not falling down

Casey: It’s a vicious circle.

Dan: Yep. Just keeps going around and around.

Casey: Never stops.

Dan: That’s what makes it vicious.

Casey: And a circle.

I’ve watched about fifteen episodes of Sports Night in the last two days, and I think my sister still has me beat.Caitlan tends to like a lot of the same things as me, but only after a long trial period in whichshe professes to find them boring. It’s held true for Sports Night, Tamora Pierce and Daredevil, so I stillhave hopes for Diana Wynne Jones andBone. (No, it’s not a two-way thing. Ipossess a great fear and loathing for many things Caitlan likes. For example, she is an Olsen Twins fan.)

Also, even though I don’t drink, I was going to write a Sports Night drinking game, but it turnsout there already is one. You haveto admire their thoroughness, but I’d strip it down a lot; for example, they put “any time acharacter restates a question just posed to them” practically at the bottom, whereas I would havemade such circular dialogue the main engine of drink consumption. It was like two years ago when Jon first pointed out to me how often theydo it, and it still makes me laugh. I readily admit to having simple tastes.

I’ve really missed Sports Night, and if I could now somehow acquire collections of Cupid and Mr. &Mrs. Smith I could die a happy man. The lure of access to network vaults is still one of myprimary motivations for being famous on TV, but I guess it’s a good a motivation as any.

In the interest of full disclosure, yes, I still wish I’d had the six hundred bucks or whatever tobuy every episode of Highlanderwhen they offered them a few years ago. Maybe they still do, I don’t know. It hurts a little totype that for display on a page that I know could be read by people I respect, but man, I lovedthat show.