What I will be watching tonite…

Tonite is the night to be sooo excited about TV.  ABC has been promoting their “Stay at Home” week for the last 2 weeks, basically saying that most of their good shows are premiering this week.

Well tonite is the culmination of all that hard work of advertising…

So, tonite I will be watching the following:

• 8:00-9:00 – Pushing Daisies.  I couldn’t be more excited about this one.  I watched the entire first season when it was out last year, and it was so good.  The production quality makes it feel like it should be on HBO. 
• 9:00-10:00 – Private Practice.  This is actually negotiable.  I haven’t fully decided on watching this yet… mostly because it was so-so last year.  Being a Grey’s Anatomy spinoff, I was hoping it would be good… but it’s just okay. 
• 10:00-11:00 – Dirty Sexy Money.  Yes, I’m planning on staying up late.  I only caught a few episodes last year.  It wasn’t the most exciting show, but it seems pretty well-written.  So, I’ll give it another chance.  We’ll see if it will win me over.

Keep your eyes peeled for my reviews on each, which I’ll try to post as soon as possible.

Sarah Palin, SNL, and the big debate

I try to stay clear of politcal debate… I’m not really into politics all that much.  But believe me when I tell you this, gentle readers… Sarah Palin is a joke.  Not in the sense of she’s hilarious and when she gets on stage she can really win over a crowd.  But very much in the way that I wouldn’t want her to run the country (let alone “assist” with running the country) if frogs had taken over the world…

I realize I’m being harsh, but I saw the original clip of Sarah Palin talking to Katie Couric.  And I watched the SNL skit with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, and it couldn’t have been more accurate than if Palin had been on SNL herself.  And I can’t get passed the fact that she is not knowledgeable about anything.  Even her own state, of which she was Senator.  And if you know nothing about your own state, how do you expect to be able to run the country???

Here’s my theory: She’s going to do very well in the debate tomorrow night.  Why, you ask.  Because her personality is significantly better than her opponents.  Even though she doesn’t have much insight into the issues, she has the ability to maintain composure and keep things light when it’s not a one on one situationm, like with Katie Couric (who basically made Palin look like a dancing monkey).

I keep mentioning that I feel very uninformed, and this is no one’s fault but my own.  But can you blame me for not wanting to pay attention to a three-ring circus?  I’m sorry, but I’m terrified of clowns.  And as much as I don’t want either candidates in office, I want McCain there even less now because of Sarah Palin.  And it is my personal opinion that if McCain is elected in office, then the country is going to end up in worse shape than when Bush was in office.

I don’t know what it is, but I definitely feel like this election year is more intense than ever before.  Maybe it’s because I’m older now, and more aware of the state of the economy and the issues going on in the country… or maybe it is because this is more intense than previous elections.

If anything, gentle readers, please keep yourselves abreast of the issues and up to date on what’s going on.  You don’t have to know everything (lord knows I don’t), but being aware is the best thing you could do.

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And also…. the debate tomorrow night is taking the place of The Office and Grey’s Anatomy.  Color me annoyed.