Last night I had a dream that my family came to see me. I miss them a lot and I wish they existed in the real world. For those of you who don't know, in my dreams my wife Ally is played by Reese Witherspoon, she's beautiful, smart, funny and knows what I need even if I don't know. My eldest daughter Samantha played by Jessica Simpson is smart, sweet and caring, loves animals and wants to be a vet. She just got a scholarship to college. Lisa is played by Britney Spears; she's quiet, unassuming and wants to be an actress. Her best friend, Christina, has the biggest boobs I've ever seen for a girl her size. Tricia my youngest is played by Ashley Tisdale, and, well... if she doesn't get her head on straight, she's going to be pregnant and homeless and I won't let her live here.

It often if not always bothers me that I don't get nearly as much feedback on my short stories as I used to. I used to get five to eight posts after I posted one chapter, but now, I'm lucky if I see one in a week. It kind of forces me to realize that life is not worth living if you're not appreciated....

In the real world, I don't think people would believe in superheroes who could fly, lift several tons of material or race through town in sleek cars. Humanity is too selfish and jaded for that. If there really was a person who could save us from everything, I think they'd be treated something like ghosts or Sasquatch. The police would deny their existence, the CIA and FBI would conceal their files on them and the tabloids would be scrambling over each other to get pictures of them. Not only that , but they'd be constantly flitting in and out of public to hide their identities.
When I was in high school, I wrote short stories where I turned all my "girlfriends" into costumed heroines. Not that I had something against male superheroes, I just thought female superheroes were more interesting.

I'd pick Cheryl Belushi from According to Jim to be my wife. She's beautiful, she's caring and she deserves someone other than Jim.

I'd pick Maddie Fitzpatrick from the Suite Life as my daughter, because after she launches her singing career, she could help take care of her dad.

I'd pick Goeorge Michael Bluth from Arrested Development as my son because he was so low maintenance and if you did something wrong, he'd think it was his fault.

I'd pick Rob and Laura Petrie from The Dick Van Dyke Show as my parents so one of my relatives was in the TV industry

I'd pick Wilson Wilson from Home Improvement as my buddy next door because that guy had all the answers

I'm a big fan of Mel Brooks, Jerry Zucker and Monty Python movies; those type movies where something is not quite right, Where the movie is done straight, but the reality is a bit weird. I'm talking about Airplane, The Naked Gun, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles.... but they have not been that good in a long time. I mean, Disaster Movie, Epic Movie, Date Movie, Meet the Spartans.......... none of them were any good. They're doing bathroom humor, gay references, unnecessary nudity and they're so stuffed with cultural references, they're more really bad sketch comedies with very little plot with very little subtly than real parodies. I just finally rented Meet the Spartans, and was so let down. Not a single laugh. Epic Movie I saw a week ago wasn't even funny; the guys doing the commentary aren't even talking about it. And what's the deal with Carmen Electra appearing in every single one of these films? If given a chance, I think I could write a decent parody. I've had dozens of ideas over time. All you have to do is get rid of the sex jokes, the gay references, all references to passing gas, all the unnecessary nudity, the extrenuous cultural references and actually make it funny, like Mel Brooks used to do it... and less the way the Wayans Brothers did it.

There's a few shows I'm still waiting on to return. Now, I know Verminators has new episodes being made for Discovery, but not new episode date. I like Cities of the Underworld on History, but I'm tired of the series being floated all over the scedule. I'm also waiting on Army Wives on Lifetime, and Destination Truth on SciFi. Is there somone out there with better luck at getting airdates than me?

I really like TV.com. I like going there to look up facts on TV shows, to share facts on TV shows and just meet and talk to fans of fans of my fave TV shows. It's a great site, despite the needless re-vamps. The only thing I don't like is some of the editors are, well, despicable. The majority of them are great; if they reject your submission, they tell you how to fix it and then they add it, but there's one editor I don't know for a series I won't name who is beyond despicable. The loser erased my info not once, not twice, but eight times. Didn't care it took me two hours to research it and compile it or an hour to to download two whole seasons to the site, he/she/it erased ir every freaking time. They were not helpful in helping at all. I did evertything they said, they just kept erasing it, and to this day, that series is still empty on info, facts, trivia, anything. I'm not going to waste submitting stuff to that series anymore just to get it erased. I mean, this guy told me not to include the production codes, then erased my work asking why I didn't include the codes. He told me not to include the dates, he erased it asking why I didn't include the dates. He said the descriptions were not good enough, he said the descriptions werenot individual, he said this, he said that..... whatever he had me fix or adjust was a waste of time because he still erased it. He was not going to work with me at all; whoever this guy/girl/it was, was putting through the wringer and laughing as I spent an hour to an hour an a half typing all this stuff back into the site just to erase it again. They had no plans on letting me add anything to that series and I'm never going to try. You know, most Tv.com editors actually give good advice, work with the submitter or fix it themselves. Whoever this wretch of human life is, I know he's still rejecting everything past him like a shark hovering around a sewer line waiting to screw someone over because, like I said, to this day, that series has practically nothing on it.

Bruckheimer Announces Next CSI

If Jerry Bruckheimer has his way, he could very well have another CSI series in the works to fill the Thursday slot when "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" wraps next year.

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After over two hundred episodes and more than ten seasons, Jerry Bruckheimer has announced that next season could just be the last season for "CSI," the series which added the words "floater," "DB," and "radioactive fetus" to the American consciousness, as well as sired two equally successful shows and several clones.
"With Petersen off the show, the overall numbers have gone down." Bruckheimer says. "We lost two key actors (Jorja Fox left last year and Dourdan left this year), and with less the original cast, the series is not rating as high in the Nielsens."
Despite the drop, the show is still one of CBS's top-rated shows so the network executives have given the green light to do one more spin-off, the success of which to determine it filling the Thursday 9:00 time slot or possibly finagling more money into one more last season.
Word is that Bruckheimer mulled several cities before finally settling on Nashville, Tennessee. Unlike Chicago or Detroit, it is very cheap to film on location in Nashville plus as the Music City and center of Country Music in the United States, several storylines could revolve around the industry and even invite more country stars to make guest appearances.
Recently, both Taylor Swift and LeeAnne Rimes have made appearances on CSI.
The story will have Marg Helgenberger's character making a trip to Nashville to attend the wedding of a relative, but something happens that invites Catherine to work with the Nashville CSIs to solve the case. At press time, the projected cast and characters included:
Jim Parent to be played by Dale Midkiff from "Time Cop." Midkiff has appeared on all three of the CSI series. He will play Jim Parent, a widower and former Chicago CSI director. After the death of his wife, he takes the Nashville CSI job to keep busy after the death of his wife. The job is harder; Nashville does not have the funding of say Miami or Las Vegas. There will be none of the high-tech eqipment of the other shows and much more ingenuity and leg work.
Holly Marie Combs from "Charmed" is interested in the role of Brenda Roe, who Parent edged out of the field director position, so there will be a lot of nervous and angry tension between them. She also has a complicated possibly shady history and ties to maybe one or more characters in the other CSI series.
In the role of Walt "Daz" Dazinger is John D. LeMay, who has worked much on the New York stage but is possibly best known for starring in the cult Eighties series, "Friday The 13th: The Series." His first regular TV part in years, LeMay with play a dedicated family man and the tech guy in the series.
Johning him will be Wil Wheaton, best known from "Star Trek: The Next Generation," who also had an appearance on CSI. Wheaton will play the ballistics guy, J.D. Odom, a former cop from five generations of former St. Louis police officers. His best friend, Kevin Li-Soon, played by Ke Huy Kwan of "Goonies" fame is the trace expert and would-be country star. His role is a lot like early Greg (Eric Szmandra) on CSI, but the fact is his experience and techniques are a bit shaky and he's the least bit professional. Speculation is he lied about some of his credentials to get his job.
Rounding out the cast is Geri Betzler as Tricia Hammond, a beautiful blonde Marilyn Monroe-type as the DNA expert. A choreographer from Broadway, Betzler also has had experience as an actress, starring in a string of cult horror movies under the name Zoe Trilling. Interested in getting into acting again, she hopes the role will give her the acting challenge missing from many of her past projects.
The finall role to be named is Dr. Sandy Hymes to be played by Jane Sibbett from "Friends," but some people might recall her even from the short-lived "Herman's Head." Hymes is the county coroner, also a widower and a possible romantic interest for Midkiff as Jim Parent. At one time, the role was offered to Crystal Bernard from "Wings," but she passed on it. - ATF

Okay, it's bad enough that that I have to pay through the nose for the cheapest most simple Cable pacakage, But I think its addimng insult to injury for Disney Channel to only run new episodes of Phineas and Ferb only on Disney HD being provided only to those miserble few Americans rich enough to afford it. That means, technically, the real first airdate for "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted" is going to be sometime in March for the rest of the United States. I really hate Comcast! For the amount they're charging me, I should be getting all the channels AND Internet.

I could have had a heartattack! One of my favorite TRuTV shows is not on TV.com so I spend three hours going through my local newspapers along with the scant information from the Internet to recreate the TV listings and then two hours to type it all into the site (one episode at a time instead of all at once) and it all gets rejected!!!!!! I'm thinking, "Oh my freaking god! That took me forever to type it, and now I got to do it again?????" I was going to to start adding the summaries which I had skipped for time and now I got to wait for the episodes to get resubmitted again. Where is the justice? Where is the compassion? Does anyone not care about the time it took to put all the info in? I could have had a heartattack! I am trully becoming aware that the hard work and effort of others does not mean a thing to a lot of people.