Thank you Barack Obama
It's not often that I have a reason to thank a politician, but I want to send a big 'thankee!' to Barack Obama in the USA.
Dear wife and I relax some evenings watching TV drama series on DVD, and we've worked our ways through several different series over the past couple of years. We can tell you any number of quirky ways to die from 'Six Feet Under'; we can tell you several different ways to torture and kill bad guys who are threatening our way of life from '24'; and we were inspired by the idealised political doings of President Jed Bartlett in 'The West Wing' (ah, if only)... and the list goes on.
Most recent was 'Spooks' about the ever clever members of the British intelligence organisation MI5, whose use of brains, instead of Jack Bauer's sheer torturing and killing skills, makes it a much more interesting watch.
Finished that, what next?
Supposedly, as he hasn't returned my calls about it, Barack Obama is quoted as saying that his favourite TV show is 'The Wire' about a group of detectives from the Baltimore Police Department, and the criminals that they deal with. It is excellent watching, but you have to stick with it. I guess it's like a real police investigation where you have lot of details at the beginning of a case but it doesn't make any sense. The writers and directors of The Wire seem to have structured their storylines like that - when you watch the first episode of a series you wonder what the heck is going on, but stick with it and it makes sense.
So thank you Barack Obama. For this one small contribution to our lives. May you make more significant ones to ours, and the lives of others following November.
Dear wife and I relax some evenings watching TV drama series on DVD, and we've worked our ways through several different series over the past couple of years. We can tell you any number of quirky ways to die from 'Six Feet Under'; we can tell you several different ways to torture and kill bad guys who are threatening our way of life from '24'; and we were inspired by the idealised political doings of President Jed Bartlett in 'The West Wing' (ah, if only)... and the list goes on.
Most recent was 'Spooks' about the ever clever members of the British intelligence organisation MI5, whose use of brains, instead of Jack Bauer's sheer torturing and killing skills, makes it a much more interesting watch.
Finished that, what next?
Supposedly, as he hasn't returned my calls about it, Barack Obama is quoted as saying that his favourite TV show is 'The Wire' about a group of detectives from the Baltimore Police Department, and the criminals that they deal with. It is excellent watching, but you have to stick with it. I guess it's like a real police investigation where you have lot of details at the beginning of a case but it doesn't make any sense. The writers and directors of The Wire seem to have structured their storylines like that - when you watch the first episode of a series you wonder what the heck is going on, but stick with it and it makes sense.
So thank you Barack Obama. For this one small contribution to our lives. May you make more significant ones to ours, and the lives of others following November.
posted by Rick's Rambles at 10:28 am
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