Surfacing* from a Flusteryclucker of a Workday

[captainsblog]

^*SML came the other day, btw, so thank you, kind Someone.

Day 27- Best Pilot

Wash, I suppose. Wait, already mentioned him several times recently.

/smartass

As with so many of these, a lot depends on what you're looking for in "best." The point of a pilot is to sell the show- first to the network, eventually to the public. So you want to introduce the core characters, define the ruulz if they exist, and give enough of a sense of wanting more to make you hang upon their every moves.

Pushing Daisies fits that for me. Everyone was there who needed to be from the beginning. There was a Code, just as deadly as Dexter's but a lot more fun and usually in just as worthy an end, and by the time I'd spent just 22 minutes with these people, I wanted to spend the rest of my life with them.

Also, by focusing on the beginning, my eyes get diverted as far as possible from the supreme sadness that comes in remembering there was no proper end.

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I'm behind on my fitness-regime writing regimen (at the other "me" on Dreamwidth, here), mainly because we were off for most of last week. My trainer spent six days at a ballroom dancing competition in Puerto Rico and won virtually everything she entered, only to come back for a full Monday of make-up classes yesterday.  I don't belong to the gym where these classes are held, but it's generally a mellower and more grown-up venue than the Bigass Chain Gym I do cardio at the rest of the week. One of the things that I've enjoyed seeing there, totally absent from my cardio place, is a whole bunch of books for you to choose from while treading or ellipticalling or whatever.

Enjoyed, at least, until I happened to pick one of them up yesterday:



I've been busting my trainer's chops ever since about this being the curriculum for the workouts. I'm picturing Satan in a tank top and leggings, egging on the clients- "Drop and gimme seven circles of hell!"

Comments

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

Or as the gym teacher says in the second Bill & Ted movie: "Drop and give me infinity!"

[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! Someone at the gym has a great sense of humor.

How do you read whilst doing cardio? It makes me queasy. Audiobooks, yes, but not text.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Binder clips and a learned sense of balance.

Five-hour bus rides to Ithaca (more like eight-hour bus rides in the winter) trained the cerebellum. On one of my first trips home, a guy I worked with sat next to me and said, "I'm glad we're sitting together, because I can never fall asleep next to a stranger because I'm afraid he'll steal my wallet."

My eyes went like this O..O and have never fallen asleep on a bus since.

[bellavaruka.livejournal.com]

Pushing Daisies. Perfect. It's the only show I literally cried to see end. ;__; Such a great show.