Pilot's Log

It's weird seeing Navi Rawat (from Numb3rs) as a nasty villainess in Burn Notice. It's just a complete 180% turn from the previous role.

(Yes, I know they're LAST YEAR'S episodes. I don't have cable, okay?)

At least she isn't being typecast.

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I already live in a haunted house now. For a few years, I'd slept on the previous owner's bedframe and box springs (with my own mattress atop it). I've seen her ghost a few times. Death is but a door.

( Posted Here Because It Times Out Or Glitches When I Try To Watch It At CBS.Com ).

PS: When I attempted to establish a CBS.COM account using my Facebook ID, I found out that I already had an account with there, and revived it. Unfortunately, I can't link to it, but if you want to friend me there just look for sbierce@hotmail.com in the Friend Search function.

I'm not going to link to any news articles because people are now politicizing all the outlets. Suffice it to say, you will all know what and who I'm talking about.

Half of my friends are screaming, "She was good woman and now she's a martyr for all that was good and right about our Nation"--

--And the other half is screaming just as loudly "That b---h f--king deserved it and I hope she burns in Hell!"

If you love America, leave it now and don't look back. The killing days are here.

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More likely that I would off the studio exec who had the "bright" idea to kick J.J. and Emily off Criminal Minds. I would take a page from my father's playbook and make it a defective elevator car.

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In Florida (and probably elsewhere in the South), you hear stories about a ghoul called the Sickle Man, who supposedly wanders the wilds and farmlands with a large reaper blade that he uses to chop animals (as well as people who offend him) to little pieces.

If I were Stephen King, I would have written a novel about the Sickle Man, had it made into a big budget horror movie, and cleaned up financially. But I'm not.

( If I Had Heard This Song When It Was A Hit I Wouldn't Have Survived The Seventies )

The fact that it was in my dream disturbs me very deeply.

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of October 1, 2009

The coming week will have something to offend and agitate everyone -- except you. Whines and moans and yelps will ring out across the land, even as you're emanating poise and aplomb. You may be tempted to brazenly exploit everyone's vulnerability and seize control of your corner of the world, but I think that would be shortsighted of you. A better strategy for capitalizing on your advantage would be to dole out large doses of mercy, making sure that the people who will be important to your future don't lose their way.

The problem is that too many people seem to think that the anger and rage they have now is the best tool in the box. Me?--I have rage fatigue. It's like asking a metalworker who spends eight hours of every working day next to the blast furnace whether he cares about the hot air generated elsewhere.

This kind of ties in to that story of the hanged Census worker in Clay County, Kentucky. I did that work here in Tennessee ten years back, and one of my RL friends (on FB too) did the job in Florida, and I never told my parents how hazardous I thought the job was getting in some areas because I needed the cash too bad. (What's even more chilling is another of my RL friends/classmates, also on FB, knew the victim personally.) Now, the general circumstances are pointing to the man running into some sort of criminal activity--but what if it HAD turned out to be politically-motivated? I could imagine that myself, as when I did the job in '98 it was "hang the Clintons!" and "none of your CENSORED business!" Scare a man too much, stoke his fire too high, make him think there's no way out, enemies are all around and he can't trust anybody, and rage can KILL.

I'm personally not in a position to "dole out large doses of mercy", but you can understand my desire to stay out of the fray and try to douse the flames before something explodes. Water is getting expensive, so don't be surprised if all that comes out of the bucket is sand.

The Lingering Consequences Of The Knoxville Church Shooting

I wish I could be certain that this incident is the end rather than the beginning.

And a reminder, I only saw this in a dream. No evidence this will ever happen.

Clint Eastwood directs an episode of the TV series NCIS. He did it because of a three-week delay on his current project and because of a dare by the show's producers.