Jack Is Back!

I know I posted something about TV yesterday, but my interests are limited, and quite frankly, sometimes TV is more interesting than anything else going on. What do you want me to do? Should I make a "Brokeback Mountain" joke like everyone else?

Last night, thanks to the miracle that is TiVo, I watched the first four hours of "24". I love this show more than "American Idol." If you've been living under a rock, "24" follows the escapades of counter terrorist super agent Jack Bauer and his never ending job of saving the USA from insidious threats. This season started out with a bang literally when former president Palmer was assassinated and our hero Jack, who was presumed dead at the end of last season, was framed for the murder. During the next four hours, terrorists took over an airport, Jack threatened to kill a teenager, the First Lady exposed her breasts, the body count escalated and Chloe got laid. Then it was revealed that nerve gas will play a large part in "Day 5". How does one catch their breath after that kind of ride?

I was so giddy, I almost wet myself. You have to give yourself over to the show. Forget the fact that Jack always has a cell signal, never has to go to the bathroom and can disarm a nuclear bomb with a paper clip. Revel in the gravely voiced threats, like "you're going to tell me what I need to know, you just have to decide how much you want it to hurt." Damn, Jack is all man, and I don't mean that in a "Brokeback Mountain" kind of way. There..I made the joke, are you happy now?

Our favorite Jack threat here at the casa is, "I don't want to have to kill you, but I will." God damn right he will. We do a shot every time he says it. By the end of the season, we're drunk, but the world is once again safe. Later....Brian