the rix mix

Horoscope said: It's time to pay more attention to the cautious and conservative voice inside you today -- especially if it's telling you to walk away from something new and mysterious. It's a bad idea to get involved in anything you're not totally sure about, such as investments, major purchases, or social events where big drama could occur.

Honest, I wasn't seriously thinking of purchasing the avant garde pipe organ CD or the reasonably-priced vintage Iolani tropical dress shirt from Rusty Zipper shop. But it is a conservative shirt.

CSI: Miami had an especially disgusting teaser opening tonight. Guy fell in a swimming pool loaded with sodium hydroxide & melted. Couldn't wait for hazmat, so they had to pour vinegar in the pool to fish him out. The creeks around this part of Jersey used to be like that pool. The new M.E. on the series didn't work out, so they wrote her out by arresting her & sending her to jail. Alex, the old M.E., talked to corpses before she dissected them.
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Later. The next time Craig Ferguson has Bryce Dallas Howard as a guest (she was flacking Terminator Salvation), he won't have to stumble around for five minutes before realizing she's smart, educated, & classy, & understands Kierkegaard better than he does.

Which is one thing I don't like about Craig. He shows the promotional clip before the guest comes on, & the guest doesn't even have to talk about it. But then he makes a ritual of ripping up the blue card with the prepared questions like he doesn't need them, when in many instances he obviously does. He gave Howard the dumb starlet treatment, failing to catch the little slap when she said she hadn't read "Either/Or" but had read the "Cliff Notes."

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