Suzanne likes to . . .

The saga of the broken finger will appear one of these days, complete with photos! In the mean time, I'm posting fun stuff I find on the interwebs. Clark posted this on his blog, so I thought I'd do it too. Basically, you Google yourself, but with the phrase "[Suzanne] likes to." [You'd insert your own name, of course.] Then you write down the first ten things.

So, without further ado, Suzanne likes to:

• Suzanne likes to say, when asked how long she has been singing, she answers "since I was in the Music Womb".
• Suzanne likes to be part of the action.
• Suzanne likes to contemplate interesting phenomena, like how the three guppies in her aquarium became 161 guppies in five months. [goodness. So far my two are threatening to become more, but haven't as of yet.]
• Suzanne likes to travel and take long walks with her dog, Charley.
• Suzanne likes to serves these popovers with a salad for a light lunch. [Suzanne likes to haves grammar problems, apparently.]
• Suzanne likes to be with her two children, taking them outside and to music festivals.
• Suzanne likes to stay active. [well....]
• Suzanne likes to mix classic elements with something fresh and new.
• Suzanne likes to say that her eight siblings were like having eight built-in best friends.
• Suzanne likes to exercise, watch (and make) movies, travel, spend time with family and work on various writing projects.

So there you have it.

television, television

Today I was reading an article on the New York Times' website, called "Why are there no good parents on TV?"

I liked it. It was a good article. However, what I want to address here is one of the comments posted after the article, by a reader who goes by 'K.'

"Why in the world would an escapist medium like TV bother with anything that was "normal”? I don’t turn on the TV to revisit my boring day. My current favorite shows can be summarized as follows:

• the human race running from robots in spaceships.


• a spy who is stuck in Miami.


• airplane crash survivors on an odd island.


• FBI agents investigating strange phenomena.


• renovating old houses.


• the trials and tribulations of geeks living together, with an attractive neighbor who drops in from time to time.


• a nearly retarded man who lives in Rhode Island and offends nearly everyone on some level


• an often fascinating hour of television devoted to some kind of science.

I can’t say there’s anything good in it, but boy is it entertaining (and sometimes educational, as well)"

Which led me to ask, "how would I summarize some of my favorite TV shows?" Since Big Bang Theory and This Old House were done above, I'll try some others.

• one man's flashbacks to his single days in New York


• who knew that the crap in the attic was valuable after all?


• the most dysfunctional workplace, ever


• the most dysfunctional TV show, ever


• deeply weird doctors who work in an often surreal hospital


• In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.

What are your favorite shows?