Ok, I was a little put off when Kendra said no, because I'm tired of TV portraying the nerdy sidekick as the one who never gets the girl because not typically white boy handsome, then I was pleasantly surprised when they seemed to correct that old cliche', but now you tell me she's Hawkgirl and she's destined to ditch…

Ha! That's why my memory of it is so fuzzy. I'm playing the old lady card (72!) and looking forward to next week. Thanks. :)

I don't like sports, I didn't like his acting, and when he described the America that he wanted to represent, the description didn't fit me. I do like peanuts, but not as well as filberts. I knew Saul Alinsky and folks that worked for him. I don't think you have the slightest idea of what skills community organizing…

Loved the guy who refused to shake Reagan's hand (that was in there, someplace, wasn't it? Surprised not to see it in Stray Observations). Something about making a movie with a chimp and loss of dignity. I remember the night Reagan won the election. I had just come out of a Fellini movie at the University, intending…

They're saving it for the renewed peace treaty at the end of part II?

One of the things I do for fun is read/scan old National Geographics. I have them on disc. I started in 1888 and am now up to March of 1915. Experiencing the first world war as up close and personal as I can. Anyway, the racism of the period can be startling, even to one who expects it. A very early article on China…

Stand and deliver! Love that line. I couldn't resist using it in a scene I wrote for my second novel, in which a ghost highwayman appears on a misty night in Northumberland. "I drew forth my pistol and I rattled my saber saying stand and deliver for I am a bold deceiver …" https://www.bing.com/videos…

Chiklis' buncha cops on Gotham are the Strike Force. His buncha cops on The Shield was the Strike Team. Looking him up, apparently I've missed some of his outings since Shield - wish I could see him again in a great role.

On the nose. Sad thing is, I like Michael Chiklis (left-over like from The Shield) - but he hasn't gotten a good TV role since. And has he gained a lot of weight?

My thought exactly. BTW, one new feature that the Billy Bob Thornton character has added to my household's television viewing experience is our name for the rating warning before some TV shows. Mature Audience Language Violence - encased in a big O of a box: the Malvo Warning. :)

I just realized that I've been saying it for years, only I don't have a Minnesota accent. I do have a Norwegian Lutheran mother and grandmother from Iowa and, later, Minnesota, whose expressions I've probably been using all along, invisible because they sound so ordinary. I'd love to hear one of the characters, one…

Maybe because the noise the zombies are making are attracting all the other zombies and more and more keep arriving - so where are they going to go when they can't get into the quarry? Well, there's that nifty new development in Alexandria.

Just back from 2 weeks in Oregon. Watched first TLK last night. Looks promising to me.

No. Back home again. It's a hotel on the Oregon Coast for people who love books. No Wifi, even. Always happy to plug the Sylvia Beach: http://www.sylviabeachhotel…

Proud of myself. Took the Bastard off the rotation (sorry, Vampire Bill). Replaced it with The Last Kingdom. Fingers crossed.

I want to know what happened to Chekhov's hole in the fence (made earlier by Alicia). Now I'm out of town for two weeks in a TV-less hotel. God bless DVR's and On Demand.

Ha! I agree about that song. It's awful. I ff'd through it. I'm going to miss Lady Love and her maid, but I'm going out of town for two weeks and when I get back, The Last Kingdom will have started. I took the Bastard off the rotation tonight. I can only hope that Kingdom doesn't disappoint.

Hehe. One of the people in my writer's group has been working on a novel for years that involves an alien landing in the ocean and the ocean water becoming infused with its essence and somehow spreading quickly from seafood to humans to fresh water, making them into humans with alien brains all connected to each other.

I was very disappointed with the Nikki/Dutch scene. The scene where Dutch tells Fet goodbye was probably the best one in the show, and the only thing that could justify that "breakup" at all would have been Dutch arriving at "their" apartment only to find that Nikki had already left, taking with her some valuable…

Love the stripey Arkham frocks for the women patients.