Since I dont have the Cubs to depress me anymore, I now have the 10 o’clock news. Which is actually more depressing. But whatever. At least I know the news now “shooting on the South Side”…”economy in turmoil”…yadda, yadda, yadda…let the distraction commence!

I am loving Fringe lately–although it does require my undivided attention which seems to be lacking lately–It’s been on my DVR for three weeks now, and I just sat down to watch one episode and ended up watching all 3 of them.  Just love everything about it. The complicated storylines that always seem to be answered by the end of the show, but not without a tease for the next show…the digital location title pop-outs (I am a typography-geek at heart)…Josh Jackson and Anna Torv….I just love it all. Good thing too…they just renewed it for another season. Thank goodness–I hate watching new shows that ultimately get cancelled (see Raines, October Road, Women’s Murder Club…etc.)

I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t even had time to blog. Part of me thinks that’s good. Part of me thinks it’s because I need a laptop to tote around (anyone want to buy me a MacBook Pro?), but another part of me thinks signing up for park district classes three times a week was  a little overkill for this non-committer. But whatever. 

In the past few weeks, I ‘ve seen Seal and BB King perform live.  I’ve found out my dog might have a thyroid problem (enter Oprah joke here), and I’ve discovered that my wardrobe is not ready for the change in season. A series I work on at work has been nominated for a Chicagoland emmy, which means the red carpet is Saturday, so go me. And I am kinda hating on my apartment and neighborhood right now, but I don’t really have any reason too (although, maybe I do–see below).  When I am super busy, I always complain that I have no downtime, and am constantly raccoon-eyed. When I have nothing to do, I can’t sit still and am constantly complaining that I should be doing something…and am raccoon-eyed. Is there no justice in this yin-yang universe?

So I always check this website out that chronicles the happenings around where I live. So here is a post I came across yesterday:

Breaking News: Decomposing Body Found In Uptown Sewer

I’m sorry, WHAT!?!??! Where the hell do I live!? The article in the Sun Times is sketchy, as is the actual case. Dead bodies keep showing up in my neighborhood, and it’s freaking me out.  And the sick thing is, I have yoga in that park district building. Ick. I’m like on that CSI show where they find dead bodies in the sewer which was really a mob hit covered up by the fact that it was at a newly renovated kid’s park where the mobster’s daughters play. Ick. Ick. Ick. Me no likey. I need to move. Damn economy!

That’s all for this distraction. Until the next one, have a good night!

Better than mint chocolate chip and fresh crisp apples off the tree, it’s the return of the FALL TV SEASON! Horah! Hoorey! YIPPEE!

So here are some recaps, since this is only the opening week of new shows (many, including Gossip Girl, are still on my TiVo…what? It’s been a long week!)

FRINGE (Tuesday, 8pm, FOX)

Oh, to be in the head of J. J. Abrams…perhaps not a good thing. Before he brings us “Star Trek:2009″ without William Shatner, he whipped up an hour-long serial that I am calling creepy, yet intriguing…short attention spans need not apply.  There is no other way to describe it except to say it is: “X-files meets The Twilight Zone, topped with a little 24 action and CSI forensics and sprinkled with a bit of Twin Peaks on top.”  It’s one messed-up, intriguing, could only be classified as “that show that the guy who co-created Lost and Alias could cook up…..
WATCH IT, if only to feel like you’ve watched something of substance…even if you don’t understand it…

ANTM (Wednesday, 8pm, The CW)

Mix a trans-gender with a racist from Alaska (enter political joke here) mixed with an Asian girl with a gangsta’ complex, and you have season 11 of America’s Next Top Model.  Reality show formatting at its very best.
DVR IT so you can fast-forward through the hair-pulling, sobbing-because-”like, modeling’s so much harder than I thought” montages.

BONES (Wednesday, 7pm, FOX)

Oh Brennan and Booth. The longer you two don’t sleep with each other, the better for all of us. Mix a little England (oh, how I love thee) with a little Brennan/Booth tension…add a little Angela’s ex-husband return with a little trust issue plot twist, and sprinkle a little English accents in there, and you get a fun-loving (if not quite long) 2- hour season premiere of love, loss and lust (p.s.–does everyone sleep with a co-worker on this show?! Seriously…)
WATCH IT if only for the Brennan/Booth verbal spars…and no, you won’t miss Zak…I promise…

That’s all for now folks. Lots of new shows next week so I must clear my DVR from last week. I know it’s been a while, but I’ve been anti-social (which, apparently, meant I was anti-blog too…) I know you’ve missed me, so I’m back. Ready to spew more poetics and life contemplations (let’s call them observations, shall we?) for you.