Thursday, January 18, 2007

It's Got To Be The Morning After

Did you watch Monday night? We tried, but felt somewhat detached from this year's Golden Globes. Maybe it was because we didn't catch the red carpet extravaganza. No Joan, no Melissa to appall us.

Flipping back and forth between Super Nanny and the Golden Globes, we wondered if the undisciplined, angry children would one day become actors. Perhaps some day they too would be accepting a Globe, be interviewed by Mary Hart and get to eat and drink on camera. It's the relaxed award show, after all.

The adulation of the audience seems a fine substitute for love and praise withheld, and a great motivator to endure all that early career rejection, according to The Actor's Studio interviews which supplanted the need to read these stories in Vanity Fair and Vogue.

When you think of the face time fought for during what LA types affectionately refer to as Awards Season, it just might very well be true with a palpable hunger for attention everywhere.

Anyway, we decided that we prefer to catch the Golden Globes the morning after. Flipping the channels between the Early Shows, provided us the fashion overview that makes watching the event so essential. We caught just enough of the important acceptance speeches too.

And now we can also dream big --That Super Nanny can cure all the ills of America's families.

Taylor and Shari

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Minimalist TV

It's just another night at home for the TV Twosome. Slightly bored with the Donald/Rosie debacle we search for a little something to catch our interest in our limited viewing universe of plug-in and watch.

Now before you start feeling for badly for us, consider if you will, the circumstance. We'd just moved and were impatiently waiting for the second cable appointment when I suggested to my better half, that we just cancel.

No more waiting around, no more outages and no more News shows screaming at our inveterate political interest with the election just around the corner.

Just the way the way the world once was. Limited, but free—to read more, form our own opinions and conclude what we wanted.

Unscarred by the election--coverage when we wanted, YouTube when we didn't. We thought life this way is pretty good. Of course, we missed the full episodes of Nip/Tuck, but we got the gist, and we re-discovered time.

Time for research, time to write, and more time for each other and to hang out at the beach, because this is where we live, downtown at the beach in Long Beach, CA.

So stay tuned. We'll fill you in, because we keep a running commentary going whenever we watch—just like you do.

Taylor and Shari