I am disappointed McGee and Abby stopped undating, though.

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Hmm, does anyone know of any good lunch places around the Tappan Zee? We're driving to Maryland Friday and it looks like that might be a good halfway lunch point.

I'll ask my mom if she has any recommendations. Are you thinking of anything in particular, or particularly cheap, etc.?

Too bad you can't go to the CIA in Hyde Park, but it's out of your way by too much.

I am fascinated by NCIS, partly because it's so Republican and also because the show is so not as straight as it thinks it is.

Criminal Minds is all about the Tragedy of modern life, wherein every third person is a startlingly intelligent serial killer. The CSIs are just funny, and occasionally good for an interesting guest star. It's kind of like "where are they now?" for erstwhile TV luminaries.

yeah, L&O is like that too. Lara Flynn Boyle was on this week's, although I almost didn't recognize her because she had those wierd lip injections and her mouth was all lopsided and wierd.

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Yess! Also, the first Ray Vecchio was in one episode of NCIS. And Jan from The Office was in another. So that's fun too.

I like Grissom and Willows and Greg from the original CSI, and I don't mind Nick or Warwick or Sarah (most of the time). CSI Miami, on the other hand, should be called "CSI Caruso moves into the shot in profile and takes his sunglasses off." And the crossover, with Willows and Warwick meeting up with the Miami team, was pure comedy gold. Reeediculous!

I have a friend whose barely competent manager has decided that the solution to all their problems is to drag the whole department to some outdoor/nature center that does team building programs next week. (Including the person with skin cancer and the person with some sort of porphyria disorder, naturally.) Wonder what neat tricks they'll come up with.

Lord of the Flies was set out in nature, wasn't it?

DH's philosophy is that our species has spent nearly 4 million years trying to get OUT of nature. No way in hell he's going back.

OK, my room is clean.

And now, to the visible parts of the kitchen, and the cooking, and the Getting to Know Saturnalia Better part of the evening.

I'll ask my mom if she has any recommendations. Are you thinking of anything in particular, or particularly cheap, etc.?

Just a nice lunch spot. Tom loves old school diners. (other factors that might help: good beer; bbq- but I think that in Jersey, the diner angle is probably the best!)

And the crossover, with Willows and Warwick meeting up with the Miami team, was pure comedy gold. Reeediculous!

The most reeeediculous is the Miami/NY crossover that launched NY. The cinematographers for NY had decided on a cool, blue pallet, and Miami has always been primarily orange. They generally used the Miami pallet in Miami, and the NY pallet in NY, but there was one eye-stabbingly bad scene between Sinese and Caruso in Sinese's apartment that involved cuts back and forth between the two characters. Sinese, standing by his apartment window at night, was in the deepest, most melancholy blue light of the entire episode, and Caruso, standing by the front door, had found the only pool of orange light in all of NY to stand in.

It was bad.