Year: 2008

We tried to watch another episode of Fortysomething and just couldn’t do it, made it 15 minutes in before ejecting the disc. The humor just didn’t hit us the right way. And just maybe because we were exposed to House first, and although we do know it is exactly the opposite, it seems like Mr. Laurie is an American actor who has adopted a bad British accent to play this part. This screen capture from the show is for my thousands of female and gay readers – Hugh Laurie’s Hiney.

This second screen capture is for the millions of my comic book geek readers – Iron Monger. From a little known 2008 summer film call Ironman that I watched again this afternoon while Donna took a nap on the couch. I even sat through the 10 minutes worth of credits just to see the 5 second teaser of Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. It was so worth it too, because as the song credits scrolled by, I learned that either Ozzy Osbourne’s real first name is John or there was a terrific coincidence with the songwriter for Black Sabbath’s song Ironman.

Show #15 was a second show about our favorite recovering heroin addict, Charlie. In the off island flashback he was in full user mode and it wasn’t pretty, but that story is used to set up the reason for what he does on island. When the survivors plot to capture the “other”, Ethan, who had kidnapped Claire, Charlie goes postal and fills Ethan’s chest full of hot lead.

I’m thinking we are going to be 0 for 2 in pre-House Hugh Laurie shows. Earlier this year we tried one of his forays into TV, a sketch comedy show called A Bit of Fry and Laurie and couldn’t get past 15 minutes of it. The other day we received a disc of Fortysomething a newer (2003) situation comedy. He plays a doctor who is nothing like the House character, he is married with three grown sons, seems like he is downtrodden and befuddled (and there is this sort of mind reading thing where he occasionally hears what people are thinking that is out in left field.) There are two more episodes on the disc and we will watch at least one more of them…

I’m not sure what is stupider, the Tampa Bay Rays and mohawk haircuts (both up and down) or the fact that the only place in baseball that fans still do the Wave is Fenway Park in Boston.

Season 1 Episode 14 gives us some back story on Michael and his son Walt. Michael ranks right up there with yesterday’s survivors, Boone and Shannon, on Brian’s unlikeable Lostie List. Walt, the special the title of the episode alludes to, is alright and in the beginning very mysterious, like they were setting up something for him, but it never really went there.

Here is Reason #2 why I need to stick with getting even dollar amounts back with my debit card. First, for those of you just tuning in, I’ll remind you of Reason #1 (go read it now, it’s a little long, but I’ll wait.)

On our way to get our monthly haircut Donna wanted to stop at Walgreen’s, she had a couple coupons that were burning a hole in her pocket. Of the three, there was only one we ended up using, eight Halloween themed pencils for a buck With tax, $1.07. Donna asked for five or ten dollars cash back because she would need a few bucks in a couple days when she went out to lunch with her department. I figured if I just rounded up the bill to $10 that would do it. Donna agreed because that would give her some singles for a tip. I skillfully guided myself to the other amount screen for cash back while subtracting a dollar seven from ten. I typed in the amount I wanted back, hit OK and OK again. The cashier handed me my receipt and change and we headed for the door. When I looked down at the receipt total it was then that I realized the math tutoring from Jethro Bodine might have been a mistake.

I had asked for $8.83 back making my total debit purchase $9.90!

Oh, so close.

Episode #13 is about the half brother and sister combo of Boone and Shannon. Both of them are pretty pathetic loser types and are some of my personally least favorite characters. “Tragically” they are the first two main characters to die on the show. Awwww.

Forget about this, a good episode of House is on (guest starring Elizabeth Mitchell, AKA Juliet from LOST, who is practically unrecognizable in short red-ish hair in a nun’s outfit) and I want to get back to Appaloosa.