Random notes

This is mostly about TV, but it still feels more appropriate here than at Fixin' Supper.

* Y'all, John Oliver on the Daily Show is about the funniest person ever.

* Close second: Assif Mandvi.

* I've been trying to get into Burn Notice, the new USA summer series. I'm not having a lot of luck....it's not as X-Files as I want it to be....but I haven't been able to summon the effort to remove it from my Tivo, either.

* I can confess to still being addicted to Dead Zone and Psych, however, despite the fact that neither is ever going to win an award of any kind. You know, I think my problem with Burn Notice is the same as what I like in these: It's too obviously ironic. Enough already.

* I haven't watched a lot of movies lately, which is fairly unusual for me.

* However, I can unrecommend The Longest Yard. I tried, but I couldn't get into the whole gratuitosity [made-up word I think, maybe it's the next ginormous] of it.

* Who puts movies like that on my Netflix, anyway?

* I also have War of the Worlds sitting on top of my TV. This, too, may have been an ill-considered decision.

* On the other hand, if you go to Target right now, you,too, can get Steel Magnolias for $5.50 plus 9.25% sales tax in Davidson County. [Put me on record as hating the sales tax.]