It's almost as if fall never happened. Got house painted, then came all the troubles with paint blisters/bubbles and caulking with cracks and holes. Painter says my house is not in good condition to begin with, too old, too much moisture, thus all the problems. I say, do I have "sucker" written on my forehead or something? This always happens to me with contractors.
The umbrella revolution happened in HK. I need to spend sometime writing about that.
Fall tv happened. A show which I didn't like with the pilot but gave it a chance because of John Cho and Karen Gillan and then ended up really liking is already cancelled. (Is that sentence really long and awkward?) This is why I should never commit to any ABC comedy (Happy Ending, Samantha Who, Better Off Ted, etc.). How To Get Away With Murder is really How To Get Away With A Bad TV Show. I guess the Shondra Rhimes brand really works. I keep watching it waiting for it to get good, and then it just gets worse. Stop with those damn bonfire flashforwards already. And who the hell cares who killed Sam? I would have done it myself. I am mildly liking The Flash and Gotham, but neither is anything resembling high art. Marry Me is hilarious. And Jane The Virgin is probably the best surprise of all - soapy adaptation of a Venezuelan telenovela that beats with a sweet, gentle heart.
The Giants won another World Series. So three in five years - 2010, 2012, and 2014. This time, Madison Bumgarner was the hero of the series. He was masterful. Like a pitching ninja. Meanwhile, the Patriots are putting together quite a good season. They are now number one seed heading into December. I don't want to jinx anything but come on already. I just need one more Superbowl win with Tom Brady. Just one more is all I ask.
My desktop died right before Black Friday. So I ended up buying a new Dell laptop from the Microsoft Store yesterday. I also bought random $3.99 blu rays like Silence Of The Lambs, the Indiana Jones movies (minus Crystal Skull of course, no offense to serious artist/rape victim Shia LeBeouf), and Lego movie, and the entire Fringe series on blu ray from Amazon UK. Fringe is the next series to tackle while eating dinner. Other Thanksgiving week loots include a down vest and some heat-retention base layer undershirts from Costco, a Uniqlo shirt, a Sad Keanu figure, a Toshiba portable hard drive, a Monoprice HDMI cable, a Tardis keychain that came what a Tardis glass ornament as free gift, and a couple of Guardians of the Galaxy Funko Pop bobbleheads to complete my collection.
Feguson, Missouri happened. Some white cop shot dead a black kid named Michael Brown, and walks away free, and a lot of people are mad. Protests across the nation turn into looting opportunities of course. The people who are so enraged by the injustice even crashed a car into a Prada store (or was it Chanel) and took all the merchandise. Nothing like fancy handbags to make the world a better place. You see, the argument goes something like, you gotta hit them where it hurts so they will listen.
Honestly I am not sure what else happened in the last few months since I last checked in. One thing that didn't happen is a new Madonna album. She is still tinkering with it and hanging out in the studio with cringe-inducing people like Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus. Yesterday a couple of songs leaked, but I am staying away. I waited too long, and I am not going to let these leaks ruin my experience of a new Madonna album. Other people mark their lives by marriage, kids, career changes, etc. Mine is marked mostly by Madonna releases.
So that's it. Three months capped into a few paragraphs, as if real life just fast forwarded itself. At least there isn't any bonfires involved.
