so my good friend steve turned me onto a show called californication that's on showtime. it stars david duchovny and a british actress i had never heard of, natascha mcelhone.

it's too bad her name is natascha, i've never really found that an attractive name for a girl, much like the ole stand-bys: bertha, beatrice and worst of all, rhonda.god i hate the name rhonda. please note that i don't hate rhonda people, just the name. holy crap do i hate that name. just saying it in my head makes me want to throw something, not to mention making me feel like there are consequences for even thinking it.

incidentally, my sister's first cat that she loved dearly was named rhonda. it later died under our car, we think by drinking anti-freeze. i'm pretty sure the last i saw of that cat was inside a garbage bag that we - my dad - buried in our backyard. i distinctly recall how this once flexible cat was now stiff as a board and you could see its shape through the garbage bag; it was erie. it was a really nice cat and we even have some really cute pictures somewhere of my sister with the cat in her room, which was the ugliest 80's version of pink and light teal combo in the world! can you use thee word combo to describe the grouping of two things? i keep thinking it's for 3 or more. anyways. i remember trying to get the cat to sleep with me in the top bunk of my bed one night by carrying it up the ladder using both hands and steadying my balance as i moved up the cold, hard metal rods that comprised my ladder. this resulted in my falling to the wooden floor with little legos strewn out everywhere. kids, always clean up after you're done playing! of course, rhonda was fine. i just threw a bowling pin through a window in my head.

well, back to the original thread of this post: californication. watch it. give the cable guy a few extra bucks, read the anarchist cookbook and get yourself free cable, or hell just download the episodes. they are so good! i'm not sure what it says about me that all three options i gave you as methods to acquire the show are illegal.

the synopsis of the show is that duchovny's character, hank wrote a best-selling book called god hates us all that was later butchered into a cheery "rom-com" with tom cruise and katie holmes playing the couple. he moved to la with his then long-time girlfriend and their young daughter. their relationship fizzles and dies when hank spends too much time at work and neglects his family and they break-up. the show starts at this point and you see how he's dealing with himself and his relationships in a town he knows nothing about while carousing around town every night with a new girl.

trust me, it's a great show and you should really do what you can to watch it. as one would think, watch them in order. for instance, if your acquisition method was downloading and you downloaded the second episode before the first finishes, you wait. it's so good that i just watched the most recent episode and by the end honestly wanted to cry. i wanted to, but did not. however, i really did try. it's just a really gripping show that i've found i am 100% completely invested in. i want to find other, similar souls to talk about this with though so please seek it out and watch it!

this has been a pretty good post i think. until next time where we might talk about old spice's all-in-one, body and hair wash. welcome to america.

T