Sunday Night TV

I'm prepared for one of my most anticipated nights of television in a long while.

To accompany me through the night, I don't have like-minded friends, siblings or a main squeeze -- I got my trusty crew: Food and alchohol. No wonder I'm an obese lush. I'm rockin with these new Sour Cream and Cheddar CHEEZ-ITS. They're the diggity. To keep me buzzin like Brian Oliver, Kenny Anderson and Dennis Scott (that's a March Madness reference) I've siffed through the liquor store to uncover the New Kop. As you all know, me and my niggas like to toggle through dwelling in both spectrums. We'll ridicule a scotch that isn't single malt, but then go kop Mad Dog 20-20s. Well, I love finding cheap rums, only because the names are always splendiferous. For instance, back in the summer, I blogged about a new Flrodia discovery called Ron Carlos. A rum that you could buy for 9.99 -- a liter for 9.99. To compare, Bacardi, know for its reasonable price, will set you back a mere $18.99 for a liter. So the Carlos is basically half that, which spawned my nickname "9.99 Ron". I found a new one yall...(Vino, you'll get a kick out of this)...RonRico. It's spelled exactly like that on the bottle. $10.34/liter. It's dancin with some diet Vanilla-Cherry Coke.

Anyways --- here's why this is the most anticipated evening of television in a while...

-- Through The Fire: Can't wait to see this documentary on Bassy. Love basketball documentaries. Hoop Dreams was a revelation and an important American film. I saw an indie doc on basketball in old Brooklyn, based on some Jews that were bball fanatics. This one is gonna be special. I read Ian's book on Bassy's last year. It was cool. But I think the footage will be more powerful. I think they had more access.

-- Pranos: Don't need to say much here. It's been two years. It's the final season. I just hope it doesn;t dissapoint like Curb did last season or 24 is doing right now.

-- Flavor of Love: I'm saving comments on this series for a novel-blog. Needles to say, TiVo kopped.

-- That new HBO series about polygamy: EVERY series that airs on HBO gets a three episode trial. They've earned that respect from me.

-- Number 1 Single: I've always thought Lisa Loeb was cute. Does watching this show make me gay? I'm hoping not, because it's No. 12 on my Season Pass Manager.

Here's the thing, though -- there's no way I'd be able to do this without TiVo. Some of these shows come on at the same time. I got a couple work calls I need to make between now and 10. It wouldve been a disaster without TiVo. But with Tiv (that's TiVo's nickname), I will sit down around 9:30-10p and watch 5-6 hours of anticipated television. I'm smitten right now.

BTW: didn't even watch one second of Selection Sunday, until right this second. Vitale, in case your wondering, is violently censuring the selection committee for Cincy and FSU's exclusion. I guess I'm looking forward to filling out my bracket, but not really. Here's my prediction, regardless: Nova, UConn, Texas, G'Town. Now, I don't know if they're in the same brackets or not...that was just a random hunch.