You win some you ...

I found this in my in box the other day:

Congratulations! You've been chosen as a Prize Winner in the "Boston
Legal" DVD Giveaway, Courtesy of Zap2it . Please respond to this email no
later then July 1, 2006. Provide us with your address so your prize can be
sent, also include your phone number in case we need to contact you.

Thank you for entering Zap2it "Boston Legal" DVD Giveaway and
congratulations!

Zap2it


And I said “Rigghhhhhhtttt". People win little online drawings all the time. "Uh uh. This is a scam". I did in fact enter the contest, but I enter a lot of contests. A lot of people enter a lot of contests and they never win. I never won one .

The only reason I entered it in the first place was that I had casually started watching Boston Legal because I wanted something to watch after House and before bed. I had also heard that Boston Legal had a bit of a liberal bend to it and I’m all for bending liberally. And it has James Spader. You remember him, he was in Pretty In Pink and Less Then Zero ? He played the 29 year old high school boy who was always so mean to poor little 26 year old high school junior Andrew McCarthy? That Guy.

It’s nice to see the junior members of the brat pack working isn’t it? John Cryer, Charlie Sheen, Anthony Micheal Hall, James Spader, Keifer Sutherland... My 1987 issue of Teen Beat could almost be my 2006 TV Guide. It’s not going as well for the girls though and when was the last time you saw Jud Nelson act like anything less than a dick? Much less the last time he got paid to act like a dick?

Anyway, I had started watching Boston Legal and I saw that season one was about to come out on DVD and so I marched myself over to Netflix and added it to my list and I then entered the little drawing on Zap2it.Com because, why not. Either way, I’m going to see it, why not see it all at once instead of seeing it two DVDs at a time. It is not the best way to watch a TV show.

And then I got that email.

And then I removed Boston Legal from my Netflix list

And then it came in the mail.

And then I started watching it. And I wondered, why wasn’t I watching this all along? I really should have let go of my Ally McBeal hate.. Ally McBeal isn’t even in this show! The chick lawyers on Boston Legal almost look like real professional woman - in their defense anyone standing next to Spader or William Shatner is going to come off a looking a little thin by comparison. Spader? Kind of hefty but still kind of hot.

What else?

My best friend called me to tell me that she and her daughter had just returned from her former step daughters wedding. I had to ask? “Isn’t she like 12?”. She is not 12, she is 17 and a high school graduate. She is also a cancer survivor who came back from a diagnosis of terminal bone cancer at 15.

Her husband is in the air force and they are going to be based in San Antonio while he goes to school. She wants to volunteer at the children’s hospital where she can work with terminally ill kids so they can see that there is life after a death sentence. I think that marriage at seventeen is not a great idea but if she wants to live at a 100 miles an hour, well, I wish her Gods Speed.