See, I started off spending my Monday evenings watching 24 back in college. Way back in the day, it wasn't a problem, because Gossip Girl was on Wednesdays, and even when it switched to Mondays, the writers' strike had knocked the new season of 24 back a year.
It's over, though. 24 is back, and according to the majority rule in my apartment, that gets watched in real time. Tonight presents a particularly thorny problem, since it's a two-hour episode tonight. So I'm watching GG right now until my other roommate comes home, but he could arrive at any moment!
Dearest reader, I know you're accustomed to a GG running diary at 9:30ish sharp every Monday evening, but it's not in the cards tonight. It'll be back at 10:30ish next Monday, though!
In the meantime, since I feel bad that all of my posts recently are about my TV-watching habits, here's a link to the Barney Frank profile that ran in last week's New Yorker. Did you know he's a fellow Bayonne High School graduate? Here's a fun quote:
When the Republicans won control of Congress in 1994, the Democratic leadership in the House made Frank a kind of one-man immediate-response team to Newt Gingrich, the new House Speaker. Frank and Gingrich sparred almost daily, and Frank still professes surprise that Gingrich took their disagreements personally. “Barney Frank hates me,” Gingrich said at the time. (He would not discuss the matter for this article.) According to Frank, Gingrich is a “bleeder”—a derogatory term for a boxer who is prone to cuts. For Frank, the word has particular resonance: one of his high-school classmates was Chuck Wepner, a heavyweight boxer who was known as the Bayonne Bleeder.
No comments:
Post a Comment