OFFICIAL PREDICTION ALERT

This blog is officially announcing the re-election of incumbent President Barack Obama in 2012.

STRING THEORY - Tidbits too small to make a complete blog are strung together.

Some reflections for this first week of January 2011…What's been up with the myriad of tots gone missing or murdered lately? The news is strewn with these stories. Hasn't anyone ever heard of asking family for help, calling Parents Anonymous, or just leaving the kid at a fire station or hospital?...If Mitt Romney was a food, he would be a plain scoop of vanilla ice cream in a white bowl. Is anyone more boring than Romney?..Teen brat singer Justin Bieber now sports a tat of Jesus on his knee. This means that when he kneels to pray, he'll be grinding Jesus' face off. Nice…..John Huntsman is the only Republican candidate who might be able to beat the President but where the heck is he? If John Huntsman was a food, he would be a steak salad. Think about it…Just took a peak at the new TLC reality show All-American Muslim about several Moslem families living in Dearborn, Michigan. The show needs a little more pzazz! action! Since I like this show, some might say that I've either been duped by the evil or stupid Liberal Left or else I'm currently checking out the hijab spring fashions…Today, Eric Holder of the Department of Justice announced that the old definition of rape no longer is sufficient. Why not? It was written in 1926. The 2011 description of rape now includes men as well as women victims. Truly, this is evidence of evolving life on this planet and a further reason the space aliens should not destroy our planet…Mad Men will be returning soon. Something about this series is starting to feel a tad stale. It also hasn't helped that Matt Weiner recently felt compelled to announce he will end the series with an old Don Draper. Kimberly-Clark's Depend Guards for Men might be a good product placement for that last season.…The Department of Labor announced 1.6 million new jobs have been gained in 2011 and unemployment rates have also dropped to the lowest level since February 2009. Repubs, don't look now but your patron saint Ronald Reagan had the same unemployment rate to deal with one year prior to his re-election in the eighties….Mystery Question: Does anybody know why Piers Morgan keeps saying "WE" during discussions about our American politics and our problems? Does he have the proverbial rodent hiding somewhere on his person?...The string is now closed.      

COME BACK TWIN PEAKS

COME BACK TWIN PEAKS

 

For years I have heard about this weird show called Twin Peaks and now I've seen it - every weird moment of it, except the ending the series deserved…

Oh, I have seen every episode made to this date. But, we never saw the second and last season as the producers really wanted to make it.

As viewers know, Twin Peaks was aborted early on, due to the shows producers being forced by ABC to reveal the killer of Laura Palmer halfway through the second season. This was because the show was on the chopping block due to low ratings. It was also considered unacceptable that a TV murder would remain still unsolved at the end of the first season. Going into the second season with the killer still not known was even more outrageous in those days and the network forced the TP producers to reveal the killer pronto.

However, once Laura Palmer's killer was known, the story's mystery was dispelled, and the series lost its creative mystery. The last episode of this famed series is painful to watch. Our favorite characters are hanging by the threads of unresolved plot lines and most of them wear sad faces. No more coffee, no more cherry pie. The Twin Peaks RR Diner is closed.

For good? In the last couple years, two Twin Peaks alumni have expressed an interest in resurrecting the series. One has mentioned the possibility of launching a sequel in the form of webisodes…while another, a former co-producer of the show, has talked about wanting to see the series be given a much justified television rebirth. Reaction: What a great time to do it. Today we have cable TV. A series like Twin Peaks could incarnate on a cable network like AMC or TNT. There's a lot more wiggle room for artistic expression and divergent wackiness on cable these days than there was on one of the Big Three in the early nineties. Maybe we really are evolving... 

P.S. Think about this - during the series finale, in the Red Room, didn't Laura Palmer tell Agent Cooper she'd see him in about 25 years? Who says it can't be a few years sooner...?