Wednesday, September 9, 2009

DOWN THE TUBE

The next top ten…

During TV summer re-run season we watched some of the following programs once or twice and then never again…

Some of these programs should have or may have already been canceled…

1. Deal or no deal…drove me nuts with contestants going for the big bucks and failing…pure greed is what is was and too sad to watch…

2. Don’t Forget the Lyrics…there’s nothing worse than people trying to sing when they can’t carry a tune…

3. According to Jim…not a program a young husband should watch…not too exciting watching idiot men talking down to their wives…

4. Are you smarter than a 5th grader…very annoying…too difficult for me…?

5. King of the Hill…I don’t know anyone who watches this one…I may have too low an IQ to understand…and a pain to watch for more than two minutes…

6. Lost…need I explain how they lost my viewing beginning the second year? Year two left me wondering what happened to the kidnapped kid…too many new people; how many passengers did that plane carry?

7. Desperate Housewives…very similar to Lost above…too many wives, to many boyfriends, and I liked to go to bed at 9:00 PM on Sunday nights…

8. Parks and Recreation…this one looked like it promised good stuff semi-related to my business but failed miserably…not funny…much more fun to read instead…

9. Prison Break…the first episode should have been the last…I just didn’t get how they could make a series out of a prison break…

10. Ugly Betty…why didn’t this lovely girl quit after she read the script…the title of the show and the show were dumb…

Friday, September 4, 2009

10 FAVORITE BOOKs


I started something by posting a blog early this week titled Ten Topics to make Top Ten Lists about
In response to (popular) demand by Julie Hibbard and TS Harrison, following is the list…

To begin I researched 100 and 1000 best books and found a list of 28 that I’ve read, …*

I had to get this thing written…

1. 1984- George Orwell

2. Hawaii- James Mitchner, the first book I read by James

3. The Fountainhead- Ayn Rand

4. The Stand-Stephen King, may be my all-time favorite

5. A Time to Kill-John Grisham,

6. Bonfire of the Vanities-Tom Wolfe

7. Casino Royal-Ian Fleming

8. Hounds of the Baskerville-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

9. Walden-Henry David Thoreau

10. David Copperfield-Charles Dickens

· Except for Henry David Thoreau and George Orwell I’ve probably read most books written by the same author…

· I should write a list of favorite authors, present day and olden days… but like TS wrote… the lists would be different tomorrow…

· I’ll tackle a few more of the Ten Topics next week