Last week, an unnamed family was at a beach, in Maine. The day before, the adult family members had engaged in a political discussion during which the adult female may or may not have declared the Vice President, "The First Evil."

The male revived this discussion, while on the beach, saying, "I don't think he's the First Evil."

The female may or may not have replied, "Well, then he's the second. He's definitely one of the first ten evils, and I will brook no further argument on that, because it's a Known Fact."

A black helicopter came, seemingly, out of nowhere, and spent the next several minutes circling overhead.

I've heard.

Did they take brenda away?

Heh. I can hear (distant) helicopters now. It's gotta be pretty quiet out if they're still in brenda's neighborhood and I can hear them.

If the government could afford to send black ops helicopters to monitor every time someone badmouthed Fearless Leader, the trees outside my apartment wouldn't have any foilage left.

No helicopters here. And I live between brenda and aurelia. So aurelia must be hearing different helicopters.

Maybe I should lure the helicopters away from aurelia. Bush sucks. There.

I can't tell if the black spot is a helicopter or just something on the camera lens. [link]

Some guy in front of my building was humming a tune and suddenly went full voice for a phrase. I really wanted to shout "Sing out, Louise!"

Matt, I'm glad that your dad is doing better, and that you get some personal time.

ION, how much do I love the free internet at Tucson airport?

Currently? Because if we can count old series, I'm going to mention Freaks and Geeks. It's funny how music matters so much in television. Even the theme songs to Earl, The Office, and Scrubs get me in mood. The Office's theme always makes me feel like I'm riding the rails to Scranton, PA.

I'm surprised my post wasn't construed as fightin' words. I do think Earl has the best current soundtrack but it has to rank up there in the top ten of all time. Not just because of the music itself, which is rockin' but because of the complete white-trashy gestalt it forms with Jason Lee's Fu Manchu facial hair.

Crossing Jordan uses (or use to use anyway, I haven't watched in a while) some really unusual covers of fairly well known songs. Not sure I've ever really noticed the music on Earl, but again, haven't seen it in a while.

I don't watch enough TV to pick a fight. I'm too old to care about (although I do enjoy, and even remember) most of the music on Veronica Mars. Scrubs generally has good music for the show, but it's generally indie (or indie-sounding to me) and I never remember it after the episode (except for Ted's acapella singing group's songs, but they're woven into the plot ). The Office doesn't have any music, save the (wordless) theme, and 24 has background music. Lost made decent use of old music in the hatch, but that's all I can remember. My Name is Earl's music is pretty damned perfect for the show, as are his concert t-shirts.