I loved this show last season! It’s got a bit of everything in it. They did a terrific job casting all of the characters, and I think the interaction and chemistry between them all is great. We haven’t had a new episode since December, so I’m betting everyone will return looking rested and like they’ve been on one of those fancy European cruises. I want to know why Simon and Karen are meeting. I think Brian would fit into the Darling scheming corporate world well now that he’s been disbarred. And will we find out what happened to Carmelita? Lucy Liu is joining the show as an attorney, I wonder how they’re going to tie that in.

The male dancers for the new season are Lance Bass, Rocco DiSpirito, Maurice Greene, Cody Linley, Ted McGinley, Jeffrey Ross and Warren Sapp. The female dancers for the new season are Toni Braxton, Brooke Burke,  Kim Kardashian,  Cloris Leachman, Susan Lucci and Misti May-Treanor. Dancers that I think will do well are Lance Bass and Susan Lucci. By the way. Was anyone else not surprised that Lance Bass was announced as one of the dancers in the upcoming new season of Dancing With The Stars? I had a feeling that was going to happen when Joey Fatone was on the show.

I like the show Pushing Daisies. It’s one of the shows I have a season pass for. I saw one of the commercials for the upcoming new season and got to wondering this. As viewers know Ned can’t touch Chuck or she’ll die again. But last season we saw them manage touching by Ned wearing a protective suit. You don’t have to be involved in futures trading to know that sooner or later they’re going to find a way for them to have sex.

Ok, I was wondering today where you are most comfortable watching television. Meaning, in what room and on what furniture.  My favorite room to watch tv in is the living room. I cannot watch tv in bed, I almost always fall right asleep. I’m most comfortable on the left side of my couch (it’s a sectional) sitting sort of sideways. Our couch has a built in recliner but I’m never comfortable in that. The rocking chair is not comfy to sit in long term, english saddles are probably more comfortable. Where is your favorite place to watch television?

I read on MSNBC that prices on the Xbox 360 will be cut this Friday. The wii hasn’t been out as long as the Xbox and has sold more units. The price for the Xbox 360 Arcade will drop from $280 down to $200. The middle 60gb model will drop from $350 down to $300 and the high end Elite model willdrop from$450down to $400. Microsoft says they aren’t trying to take on the wii but rather share marketspace with it. Bull. I think Microsoft wants a bigger piece of the game console pie. They like to think they’re the best at everything. They’re not.

More and more doctor’s waiting rooms seem to have nice flat panel televisions in them nowadays. I’m all for it, after all most of the time the office has scheduled so poorly that you end up having to wait. The offices seem to have stuck with the discount furniture though. They’re probably afraid if they had comfy furniture we’d all take naps or move in. Does your doctor’s office have a television?

I’ve known since the week before the movie released that I’d never go see it. In fact, it will never been watched in my home - not on tv or dvd. Why? Because it’s very offensive. I’m no prude, and I can easily handle the language in most movies. But Tropic Thunder misuses the word retard a minimum of seventeen times in 107 minutes.  That averages out to once every six and a half minutes. The studio and cast claim the movie is poking fun at Hollywood. That may be the case. But what they have chosen to ignore is that their brand of fun causes others pain. It’s been in the news that a number of disability groups and celebrities have chosen to boycott this movie, which I will gladly do. Please think before you go see this movie. And please think before you speak.

Last month most of us learned the details of Michael Phelps’ 12,000 calorie a day in-training diet. He eats about 4,000 calories per meal, more than many of us eat in a typical day. He must eat out, because he certainly isn’t carting around all of his food in Swiss Army luggage. He must spend a while at the table during each meal. That got me to thinking. A funny reality show would be one that showcased people with high calorie diets eating in restaurants. It would be like the time my whole family went to Walt Disney World. My hubby RB can eat a lot. We were eating at the Brown Derby and most of us couldn’t finish our meals, so we offered them to RB. He finished his own plate and all of ours. The plates kept stacking up next to him and the server couldn’t believe that the tiny guy ate all of the food. He actually looked under the table to see if food had somehow made it’s way to the floor.

By now most of the free world knows that Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals in the Olympics this year. He’s scheduled to make a bunch of television appearances including Oprah, Saturday Night Live, Entourage and the Video Music Awards, and he’s already appeared on several shows including Today and The Early Show. This week it was announced that he’ll have a book about winning the eight gold medals out in December called Built To Succeed. I didn’t even realize he’s already got a book out called Beneath The Surface, which came out in 2005. If he makes it into a movie and does enough radio he’ll be the new king of all media (that’d be a good thing as I can’t stand Howard Stern).

Next Monday the Oprah show will premiere featuring 150 Olympic athletes including phenomenal Michael Phelps. (Some ladies, including me, probably ought to wear a pulse oximeter when we watch Phelps because his body is so hot physique is so inspiring. Oprah is having the Olympians on the show to welcome them back and to showcase Chicago, since Chicago is one of the four finalists in the running to host the 2016 Olympics.