Sorry for my long absence. The first season of ABC's V was - how should I put it - a rollercoaster ride. Some episodes were great (like the pilot), some were horrible (There Is No Normal Anymore - season 1, episode 2) and some were okay (A Bright New Day - season 1, episode 3). It had its exciting moments, but I wished the all of the episodes were exciting and consistently great/awesome. I hope the second season is better than the first season.

Network: ABC

Show: V

Premiere Date: today, January 4, 2011

Time: 9 p.m. eastern time

I'm doing a quick blog. Sorry, I've been busy. ABC is airing a brand new episode of V tonight at 10 p.m. LadyInque, I'm planning on reading the new chapters that you wrote for Vampire Chronicles later this week.

Happy holidays, folks. Sorry, I haven't been blogging lately. I've been busy.

Cow Found in Pool

http://tweentribune.com/content/udder-shock-650-lb-cow-found-pool

Turkey Found on New Jersey Turnpike

Bad Parking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do6pmYfNco0

I can't wait for ABC's V to return next March. V's pilot was my favorite episode (it was excellent), but I felt like the second episode was not as good as the pilot. The good news is that things on V got interesting. I'm very excited about watching the pilot of the CW's Life UneXpected. The showsounds interesting, and it stars Shiri Appleby (Liz Parker in Roswell), Britt Robertson (Swington), Kristoffer Polaha (Mad Men), and Kerr Smith (Jack McPhee - the gay high school student - from the WB's Dawson's Creek).

Life UneXpected

Monday, January 18, 2010

9:00 p.m.

CW

After spending all of her 15 years bouncing from one foster family to another in Portland, Oregon, Lux (Britt Robertson, "Swingtown") has decided it's time to take control of her life and become an emancipated minor. Her journey through the legal maze leads Lux to her biological father, 30-something Nate "Baze" Bazile (Kristoffer Polaha, "Mad Men"), who owns a bar, lives like an aging frat-boy with two slacker roommates, and is astonished to learn that he has a teenage daughter. Lux is equally astonished when Baze reveals that her mother is Cate Cassidy (Shiri Appleby, "E.R."), a star on the local "Morning Madness" radio show, along with her on-air partner and real-life boyfriend, Ryan Thomas (Kerr Smith, "Eli Stone" and "Dawson's Creek"). Lux has been listening to Cate's voice on the radio as long as she can remember, so she feels an instant connection with the mom she's never met. Baze takes Lux to meet Cate, who is shocked and saddened to learn that Lux has grown up in foster care, but thrilled to finally meet her beautiful daughter. When a judge decides that Lux isn't ready for emancipation and unexpectedly grants temporary joint custody to Baze and Cate, they agree to try to get past the awkwardness and make a belated attempt to give Lux the family she deserves.

Sorry I haven't blogged in a while. I've been busy since school started. I listed the shows I'm planning on watching this year.

CSI: Miami

Monday, September 21, 2009

CBS, 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.

CSI: Miami (Crime Scene Investigation: Miami) is a spin-off of the CBS network series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The series is an American crime drama television series that trails the investigations of a team of Miami-Dade forensic scientists as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths and other crimes.

V

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

ABC, 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Giant spaceships appear over all major cities of the world; the alien "Visitors" claiming to come in peace. As some humans begin to doubt the sincerity of the Visitors, Homeland Security agent Erica Evans discovers that the aliens have spent decades infiltrating human governments and businesses and are now in the final stages of their plan to take over the planet. Erica joins the resistance movement, which includes Ryan, a Visitor sleeper agent who wants to save humanity. However, the aliens have won favor among the people of Earth by curing a variety of diseases, and have recruited Earth's youth, including Erica's son, to serve unknowingly as spies. Laura Vandervoot (from Smallville) will have a role in this show.

Day One

scheduled to air Janurary 2010

NBC

Day One is about a group of survivors in the wake of a catastrophic global event. I read Day One will take Heroes's spot on Mondays in Janurary of 2010.

Life UneXpected

scheduled to air January 2010

CW

After spending all of her 15 years bouncing from one foster family to another in Portland, Oregon, Lux (Britt Robertson, "Swingtown") has decided it's time to take control of her life and become an emancipated minor. Her journey through the legal maze leads Lux to her biological father, 30-something Nate "Baze" Bazile (Kristoffer Polaha, "Mad Men"), who owns a bar, lives like an aging frat-boy with two slacker roommates, and is astonished to learn that he has a teenage daughter. Lux is equally astonished when Baze reveals that her mother is Cate Cassidy (Shiri Appleby, "E.R."), a star on the local "Morning Madness" radio show, along with her on-air partner and real-life boyfriend, Ryan Thomas (Kerr Smith, "Eli Stone" and "Dawson's Creek"). Lux has been listening to Cate's voice on the radio as long as she can remember, so she feels an instant connection with the mom she's never met. Baze takes Lux to meet Cate, who is shocked and saddened to learn that Lux has grown up in foster care, but thrilled to finally meet her beautiful daughter. When a judge decides that Lux isn't ready for emancipation and unexpectedly grants temporary joint custody to Baze and Cate, they agree to try to get past the awkwardness and make a belated attempt to give Lux the family she deserves.

Title: Acceleration
Author: Graham McNamee

Acceleration. When some people hear the word acceleration, they think of speeding up in a car, but Graham Namee's novel provides another definition that probably no one has considered before. During the summer, Duncan gets a job working in the Toronto Transit Lost and Found. At work, he discovers a journal of a madman, and the journal lists past crimes the madman has committed as well as future crimes that the madman is planning. Now, Duncan and his friends have to stop the madman before anyone gets hurt.

I liked the author's use of suspense because it makes me want to continue reading to find out what happens. I want to find out the identity of the madman and if the madman gets caught. As Duncan and his now ex-girlfriend, Kim, are playing basketball, Kim tells Duncan, "The world's out there, Duncan. The good, the bad, and the plain old ugly. I can't go around being afraid all the time … You've locked yourself up in some dark little prison cell. And you want me to join you. But I can't live like that" (55). That's one of my favorite lines in the book because I like the overall message. Kim is trying to point out that she wants to be brave – not scared – and face the good and the bad that's in our world. She goes on to point out that Duncan is living in a world where he's safe, but she doesn't want to live like that. It's so true because our world doesn't just have good things and people; our world also has the bad things and people as well. I think we need to be brave and to be afraid of getting hurt because we'll get hurt sooner or later. Also, Kim's right about Duncan locking himself in "some dark little prison cell" and how she doesn't want to live like that. I think Duncan doesn't want to experience pain. She's trying to point out that we will always encounter pain. Kim leaves a message on Duncan's home answering machine, and after Duncan listens to the message, he comments, "Maybe I could go. We can still talk. It's not so hard, Kim says. But it is. Some people you can't be friends with, not when you've been something more" (144). I agree with what Duncan says because how can you be friends with your ex-girlfriend/ex-boyfriend? It only brings up more pain and guilt, and it's hard to talk to them when you're feeling those feelings.

There are four things that bothered me about this book. The first thing that bothered me is the sentences seemed choppy to me. I understand that the author wants teenagers to read Acceleration, but he's treating us [the readers] as idiots in a way. Most readers who read Acceleration speak English as their native language and can understand long, complex sentences. The second thing that bothered me is that I felt like the author gave us too much background information that we [as readers] don't need to know. For example, the author included information about Duncan's juvenile record and about his and his ex-girlfriend's relationship. We don't need to know that kind of information because it doesn't help move the plot along; the information isn't useful at all. Thirdly, I don't like the narrator because he seems like he wants to save everybody. That's bothersome because in reality, you can't save everybody. It's realistically impossible. The last thing is that this book doesn't have a lot of sensory details. The author is good with giving us visual descriptions, but there are few sensory details.

Rating: 4 out of 5

I originally posted this blog on this website about a week ago, but it disappeared. Here it is again.

Last week, I spent about an hour moving my blogs onto another website. What is taking the tv.com staff so long to fix the problem? This problem is giving me a headache, and it is frustrating. I hope this blog won't disappear too because if it does indeed disappear, I'm going to be really mad. Don't worry about your comments because I placed them at the end of each blog entry. If you want to comment on any of my blog entries, just leave your comment in this blog or PM me. You can click on the links on the left side of the page to view each individual blog entry.

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On my two newest blog entries, I included some strange news articles. Every article I found came from my radio station's news website. Here is the list.

• The World's Largest Cupcake Baked
• Giant Aussie cake aims to snatch world record
• Sand from beach stolen
• Home Becomes Bee hive
• Girl Has Two Heads (Yes, she has two heads)
• Bird Flies through two inch gap at 35 miles per hour