Optically real illusions get accented more inclusively. While any situation too odd to alarm like leaders, yet loom always muchos egregiously.

Eggs that are pan-fried somehow (either stirred, scrambled, or something similar) and a touch of soy sauce.

I have been pretty bad at blogging lately. It’s not even that I didn’t have ideas, I did (e.g. “12th man b.s./seattle bandwagon jumping”, more Oprah bashing (it’s even a draft waiting for publish), hardware reviews (e.g. PocketDock, HeadRoom Micro headphone amp), and other miscellany). But I just don’t feel motivated to type since I do way too much of that at work. Oh well, except for the Super Bowl stuff, none of this is especially time-dependent.

“Take Me Out” by Franz Ferdinand

Nothing too saccharine or lame.

“The Girl I Can’t Forget” by Fountains of Wayne

“Hackensack” by Fountains of Wayne

James Frey got bitch slapped on Oprah. I didn’t see it, but as I understand it she took him apart on her show. Not that I feel sorry for the guy, especially since he’s already made his bank being one of her “Book Club” selections, but it seems to me that Oprah took him down more as damage control for her than any sort of righteous dressing down that he may have deserved. Oprah’s no fool, after all. She stuck up for him on CNN, but when the winds were blowing decidedly in her face, she turned around and kicked the man while he was down. “How dare you make the fool of me! I am Oprah, and no pissant little shop clerk in a Paris boutique or heretofore unknown writer will take me down! Only Tom Cruise gets a pass on my show!”

“Concrete Sky” by Beth Orton

This show has been on a couple of times now. It stars that guy from “Ed” and the goody-two-shoes guy from “90210″ as well as Kitty from “Arrested Development” and that woman from “Three Sisters” (the OCD/uptight oldest sister) and Eric Bogosian!

If I had to name that tune in the least amount of notes, I’d say the show was a cross of “High Fidelity” and, well, “Ed”. Not that I watched “Ed” much (in fact, I’m not sure I can honestly claim to have seen more than two episodes of it in their entirety), but for some reason I happen to know a strangely fair amount about the show. I think it may be because you can learn an awful lot about a show just from commercials and teasers, especially if it’s about a guy who pines after the woman of his dreams. Not a whole lot of range is required for a show like that. It’s not like all of a sudden an outbreak of Marburg Virus happens and the show’s characters have to deal with people spontaneously bleeding through their skin and from their eyeballs.

Anyway, “Love Monkey” is about a guy who’s got the kind of job that most of us would love to have. So it’s got that going for it. And then it has quirky guy (who’m I’m going to call “Ed” from now on) who has to deal with the trials of said Cool Job along with the tribulations of being old and single. Hilarity – and poignancy! – ensues. I think I also like this show because Ed also reminds me of another Ed (Robertson of Barenaked Ladies fame) who I happen to think is mightly clever and humorous.

On top of that, the music on the show has so far been great! I love shows that have great musical producers/directors/whatever with taste. “Scrubs” has got super taste in music (I swear whomever is in charge of picking the songs has pretty much EXACTLY the same musical taste as I do), and “Gray’s Anatomy” has been pretty good so far in that department as well.

Good writing, good music, good theme. Actors need to enunciate better, though. Thank God for 10 second skip back!

Just so you know, it’s on Tuesday nights at 10:00 pm on CBS (in hi-def, if you’re into that sort of thing).

“If It Makes You Happy” by Sheryl Crow