My 4th

I spent the my entire 3-day weekend on my couch watching TV.

It was wonderful. I had complete control of the remote and no one to compromise with. Originally, I had a complete agenda for this weekend which included actually working on things like writing and comedy. But then I realized that I can work on things anytime--but having the apartment to myself for a long weekend--who knows when that amazing opportunity will come around again?

So put on my housedress and I settled into my new couch and I have been watching TV since I got home from work on Thursday. It feels kind of like summers used to feel in middle school--long and lazy.

I've learned a lot from TV in the past few days, the most important thing being that: Law and Order is always on.

You know what?

I LOVE LAW AND ORDER. I should take a moment to be more specific and say that I love SVU and Criminal Intent. My brother is obsessed with the original but I haven't really gotten into yet. Some people hate and I wasn't trying to turn this into a post about Law and Order but this post is about my 4th and I spent a significant portion of my 3-day weekend solving crimes with detectives Stabler, Benson, Eames and Goren. And I'm usually ALWAYS guessing til the end.

But anyway--between Bravo, USA, My9 and this weird NY channel 55, I can see SVU or Criminal Intent anytime I want--it's like Seinfeld and Family Guy. It's like those TV bigwigs want to keep me planted on my couch.

At my show last week there was a joke about how watching Law and Order could make a person never want to walk outside in New York for fear of being murdered. The funny thing is that on the way to that show my friend Casie and I discovered this random totally forest-y part of Central Park that was really beautiful and quiet and you couldn't see any buildings and almost at once I think both of us were like, "This is straight out of SVU," and I was sure a rapist was hiding just beyond the way.

And also because these show get their stories "straight from the headlines" it makes me even MORE paranoid now because what I'm watching did kind of happen. I also hope that I never witness a crime because I never want to be interrogated.

I love TV so much. I can't believe I lived without cable for so long. And I'm such a wasteful American that even if I'm not watching TV (like right now), it's on. I like the sound in the back ok?

Speaking of being a wasteful American--go see Wall-E, it's REALLY GREAT and has such a great message (even though I still haven't turned the TV I'm not watching off). Pixar is just the best.