Although this writers' strike is definitely affecting a lot of people, from the actual writers to their bosses, I for one am having a lot of fun. Sure, I might be gaining some enjoyment from the losses of others, but that's not why I'm having fun; I'm having fun watching how great the shows without writers actually are on their own. In the instance of late night shows, if you're a fan you've come to love your favorite host (mine being Conan) over the years - in a way, the writers from past shows have somewhat created a wall between our hosts and us, we never had the ability to fully hang out with just them. Well with the strike, we are forced to hang out with just them (except for Letterman and Ferguson of course, and Letterman's sucking even with writers). And because we are forced to be with just them, we have so much more fun. I was talking with Ima about it a few days ago, this writers' strike is like when we were back in school during those days where we knew nothing would happen in class. You know the ones, it's either raining uncontrollably so you know you'll sit around in the gym during PE or it's the end of the year so the teachers let you goof around during class - or it's the middle of the year and your English teacher, for whatever reason, starts the class an hour late everyday. You look forward to those days, you yearn for those days. When you do nothing, with the people you'd enjoy even if you had to do something. You enjoy them even more, you cherish those moments. And that's what the strike is like. Like that, only on TV.

So I have only good things to say about late night - except for Letterman and Leno, both of them are writing and only one is allowed to (Leno's going to be punished!). But it's only going to get better - during this Thursday's late night shows, NBC and ABC are going to join forces (the two broadcast networks without writers) and Kimmel and Leno will be guests on each other's shows. How awesome is that. We've seen late night hosts go on other shots, like Conan going on Leno, but never from other networks! That's going to be awesome. Conan is out of the loop, but his stuff is getting funnier and funnier every day - last night, he did a German laser show from his desk, as some fellow named Rudy, that cost him $62. It was hilarious. Both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert came back to the air last night, and Colbert pronounced both the Ts in his name - he's lost without his writers. Both were a bore - Jon was with the writers, then started to bash him, like he does every other topic, and then a Cornell professor came on (who Marc told me he met by the way) to talk about the effects of the strike. It was pretty useless. The other late night shows are doing well though - let's hope it doesn't get too old soon though.

But other than late night, the writers' strike makes me happy for another reason. During the fall, I had class every Tuesday - Photography. Every Tuesday at 8 and 8:30 PM, two shows came on ABC that I grew to love very much. I'd go to ABC.com on every Wednesday to catch them as I missed them, and I was able to watch them in full HD. But not everyone agreed with me that they were two very hilarious shows, so they were both canceled in November due to horrible ratings, a week or so after the strike started - but all their shows were already taped and ready to air, so the strike didn't affect either show. Here we are, almost two months after the cancellations and guess what - either the strike has forced ABC to bring back one of the shows or it did some research and found out that the people loved it. Either way, the second show that came on Tuesday nights is back - Carpoolers - except in a new 9:30 time slot. I've spoken about the show numerous times before, but I will say again that I absolutely love it. If you don't already know, it's about four suburb old people (all except one are married) who have to commute to the same building to work, so they carpool - their lives intertwine. It's an extremely fun show - one husband has a wife that is awesome and a son who is way too old to be living in the house and he is wacky! The black guy has a wife who you never see and has like two dozen kids. The newb carpooler is a newly-wed and they love each other so much it's supposed to be sickening (although I enjoy it, haha) with a very young baby. And the final guy is the single guy who is a friggin stud. It's a very hilarious show to watch because their all wimps, even the stud. I know you'll enjoy it. I don't put it on the site because it's a network show and because you used to be able to watch them online from the network's site - not right now though. So after the Lakers destroy the Grizzlies (hopefully...), switch over to ABC (two hours later) and enjoy the resurrected show!

That's all I want to talk about today - I was going to post yesterday about the night before's 60 Minutes episode. Pakistani Prime Minister Pervez Musharraf was on to discuss the Bhutto assassination and just general politics of Pakistan; I captured it and wanted to link to it, but haven't put it on the site yet, but I plan to do that soon, Insha Allah, and when I do I'll make a post about it. I also wanted to wish both Rowan Atkinson and Nic Cage Happy Birthdays because I know they are reading (especially Nic, Happy Birthday to you bro!) - Mr. Bean turned 53 on Sunday and Cage 44 yesterday. Unbelievable. You guys are great. I'm going to go get ready for the Laker game - Go Lakers! And in case you aren't watching, Obama is in second this time in New Hampshire (as of now, but take the numbers lightly, only 10% data logged), Hillary is first, yet nearly tied. McCain is kicking the other guys on the red side though - as expected. Alright I'm done - abrupt ending - take care everyone. see u.