Hollywoodland

Loved seeing the background of Jake and Hawkins on Jericho last night. We still have a lot of questions about both men, though. Things ought to get really interesting now that that chick from Hawkins’ past has shown up in town.

I wasn’t wild about last night’s Lost, though. It was okay, but I’m suffering from Sayid withdrawal. When are we gonna see the rest of the survivors again??? And what’s up with the kidnapped Tailies being all friends with the Others now???

Speaking of survivors…. tonight is Survivor night, along with CSI. Everything else I usually watch on Thursdays is either a repeat or pre-empted for one thing or another.

I’ve been reading a fun book. If you enjoy urban fantasy, check out Laura Resnick’s Disappearing Nightly. It’s fun and funny!

Eked out about half a page of notes last night on the Kitchen Sink Book (which is really the Everything BUT the Kitchen Sink Book *g*).

When Dish Network first started carrying the Sirius Satellite Radio music channels, I was thrilled. Music from the 1980s! Then I expanded my listening to the Broadway hits, dance music, and sometimes heavy metal. Now I’ve got Sirius, the regular music channels, plus even more music channels since I upgraded to their bigger package. Now I find myself listening to Gumbo (which plays a lot of Cajun music and ragtime stuff), Little Italy (which plays, oddly enough Italian music, plus Frank Sinatra, etc.), and Unforgettable & Swing Kings (which both play Big Band music). Now there’s talk of a merger between Sirius and XM Radio. I wonder if that’ll garner me even more music channels?

Busy TV night tonight. It’s the return of Jericho, Criminal Minds (if I decide to watch it—I’ve gotten kind of burned out on it), CSI: NY, and Lost.

Since I was gone most of yesterday fixing my blog feeds (more about that in a moment), I didn’t remember to post about Heroes. Great episode! But I was when Hiro went to get on the bus because the bus driver was none other than Stan Lee, the creator of Spiderman. Very cool! Another thing I found amusing was Hiro and Ando being at the Montecito Hotel & Casino because that’s the fictional hotel on NBC’s Las Vegas. Will we see a crossover episode one of these days?

But on to blog feeds. Per the definition on Wikipedia:

The XML-based file in which the blog hosting software places a machine-readable version of the blog so that it may be “syndicated” for further distribution on the web. Formats such as RSS and Atom are used to structure the XML file.

And since that was about as clear as mud, let’s try this one:

RSS feed: The file containing a blog’s latest posts. It is read by an RSS aggregator/reader and shows at once when a blog has been updated. It may contain only the title of the post, the title plus the first few lines of a post, or the entire post.

The problem I had yesterday was every blog I read suddenly started showing up with every flippin’ post as new. And it wouldn’t stop! But I’ve almost got everything back to what passes for normal.

On the writing front, last night I wrote a little over a page of notes/pseudo-synopsis on the Kitchen Sink Book.

I’ll probably be scarce around the blogosphere today because my blog feeds exploded. *sigh* Now I’ve got to redo all of them. What a PITA!

Anyway, I’ll leave you with this tasty tidbit from MSNBC:

3,000-year-old tombs found in Egypt
Archeologists unveiled Tuesday the tombs of a Pharaonic butler and scribe that had been buried in the sand for more than 3,000 years.