AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 31 — Quiz shows, King of the Hill.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 30 — Watched Maria, Full of Grace. And a CSI. And part of a thing I recorded on the DVR about film editing. And a couple of quiz shows.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 29 — Saw Finding Neverland. It made me cry. I'm such a sap. Pretty good movie. Watched some Northern Exposure, The Simpsons, game shows.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 28 — Watched some TV. Went to part of a women's basketball game.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 27 — Watched My Fair Lady. Watched some games shows and crime shows and The Simpsons.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 26 — Northern Exposure. Closer. I thought it a better movie than Sideways. Don't get me wrong...I liked both really. I'm more of a drama person, I guess. As long as there are no fantasy creatures, monsters or Super heroes. I prefer realism. I liked the setting of both, by the way. Wine country with its beauty and stupidity. (I remember some friends and I went to Solvang on an excursion that included Firestone Winery, I think.) London makes a great setting, too, in a lot of ways. I have to admit I like sets...interesting apartments, street scenes, parks, restaurants. Northern Exposure got hungry for some different settings now and then and had Ed or Joel or someone else dream different streets or landscapes. Watched Joel's New York dream last night.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 25 — Old episodes of Northern Exposure. (I suppose they are all old, eh?) Sideways. Some things I like about this movie like the capturing of the intellectual Californian wine snob nerd and the irrrepresible friend for whom things always work out; like the send up of the all too commercial winery sales room; like the fact that I anticipated a line because it jives with my one pseudo-intellectual mind set. But in places it drug, really. In places it seemed like a TV movie. Or was that a send up of the TV movie? Worth seeing if you are a wine snob or have one in your circle (although also see that episode of Northern Exposure where Shelly breaks the '29 Latour and replaces the bottle's contents). But I ramble. We are about to go on a binge of movies. I also rewatched Broadway: The Golden Age. Rick McCay has really done something. We saw this in the Austin Film Festival last year. The extra material also answers the question (ask in what movie?) "What ever happened to Fay Wray?"

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 24 — Old episodes of Northern Exposure and a Law and Order and The Tender Trap with Debbie Reynolds and Frank Sinatra.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 23 — Old episodes of Northern Exposure and some quiz shows and CSI.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 22 — No time for TV.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 21 — I watched my quiz shows. And a movie, a very, very strange movie, called Zentropa (aka Europa).

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 20— I swear I'm going to stop watching CSI and Simpsons. But I did it again. Oh, and Antiques Roadshow and some TV news.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 19 — Crossing Jordan, some taped CSI.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 18 — Simpsons, quiz show.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 17 — Watched a Law and Order, Simpsons, quiz shows. I haven't given up TV but I'm still thinking about it!

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 16 — Watched some crime shows, Simpsons, quiz shows. But I think I'm going to give up TV for a while. Seems I'm wasting a lot of time on it.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 15 — Part of a CSI and some Simpsons. Quiz shows.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 14 — A bit of a thing about cinema verite and Jeopardy and Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 13 — Jeopardy and Who Wants to be a Millionaire. A bit of the football game. Part of some Brit movie on the DVR. I decided to send the documentary back to Netflix.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 12 — Simpsons episodes. Part of a rental DVD documentary about two guys with AIDS. Hard to watch. Part of the movie Love, Actually on cable.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 11 — Jeopardy. Some crime shows. Some Simpsons. I'm tired of TV. Think I'll go back to watching Netflix rentals.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 10 — Sadly, a couple of game shows, the end of that terrible series on great moments in television. (Why do current celebrities qualify as experts?)

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 9 — A documentary called Stevie about a guy who was the 'big brother' to a boy and then found him years later, embroiled in trouble. A CSI, a West Wing from a few weeks back. Other junk TV.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 8 — Some Simpsons. A CSI: New York. West Wing. Part of Cat in the Hat. Yes, that is a truly bad movie. This 'great moments in TV history' thing that is really pretty horrible. OK, I'm going to quit watching TV, I swear.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 7 — Some Simpsons. A Law and Order. More allegedly great television moments. Other drivel.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 6 — Some Simpsons. This program about great television moments. Other drivel.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 5 — Some Simpsons. Sixty Minutes.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 4 — Watched a CSI. And some Simpsons. Off the DVR. I'm not sure I like the DVR. I think I watch stuff I could have just as easily missed. I would be better off to watch my (carefully picked?) Netflix movies wouldn't I?

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 3 — Watched Third Watch. In real time. Watched Who wants to be a Millionaire compressed to about five minutes. Watched a very so-so movie with Jack Nicholson and Jennifer Lopez called Blood and Wine.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 2 — Watched a Without a Trace and a few other TV shows.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 1 — Watched Millionaire and some crime shows and a bit of a show about the Chunnel.