First, the text size kept defaulting back to the smallest font! Gave it a pep talk, and it decided to behave. I can actually have the keyboard on my lap on the couch and see my monitor Love it, Love it, Love it.
 My favorite breakfast is sushi. Used to be pasta but I have evolved. Though pasta with a really good light marinara sauce and much reggio parmigiana is still my favorite food. Then comes stone crabs with mustard sauce and creamed spinach. Love dark chocoalte and ginger, and almost all vegtables and salad ingredients but beets which I detest with a vengance.
I was very hungry when I wrote that as I have had a total of seven hours sleep in the past two nights, and just wasn’t hungry.Â
The simplicity and advanced status of my new desktop makes me feel a bit as if I owned a Mac. Okay now for the good stuff.
I picked my grad school for its alt rock radio station; its top ranked but so are others.
So I’m not as deep as people think. Read TV Guide from cover to cover. Loved the original 8 by 11 that was out for a few years. Ended several months ago. It’s been dummied down. Yes, TV Guide has been dummied down. If you thought that was impossible; read one.
I like Michael Logan on soaps and the uncanny horoscope woman who also writes for The New York Post. Took me years to put that together and I do have advanced degrees. Must have spent too much time listening to the alt rock station; still do.
One day I received a gift from TV Guide. When I opened the box I was blown away. Inside were four plastic drinking glasses with an actual TV schedule from the year 2000, and four amazing TV Guide covers.
Lucy, alone represented the 50′s. She still represents comedic genius. The 60′s are represented by Elizabeth Montgemry and one of the Darren’s; Bewitched. I would have picked something edgier like The Mod Squad or Name of the Game. Look it up, it was good
The choice for the 70′s I sort of get: Sonny and Cher; nobody in history changed coustumes like Cher, she’s a sometimes almost great actress, and I just really like her, but I was never crazy about her singing, or Sonny. But I would have picked any one of many series beginning with All in the Family, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Oh the 80′s; that decade of opulence, and Luke and Laura. Yes TV Guide made a perfect choice character wise, but Hill Street Blues and LA Law changed TV forever. A Dynasty, was a fantasy, and 30 Something was welcome to my life. The Ralphs live in a Tudor in Forest Hills that’s very similiar to Hope and Michael’s; and Lucia and I, let’s not go there right now…
Which led to the more than perfect 90′s choice; Scully and Muldar. When I was in grad school I lived for Friday nights and The X Files. On Saturdays when I was supposed to be studying I watched anything on Channel 11–WPIX, I think. Yes I watched Baywatch. Would tape the CBS late night line-up after Letterman. My personal favorite was the one with the Judge who would let his hair down at night when he drove a motorcycle and was an avenger, avenging for his wife and daughter’s death.
My TV Guide plastic glasses have been washed so often they look filmy. Use them when Rafe and Lucia come over, but I have many beautiful glasses that beg attention. So I use my TV Guide ones when alone. Though people do ask. Makes me very happy; even happier when they like sushi for breakfast.
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OK, at first I went, “Ewwwww!” But on consideration, a nice California roll or three might be a nice way to start the day!
I want TV Guide glasses.
And, also, what a fun post. I LIKE knowing all of this stuff about you.
I too want TV guide glasses and I can say only you writing about them that way could ever make me say that.
Why is it so hard to find other folks who like dark chocolate? Hmmm. But I’m glad I share something else in common with you.
Oh, and I stopped watching X-files after the backwards family-incest cannibalism episode. Something about that made me think they were on a path I didn’t want any part of.
I would whore myself for daily doses of salmon sashimi.
And I’m jealous; Dan’s leaving notes for you, but none for me. *Pout*
I’d like to sign up to the Dark Chocolate Fan Club too, please!
Still missing the X-Files.
People who don’t like anything but so called breakfast foods for breakfast scare and usually bore me.
Sushi is the perfect anytime food and now I will have to have it for lunch because you have me thinking of it….yum!
85% dark or better is my medication of choice.
Stocked up on some–Michel Cluizel @ The Garden of Eden shop in Chelsea and need to go back soon as my stash is nearly gone!
I munched some along side a CabSav from South Africa recently and WOW did they go together nicely.
TV Guide was dumbed down? Journalism is dead!
I loved Thirtysomething. I was too young for it in the 80s and watched it in the late 90s early millenium… I love that show! Having a theater background, the acting in that show is just beautiful and all those actors very talented… Makes me wanna check eBay to see if I can get my hand on all the seasons! I feel nostalgic now dear Pia!
This is a nice light fun read.
Now while I work on my boring tasks at the job, I can daydream about the classic TV shows that are no longer around. A personal favorite….The Avengers! Boy that Emma Peel had it going on with her catsuits! Man she really was a great roll model. Independent, sexy yet reserved, (she was a Mrs. afer all) and a dark haired beauty for a change. I wonder if they still show it somewhere now that there are a million channels?
See what fun I’m having? Oh yeah, I’m at work…later!
Lucia and I used to watch 30something together on the phone–talk about how boring it was, how much like our lives, and continue watching to speak during commercials
We get TV Guide. Hubby reads it cover to cover. I never seem to have the time (damn blogsphere). So cool that you actually use your glasses instead of keeping them hidden away as a collectible.
I related to some of the shows you mentioned. I was a huge fan of General Hospital (the Blackie, Luke & Laura era) and especially the X-Files — yes Friday nights it was! Remember Millenium and X-Files back to back? I watched LA Law and 30 Something after the fact in syndication, but enjoyed them nonetheless.
Good post, Pia. Sorry for the long-winded comment.
Ahhhh Pia…old favorites. I wrote about this a few weeks past. Me, I eat my mac and cheese in private, play Jimmy Buffett, and watch old movies…and when I think that some of these “old movies” are from the 70′s or 80′s, I get a bit depressed and go back for more mac and cheese.
Great post as always.
Ciao chica.
Yeah, Thirtysomething had a slow feel to it… it was also voyeueristic and I think that is where its appeal came in. The writing was excellent and so true to life that I think you either loved it or hated it… me, I felt like I was a fly on the wall, watching the most intimate details of strangers’ lives…
7 hours in 2 nights? Hope you are catching up on your sleep dear friend! Take care of you! Bohemians looooveeee Pia and she must rest, yes, SHE MUST! ;-P
LOLOLOL!!!
I remember how’d we’d watch TV together in our own homes….LOL…we’d be stretched out on our couches as though we were sitting on the same one.
AAAHHHHH! buddyhood!
Now I sit on the couch and fall asleep before the second commercial!
What would you pick for the 2000′s? Or at least the first half?
And you know I’d pick Seinfeld for the nineties
Robert Scorpio is back on GH! Now, if Frisco and Laura will just return…
You know – I cancelled TV Guide for the same reason. I used to read it cover to cover, along with my Entertainment Weekly – then it got stupid – and I will not be talked to like I’m in the 5th grade. And I prefer E. W. to its competitor. I’m just not a People Mag kind of gal. I do have a love/hate relationship with Vogue, though. I’ll subscribe, devour it for a year – then get pissed off over something and cancel – only to repeat the cycle in another year. Currently, it’s on my ‘out’ list.
Not much to write home about on TV these days. As a kid – tons to choose from – despite the limited menu. But what was there was ‘churce’ as Spencer Tracy said. I was an inveterate watcher – The Name of the Game, The Prisoner, Outer Limits, Gunsmoke – I had wide-ranging tastes. Now – I can only name 5 shows I have even seen the occasional episode of.
And Pia – I wanted to thank you for your kind words. Your truly are one of the nicest human beings. Bless you, my dear.
Thank God for cable and the oldies channels. I watch as many, if not more, reruns as new shows. Some things just cannot be imporoved on.
I can eat sushi any time of day! Sounds good right now, in fact. Okay, I am so shocked that you watched Baywatch! hahaha too funny.
Wow, sushi for breakfast–that’s way sophisticated. I love sushi. And I tend to eat MORE when I’m sleep-deprived. As for the dumming-down of TV Guide, I believe it, because so many things have gone that way. I loved LA Law, but haven’t watched much, lately. My attention span is too short to make it through all those commercials!