Hey folks, long time no blog. We’ve been busy over the past couple months and I could make up a lot of activities that explain each day, but I feel the need to come clean and tell you the truth: Bones is now on Netflix Watch Instantly.

This show is so great! It’s like CSI Las Vegas except with a more compelling love story. The only problem, thus far is the gory dead bodies being examined in every other scene. The problem isn’t really with the gore, but more so with the food we unwittingly pair with the episodes during dinner.

Hamburger night? Why not pair that with a body dropped from an airplane. Couscous? That would go great with a maggoty caved in skull. The possibilities are endless.

We sure have a knack for choosing the best food that could resemble a immolated human being. But despite our sudden lack of appetite, the show continues to be on a constant loop in our living room. The Roku has been running hot for a few weeks now as we’re about to wrap up season 2. It even managed to usurp the original Fame television series where in every episode “Dance Wins!”

Other than putting human-sized indents in the couch, we’ve been tending to our backyard. A shipment of Conklin Roses landed on our doorstep and are showing signs of health in their new homeland. We brewed our second batch of beer last Saturday. And then later that evening sent a room of kids we were babysitting into fits of tears with an episode of Veggie Tales (also on Netflix Watch Instantly).

So all is pretty normal. Dead bodies on TV, kids freaked out by inattentive vegetables, and roses beginning to bud in the backyard. Oh, and I gave a presentation on Webkit Transitions at the local nerd meetup last week. What more could you ask for? Well, I guess we’ve got one more gem. I’ve been using one of those balance balls as an office chair for the last week, I’ll post photo results ABS they come available! #wokkawokka

Jessie and I have a new favorite movie.  We did not find it, it found us.  We were sitting in a hotel room in Cedar Falls, Iowa and this came on the Free HBO.  At first we said “What are we watching?!?”  But then after we saw John Travolta in drag yelling “Tracy Turnblad!” we were sold on it’s value.

But it doesn’t end there!

We Netflix’d the movie to see the whole thing because we were so rudely interrupted by “Thanksgiving” “dinner” “with” “my family” who we “only see” “once a year or so” [/quote fingers].

Now when we say that this movie was *star studded* you might think that we’re referring to Queen Latifah, but we’re not.  We’re talking about 2 minor characters whose appearance sent us into fits of “NO WAI! OMG! I CAN’T BEELEEV IT!”

#1 Playing the roll of Brenda -the girl who gets kicked off the Corny Collins Show for getting pregnant- was played by Cassie Silva who I’m sure you all remember our Favorite Show of the Summer, Clean House!  Cassie was a benefactor of the great kindness of Niecy Nash and her 3 sidekicks.  Her house was full of mayhem and foolishness, but she’s since gone from the show to playing the pregnant girl who has 1 line!  It was an amazing time for us.

#2 This is kind of a bigger deal.  At the end of the movie (no spoilers) there’s a huge dance going on and low and behold, who do Jessie and I see!?!??!?!  CAN YOU STAND THE SUSPENSE!?!?  It’s Stephen Boss better known as Twitch from So You Think You Can Dance!

The addition of these 2 into this overall well rounded movie instantly catapulted this movie into the esteemed collection of The Rupert Family Classics.

Jessie and I watch a lot of crime television.  It’s Jessie’s favorite and since we’ve sort of exhausted all the home design channels, the crime television spree is very welcome.  Cable channels have figured out the magic formula by starting the next episode over the credits of the previous episode – which inadvertently launches the viewer into back-to-back-to-back-to-back episodes¹.

Though Jessie and I will watch almost anything with a dead body at the beginning of it, we both grimace and moan when CSI:Miami comes on.  I’ll come up with THE TOP 5 REASONS CSI:MIAMI IS THE WORST ONE OF THEM ALL.

#1 The tech is impossible

My greatest problem with this show is the tech and gadgets.  Being a bit of a gadget-o-phile myself I get almost angry watching the CSI data analyzers tap around on these futuristic computers.  Microsoft’s Surface just got produced this year and it is probably 10-15 years away from working it’s way into forensics departments.  Honestly, with all this imaginary tech, it’s more like a cartoon or a comic book than a TV show.

#2 It’s sunny all the time

Building off the comic book thing… Ok. We get it.  It’s sunny in Miami.   The greens and oranges that saturate every scene make everything seem extremely fake.  And don’t get me started on the sunglasses… the constant taking on and off of sunglasses drives me nuts.  My greatest pet peeve is probably when people wear sunglasses inside.  The Vegas series errs on the other side of the spectrum by shooting everything in a dimly lit closet.  But the darkness creates suspense.  The sunny day interrogation room in Miami makes me feel like I’m on vacation, not in a den of sin and despair.

#3 Waste of tax dollars

Have you seen their quadruple-billion dollar CSI lab?  What a bunch of rich babies.  I just watched Grissom use packing tape, a piece of window tint, a 9V battery to solve a crime.  These folks have a ka-billion dollar complex to solve their crimes (probably yacht theft) that no one cares about… leading me to… 

#4 Nobody cares about Miami

Vegas is Vegas.  Filled with exotic intrigue and a seedy underbelly.  New York is New York, the largest city in America.  Miami is … well …. boring.  There couldn’t be a more uninteresting city for crime to occur.  CSI: Omaha sounds way more interesting.

#5 The One-Liners!  Make them stop!

The thing that made Gil Grissom great on CSI: Crime Scene Investigators is the very thing that makes David Caruso bad.  It’s like the writers couldn’t stop writing terrible dialog (occasionally there’s some terrible Spanish too!).  Gil maybe drops 1-2 puns per episode.  Caruso on the other hand feels compelled to punish the viewers every scene he has. 

i leave you with over 7 minutes of corny one-liners used by David Caruso.

¹This observation was originally made by Dave Lockett

It’s yard sale day… actually Saturday was.  Hot off the cusp of the season premier of Jessie and I’s favorite show Clean House on the Style Channel perhaps we were energized to finally have our own yard sale.  If you haven’t seen the show, the premise is pretty simple, they come into your house which is filled with “clutter, foolishness, mayhem” and the like.  It’s a pretty hilarious show with a cast that keeps you pretty entertained.  We probably watch the show 2 or 3 times a day.  We like the people so much, we stalked found them all on myspace. 

We got up early and hauled the overflow from our marital material merger (MMM). Our possessions are really pretty sparse.  But we sold and sold and sold and made out with like $190 (a guitar got sold in there).  Not too shabby.  It’s nice to sell stuff you’re never going to actually use.

But how do we do all that we do? OOOOOH Honey! You know it’s not by ourselves.  We brought in a little help from Cate (DJ EggiP), our yard sale diva.  Who made out like a bandit! And our two new french horn playing neighbors Katy and Amy!  They made us some vegan pizza that was off the hook!  Possible vegan venture for the Ruperts?  I doubt it.  That night we pigged out on chicken nachos… d’oh!

Now I realize we should have promoted our yard sale a bit in advance, but to be honest we failed at having this thing like 3 times already.  But now it’s finally done and under our belt.  We might try to craigslist a few things (like my car) but that will have to wait because we have a TRIP TO AUSTIN coming up!  August 15th ~ 25th!  Get your game face on!