TV

Starting a week from Sunday on A&E (April 16), the five-part reality series "God or the Girl?". From an article on ETonline.com:

STEVE HORVATH, DAN DeMATTE, JOE ADAIR and MIKE LECHNIAK are all at a turning point in their life. Do they enter the seminary and become a priest, or do they serve God through a happy marriage? As they try to reach this life-changing decision, they find themselves estranged from family and friends who have difficulty accepting their decision to choose a lifetime of servitude and celibacy. Can these young men resist the temptations of the flesh? Or will they answer the call to serve God? By the end of the series, all four will have made a decision.

It will probably be cheeseball...but maybe this will actually be interesting.

From an AP story on Forbes.com, Luke Duke was arrested for drunk driving in New Jersey. I guess he hasn't gotten over the movie.

Last night's episode was pretty painful. The white girl rap...ouch, that hurt. It's remarkable how negative, critical, insecure, and judgemental The Sparks seem to be. There's something poisonous there.

An interesting new TV show premiered on FX last Wednesday at 10 PM, "Black. White." It will air weekly at that same time. Not that I'm a fan of reality shows, but after one episode I like this one. It seems like it may be a worthy successor to FX's previous reality show 30 Days which I really liked (I'm glad to hear that a second season of 30 Days is coming this year). In "Black. White.", a white family and a black family find out what it's like to switch lives. The main conflict in the first episode is that the white dad who is in black disguise thinks that the black dad is obsessed with the subtle signs of racism and sees them everywhere. The black dad who is in white disguise thinks the white dad can't recognize the subtle signs because he doesn't have the experience of a lifetime spent as a black man in a white society.

Perhaps the complete antithesis of The Kite Runner, the other book I read over this past Christmas holidays was "Aloha Magnum: Larry Manetti's Magnum, P.I. Memories." I've always been a big fan of Magnum, and some day I'll visit Hawaii. I enjoyed the book, but it's definitely for fanboys only.