i confess, i am mostly in front of the tv all day, yet i never have a lot of favorite shows. i'm what you call a channel-surfer, because for all that cable offers, there's REALLY NOTHING MUCH to watch, unless you spot it accidentally. or maybe i'm just picky. i don't like the teen dramas much, or the sitcoms... they faze me. but beyond that, i do have a few favorites in mind. my intensively addictive 'crime' de la creme (of all time, perhaps) would be "Crime Scene Investigation". not because i have an affection with the macabre, it's just that i love a good mystery. and forensics amaze me... i remember being so enamored with the high-tech hijinks of solving murders in Discovery Channel's "Crime Night" years ago. back to the present, i have the pleasure of watching two series of CSI: the "mothership" (in las vegas) and csi miami. they're both good, but i prefer the original. have yet to discover the new york slice..

another, as i have said from way back, would be "The Amazing Race". i like the premise of competing with teams 'in a race around the world'. unlike "survivor", where you're stuck on a lumpy island for 30 days, annoy and backstab the hell out of people and starve or do silly things to death. most of the survivor contestants are evil anyway. and if you don't know, i'm biased over these things (i like phil k.). i always like the good guys to win, but the nasty ones always get the bacon. like the last time around, in AR3 with zach and flo, i hated flo so much with her whining and bitching in every damn episode, i'd take any other group beside them... but in the end they won! (how's zach now? i pitied him so much.) and colin and christie from AR5, i am annoyed with colin. he shouts too much. i hate people who shout their necks for stupid things (although sometimes i do that too...) needless to say, they got the million dollars. and now, rob and amber? (here we go again!) since right now we're only down to 5 teams left, and they're all couples (yes, call lynn and alex a couple), it's pretty much about how they put their heads and emotions together. i have not much a favorite team anymore, well maybe the old couple will do. meredith and gretchen are amazing to last this long in the race (other mature teams in the past seasons have been booted off in the early stages). they're such warm people who's got old-style good in them. i'll be happy to see them in the final 3. unexciting to say the evil stowaways from survivor has got the guns in them to win, but i'll be betting on uchenna and joyce or lynn and alex to stay on the prowl and nick them out.

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