8:30 - 9:00PM

NOW #352.  It’s the Emmy award-winning weekly newsmagazine. It looks at issues facing our democracy. The show is hosted by David Brancaccio. And, even better, they still send me e-mails (I think that makes me cool and them nice). Thanks, Now, you guys are awesome!

9:00 - 10:00PM

Bill Moyers Journal #1138. It’s Bill Moyers. It’s his 1,138th journal (not really, but I’m not going to explain to you the way in which TV shows are numbered at this point in time, maybe later if you’re nice). He’s a good journalist so I assume this will be good journalism (at least the odds are it will).

10:00PM - 11:00PM

Walking the Bible – "Toward the Promised Land:  Forty Years in the Desert."  This is a three-part series (it originally aired in January of 2006), which follows Bruce Feiler on a 10,000 mile trip during which he searches for biblical heroes.  I don't imagine he's looking for living heroes, just the memories of them, maybe some of the historical elements too.  It's a long trek, but someone has to do it.

Saturday, December 29:

9:00 – 10:00PM

Austin City Limits – "Bloc Party/Ghostland Observatory."  So, here's what I wonder.  Is the Observatory in Ghostland, is it an observatory of Ghostland, or both?  Then, does the Bloc Party take place inside the Observatory itself or outside it?  Did they have to rent out the Observatory for the Party?  These are the sorts of things I wonder.

I can't believe another year has passed.  It's more than a little scary how fast time goes by as one gets older.  It's not as though I'd want to be terribly young again though, is it.  I can't imagine having to go back to college or high school.  And, forget elementary or middle school.  There's no way if I was in second grade, and I knew how many more years of schooling I had to go that I could possibly contemplate continuing my education.  I just couldn't.