All Entries Tagged With: "PBS"

Why Some Teens Shouldn’t go to College

To clear things up right away, if you read this entire piece you’ll see that I’m not actually advocating people not get a higher education, unless they’re fictional. Now, I have a note of importance to make! James Lafferty (Nathan Scott on One Tree Hill) actually looks attractive with longer hair. I don’t like him with shorter hair, it makes his face look so square. Square faces = not that great. I’ll take the time to point out that I watched the season finale of One Tree Hill, mostly just because it was on and I didn’t want to move away from my fan when it was hitting my bare legs just so, cause hey - it’s suddenly hot! The finale wasn’t horrible. But I do not understand how they’re dealing with Peyton. Pathetic much?

The idea of her throwing water balloons from a roof does sound therapeutic, but there’s a point where you become a crazy ex-girlfriend and I think she’s hit it. She’s gone past the normal point of leaving a million messages, by painting ‘I love you’ a million times on a basketball court. I may not have great psyche into the male mind, but I do know that this is where some TV shows romanticize things way too much. That’s why Sex and the City is more relatable. Guys (or people, actually, in general) are more often jackasses who break-up with you on a post-it note. I’m not bitter or jaded by humanity, but I know better than to expect that kind of treatment. I see people making catchy bumper stickers about how Fairy Tales and Disney movies ruined life for them by having them expect too much. But will no one look back in twenty years and say the same of some of these shows?

Though I am not a huge fan of One Tree Hill (OTH) - I haven’t heard a bunch of fans say they’ve disliked any particular season. If I’m wrong, correct me. The thing that OTH is doing right, that so many shows have done wrong - is

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Sometimes I watch PBS, Don’t Tell Anyone

I don’t make a regular hobby out of watching PBS, I have important Veronica Mars DVDs to re-watch, you know. But the other day I moodily slumped on my couch and I didn’t feel like changing the channel. (That would require effort, and I don’t do ‘effort’ on Saturday’s.) As for how the channel got there in the first place…well, I’ll never tell.

After watching a really pointless show about decorating cakes (the cakes ended up looking mostly ugly, ergo - it was entirely pointless and made me feel sad for the hosts), Lidia’s Italy came on. I’ve seen this at least once before (because my Dad likes to watch PBS cooking shows on the weekend and I’ve apparently inherited his habit), and I like it, a lot.

Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is the Italian-American chef who hosts the show, as you might have inferred based on her first name. For this show they show her traveling through Italy, cutting back to scenes of her in her kitchen in America, cooking food. I know the idea of a PBS show might seem snore-inducing, but it honestly wasn’t. It just made me hungry.

There’s something neat about watching someone cook, when they really know how to cook. (And also, there’s probably something funny about watching someone cook if they have no idea what they’re doing. Come visit me in my kitchen to see that.) I’m always a bit baffled by how a chef magically turns a piece of seaweed into a four course dinner that looks good. I harbor hopes that maybe some of the magic will rub off onto me.

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