – lots of little looks and silences to make us suspect what she’s thinking of her new nerd friends, to contrast with the ebullience of said nerds – not just an ingenue but an avatar of the Feminine Mystique.  Also, the siblings Darlene and David from Roseanne, veteran comedians, are getting it on intermittently, and Jim Parsons is the comedy find of the decade.
• Weeds is just over the top crazy.  Great satire of the drug war and Yankee society in general.
• Man On Wire, a breathtaking documentary about the man and the team who tightroped between the World Trade Towers.  Courtesy of MUN Cinema, to which i give my highest recommendation for anyone who is as picky about movies as i am.
• My new coat, a cheap Misty Mountain thing, light and warm.  Courtesy of Wm. Chafe’s Ltd.  i’d had a similar Columbia but it was stolen from a skeet downtown bar that shall remain unnamed (and unpatronized by me).
• Best book i’ve read in recent months is still Ash, a Secret History by Mary Gentle.  It’s truly unique. Not merely a science fiction book set in the past, but a speculative fiction work about history rather than science.
• A People’s History of the United States is also a great great book, eye-opening – if half what it says is true, America has been a scam from the beginning.
• Warhammer Online, it’s just better and the developers have yet to show the sheer arrogance of WoW’s Kalgan.
• Working in R&D again and doing master’s courses at last. (Assignments are tough though.)
• Barack Obama, who will save us all.  Gotta hope for something…