TGIF

Okay.I don't have a real post today because I was watching TV instead! All my TV was on and I didn't even have a chance to watch all of it! Drag Race All Stars premiered  and it was Project Runway All Stars night and Great News - because Yes I Do Watch Scripted TV, thank you very much and a whole bunch of Brooklyn 99 reuns scattered in there. So I was Busy. 

I was not busy going to Target to pick up the dogs meds, but they assured me via text they were "emergency ordering" it. Like I didn't put my order in days ago! They could have  plain ordered it then, but nooooo. For some reason CVS needs to be all about the Drama. I do not need or appreciate medication related Drama. 

So. I watched competition  reality TV. Less Drama.

Golden Globe Winners 2017

Best Actress in a Limited Series or  TV Movie - Nicole Kidman,  Big Little Lies

Best Supporting Actor Film - Sam Rockwell, 3 Bill Boards outside Ebbing, MO

Best Actress in a TV Series Comedy  Musical or Whatever -  Rachel Brasahan, The Marvelous Ms. Monahan

Best Actress TV Series Drama -  Elizabeth Moss, Handmaids Tale

Best Actor in a TV Series Drama - Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us

Best TV Series Drama - The Handmaids Tale

Best Supporting Actor Limited Series Drama TV - Alexander Skarsgar, Big Little Lies

Best Score -  The Shape of Water

Best Original Song - "This is Me", The Greatest Showman

Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Film - James Franco, The Disaster Artist

Best Supporting Actress Drama TV - Laura Dern, Big Little Lies

Best Animated Feature - Coco

Best Supporting Actress in a Film - Alison Jayne, I, Tanya

Best Screenplay - 3 Billboards outside Ebbing, MO

Best Foreign Language Film - In The Fade, Germany, France

Best Actor in a Made for TV Movie - Ewan McGregor, Fargo

Best TV Series Musical or Comedy - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Best Actor TV Series Musical Comedy - Aiziz Ansari, Master of None

Best  Director Film - Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water

Best Limited Series TV Series -  Big Little Lies

Best Actress in  A Motion Picture Musical or Comedy - Saoirse Rowan,  Lady Bird

Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy - Lady Bird

Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama - Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour

Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama - Frances McDormand, 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, MO

Best  Motion Picture Drama - Billboards Outside Ebbing, MO

Tuesday

Okay, now I would have a real entry today except... We had a very bogas staff meeting after work today so I put Rocket in daycare for the daycare - first time since he got  attacked and he did really, really well and played all day.

And because of the meeting we got home late and while it was still light it was clearly not going to stay that way and so we opted out of our walk. And Rocket was very tired and didn't really need a walk.

Which leads me to why there isn't a real entry, he was curled up on the couch and he looked so soft, and did I mention I worked all day and then had this meeting? I had a really long day and there he was so soft and sleepy and pillow like and on the couch...

I  ended up waking up way too late for a real entry and then there were the Barney Miller episodes I felt duty bound to watch, and then it was time for Brooklyn 99 and I really like it so  there just wasn't time to do all the things I should have gotten done.

Wednesday

Okay, another day of many things happening, too many, too important to be thrashed out here. I'm still processing . All these things happen and  they are all so bad and any of them had they happened to any other person would be completely end a career - but just like through the campaign. It just doesn't matter, nothing matters. Its like we are in some kind of alternative reality where nothing is real and nothing means the same as I thought it did. I am confused and angry a lot. I suppose most of us are. Stocks also plunged today and I heard that noted Islamophobic, Cheeto is going to give a speech on Islam in Saudi Arabia! Clearly, we are being punked.

 I would have a real entry but I had to write a very big check, for me, four whole digits! Which I had to write twice and call the window man back to my house because I have so little practice in writing checks for over your average credit card bill,  that I wrote it out wrong twice, that wasn't hugely embarrassing - and then I had to make dinner and walk the dog and then I had to watch a couple of Great Newses,   question - are they ever going to talk about how the one guy looks a lot like Draco Malfoy? Its an issue and it takes me out of the story: He looks like Draco Malfoy and they need to talk about it.

 And then I had to watch Downward Dog and its really good! If you are a dog person, I totally suggest you try to catch it, it airs on Tuesday nights on ABC. I;m not sure what time, this week it was on Wednesday. Also I DVR everything and time and day is irrelevant to me now. I've moved on from things like that. I am a superior being now.

I am now noticing that I watch three scripted television shows! and that isn't counting the Barney Miller and M*A*S*H reruns. There is hope for me yet.

Thursday

I solved the problem of the uneven  episodes of M*A*S*H, two different networks running reruns! It would be one thing if the episodes were  separated by multiple seasons, but they are only a season or so separating the episodes.  M*A*S*H ran for eleven years, they could do a lot better than than that. So it's not a single network running episodes out of order, it is two networks running reruns concurrently. It's like they are singing a round. I feel better now.

I've also discovered that even though two networks are running reruns, they are not running episodes every day. Thursdays for example, are episode-less - which would be tragic, except I have other actual first-run shows from this century to watch instead, so I'll survive.

On a totally different topic. I just cleaned my bath tub. It looks exactly the same. This is not the look I was going for, it may look gross but it was just literally soaked with a bleach bathroom cleaner and the room reeks of bleach. The tub doesn't look very nice but its probably cleaner than yours is.

On to a different topic : When is the new Match Game going to get good? It is just so bad! The  celebrities are okayish, they try hard and for the most part they seem to at least want to be there, or not, one or two seem to have woken up on the set and behave like caged animals ( looking at you Chris D'elia).

The real issue are the players. Real morons! Idiots! Where do they get these people! Back in the day the players were at the very least clever. The writing isn't great, it needs help, but still. My Gawd. The network is burning episodes ( Now on Twice a Week!), so  clearly they aren't happy with it, but  they could fix it. It was a funny game show. Now its a ... show.

On to a different topic - Puppy Days , a good show,  brutally honest about living with a puppy and how not fun it is.  I thought it was just going to follow these folks on Day 1 with their new puppies and that was going to be cute but in reality, its going to follow these people and their puppies through the unfun challenges of potty training, teething, obedience, learning to live with this new creature. Its fascinating. Six families, in six different locations with six different kinds of puppies. Its very good and the puppies are adorb. All puppies are cute if they aren't yours and you are cleaning up their pee or scooping their poop. This show pulls no punches. Puppies are hard. And squishy.

Rerun Land

I got a happy surprise over the weekend, M*A*S*H reuns! and lots of them!  A good hour and half a day of soothing, televised mac and cheese. Just when I needed it the most.

It was absolutely comforting to see an episode again. I as like Oh, Hawkeye! BJ! Father Mulcahey!  Col. Potter! Margaret!, Radar!, Klinger! OMG I've missed you!

Sadly, they are being aired out of order. The episode I watched today was Col. Potters first show, and early in the BJ years, tomorrow the episodes feature Henry (alive!) and Trapper. The first episode I ran across over the weekend was Henry's son being born. It was happy and sad because Henry doesn't live to get to meet the baby. It doesn't matter that Henry wasn't real, he didn't live to meet his son!, his plane spun into the Sea of Japan and there were no survivors.  I would not watch that episode again.

I aced a M*A*S*H quiz on Buzzfeed and I hadn't watched an episode in years. Of course for years I watched  the show every day, years? Did I say years? I meant decades. I also aced a quiz on great works of art just to make sure my brain wasn't completely full of TV trivia. I aced the art quiz because I was able to place the location of the scene to Spain by the gowns the women were wearing, because I took costume history and I remembered that only ladies in Spain wore that horrible silhouette  and that allowed me to guess the name of the work, i.e it was by a Spanish artist vs. Italian or French.

Will and Grace is reruns and totally available and now my DVR is so busy and that makes me so happy because living in the past is going to be my happy place for the next while I'm thinking.

This morning I woke up with the dogs head on my shoulder, it was the nicest thing ever.

Golden Globe Results 2016

Golden Globes Results


Best Supporting Actress in a   Motion Picture - Kate Winslate, Steve Jobs
Best Supporting Actress TV Mini-Series whatever - Maurna Teirney, The Affair
Best Actress in a TV Series Comedy - Rachel Blume, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Best TV Series Comedy - Mozart in The Jungle
Best Limited Series or TV Movie whatever - Wolf Hall
Best Actor in a limited series or TV Movie whatever -  Oscar Issac, Show me a Hero
Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a limited Series or TV Movie - Christian Slater, Mr. Robot
Best Score Movie - The Hateful Eight
Best Actor in a TV Series Drama - Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy - Matt Damon, The Martian
Best Animated Feature Film - Inside Out
Best Supporting Actor in Movie -Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Best Screenplay Film - Arron Sorkin, Steve Jobs
Best Actor Comedy TV -  Gael Garcia Bernal, Mozart in The Jungle
Best Best Foreign Language Film - Son of Saul, Hungary .
Best Actress in a Limited TV Series or Movie whatever - Lady Gaga, American Horror Story: Hotel
Best Original Song Film - "Writings on the Wall" , Spector
Best TV Series Drama - Mr. Robot

Cecil B. Demille Award - Denzel Washington

Best Director Film - Alejandro G. Inarritu, Revenant
Best Actress in a TV Series Drama - Tarja P. Henson, Empire
Best Actress in a Movie Comedy - Jennifer Lawrence, Joy

Rocket is so mad that we are still up. Its bedtime and he wants to go to bed. This is stupid.

Best Picture Comedy - The Martian

Best Actress in a Movie Drama - Bree Lawson, The Room
Best Actor in a Movie Drama - Leonardo Dicaprio Revenant

Best Movie Drama - The Revenant

Emmy 2015 Results

8:16 Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Allison  Janney, Mom

8:26 - Best Writing in a Comedy Series - Veep

8:28 - Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series -  Tony Hale, Veep

8:36 - Guest Actor/ Actress In a Comedy -  Bradley Whitfield/ Joan Cusack

8:37 - Directing in a Comedy -  Jill Salloway, Transparent

8:41 - Best Actor in a Comedy Series - Jeffery Tambor , Transparent

8:53 - Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Julie Louis Dryfus, Veep

8:57 - Best Reality Competition Program - The Voice

9:04 - Best Writing in a Mini-Series or Limited Run Series - Jane Anderson,  Olive Kitterage

9:09 - Best Supporting Actress Mini Series et al - Regina King , American Crime

9:15 - Best Directing Mini Series et al - Olive Kitterridge

9:25 - Best Supporting  Actor Mini Series et al - Bill Murrey, Olive Kitterridge

9:28 - Best Actress in a Mini Series et al -  Frances McDormand, Olive Kitterridge

9:35 - Best Actor Mini Series et al - Richard Jenkins, Olive Kitterridge

9:43 - Best Mini Series et al - Olive Kitterridge

9:50 - Best Writing Variety Show - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

9:55 - Best Variety Sketch Series - Inside Amy Schumer

10:02 - Directing Variety Series - The Daily Show with Jon  Stewart

10:04 - Variety Talk Series - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

10:09 - Writing Drama Series - Game of Thrones

10:19 - Best Supporting Actress Drama - Uzo Aduba , Orange is the New Black

10:21 - Best Directing Drama - Game of Thrones

10:28 -Best Supporting Actor Drama Series - Peter Dinkledge, Game of Thrones

Everyone who died.

10:40 - Best Actor Drama Series - Jon Hamm ,  Mad Men

10:44 - Best Actress Drama - Viola Davis, How To Get Away With Murder

10:51 - Best Comedy Series - Veep

10:54 - Best Drama Series -  Game of Thrones

2015 Golden Globe Winners

8:13 - JK Simmons, Whiplash Best Supporting Actor Drama

8:15 Best Supporting Actress TV series or mini series  Joanne Froggett, Downton Abby

8:23 - Best Mini Series or TV Movie - Fargo

8:25 - Best Actor in a mini series or Drama - Billy Bob Thornton Fargo

8:37 - Best Actress in a TV series mini series or Comedy - Gina Rodriguez, Jane The Virgin

8:40 - Best TV Series Comedy or Musical - Transparent

8:48- Best Original Score - The Theory of Everything

8:51 - Best Original Song - Selma

9:00 - Supporting Actor TV series or mini series or TV movie - Matt Bonner, The Normal Heart

9:06 - Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical -  Amy Adams, Big Eyes

The dog just decided he needed to be on the other side of the couch

9:13 -  Best Animated Film - How to Train your Dragon II

9:19 - Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture - Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

Kristen Wiigs' dress is kind of awful

9:30 - Best Screen Play -  Bird Man, multiple writers credited.

9:35 - Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical - Jeffery Tambor, Transparent

9:43 - Best Foreign Language Film - Leviathan, Russia

9:48 - Best Actress Mini Series  or TV Movie - Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Honorable Woman

9:55 - Best Drama TV- The Affair

9:57 - Best Actor TV Series Drama - Kevin Spacy, House of Cards

Clearly, you don't play Kevin Spacey off. #longspeech

Cecil D. Demille Award - George Clooney

Best Director Motion Picture - Richard Linklater, Boyhood

Best Actress is a TV Series Drama - Ruth Wilson, The Affair

Best Actor Motion Picture Drama -  Michael Keaton, Birdman

Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical - The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama - Julianne Moore, Still Alice

Best Actor Motion Picture Drama - Eddy Redmyne, The Theory of Everything

11:01 Best Motion Picture  Drama - Boyhood

Taste, Lacking in.

I've been watching Botched . I should have been watching any of the stuff I have clogging up my DVR. Some of it quality wedding dress shows and Bobby Flay vehicles! Tree House Construction! House Hunters in Horrible Places!   I have a lot of stuff clogging my DVR, and I "need" to get some stuff off...

And I would, but Botched! Plastic! Surgery! Before!And!After!  In Beverly Hills! I'm transfixed!

Golden Globe Results 2014

8:00 - Curtain Up

Chatter, chatter,jokes, roll call. Chatter.

8:10 -Best Supporting Actress in a Movie - Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle

8:13 - Best Supporting Actress in a  Mini-Series, TV Movie etc.. - Jacqueline Bisset. Wouldn't get off the stage .

8:22 - Best Mini Series or TV Movie - Behind the Candelabra

8:24 - Best Actress Mini Series or TV Movie - Elizabeth Moss, Above the Lake

8:32- Speech from president of  HFP.

8:36 - Best Actor TV Drama - Brian Cranston, Breaking Bad

8:38 - Best TV Drama - Breaking Bad

8:54 - Best Score Motion Picture - Alex Ebert All is Lost

8:56 Best Original Song Motion Picture - U2, "Ordinary Love", Mandela, The Long Walk Home

9:02 - Best Supporting Actor TV Drama - John Voigt, Ray Donavan

9:05 - Best Actress Movie Comedy - Amy Adams, American Hustle

9:14 -Best Actress TV Drama - Robin Wright, House of Cards

9:20 - Best Supporting Actor Movie - Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

9:23 - Best Screenplay - Spike Jones, Her

9:29 - Best Actor TV Comedy - Andy Sandburg, Brooklyn 99

9:41 - Best Foreign Film - Italy, The Great Beauty

9:44 - Best Actor Mini Series - Michael Douglas, Behind the Candelabra

9:53 - Best Animated Feature Film - Frozen

9:56 - Best Actress TV Comedy - Amy Pollar, Parks and Recreation

Best Director Movie -Alphonzo Cuaron, Gravity

Best TV Comedy - Brooklyn 99

Best Actor Comedy Film  - Leo DiCaprio , The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Comedy Film - American Hustle

Best Actress  Drama Film - Cate Blanchett. Blue Jasmine

Best Actor Drama Film - Mathew McCaughenay, Dallas Buyers Club

10:56 Best Film Drama - 12 Years A Slave

Emmy Awards 2013 results

And the Awards went to:


And time waste begins. Why not just hand out the awards? Every host who ever lived but nada for Jack Klugman.


8:16p - Al Pacino is not impressed.

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a comedy series -  8:18p, Merrit Weaver, Nurse Jackie

8:25 - Best Writing in a comedy - Tina Fey, 30 Rock

8:27 -Outstanding Supporting Actor in a comedy series : Tony Hale, Veep


Memorial for Jonathan Winters.


Outstanding Actress in a comedy series : Julia Louie Dreyfus ,Veep

8:40 - Honoring the less important awards handed out last week.

Did Melissa Leo have a lot of work done? Wow. Not cool.

8:43 -Outstanding directing in a comedy series :  Gail Mancusso, Modern Family
8:45 - Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series : Jim Parsons, Big Bang Theory

Memorial for Jean Stapleton

8:55 - Elton John. Memorial for Liberatice?

Tiiimmmeeeeee Waaaaassssstttteeeeerrrr.

9:04 -Outstanding Lead Actress in Mini-Series or Movie -  Laura Linny , The Big C, the Here after

9:10 - Tiiiiiimmmmmmeeeeee Wwwwaaaaaaassstttteee

9:13 - Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series - Henry Bromile, died last spring, award accepted by widow, Home Land

9:15 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama -  Anna Gunn, Breaking Bad


Memorial for a junkie.

9:24 - Tiiiimmmmeeeee Waaasssstteeeee Could we just hand out some awards Gawd Damn it!

9:28 - Outstanding Reality Show - The Voice

9:35 - Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series - Bobby Canavali,  Board Walk Empire
9:40 - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama - Jeff Daniels,  Aaron Sorkin's Journalism Show

 9:44 - Televisions roll in The Kennedy assassination. 79 days later the Beatles played on Ed Sullivan.

9:46 Carrie Underwood sings Yesterday.

The dog was asleep on the couch and rolled over in his sleep, to the floor. He woke up long enough to make sure I was not watching when this happened (I was) and fell back to sleep next to the couch.

Worst use of  Bob Newhart ever.

9:55 Outstanding  Lead Actress in a Drama -  Clare Danes, Homeland

9:56 - Honoring everyone not honorable enough for the Big Show.

9:59 -  Outstanding Directing in a Drama series - David Fincher, House of Cards

10:00 -  Finally, Bob Newhart gets some love. Outstanding Writing in a Variety Series - The Colbert Report.

10:06 - Directing in a Variety series - Don Roy King, Saturday Night Live

Memorial for Gary David Goldberg

Outstanding Choreography -  Tiiimmmmeeee Waaaassttteee

Best Outstanding Choreography - Derrick Huff, Dancing with the Stars

Outstanding Variety Show - The Colbert Report

Memorial for James Gandolfini


10:32 - Outstanding Writing for Mini series, movie or dramatic special -  Abby Morgan, The Hour
10:35 - Outstanding Supporting Actor in a mini series or movie - James Cromwell, I didn't catch for what

In Memoriam for everyone else.

10:46 - Outstanding Directing for mini series, movie or special event - Steven Soderberg, Behind the Candelabra
10:48- Outstanding  Actress in mini  series or movie - Ellen Burston, Political Animal

10:55 - Outstanding Actor in a mini series or movie - Michael Douglas, Behind the Candelabra
10:59 - Outstanding Mini Series of movie - Behind the Candelabra


11:04 - Outstanding Comedy Series - Modern Family
11:09 - Outstanding Drama Series - Breaking Bad

Emmy (tm) Results 2012

And the Emmy (tm) went to...

Kimmel hits the stage at 8:05 pm

8:08 - Thus far not offensive.
8:10 - Puppy hears a door bell on TV and doesn't react.

First Award 8:11 - Damn, Amy Polar has great tits.

First Award Handed out to winner -  Supporting Actor in Comedy Series : Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family. 8:13

8:19 - back from commercial break . Best Writing for Comedy - Louis CK, Louie
8:23 - Best Supporting Actress Comedy - Julie Bowen, Modern Family
8:31 - Announcement of Guest Actor and Actress in a Comedy -  Kathy Bates and Jimmy Fallen
8:33 - Best Comedy Direction - Steve Levitan, Modern Family

There is a puppy sleeping on  my foot.

8:38 - Lead Actor in a Comedy - John Cryer, Two and a Half Men
8:44 - Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Julie Louis Dreyfus, Veep
8:51 - Outstanding Reality Competition - The Amazing Race
8:59 - Outstanding Reality Show Host - Tom Bergeron, Dancing with The Stars
9:05 - Supporting Actor Drama - Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad
9:12 - Time killing
9:14 - Writing in a Drama Series -  Homeland
9:17 - Supporting Actress Drama - Maggie Smith, Downton Abby
9:23 - Announcement of Guest Actor and Actress in a Drama - Jeremy Davies, Martha Plimpton
9:25 - Best Director Drama - Tim Van Patten
9:26 - Time killing
9:27 - Lead Actor Drama - Damian Lewis, Homeland
9:36 - Lead Actress Drama - Clair Danes, Homeland 
9:43 - Outstanding Variety Special -  Louis CK, Live from the Beacon
9:50 - Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special -  Glenn Weiss,   2012 Tony Awards
9:54 - Outstanding  Variety, Music or Comedy -  The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
10:02 - Time Killing
10:04 - Supporting Actress Mini Series or Movie - Jessica Lang, American Horror Story
10:07 - Time Killing
10:13 - Supporting Actor Mini Series or Movie - Tom Berenger, Hatfield's and McCoys
10:17 - Memorial to Andy Griffith
10:18 - In memoriam
10:26 - Outstanding Writing for Mini Series or Movie - Danny Strong, Game Change
10:28 - Lead Actress Mini Series or Movie - Julieanne Moore, Game Change
10:35 - Direction Mini Series or Movie - Jay Roach, Game Change
10:38 - Outstanding Lead Actor Mini Series or Movie -Kevin Costner, Hatfields and McCoys
10:47 - Outstanding Mini Series or Movie -  Game Change
10:48 - Outstanding Drama Series - Homeland
10:56 - Outstanding Comedy Series - Modern Family

And the Emmy Nominations went to..

COMEDY SERIES

"The Big Bang Theory" (CBS)

"Curb Your Enthusiasm" (HBO)

"Girls" (HBO)

"Modern Family" (ABC)

30 Rock" (NBC)

"Veep" (HBO)

COMEDY ACTOR

Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper in "The Big Bang Theory"

Larry David as Himself in "Curb Your Enthusiasm"

Don Cheadle as Marty Kaan in "House of Lies"

Louis C.K. as Louie in "Louie"
Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy in "30 Rock"
Jon Cryer as Alan Harper in "Two and a Half Men"

COMEDY ACTRESS

Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvath in "Girls"

Melissa McCarthy as Molly Flynn in "Mike & Molly"

Zooey Deschanel as Jess Day in "New Girl"

Edie Falco as Jackie Peyton in "Nurse Jackie"

Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope in "Parks and Recreation

Tina Fey as Liz Lemon in "30 Rock"
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer in "Veep"

SUPPORTING COMEDY ACTOR

Ed O'Neill as Jay Pritchett in "Modern Family

Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell Pritchett in "Modern Family"

Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy in "Modern Family"

Eric Stonestreet as Cameron Tucker in "Modern Family"

Max Greenfield as Schmidt in "New Girl"

Bill Hader as various characters in "Saturday Night Live"

SUPPORTING COMEDY ACTRESS

Mayim Bialik as Amy Farrah Fowler in "The Big Bang Theory"

Kathryn Joosten as Karen McCluskey in "Desperate Housewives"

Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy in "Modern Family"

Sofia Vergara as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in "Modern Family"

Merritt Wever as Zoey Barkow in "Nurse Jackie"

Kristen Wiig as various characters in "Saturday Night Live"

DRAMA SERIES

"Boardwalk Empire" (HBO

"Breaking Bad" (AMC)

"Downton Abbey" (PBS)

"Game of Thrones" (HBO)

"Homeland" (Showtime)

"Mad Men" (AMC)

DRAMA ACTRESS

Glenn Close as Patty Hewes in "Damages"

Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary Crawley in "Downton Abbey"

Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick in "The Good Wife"

Kathy Bates as Harriet Korn in "Harry's Law"

Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in "Homeland"

Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson in "Mad Men"

DRAMA ACTOR

Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson in "Boardwalk Empire

Bryan Cranston as Walter White in "Breaking Bad" | More: Cranston on Walter White's trip to hel

Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan in "Dexter

Hugh Bonneville as Robert, Earl of Grantham in "Downton Abbey"

Damian Lewis as Nicholas Brody in "Homeland"

Jon Hamm as Don Draper in "Mad Men"

SUPPORTING DRAMA ACTRESS

Anna Gunn as Skyler White in "Breaking Bad"

Maggie Smith as Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham in "Downton Abbey"

Joanne Froggatt as Anna in "Downton Abbey"

Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma in "The Good Wife"

Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart in "The Good Wife"

Christina Hendricks as Joan Holloway Harris in "Mad Men"

SUPPORTING DRAMA ACTOR

Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman in "Breaking Bad"

Giancarlo Esposito as Gustavo 'Gus' Fring in "Breaking Bad"

Brendan Coyle as John Bates in "Downton Abbey"

Jim Carter as Mr. Carson in "Downton Abbey"

Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister in "Game of Thrones"

Jared Harris as Lane Pryce "Mad Men"

MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE

"American Horror Story" (FX)

"Game Change" (HBO)

"Hatfields & McCoys" (History)

"Hemingway & Gellhorn" (HBO)

"Luther" (BBC America)

"Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia" (PBS)

VARIETY SERIES

"The Colbert Report" (Comedy Central)

"The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" (Comedy Central)

"Jimmy Kimmel Live" (ABC)

"Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" (NBC)

"Real Time With Bill Maher" (HBO)

"Saturday Night Live" (NBC)

GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

Dot-Marie Jones as Coach Shannon Beiste in "Glee

Maya Rudolph, host in "Saturday Night Live"

Melissa McCarthy, host in "Saturday Night Liv

Elizabeth Banks as Avery Jessup in "30 Rock

Margaret Cho as Kim Jong-il in "30 Rock"

Kathy Bates as Charlie Harper in "Two and a Half Men"

GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Michael J. Fox as Himself in "Curb Your Enthusiasm"

Greg Kinnear as Tad in "Modern Family"

Bobby Cannavale as Dr. Mike Cruz in "Nurse Jackie"

Jimmy Fallon, host in "Saturday Night Live"

Will Arnett as Devon Banks in "30 Rock"

Jon Hamm as Abner and David Brinkley in "30 Rock"

GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

Martha Plimpton as Patti Nyholm in "The Good Wife"

Loretta Devine as Adele Webber in "Grey's Anatomy"

Jean Smart as D.A. Roseanna Remmick in "Harry's Law"

Julia Ormond as Marie Calvet in "Mad Men"

Joan Cusack as Sheila Jackson in "Shameless"

Uma Thurman as Rebecca Duvall in "Smash"

GUEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Mark Margolis as Tio Salamanca in "Breaking Bad"

Dylan Baker as Colin Sweeney in "The Good Wife"

Michael J. Fox as Louis Canning in "The Good Wife"

Jeremy Davies as Dickie Bennett in "Justified"

Ben Feldman as Michael Ginsberg in "Mad Men

Jason Ritter as Mark Cyr in "Parenthood"

WRITING FOR A COMEDY SERIES

Chris McKenna, "Community"

Lena Dunham, "Girls"

Louis C.K., "Louie"

Amy Poehler, "Parks and Recreation"

Michael Schure, "Parks and Recreation"

WRITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES

Julian Fellowes, "Downton Abbey"

Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff, "Homeland"

Semi Chellas & Matthew Weiner, "Mad Men"

Andre Jacquemetton & Maria Jacquemetton, "Mad Men

Erin Levy & Matthew Weiner, "Mad Men"

WRITING FOR A VARIETY SERIES

"The Colbert Report," Barry Julien (head writer), Stephen Colbert, Tom Purcell, Richard Dahm, Michael Brumm, Rob Dubbin, Opus Moreschi, Peter Gwinn, Jay Katsir, Frank Lesser, Glenn Eichler, Meredith Scardino, Max Werner, Eric Drysdale, Scott Sherman, Dan Guterman & Paul Dinello

"The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," Tim Carvell (head writer), Rory Albanese, Kevin Bleyer, Rich Blomquist, Steve Bodow, Wyatt Cenac, Hallie Haglund, JR Havlan, Elliott Kalan, Dan McCoy, Jo Miller, John Oliver, Zhubin Parang, Daniel Radosh, Jason Ross, & Jon Stewart

"Portlandia," Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Jonathan Krisel & Karey Dornetto

"Real Time With Bill Maher," Adam Felber, Matt Gunn, Brian Jacobsmeyer, Jay Jaroch, Chris Kelly, Mike Larsen, Bill Maher, Billy Martin & Scott Carter

"Saturday Night Live," James Anderson, Alex Baze, Jessica Conrad, James Downey, Shelly Gossman, Steve Higgins, Zach Kanin, Chris Kelly, Colin Jost, Erik Kenward, Rob Klein, Seth Meyers, Lorne Michaels, John Mulaney, Christine Nangle, Michael Patrick O'Brien, Paula Pell, Marika Sawyer, Sarah Schneider, Pete Schultz, John Solomon, Kent Sublette, Bryan Tucker & Emily Spivey

Golden Globe Winners 2012

Best Supporting Actor Drama - Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Best Actress TV Comedy - Laura Dern (Garbled)
Best  TV Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie - Downton Abby
Best Actress Mini-Series or TV Movie - Kate Winslet, Mildred Pearce
Best Actor TV Drama - Kelsy Grammer, Boss
Best TV Series Drama - Homeland
Best Score - The Artist
Best Original Score -  Madonna, "Masterpiece", W.e
Best Performance  TV Series, Movie, Mini-Series Actor - Edris Elba , Luther
Best Actress Motion Picture, Comedy - Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn
Best Supporting Actor TV  Series /Mini-Series - Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
Best Animated Feature Film -  The Adventures of Tin-Tin
Best Screenplay - Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
Best Actress TV Series, Movie or Mini-Series - Jessica Lang, American Horror Story
Best Foreign Language Film - Iran, A Separation
Best Actress TV Series Drama - Claire Danes, Homeland
Best Actor TV Comedy or Musical - Matt LaBlanc, Episodes
Best Supporting Actress Motion Picture - Octavia Spencer, The Help
Best Director Motion Picture -  Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Best TV Series Comedy or Musical - Modern Family
Best Actor Motion Picture Comedy or Musical - Jean Dejuardin - The Artist
Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama -  Meryl Streep, The Lady
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical -  The Artist
Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama - George Cloony , The Descendents
Best Motion Picture Drama -  The Descendents

10:55 pm

TGIF

I now have a ghost detecting app on my phone. I suspect that this will bring my cat and I closer together.

I also have an app that will allow me to set a timer to make the phone ring at a given time. I also now have Netflix on my phone so I can ignore the movie I've had for two weeks even when I'm not at home, speaking of when I'm not at home, I can now book hotels through Expedia, from my phone! I don't go anywhere and I can't remember the last time I booked a hotel room from a land line, but now, I can see how much a room in Phuket would run me while I'm standing in  line at Walmart, and thanks to the lovely price-line app I downloaded the other day, I can price out flights to Rome while I listen to the Lunar Enhanced screech  racial obscenities  at me as they rage about the brutal  murder of their very much alive son. Today's woman must be able to multi-task.

There is this book I really want on my Kindle but it costs too much so I might get it a hard copy of it instead - which defeats the Kindle, but  $11.99 defeats me.

I haven't bought pumpkins yet. I think the failure of my pumpkin vines hurt me on a such a deep, weird level that I am now projecting my feelings of sadness on all pumpkins. My ambivalence about autumnal decorating is the manifestation of that hurt. Pumpkins just kind of make me nauseous now. I feel like I've been through a bad break up and I don't want to get involved  with other gourds again so soon.

Is it fate that not ten minutes after I finally found my Ranger shirt, they lost the game?

I've decided to give Whitney a chance. I'm going to watch it for the first time this week on a TV with a working  tube. I like her but I don't like-her-like-her yet and so far I like the boyfriend better. The show is not called The Boyfriend, this is not good for the future of the show.

This is going to sound stupid, but I know Free Agents was going to fail because there was too much set-dressing and the costuming used too many prints, the sets and the costumes should not be what stays with the viewer. They also threw too many speaking parts at us too fast, It was hard to figure out who was supposed to be the focus of the show and that is confusing to a new viewer, "is it that loud girl and those two guys or is it Hank Azaria and that girl who looks familiar?" as a viewer I don't want to figure it out. New shows need to stick to a small core group until the season progresses, and then slowly introduce us to the rest of the people who make up that world.

Yay for TV

I just discovered that the DVR is recording <i>nothing</i> today. The schedule skipped from Monday to Wednesday.Nothing. There is not a single show I watch on  a regular bases airing a new episode. When does this new TV season start again?

And speaking of the "new season", I don't think I'm going to be picking up a single new show, well, <i>:maybe</i> that show with Maya Rudolph and Christina Applegate but I don't remember what its called so its hard to find on schedules, and <i>maybe</i> that show called <i>Whitney</i>. There <i>might</i> be another drama in there but I'm not betting on it. The older I get the fewer shows are marketed to me and the fewer in general I want to watch despite the studios desire for me to just die and stop being so old. My fear is a future made up entirely of <i>Ice Road Trucker</i> and <i>Law and Order</i> reruns.

I am looking forward to <i>Community</i> coming back and <i>30 Rock</i> and <i>Bones</i>, clearly I am a big fan of Thursdays. I was trying to remember what <i>exactly</i> I watch on network TV anymore and it was <i>hard</i> So I went by day, <i>House</i> is on Mondays, although I am getting a little tired of House, he never changes or learns or moves on and in that he reminds me of Tommy Gavin on <i>Rescue Me</i., another show I used to like much more than I do now. I don't want  "very special episodes" or big changes in the charactors but come on, a decade or so later let there be <i>some</i> growth.  Ennui in fifty year old men is boring. Tuesdays. NO clue, I think maybe <i>Southland</i> is on Tuesdays when its on, which is rarely, Wednesdays? I think there wasn't anything on Wednesdays, and that night is Netflix night or should I say "Quickflix" night. Blah. Thursdays I'm NBC's bitch and Friday I watch <i>The Soup</i> and <i>Fashion Police</i>. Shut up.

If you are interested and if you're here, you are, today Dogger cut her walk short because she was frightened by a pile of newly ground stump - Good going on that, by the way! The storm was in April, the tree had just been laying there for months.I was hopeing that some enterprising urban yut would spray paint it and we could all pretend it was Urban Art or if we didn't like it, we could scream about the graffiti  and at least then the city would disappear it as is there want.

I figured the house is a rental and they didn't bother taking care of it until the school year started and they wanted to get the place rented and <i>that</i> would be hard to do with a dead tree all over the front yard. I really don't understand Doggers reaction,  she lived with a pile of ground stump in <i>her own yard!</i>. Poor dog, maybe the whole thing was more scaring than I thought.. A few minutes later in that same walk as she was double timing it home a city bus went past and after that we were <i>triple timing</i> it back to the house. On the upside for Dogger her electrolyte test came back normal and she's good for another six months, Oh! note to self! I need to call the vet  and remind them to call in a new six month script to the pharmacy.

Emmy (tm) Winners 2011

The Emmy's went to:

Outstanding Supporting Actress Comedy - Julie Bowen, Modern FamilyOutstanding Supporting Actor Comedy - Tye Burrel, Modern FamilyOutstanding Directing Comedy - Micheal Allen Spiller, Modern FamilyOutstanding Writing Comedy - Steve Levitan, Jeffery Richardson, Modern FamilyOutstanding Lead Actor Comedy - Jim Parsons, Big Bang TheoryOutstanding Lead Actress Comedy - Melissa McCarthy, Mike and Molly
 Outstanding Competitive Reality Show - The Amazing Race
 Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Show - The Daily ShowOutstanding Directing a Variety, Music or Comedy Show - Don Roy King, SNLOutstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Show - The Daily Show
 Outstanding Writing Drama - Friday Night Lights Outstanding Supporting Actress Drama - Margo Martindale, JustifiedOutstanding Directing Drama Series - Martin Scorsese, Boardwalk EmpireOutstanding Supporting Actor Drama - Peter Dinkage, Game of ThronesOutstanding Actress Drama - Juliana Margelies, The Good WifeOutstanding Actor Drama - Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights
 Outstanding Writing for Miniseries or Movie - Julian Fellowes, Downton AbbyOutstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie - Maggie Smith, Upstairs/DownstairsLead Actor in Miniseries or Movie -Berry Pepper, That Distasteful,Historically Inaccurate, Right-Wing Smear Job of JFKOutstanding Directing of a Movie or Miniseries - Brian Percival, Downton-AbbyOutstanding Actor Movie or Miniseries - Guy Pierce, Mildred PierceOutstanding Actress Movie or Miniseries - Kate Winslet, Mildred PierceOutstanding Movie or Miniseries - Downton Abby
 Outstanding Drama Series - Madmen
Outstanding Comedy Series - Modern Family

Contractually obligated Emmy Nomination Entry

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series:


Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Johnny Galecki, The Big Bang Theory
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
Louis C.K., Louie
Steve Carell, The Office
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock

I'm going to have to go with Alec Baldwin, because I don't watch the other shows. Also? Where is Joel Mchale? I mean for real! Mat LeBlanc? Episodes? For reals? Gah.

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series:

Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights
Hugh Laurie, House
Timothy Olyphant, Justified
Jon Hamm, Mad Men

Hugh Laurie isn't go to win again. I think he's endless bitching about not winning is why he doesn't win. I wouldn't vote for him either. Buscemi won all ready and MCH won as well. I see it as Kyle Chandler or Timothy Olyphant. Emmy likes rewarding Dramas that no one watches or has ever heard of.

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series:

Laura Linney, The Big C
Melissa McCarthy, Mike & Molly
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Amy Poehler, Parks & Recreation
Martha Plimpton, Raising Hope
Tina Fey, 30 Rock

The Big C or Mike and Molly . Either laughing in cancers' face or fat jokes. I don't find  a drug addicted RN "funny", I'm pretty sure RH was canceled so Martha Plimpton has a good chance, I heart Tina Fey,. but she has 36 Emmys at home all ready, but, in this crowd, I still  have to go for Fey. But Laura Linny will win because she's a movie person.

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series:

Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Kathy Bates, Harry’s Law
Mireille Enos, The Killing
Mariska Hartigay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men

I see it as a toss up between FNLs and TGW. I don't watch either and I hate  SVU. I think HL got canceled  after three episodes and I am over MM. I vote for The Killing because that's the one I watch and the actress is brave to spend the entire series looking like a wet cat.

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series:

Chris Colfer, Glee
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family
Ed O’Neill, Modern Family
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men

I'm going to have to go with Joel McHale!

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series:

Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
Josh Charles, The Good Wife
Alan Cumming, The Good Wife
Walton Goggins, Justified
John Slattery, Mad Men
Andre Braugher, Men of a Certain Age

I like Alan Cumming, he was great in Cabaret, so on the strength of a years old performance in a different discipline, Go Alan Cumming!

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series:

Jane Lynch, Glee
Betty White, Hot in Cleveland
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family
Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live
Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock

They're going to give it to Betty White, but I want Kristin Wigg to win.

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series:

Kelly Macdonald, Boardwalk Empire
Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife
Christine Baranski, The Good Wife
Margo Martindale, Justified
Michelle Forbes, The Killing
Christina Hendricks, Mad Men

Lets go Michelle Forbes! I just figured out who she is, she was on H-LOTS. The show  uses no light at all, real or artificial that I never got a good look at her. It was so dark it was practically a radio show.

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series:

Idris Elba, The Big C
Nathan Lane, Modern Family
Zach Galifianakis, Saturday Night Live
Justin Timberlake, Saturday Night Live
Matt Damon, 30 Rock
Will Arnett, 30 Rock

As long as it isn't Nathan Lane for the grossly over rewarded MF, I really don't care. I would be happy with Matt Damon won though.

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series:

Bruce Dern, Big Love
Beau Bridges, Brothers & Sisters
Michael J. Fox, The Good Wife
Paul McCrane, Harry’s Law
Jeremy Davies, Justified
Roger Morse, Mad Men

I've heard that MJF plays a complete asshole on TGW. I'm sure he has a lot of anger issues in his life, so I'm glad he has the outlet.

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series:

Kristen Chenoweth, Glee
Dot-Marie Jones, Glee
Gwyneth Paltrow, Glee
Cloris Leachman, Raising Hope
Tina Fey, Saturday Night Live
Elizabeth Banks, 30 Rock
Joan Cusack, Shameless
Alfre Woodard, True Blood

Blech Glee. I vote for Tina Fey or Elizabeth Banks, because I follow her on Twitter.

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series:

Mary McDonnell, The Closer
Julia Stiles, Dexter
Loretta Devine, Grey’s Anatomy
Randee Heller, Mad Men
Cara Buono, Mad Men

Yeah. I don't care about any of these.
Outstanding Comedy Series:

The Big Bang Theory
Glee
Modern Family
The Office
Parks & Recreation
30 Rock

Yay! Community!!

Outstanding Drama Series:

Boardwalk Empire
Dexter
Friday Night Lights
Game of Thrones
The Good Wife
Mad Men

Yeah. Don't care about any of them.

Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series:

The Colbert Report
Conan
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Real Time with Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live

Could all of these win?

Monday

I spent the day wearing a sock on one foot. One stocking on one foot, a sock, a white sock, and a stocking on the other. I start out the day wearing both stockings and socks. On both feet, after I walk Dogger I change shoes and remove the socks. I put the socks back on after work before I walk Dogger. Its a circle of life kind of thing.

I do this every week day. I put the socks on, both socks, and I take both  socks off and then I put them both back on.  I've been doing this routine every day for two years and now, out of nowhere, I forget to take off a sock and then spend the entire day doing some sort of reverse non-sparkly Michael Jackson thing and worse then the reverse, non-sparkly part of it, it took me all day to notice.

I wandered around the Farmers Market wearing a sock. I was at the Farmers Market, ankle deep in shame, looking for flowers, specifically, inpatients. I have visitors coming and I would prefer the front of the house be decorative. There were no flowers and now the reason I kept getting lapped by laughing children suddenly makes sense. It was cold, windy mostly empty and devoid of flowers. I knew I should have wondered what they were laughing about.

Whatev.

I still have no flowers. I'm going to have to go back to Wallyworld to get cat food for Small Cat and while I'm there I'll just pick up more hyacinths. They won't last out the season so I'll be able to get my other flowers and not feel wasteful. And I'll score some bulbs for next year. Yay bulbs.

Anyway. I didn't ride at lunch today but I did wander around  the market, so I get some credit, even better after work, I rode to the post office and still did my five miles. I won't mention that I crashed immediately after I came back from the post office or that when I woke up my first thought was that I was going to be very late to work, I wasn't but I did almost slept through House.

Why is Anthony Bourdain in Vienna? He was in Cambodia, Nicaragua and Haiti, terrible places with almost no food to speak of much less the Food Porn he usually highlights, and as far as vacation destinations, no thank you, to any of them and he worked it hard trying to educate us about how bad it was and how much "better: it is now, except for Haiti  that does not have a "better" as it has been the bad old days there since time in memorial. I got more than a whiff of White Mans Burden from all three episodes and that is off putting . This weeks he's in Vienna at Christmas Lots of Food Porn and vacation ideas and a half hour in, no mention of Nazis. He's falling down on the job, he's been ass deep in horror and now he's  eating  fancy cake and sucking down expensive wine? Come on Bourdain! Embrace it! You like horror, dig a little. Horror snob perhaps?