Robert Stack Rocks My World

Every time I am home from school, whether it is because of illness, a holiday, or during the summer, I frequently watch the two-hour block of Unsolved Mysteries that Lifetime airs in the late morning and early morning. I just can't get enough of the show. Even after many years, the cases are still intriguing, and they're real, which is what makes them so interesting. I love how many have been solved since their original airdate, and the ones that have remained unsolved seem all the more spooky.

The bizarre murders cases and those about long, elaborate cons that are flawlessly pulled off are my favorites. I remember getting scared by the ghost stories when I was younger. Lost loves? Feh. Yeah, they're heartwarming, but the majority of them end the same way.

Happiness is a Roast Beef Sandwich

I just found out the other day that the new building that they are constructing just down the road from the apartment that I currently live in and within five to ten minutes of the new house that I am moving to is going to be an Arby's restaurant. Sweet! I am so excited. Springfield has multiple Arby's within the city, but all of them are north of where I live, and involve quite a bit of driving and traffic wrangling to get to.

Arby's is my favorite fast food restaurant. The roast beef sandwiches have been a common staple of mine since I was very young. Their potato cakes are a fine substitution for french fries. Their chicken breast fillet sandwich is quite delicious. And I love one of their new menu additions, potato bites, which taste like bite-sized portions of baked potatoes that you can dip in ranch dressing. Mmmm. I may have hated the oven mitt mascot, but I still do love me some Arby's!

Arrested Annoyance

I have never harbored any ill will for Jason Bateman. In fact, I think he's quite handsome and hilarious. I remember enjoying him back in the day on The Hogan Family. I also quite enjoy Will Arnett, who has an incredibly sexy deep voice that makes me overlook his pronounced widow's peak. And I loved Portia de Rossi when she played Nell on Ally McBeal. But there is a big part of me that is filled with glee that Arrested Development was cancelled by Fox and that its future as a TV show is a dim one indeed.

Why do I enjoy seeing this show finally crash and burn? One of the reasons is the press. No reporter can find anything bad to say about this show. And I find that incredibly hard to believe, especially after viewing a few episodes from the first season. Yes, it is filled to the brim with talented, funny actors and memorable characters, but something about the show doesn't gel with me, and I don't understand why every magazine and newspaper can't stop raving about this show like it's some masterpiece.

But the biggest reason, by far, is the show's fans. It's fine and dandy that they enjoy the show, sometimes to extreme measures, but does Arrested Development need to come up in every show discussion? No. What bugs me the most about these fans is that they are so self important and so ready to denounce individuals who are not fans of this show as "dumb" because they "just don't get the humor." Uh... no. Some of us JUST DON'T LIKE THE SHOW. It has nothing to do with being intelligent enough to get the humor. I've heard comparisons of Arrested Development, Scrubs and My Name is Earl, and while I am a fan of the latter two and can understand the comparisons (no laugh track, similar show humor, common show writers), I do not appreciate being constantly being beat over the head that Arrested Development is SUCH a better show. They may have similarities, but they're shows about DIFFERENT THINGS, people.