Happy Birthday Owen!

Happy birthday, little O!

I have a question for Desperate Housewives watchers -- do you like the housewives? Who do you like least/most, and why?

I'm trying to work out if their likeability is a concern or not ... I did read one of the writers or creators (probably Marc Cherry) saying that Susan was the most popular, because she had the most vulnerability. Which I think is a load of crap, and makes me wonder if they think it's possible to like them all.

I've never seen Desperate Housewives, but I'm going to say I like the redheaded one the most, primarily based on my inability to identify any of the others.

I've never seen Desperate Housewives, but I'm going to say I like the redheaded one the most, primarily based on my inability to identify any of the others.

I like the redheaded one the most for many reasons, not least being that she's the redheaded one.

not least being that she's the redheaded one.

That helps too.

I don't watch DH anymore, but Felicity Huffman's character was my favorite.

Whee, snazzy msbelle. That's got to be good. Have a good interview!

My favorite Desperate Housewife would be Lynette because she's got the problems I can most readily sympathize with. I enjoy watching Bree, Susan is irritating but falling through the floor is pretty amusing, and I don't care one way or the other about Gabrielle, but I'm interested in her storyline.

You mean, there are people who *don't" like Bree (the redheaded one) the best?

Susan's klutzy helplessness gets on my last nerve. "Look at me! I'm so cute and helpless and I need someone to protect me from the big bad world! (As well as protect the world from me cutting a destructive swath in my wake.)" As if incompetence is a most darling trait in a woman.

Dude. I'm totally Edie. Except for the cleavagy slutbomb thing.

I like Lynette the best. Her issues and reactions seem mostly within scope, even if I don't agree with them (like getting hooked on Ritalin). Susan is slapstick and immature and irritating beyond belief. Also, she's having a codependent relationship with her daughter which always makes me mad. Gabrielle -- for a second there, I was kinda liking her, but now that I see she's an equal partner in the horror that is her marriage, I just can't anymore. As for Bree -- she's fun to watch, but I wouldn't go anywhere near her in real life. The spanking someone else's kids last night was a big no-no for me, and the calm way she sheltered her son from the repercussions of his drunk driving put a cap on my potential sympathy.

Edie -- well, she's just without interest for me. If maybe she was being painted as a Cordelia, but no, she has no real truths to impart, unless she's being meta. She's just a big old tramp that's taken care to paint herself into that corner.

So, Mr. Sweden, what do you think of the changes to Skydome Rogers Centre? We decided that late-inning grounder to Bellhorn, that should have been a double play but wasn't, was a result of the sand kicking up off the ball like a mirage. (When you see something moving on the "grass" in your peripheral vision, you've got to wonder whether you actually have the ball in your glove.)

I think the new turf is a big improvement (I think Bellhorn "sees mirages" on a pretty regular basis if his fielding elsewhere is any guide), but I do agree that all the added screens, including the wtf? screens instead of the outfield wall are a distraction instead of an asset, not even considering the threat to outfielders' life and limb (apparently they had guys out working on the rough edges the next day after Damon's cut).

From where my buddy and I were, we thought Hudson's double had gone out, because it disappeared against the screen, and didn't realize there was a play on at the plate until the ball got thrown back in.

There is way too much meaningless noise and advertising barrage of the spectator at modern ballparks. I wish I could write to our Mister Rogers and tell him that I already buy every product his company offers, could I please opt out of the bombardment of stuff at the game? It isn't the ads really, but the scoreboard nonsense activities (all of which have advertising connections) and other crap which distract from the "day out at the ballgame" field-of-dreams kind of experience that we are continually told is the magic of baseball.

The game itself is so good seen live, but in one's living room, one has some measure of control over the non-baseball noise one is subjected to.