Early fall means back to back TV posts.

Last night, Gossip Girl was in repeats, so I got to watch Chuck, which is definitely fun enough to be my GG backup, but not quite irresistible enough to make me track it down online.

Heroes was cute with the future stuff, especially Sylar as sweet stay-at-home dad. Even evil future Claire was sadly too adorable to be convincingly badass. At best, she looked like she was going through a mildly rebellious faze and cutting algebra class in order to make a McDonalds run. I'm glad Ando and Hiro are working things out. And for god's sake, writers, if you can't think of a storyline for Parkman, just leave him out of it for a while and make him come back later!

Life was once again excellent. I'm constantly surprised at how well that show makes me care about the incidental characters in their crime-of-the-week, something most detective shows utterly fail to do. My only concern: what has happened to Charlie's Zen Buddhism? We've barely seen it this season. Did someone in the network think it was (in some ridiculous way) controversial?

So Supernatural has been really good lately. I have to give the writers a lot of credit for how they combine fun and angst without deflating the scariness of the bad guys by making them comical buffoons the way Buffy writers so often did. Of course it helps that co-lead Jensen Ackles is such a terrific actor.

The season premier of Pushing Daisies was just ok. I have to say that if that had been my first exposure to the show, I'm not so sure I would have kept watching. Hopefully they have some better episodes waiting in the wings.

Also coasting somewhat is Mad Men. Even with Don and Betty's marital troubles, this season has felt way undramatic compared to last season. The writing has been just interesting enough to keep me motivated and I'm sure they're building up to some big stuff. I just hope I'm still awake when they finally get there.

Dudes, Sarah Palin was totally flirting with me last night! Did you see how many times she winked at me? Man, I can't wait til she and I have a beer together!

I'm sure she won't take it personally that I voted for the other guys. It doesn't mean I don't like her!

Posting a little late today because I was having some FTPing issues. My undying thanks to the charming and talented exacademic for taking the time to solve it and (as always) for generously hosting the lovely artwork you see here each day. He's a scholar and a gentleman. I think. Or maybe he's an ex-scholar and a scoundrel. Who's to say? Anyway, without him, this place would just be words and I am much indebted to him for making that not so.

Did I mention that I quit my fitness regime at the end of July? Yeah... and it's starting to show. I'm not sure exactly how much damage the last two months have done though because the battery in our cheap digital scale fused itself into its housing and even after K. successfully pried it out, the scale was uninterested in new energy sources.

Now that the weather has cooled off, I'm thinking about starting up the walking to and/or from work again. I think I'll test that interest by walking to the bar tonight after work.