So a few weeks back I read a post on io9 that said "You fools! Why are you not watching The Middleman?" I read the post, watched the clip and went home that evening and used my itunes gift card to purchase every episode available. I had been meaning to check it out, but was in the middle of a Northern Exposure thing and didn't. Boy did I feel like a fool, not for watching Northern Exposure which is awesome, but for not paying attention to this show from day one.
The Middleman follows Wendy Watson, a artist, pacifist, zombie movie loving, gory video game playing, comic book reader as she fights sci fi crime with her boss The Middleman (the adorable Matt Keeslar). When she is no fighting crime she is living in an illegal loft space (the loft space of my dreams) with her confrontational spoken word artist best friend, Lacey. Even though this is technically a sci-fi show, Wendy and Lacey are the some most realistic representations of 20 somethings I've seen on TV. Somehow this show is on ABC family, and is scheduled right before the 700 Club, even though it would be better suited for the Sci Fi Channel, The CW (because it is part of the evolution of the WB which gave us Buffy once upon a time and Aliens in America today) or The N. It is very liberal, very sarcastic and very pop culture savvy. The Middleblog, actually had to start posting lists and explanations of all the references because there are so many that you miss some, and a few are so obscure they need explanation even to a seasoned pop culture junkie.
I have described this show as a mix of Buffy, Ghostworld, Wonderfalls, and Daria, and like Wonderfalls it is at risk. Like many brilliant shows it might not be picked up for a second season. So this is my post telling you to watch the season (hopefully not series) finale of The Middleman on ABC Family Monday night at 10:00 EST. In the meantime you can watch Wendy "Get her Buffy on" in last weeks episode streaming on the ABC Family website. This weeks episode (with Mark Sheppard! of BSG and Firefly) will be available streaming at the end of the week. If you like what you see go to itunes and buy the season!
Friday, August 22, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Veronica Mars Scarf
Veronica Mars wears a surprising number of scarves for living in Southern California. When I was going through my obsession with Veronica Mars I was inspired to knit the scarf she wears in Season 1, episode "Meet John Smith." Mostly I just really love pink and green. This scarf is knit in the round and out of Karabella Aurora 8. I love Aurora 8, it is extremely soft and very bouncy. This will go perfectly with the obscene amount of pink shirts I wear. It will also be the warmest scarf I own.
I have been spending this Sunday adding fringe and finishing touches to a bunch of projects. It is my least favorite part of any projects since it seems to take an inordinantly long amount of time. I have a bit of a cold this weekend, which actually bodes well for all chores I normally find tedious. When I am loopy with a cold, I always end up cleaning.
I have been spending this Sunday adding fringe and finishing touches to a bunch of projects. It is my least favorite part of any projects since it seems to take an inordinantly long amount of time. I have a bit of a cold this weekend, which actually bodes well for all chores I normally find tedious. When I am loopy with a cold, I always end up cleaning.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Summer Vacation part 2
OK, More Summer Vacation.
If I was forced to live in CO (no offense to all who choose to live in CO, it is just not of interest to me, so I use the word forced) I would live in Boulder, or just outside Boulder in Nederland. I have not been back up there since I moved to NY so it was very, very nice to spend the afternoon there with my parents. Our first stop was Walnut Cafe for lunch and pie (they are famous for it). Walnut Cafe is awesome because the food is always good (their home fries with dill sauce is surprisingly good), the atmosphere is very laid back, and the crowd always includes actual Boulderites not just the college crowd.
We then spent about an hour choosing books for my cousins at the on Pearl street. This is my kind of task since my taste is not that far off from a 15 year old girl. We ended up choosing Green Glass Sea, which I have not read yet but picked up after reading a review at Bookshelves of Doom (This blog is run by a librarian in Maine who has excellent taste in YA books). Pearl Street has always been one of my favorite things about Boulder. There are always circus street performers or musicians on the weekends. There is a clear shot of the Flat Irons star in the winter (the star made out of lights on the side of the mountains) and in the spring the street is lined with thousands of tulips.
Our next stop was the Dushanbe Tea house. I could go into a really long explanation of it's orgins in Tajikistan but you might as well read it off their Website. It has been hot hot hot in Colorado this summer. After being in gross NY it felt really good to me, but my parents needed a little break for it so we had some fancy iced tea drinks under a canopy of leaves on the patio of the tea house. I attempted to take a picture of our drinks and the location, it really was stunning, but sadly I realized that my camera's batteries were dead. whoops.
After spending a wonderful afternoon in Boulder we headed back for Colorado Springs, stopping at my grandparents for a small get together to my extended family could see me.
Now, jumping back to the beginning of this post I wrote that I would also live in Nederland, but I never gave an explanation why. Well, when I was in college I went to a concert in Nederland that was in this lodge looking bar. I don't remember the band but I do remember talking to this tough older lady with long long gray hair. She told me how great it was to live there, in the woods, where she could go out back on her porch naked and see the bears. I still think that woman was pretty damn cool. Nederland is also famous for their winter festival, Frozen Dead Guy Days. So pretty much everything I know about Nederland has made it seem like the tough mountain equivalent to Stars Hollow.
Anyway, just so this post is not completely devoid of pictures, here is another stop that I try to make when I am in CO. It is a sad sad day after you move to NY and find out there there are no Sonics. not even if you travel north. So when you go home it is fun to text your Midwestern NY friends and tease them with the fact that you are enjoying a Vanilla Dr Pepper, Ocean Water, or Cherry Limeade. I am taking the teasing one step further by photo blogging it.
If I was forced to live in CO (no offense to all who choose to live in CO, it is just not of interest to me, so I use the word forced) I would live in Boulder, or just outside Boulder in Nederland. I have not been back up there since I moved to NY so it was very, very nice to spend the afternoon there with my parents. Our first stop was Walnut Cafe for lunch and pie (they are famous for it). Walnut Cafe is awesome because the food is always good (their home fries with dill sauce is surprisingly good), the atmosphere is very laid back, and the crowd always includes actual Boulderites not just the college crowd.
We then spent about an hour choosing books for my cousins at the on Pearl street. This is my kind of task since my taste is not that far off from a 15 year old girl. We ended up choosing Green Glass Sea, which I have not read yet but picked up after reading a review at Bookshelves of Doom (This blog is run by a librarian in Maine who has excellent taste in YA books). Pearl Street has always been one of my favorite things about Boulder. There are always circus street performers or musicians on the weekends. There is a clear shot of the Flat Irons star in the winter (the star made out of lights on the side of the mountains) and in the spring the street is lined with thousands of tulips.
Our next stop was the Dushanbe Tea house. I could go into a really long explanation of it's orgins in Tajikistan but you might as well read it off their Website. It has been hot hot hot in Colorado this summer. After being in gross NY it felt really good to me, but my parents needed a little break for it so we had some fancy iced tea drinks under a canopy of leaves on the patio of the tea house. I attempted to take a picture of our drinks and the location, it really was stunning, but sadly I realized that my camera's batteries were dead. whoops.
After spending a wonderful afternoon in Boulder we headed back for Colorado Springs, stopping at my grandparents for a small get together to my extended family could see me.
Now, jumping back to the beginning of this post I wrote that I would also live in Nederland, but I never gave an explanation why. Well, when I was in college I went to a concert in Nederland that was in this lodge looking bar. I don't remember the band but I do remember talking to this tough older lady with long long gray hair. She told me how great it was to live there, in the woods, where she could go out back on her porch naked and see the bears. I still think that woman was pretty damn cool. Nederland is also famous for their winter festival, Frozen Dead Guy Days. So pretty much everything I know about Nederland has made it seem like the tough mountain equivalent to Stars Hollow.
Anyway, just so this post is not completely devoid of pictures, here is another stop that I try to make when I am in CO. It is a sad sad day after you move to NY and find out there there are no Sonics. not even if you travel north. So when you go home it is fun to text your Midwestern NY friends and tease them with the fact that you are enjoying a Vanilla Dr Pepper, Ocean Water, or Cherry Limeade. I am taking the teasing one step further by photo blogging it.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Summer Vacation Part 1
I came back this week from a week long vacation back home in Colorado. The most remarkable thing about this vacation was that is marked the final round of major dental work! No offense to anyone I saw, but this this dental work has been hanging over me like an expensive dark NY winter slush cloud and I am glad it has finally lifted. Why do you wait until you go to CO to get dental work done you ask? Because I have the best and nicest dentist who blows the dentists I have been to in NY out of the water, that is why.
So things I did...
I saw my friends Mindy and Adam, who had a baby six months ago named Thad. He is the most adorable baby boy. He is also the most gentle baby I have ever held. There was no hair pulling, only hair petting and I think he knows that his smile can make people melt.
I went to the grocery store and the farmer's market. Yes, I realize that I can do both of these things in NY, and the Union Square Green is great, but there is something amazing about a grocery store outside of NY where the aisles are wide, the variety is ridiculously vast and the shelves are stocked. This time my mom took me to the Mexican grocery store which was even better than the average Safeway because it had huge tables of limes and 10 foot stacks of the large hot sauce bottles for a buck or two.
The biggest difference between the Green Market in NY and the Farmer's Market in CO is the roasting green chili's. The smell is amazing and it is near impossible to find good green chili in NY. The big similarity between the Green Market and the Farmer's Market was the crowd. Albeit, the Green Market is bigger, both have very little walk space and people who stop dead in that little walk space, rather than move to the side, to hold a conversation with their daughter who is 20 feet back. In true New Yorker spirit, I kind of shoved right past because I was on the losing end of a battle for a decent mocha. Here is a picture of the cute bag of apricots my mom got.
Anyway, chew on that for a bit and I will post the rest of my vacation adventures later :)
So things I did...
I saw my friends Mindy and Adam, who had a baby six months ago named Thad. He is the most adorable baby boy. He is also the most gentle baby I have ever held. There was no hair pulling, only hair petting and I think he knows that his smile can make people melt.
I went to the grocery store and the farmer's market. Yes, I realize that I can do both of these things in NY, and the Union Square Green is great, but there is something amazing about a grocery store outside of NY where the aisles are wide, the variety is ridiculously vast and the shelves are stocked. This time my mom took me to the Mexican grocery store which was even better than the average Safeway because it had huge tables of limes and 10 foot stacks of the large hot sauce bottles for a buck or two.
The biggest difference between the Green Market in NY and the Farmer's Market in CO is the roasting green chili's. The smell is amazing and it is near impossible to find good green chili in NY. The big similarity between the Green Market and the Farmer's Market was the crowd. Albeit, the Green Market is bigger, both have very little walk space and people who stop dead in that little walk space, rather than move to the side, to hold a conversation with their daughter who is 20 feet back. In true New Yorker spirit, I kind of shoved right past because I was on the losing end of a battle for a decent mocha. Here is a picture of the cute bag of apricots my mom got.
Anyway, chew on that for a bit and I will post the rest of my vacation adventures later :)
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