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I have seen nothing. Pirate bay was shut down and I was unable to download screener copies of anything, so I will be watching the Golden Globes on Sunday without having seen ANY of the nominated films. I am sad.

It's that time of year again when one of my favorite guilty pleasure shows is on - I love watching celebrities try and get along and complete ridiculous tasks. And I love Donald Trump. Starting off this season, I decided Shawn Johnson and Kevin Jonas were my picks to win. However, I didn't consider that Kevin Jonas was too nice and perhaps too effeminate to be able to take on some of the men on the team. I've always thought they should have mixed sex teams from the beginning, and I bet he would have been around longer. Of course, Geraldo should have gone home - but he's a republican and he's also ridiculous and causes a lot of conflict. It would be like Trump firing Omarosa in the first week - it would never happen. Just like Kate Gosselin should never have been chosen in the first place, but I bet she makes it farther than you'd think. My concern for Shawn Johnson is that she's too soft spoken, but by the third episode I am glad to see her speak up. So I...

I have now been Facebook-free for just over two weeks, and I'm loving it. There's something about that kind of social media that pulls you in and makes you want to check it constantly. I don't know why Instagram and Twitter don't have the same pull as Facebook, but they don't. I check them once or maybe twice a day and it's nice. For some reason I never noticed, there was pressure associated with Facebook that doesn't exist anymore, and I am happier without it. Who knew? My parents have officially cancelled their cable, and it's awesome that they are tech-savvy enough to pull it off. They have Hulu and Netflix and a Roku and torrent capabilities. And it's awesome and I am super proud of them. I also don't watch enough to keep paying for cable, so the cord cutting for me will happen soon. We did it once before but reactivated the DVR and cable for the Olympics and the World Cup - I always meant to cancel it after that, but I never did. Almost ev...

There is nothing more irritating to me than people who make fun of Facebook users for not paying attention to the world around them or for stalking people they used to know. Why is everyone else so occupied with how I choose to spend my time? It's not anyone else's business but my own. While saying that, I am pretty sure I'm going to quit Facebook. Really, the last straw was the addition of Facebook Messenger. I hate that I was forced to either download the app or never see my messages again. Like, Facebook is so popular and has such a monopoly on the social media market that they can just do whatever they want and you can't stop them. To hell with that. I don't use Facebook to "like" things and get status updates on celebrities or the news - I use Twitter for that. In fact, I pretty much exclusively use Twitter to the point that I have my Twitter and Facebook accounts linked together. I am NOT saying that I think social media is evil. I love the idea an...

Fall TV is exhausting and I've had to make some deep cuts. So far, the front runner is Madam Secretary. Gotham was okay, hopefully will get better, and How to Get Away With Murder , aside from the really stupid name, was good. Viola Davis was fantastic, but the supporting cast leaves something to be desired. I like that the plot is moving along quickly, but Shonda Rimes should have learned from Grey's Anatomy that if you move the plot along too quickly, you will run out of things to talk about and suddenly there's a ghost on the show. Forever is another great new show, even though it's a little fantastical. Excellent cast so far and the show is both episodic and connected. It's nice when they pull that off correctly. I don't think Forever or Madam Secretary will stick around for much longer, as I'm sure will be the same for the Doctor Who -heavy Gracepoint and Selfie , but we'll see. And I love Scott Bakula, but NCIS: New Orleans was one of the wo...

I watched Gotham last night, and the new episodes of The Big Bang Theory - thankfully, The Big Bang Theory is just as good as season... 3 or so. The only problem with the show is I'm not a big fan of the girls. Penny is fine, but it's pretty unbelievable that she would be engaged to Leonard and it's almost impossible to believe that her best friends are Amy and Bernadette. Where are her dumb friends? She would totally have some. And Bernadette is WAY too one dimensional and doesn't add anything to the show. Amy, on the other hand, has grown on me and I think she's finally getting some of the funnier lines. But the essence of the show is the four guys together doing nerdy stuff, and that doesn't happen very often anymore. The show won't be on forever, so they should really stick to what the people like. Unless the people like the boring relationships. I don't. Anyway, Gotham was interesting. I am ashamed to say I know very little about DC Comics or ...

It is officially my favorite time of year - time for new fall shows to start. Usually I pick and choose what to watch based on descriptions and everything, but this year I am trying something different - everything gets two episodes. I will try all of the half hour comedies and all of the hour long dramas and we'll see. One episode is not enough because although pilot episodes are supposed to be awesome and show how great a show can be (like the pilot episode of LOST ), sometimes they are just horrible and make you never want to see the show (unfortunately, I am choosing the example for this one to be Hanna Montana - and I chose that because in the pilot episode Miley Cyrus is much too young and it's stupid, but that show is actually really good). First up was Dancing with the Stars , although that doesn't really count because no matter how horrible that show is, I'll still watch it. I can't help it. The first actually new show of the season was Madam Secretary , ...