Odds and Ends

Good morning.

1. I watched the Golden Globes last night. It's pretty easy to predict the winner in each category. Normally, if there are 5 nominees and I'm familiar with 4 of them, the 5th will win. Too bad the Office got shut out. Since they didn't win the Globe, I will present them with the first ever Undaground Award for outstanding performance in a musical or comedy. I'm not sure that there will be an acceptance speech, since there isn't an actual statue, though next year I hope to have a nice tinfoil creation for the winner.

2. Speaking of television, another season of "24" has begun. I watched the first season and half of another season, then I abandoned the show and vowed to never go back. About 8 episodes into the last season I watched, I read a newspaper article that the writers were still trying to figure out "where to take the storyline". That drove me up a wall! How can you begin to tell a story, and not know where the story is going? Ridiculous! I felt like a 4-year-old with the 24 writers as my daddy, reading me a bedtime story and making it up while they go along. "Then, the evil mastermind took over the controls and destroyed Air Force one. Then, a fairy princess kissed Jack Bauer, and he became a real boy." I know "24" is a popular show, but I've got too much TV in my life to spend time watching something that they make up as they go along. Listen up, "Lost", you're next!

3. American Idol begins this week. The auditions are always fun. Yes, the people who know they're bad are very annoying, and I hope they minimize them in the show. I assume many are like me, and watch for those people who think they're the next American Idol, until the judges slap the delusion out of them. There's a lesson to be learned here: If you have a family member who thinks they're good at something, but you know they're not, tell them before they embarrass themselves on national television. Or, better yet, don't tell them so I have something to watch on Tuesday nights.

4. I'm going to go on record and say that meatball is the most underrated pizza topping there is. Try it.

5. Finally, if your eating habits require you to have a snack at some point during the day, may I suggest the "Nature Valley, Sweet & Salty Nut Granola Bar (Almond flavored)". It is quite simply the greatest freaking granola bar ever made (with all due respect to the original Kudos bar).