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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

French Toast Season


Today is the first day of French Toast Season.

I know what you're thinking. "You can have French toast anytime you want. Why is this the season?"

One word: Snow.

As soon as the three flakes we get in the Tennessee Valley each winter start to fall from the sky, people panic, leave work early and head straight to the grocery store. There's a mad run on milk, bread and eggs (for some reason, the threat of snow doesn't have an impact on powdered sugar or syrup sales).

People in other parts of the country that get snow all the time don't understand it. When I lived in Ohio (where they get real snow, mind you) I would go to the grocery and get some things when it started snowing. Not just milk and bread and all that, but whatever we might need to get us through a couple of days if we were snowed in. We don't observe French Toast Season properly in my house, I guess. But the thing is, when eight inches is expected to fall in Ohio, the stores are still fully stocked up on the basic three ingredients for French toast.

So for those of you in other parts of the country that haven't been able to wrap your heads around why people in the South snatch up Wonder bread and Grade-A eggs like it's going out of style when it snows, the answer is simple: We're ardent supporters of French Toast Season.

And the rest of you are communists for ignoring it.

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Sunday, January 13, 2008

Dexter on CBS

This is just utterly cool. I think.

I just started watching Dexter because of the lack of new shows coming on. Now, thanks to the lack of new shows coming on (thanks to the WGA strikes), CBS is digging in and pulling Dexter over from Showtime.

Here's the quick synopsis for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about: Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall from Six Feet Under) is a forensic analyst for the Miami Police Department. He's got a sister, a girlfriend with two kids, and lots of coworkers who all think he's a swell guy. The only problem is, they don't know that Dexter is a serial killer. And he's real good at what he does. Luckily for them, Dexter only kills people who deserve it.

It doesn't get more antihero than that, does it? And trust me, that's just the 15-second summary...it gets way more messed up.

While CBS bringing this show to the masses is great news for people who have never seen it on Showtime, those of us who have seen the made-for-pay-cable version of the show will probably be turned off. I've tried watching The Sopranos on A&E and The Wire on BET, and those just don't hold up at all after all the editing.

The one thing I can say Dexter has going for it is that probably only the language will be edited, because gore-wise, it's not any worse than the CSI clones.

I highly recommend checking this show out when it comes on CBS Feb. 17, especially if you're into the crime dramas. It's kind of a fresh angle...instead of the "let's solve a crime in an hour every week" formula, it's more like a "let's cut a bad guy into pieces in an hour every week" kind of affair. But if you get into it, I'd check the first two seasons out, uncut, on DVD.

Jerry Hayes has seen it and says he thinks it's a weird show, but he didn't say he didn't like it either.

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