becoming a loser and retroactive salmonella recall

When you begin writing about derivative tame network dramas as if you are engaged in passionate literary warfare against various ideologies, such as the NBC show REVOLUTION, you are a loser living in a basement apartment at the dog racetrack.  Living and dying over the minor details and indistinct characters in non sequiter flashbacks is not healthy.

On this week's episode, "No Quarter,"  Miles and his niece, with a groups of rebels trying to restore the United States (like the Postman), find themselves trapped by the militia and decide to tunnel out.  We learn that Miles used to command the militia where he killed people (like the Postman was a member of the Holnist militia).  The characters are aghast, its not like he raped or pillaged which seems more likely in this alternate future than this tame outrage.  Meanwhile the brother Matheson remains prisoner to the militia and the English woman, Maggie, and Aaron, google exec find a computer.  The mysteries are beginning to unravel at a pace that puts one to sleep rather than spark interest.

As a loser of the highest order it is my humble duty to waste more time and complain bitterly about this show's inability to overcome its silly nature that makes the Adam West Batman show seem like an progenitor of Downton Abbey or Game of Thrones.  Sword fights are lame unless there is the threat of death or decent choreography.  Again this brings me to the more important issue at hand, JJ Abrams is lazy.  There it is its only libel if its not true.

JJ Abrams



In the middle of writing this post I received a robocall message from Kirtland (COSTCO) on my answering machine.  The smoked salmon may have salmonella.  What more fitting bacteria could there be than that?  The irony escaped them.  Its raw, obviously it may contain bacteria and cause health problems.  I have been eating their smoked salmon every morning for over a year and now realize I may have been food poisoned every day for over a year.  I appreciated the phone call.