USA

USA, USA, USA, USA. 
I know what your thinking.  This is going be a blog about the 1980's " Do you believe in Miracles?"   United States Hockey team that against all odds won the Olympic Gold Medal by beating the USSR 4-3.  Lead by scrappy team Captain Mike Eruzione and Goalie Jim Craig. Who could forget that picture of Jim with the flag draped over his shoulder, hair dripping wet, with a smile a mile wide?

What a cutie.  But alas this is not that blog.

No this blog is dedicated to the USA Network,

where characters are welcome.

  How dare they think that I have all the time in the world to dedicate to watching their TV shows!  It all started out so innocently with reruns of NCIS.

 I had never watched NCIS on network TV before, but I caught an episode on the tube while I was cooking dinner and was taken in with all the gadgets, autopsies, and the detective work.   The next night there I was again stuck in the kitchen trying to remember which channel I had found that interesting show on.  Ah yes here it is USA network.   OH look they have it on every night at this time.  Snap!  So for weeks dinner was at the same exact time every night.  But then they started the NCIS mini marathons each and every night.  3 in a row a whole three hours!  WOW this is awesome. Dinner came later and later to the dinner table.  And then one day I turned into find there was only one show of NCIS on because there was a pilot on for a new show called. PSYCH. 

Love the water pistols.

Psych is about a fake psychic who helps the Santa Barbra Police department solve crimes.  Brilliant!  Once a week Shaun and Gus fight crime using real detective work disguised as Shaun's psychic ability.  These guys get into and out of trouble while making references, popular and obscure, to 1980 TV, Movies, and Music.  Not only do these guys make me laugh they also bring out memories of my high school days that I hadn't thought about in, well since high school. 

Now I have NCIS and Psych to entertain my nights!  Sweet.

But wait what is this show?  MONK?

 Never heard of it.  Hey I know that guy.  He was on 'Wings' and in the movie 'Men in Black.'  He is a pretty funny guy.  Here he is a neurotic, obsessive compulsive private detective whose wife has been murdered.  He consultants for the San Fransisco police department where he was a detective but after his wife died and her murder never solved he wigged out a bit.  Now he has a personal assistant, or care taker, who drives him places, and gives him wet naps when ever he comes into contact with a person or thing.  I couldn't live like that.  I find this show is on every day in the morning. 

NCIS, Psych, Monk.

During my evening ritual of watching NCIS they have been repeating a commercial for a new show called White Collar.

 A new detective, I mean, FBI show with some 'Pretty boy' countefitter who has been sprung from jail to help the FBI solve white collar crimes.  There is no way this can be any good, they are trying to create a show around some actor who looks good in a suit.  I do recognize the FBI agent, he was in an episode of NCIS.  I refuse to watch this show, I refuse to get suckered in!  8am rolls around and to my shock and displeasure there is no MONK on my TV!  They are running the first three episodes of White Collar. (To get everyone caught up for tonight's new episode!  Really?  Really.)  I got nothing on the other channels so I leave the room and the TV remains on.  To my displeasure 5 minutes later I am sitting on the edge of the chair glued to the TV wondering how I could have lived this long with out this show!  These writers are brilliant!  This pretty boy is quite the actor and look Tiffany Amber Theissian is on here too!  Haven't seen here since "Saved by the Bell"  How could I have been so wrong.  I can't wait for Brent to get home so I can show him this new work of art that is coming over the air waves.

NCIS, Psych, Monk, White Collar.

House has taken over an evening of my NCIS mini marathon.

  Dang it!  Who is this stupid doctor who needs to have other doctors around to make sure he doesn't kill anyone while he is popping pills all day.  He is foul mouthed and surly.  I really don't like this show but Brent does.  He thinks he's funny.  Nuff said.


NCIS, Psych, Monk, White Collar, House.

 I hate commercials for new shows but they keep making them.  (The shows and the commercials for them.)  Here is a new show called Fairly Legal.

  A pretty girl this time.  Not gonna do it.  Can't make me.  I don't really want to watch a girl who is three times skinnier than me and half as pretty as I used to be while being incredibly smart on very high heels.  I don't see how this will have any decent acting or stories to be told only eye candy and none for me.  But once again Brent has made a motion to watch the pilot.  What could it hurt?  NOT AGAIN!  I have to admit that a pretty girl in heels can act.  I especially like the way she clomps around in her high heels instead of gliding in them.  The premise:  She used to be a lawyer but left the practice to become a mediator.  She works for her father's firm.  He has recently passed away and she is very sad about this and talks to him all the time.  He is dead and doesn't answer.  Her evil step mother is a lawyer in the firm and her ex husband  is the district attorney.  Her home is aboard a sail boat docked in Sausalito Bay across from San Fransisco.  I have to admit it's pretty good.

Darn you USA Network!
What you think I have no time for a life outside your evil grasp of great shows?

NCIS, Psych, Monk, House, Fairly Legal.

I guess you're right I don't.