Now in HD

As many of you know, we are sports crazies in our house. Whatever the sport, we watch it. But we tend to really really like sports that are what some would call "Olympic Sports" like tennis, soccer, cycling, and of course the upcoming Winter Olympiad. Wow, I am so excited about that.

But, many nights this week have been dominated by the Australian Open. Just tonight, South Carolina men's basketball beat Kentucky 68-62! At halftime and right after we watched the highlights and we immediately switched over to watching the Open.

But we were a bit disturbed by Venus Williams because it DEFINITELY looked like a full-moon was coming at us in HD on our screen. Wanna see why?

Flesh colored underwear. That barely covered her

ahem-assets.

Fantastic.

Thanks Venus!

It's made the Open more well...OPEN.

Yo Gabba Gabba

Both of my kids have become mesmorized by this show on Nickelodeon in the last few days. It is a bit trippy for me but whatever...


My favorite portion of the show is when they bring out Biz Markie for Biz's Beat of the Day and he beat boxes. Both of my kids try to do it right after he finishes! It makes me laugh really hard.

Tonight

Tonight is by far the best night of television that we have had since May. The series premiers of The Office and Grey's Anatomy are running opposite of each other and I am mightily ticked off at the executives at NBC for making people choose. There are many nights that I am "allowed" to watch Grey's Anatomy just because it does not interfere with watching The Office when it was in the 8:30pm timeslot.

So instead, we are GOING to watch the Grey's premier and Tivo The Office and have to watch The Office while we TiVo ER. Arggh. What would we do if didn't have Tivo???

BTW: The only way that we are going to watch TV in this manner is because I have forced Matt's hands by inviting some friends over to watch Grey's..teehee. Anyone wanna come over? Open INVITE!

Oh and I forgot, USC Women's Soccer is opening SEC play at Tennessee tonight and the game will be televised on Fox Sports South starting at 8pm. Oh the conflict.

Kid Nation

So did anyone out there in BlogLand watch the first episode of Kid Nation last night on CBS? For those of you who don't know what it is, it's 40 kids sent out into a deserted town for 40 days to see if they can "make the town run." Which really means that it is Survivor for kids 8-15. While I don't revel in watching children cry and fight for an hour (oh wait, that is what I do ALL DAY LONG), it was a really interesting show. The most interesting aspect of it is going to come in the next few weeks as we see sociological hypothesis played out.

In last nights episode, they played a game for the opportunity to be upper class, merchants, cooks or laborers. I am going to put my sociological degree to good use and predict that the children will start to act out these roles and revel in the upper class positions and believe themselves to be "better" than all of the rest. The tension is going to ramp up and make this town nearly intolerable if they don't flip the working levels upside down mid-season. They will surely do this as then the drama will get even more intense as the kids learn empathy from the kids who were on top and now are on the bottom. And we will see payback when the kids who were on the bottom find themselves in the position of power and they learn what we all know, "mo money, mo problems."

All in all, this was a fun show to watch. Clean, no skin showing, a lot of poop talk and it was fun watching kids figure out how to do things that "grown-ups" typically do such as cooking, cleaning up and leading each other. For those of you who want to watch, check it out next Wednesday night at 8pm on CBS.

BTW: The pilot episode will be replaying on Saturday night at 8pm if you didn't catch it last night!