No pedicure for me. My flip flops will have to stay in their box. Forlorn.

My flip flops broke. I need new flip flops.

I think they should have flip flops on The Inside.

Dear Tim,

Flip flops fight crime, too.

Sincerely, A loyal viewer

Man, I'm tired.

Flip flops that fight crime! That'd be better than Diagnosis Murder!

If I stay up all night, is there any chance I will fall asleep for my two root canals tomorrow? Inquiring minds wanna know.

Flip flops featuring fabulous flaming feathery flamingoes fighting furiously foul funky foreign felonies for fellow flakey fragile frantic Finnish flunkies frying freedom fries for French females forgoing freezepops, forshizzle!

Flip flops probably don't leave the best clues behind, either, so they are untraceable. And cheap. And omnipresent in the greater LA area.

Maybe the world will seem so fuzzy that you just won't care, Kristen. That'd be nice. Good luck, with that.

I think it should be a show about a psychic profiler who figures out the culprit of every crime by examining their footwear. And she finances her good work by using her incredible math skills to guess their ATM codes and clean out their bank accounts while they're getting booked. And maybe it should set be on an island. And she should wear a lot of wigs and blow things up.

It needs a theme song, though.

Is there a Who song left that Jerry Bruckheimer hasn't robbed of its dignity?

ETA: And thank you, Alibelle. With all the work that's happening, I think I'm going to need all the luck I can get.

There's what? 3 CSIs available? And the one set in Vegas is in syndication, which means you really can miss it if something cooler is around the corner and catch it later, over and over and over again.

Then there's the fact that the quality of CSI: Original Flavor has gone downhill in the past two years. They've got a great group of actors who are no longer allowed to show what they can do because of a) the uneven writing and b) increasingly bizarre plots. Seeing the syndicated eps on SpikeTV only makes this point more and more clear.

Two years ago, CSI was appointment TV for me. Now, I'll only set the VCR if the premise sounds interesting. These days I'm getting my police procedural fix from "Cold Case."

I'm looking forward to the new show. Here's hoping it does well.

Anne, I still like CSI, but I flat out refuse to watch Miami and NY is good sometimes, but it bores me about half the time.

Cold Case feels very rote to me. I watch it because I'll watch nearly any crime show (note: CSI Miami comment above), but I prefer Charmed on Sundays at 8 than Cold Case.

Heh. I probably should have thrown a few more "in my opinions" in my CSI rant up above. My big beef with it is that I don't like where they've taken some of the characters. I currently feel about Catherine the way I felt about S6/S7 Spike--that they took an interesting character and screwed up what was a really interesting arc. Again, just my opinion.

I'm getting excited now. And I've stopped following this thread...but it sounds like Minear wrote me a show. And we've hardly talked at all(blush) If I like it, I'll put you on my friends-list, Tim.;)