I'd rather play at hug o'war

( How I Met Your Mother )

( The Class )

( Heroes )

I recorded The Black Donnellys as I'm really not that big a fan of Paul Haggis (I'm of the mind he is rather over-rated), but I've heard from multiple people on the flist that it's pretty damn close to perfection. Plus it has a few actors I've liked elsewhere, so I guess I'll give it a whirl this weekend.

ETA: iridescentglow posted a link to Herc's review over at Aint It Cool News, which includes MANY MANY MANY excerpts from reviews from multiple papers/magazines and they all read pretty much the same. It appears the only two actors who escaped relatively unscathed are Wilde and Tucker, and even then, it's still rather stunning, the critical response.

My car is parked across the street in the Target parking lot under what I hope is a working light post. A fine thick sheen of rain glosses the windows until everything is blurry, flashes of color against the dark night.

This would be pretty except that it took me an hour to navigated all the flooded streets to get home. A five-minute drive turned into one long frustrating nightmare that ended with me trudging my way from the aforementioned Target parking lot through mid-calf high water to even get into my neighborhood, much less all the way to my house.

Such is life in Houston, Texas, and if I haven't mentioned how much the heat and humidity and mosquitoes the size of Buicks irritate the shit out of me about this city, these type of days are what really seal my non-love for all things Houston. The city planners, oh you, the biggest fucktards of all the fucktards in the land, probably never have to figure another route because Almeda-Genoa turns into a raging river when so much as two heavy raindrops fall simultaneously. And of course, that would have to be the main road to get to the street that leads to my neighborhood, wouldn't it?

Grrr...

( I've included pictures for your viewing pleasure )

Now, on to much more pleasant things, like How I Met Your Mother, which continues its run of pure awesomeness. ( Cut for spoilers )

As for The Class, Jason Ritter and Lizzy Caplan remain the biggest draw for me, but I didn't really dig their storyline this week. Meh. The only thing that makes me sad at the prospect of cancellation is that those two will be out of a job, once again, and no longer cute-ing up my TV screen every week.

(RIP, Related. RIP.)

Now, as for Heroes. ( Holy shit with a dollop of what the fuck! )

With that, I'm off to bed. 'Night, folks.