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My parents were in town this weekend. Saturday night Mom and I went to see Back to the Future at the AFI; I haven't seen that thing on the big screen in twenty-five years, and we both went "oh my god, twenty-five years?!" Pretty sure it was the first first-run movie I ever saw in a theater (the first movie I ever saw in a theater at all was E.T., in the re-release). I was glad I'd looked in the movie listings and seen that it was there - and it was a good time, seeing poor Michael J. (no relation) before the Parkinson's got him, and much younger Christopher Lloyd, and oh, everybody! (Even Crispin Glover, that crazy SOB.)

Query: in the new-and-improved 1985, George McFly has published his first novel at the age of 47. What, then, has he been doing so successfully in the meantime? (And why do his older children still live at home, the way they did in the original sucky 1985?) Maybe he'd had a rip-roaring short story career? Does that buy a four-bedroom house in the LA suburbs and a BMW and whatever-all else?


30 Days of TV meme:

Day 01 - A show that never should have been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever

Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving

I was pretty skeptical about Leverage in the run-up to the first season - I'm not in advertising and I don't have ideas how I'd have pitched it differently, but from the commercials I didn't get that the women would be as competent as they are, and there was much too much made of Timothy Hutton's Oscar - but it turns out to be awesome.


Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death