10:22 PM
La Familia· Observatorium· TV First Days

Yeah, it's new, so there's nothing much here. I had another blog but I, uh, foolishly told my family about it so now I can't talk about them on it anymore. (dumb me!) So I started this one instead. I'm still messing with the page design, took one of the fairly blah templates that blogger has just to get this started. I want to wander around blogskins and see what I can find there and then tweak it to suit me.

Apropos of nothing, Mike Logan is really cute in the second season of L&O, the first three years of that show were the best.

And it's amazing how well All in the Family has held up, the humor is good, Caroll O'Connor was a great actor and I like the interaction between Archie and his wife. Reminds me of my grandparents, not in the tone or the way he treated her, but just that they both knew each so well, all those years together. She knows how he likes his rice pudding but she still asks him every time how he wants it and he still gives the same answer every time.

And actually, now that I think about it, Archie and Edith could be my stepdad's parents, his father was a nasty old man, not as bigoted but incredibly self-righteous and just like Archie, no-one could ever persuade him that he was wrong. He worked till the day he died, never wanted anything fancy, lived in the same house he bought in 1960, never got new furniture or rugs or did any renovations. Main thing he bought was a new TV and he only had three of those in forty years (and he didn't get rid of the broken ones either, kept them as furniture!)

Yep, he was an Archie and stepdad's mom was an Edith, she was a nurse when she met him, quit her job after they married to be a housewife, cooked and cleaned, did all his meals exactly like he wanted, tiptoed around the house every afternoon while he took his nap.

The character of Mike suffers over the years tho, he and Gloria come off as shrill and the knee jerk reactions to Archie's bigotry are annoying.

Mike reminds me a bit of stepdad's son....and that living room looks just like stepdad's parent's house!