What's New in the World

I know, it's been a while. The lack of new posts is complicated by the new lack of a computer. That's right, my laptop finally died. I fully intend to get a desktop, but I'm lazy and it could take awhile. Delivery is also complicated, since I don't trust my neighbors not to steal it if it's delivered in my absence. I've been down lately because the novelty of my transition has worn off. I live in a peaceful town, but there's nothing to do, few people my own age (that aren't clients) and no Qdoba. It's safe to say I miss living in a city and am beginning to question this move. However, on the up side, I'm getting alot of experience (XP) in real world legal matters that will hopefully serve me well should I choose to go elsewhere.

On the upside, Nip/Tuck has been fantastic this season. As some of you may recall, I had my doubts about the move from Miami to L.A., but this season has come through once again. What other show can start an episode with the girlfriend crapping her bathing suit in a hottub and throw in a lesbian ex-wife, ex-scientologist drug addict son and wife (who dated both of her current husband's fathers), sex-crazed quasi-stepdaughter, and decisions to pick up a side business of man-whoring while not performing plastic surgery. Christian is becoming more of an asshole, which is entertaining, and Sean is finally getting some of the success and recognition he deserves, although I think he's going to fall big time. Here's how I see it going down: (1) Christian informs Sean that he slept with (again) Sean's ex-wife, (2) Sean's relationship with the television star is compromised in some fashion, most likely infidelity on his part, or the fact that she crapped her pants in the hottub (3) Sean sleeps with his new quasi stepdaughter, (4) Sean discovers Matt and Kimber's drug use and makes poor decisions on how to intervene, further destroying their lives, (5) Sean turns to help from the dominatrix he met, (6) McNamara/Troy becomes an unpleasant work environment, mediated by the smooth temper of Liz.

Suffice it to say, Nip/Tuck is a fantastic show. Rosie O'Donnel reprises her role of Dawn Budge next week in which her face was ripped up by an eagle. Some may recall that she paid Christian $100,000 to do her last year after they reattached a synthetic ear grown on the back of a mouse. Dawn was "ear-jacked" last season when a theif on a motorcycle rode by her and cut her ear off to get a valuable diamond earring. Portia de Rossi, quite possibly the hottest lesbian on TV, plays a lesbian companion to the promiscuous Julia, who did Sean, Christian, the Carver, and Jude. It's quite possible that Annie's father is actually a tyrannasaurus rex. My instincts tell me that Gina Russo will be back with a worse case of AIDS, and I'm hoping for the return of Dr. Merrill Bobolit, whose addiction to "the tank" (nitrous oxide) landed him in prison and made him the bitch of Nip/Tuck supervillain Escobar Gallardo. Unfortunately, Escobar won't be returning, except in dream sequences, since the doctors tied hams to his corpse and fed it to alligators last season.

Perhaps the most disappointing part of this season is the return of Matt. He's always been a downer on the show, and his dumbassedry is one of the more unrealistic parts of the series. In a short period of time, he was party to the crime of reckless injury, became involved with a transsexual, committed battery against another transsexual, became a scientologist, married the ex-girlfriend of his biological and legal fathers, been involved with a white supremicist, been party to a crime to the murder of her father, and recently blew $250,000 on meth. The fact that he was a 28 year old guy trying to play a 16 year old didn't help much either.

Since I've managed to waste an hour of my workday thinking about how awesome Nip/Tuck is, I suppose I should return to work.