Watch It: The Best Show On TV Is Friday Night Lights

Friday Night Lights is the best show on television. Period.

This show is about a small town in Texas, where the only way out is football. The main characters are the coach, his wife (now the principal of the shool), and many of the players. The focus is on the interactions amongst the community where they live. Some are rich, but most are poor and trying to create a decent life.

Besides having phenomenal acting, and extraordinarily realistic portrayals of real relationships as they actually are in life, there are recurrent and well realized themes of:
a. Friendships
b. Hardships/challenges
c. Teamwork
e. Integrity
f. Resilience

Now anyone who knows me for even a second knows I do not watch football, but I watch this show online every week. And every week, I am moved out of myself and left wanting to try to be a better person because of it. That is a lot to say about a TV show.

Please enjoy it here. And start at the beginning of season one, all the episodes are there.....

Little Boxes - A shout out to Weeds

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I am a enormous fan of the show Weeds. It is a very interesting show about a suburban mother who gets into marijuana dealing after her husband dies suddenly. She encounters a whole other world (actually worlds) of ethnicity and behaviors that from her perspective are nothing she has dealt with before. She is also faced with the brutal truth, that while smoking a little pot for the average upper middle class person feels very safe, there is an underworld of violence there that if you smoke you are perpetuating on some level.

The show features a song called "Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds. Above is the original opening sequence.

Every week, there is a new version by another artist, which is really fun to see. The words resonate for me. I won't go into why (probably self evident that being a different color is not enough), but if anyone wants to chat about it offline, I am happy to. Here are some of the key lyrics:

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,¹
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses
All went to the university,
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

All the curvy girls

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I love L'Wren Scott. Not only is she Mick Jagger's current paramour who is way taller than him, she makes clothes that work well on almost all body shapes.

I love fashion, but as a curvy girl (still thin-ish, but got those jewish hips and big tatas), it can be hard to carry off clothes that do not have a traditional shape. Even if I long to.

This is the ultimate power suit (Maybe a little much for my work, I already push that envelope). It is a great color, can be split into two pieces for other wearing, and she looks all woman and powerful all at one. Fantastic!

I am loving the resurgence (for several seasons) of a 50's and 60's shapes - partly with longevity due to the popularity of Mad Men. If you are not watching it, you are missing out on a slice of fantastic television. If you are a man, you will like the manly men, and if you are a woman, you will like the manly men AND the clothes.