Friday, April 11:

8:00 - 8:30PM

Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal #4741. Another whole week has gone by and good old Gwen Ifill and National Journal are here to fill us in. For the record, I like to pretend the National Journal is a sidekick, like Robin to Batman, Starsky to Hutch, or chocolate sauce to chocolate ice cream.

8:30 - 9:00PM

NOW on PBS #415. 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 #1201. It’s Bill Moyers. It’s his 1,201st 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).

10:00 – 10:30PM

PBS Previews – "Carrier". PBS isn't going to show you "Carrier", they're just going to show you a preview of it (it airs at the end of April and beginning of May). They're going to tantalize you. They're going to intrigue you. They're going to tell you about some of the people on the USS Nimitz.

10:30PM - 11:00PM

USS Wisconsin: The Last Battleship. The 50-year history of the battleship has included three wars. Which ones? What were they about? What did the ship do in them? Has the U.S. ever had to utter, in reference to the Wisconsin, those horrid, horrid words, "You sunk my battleship?"

 
Saturday, April 12:

9:00 – 10:00PM

Austin City Limits – “John Prine/Amos Lee”. Originally broadcast in 2005, Prine sings songs from Fair & Square and some old stuff. Lee doesn't sing his old stuff. He sings the stuff from his debut album (which, I understand was the only one he had out at the time this was recorded).

A luau. It seems wonderful. It seems fascinating. I've taught my daughter all that I can about them, and, as I said, in a few short weeks I will be able to show her one. I imagine that she'll like it. I also imagine she won't quite "get" the whole thing. She is, after all, not quite two years old. We'll take picture though. A lot of pictures, and from those she will, hopefully, gain a Quantum of Solace in the future.