Woke Up This Morning

The new season of the Sopranos started a few weeks ago and it has been, as always, quite enjoyable. However, there’s been something that’s been bugging me lately that until today I couldn’t quite put my finger on.

Now, some of you might not have any idea as to what I’m talking about here…but for anyone who lives or has spent considerable time on the East Coast you will understand why it’s bothering me when I say that Tony Soprano seems like the kind of guy who would definitely have EZ Pass. And yet there he is taking a ticket from the toolbooth on the NJ Turnpike in the opening credits.

There is no way that a man with Tony Soprano’s characteristics would be patient enough to wait in line to take a ticket and then wait again to pay the tolls when the option of EZ Pass is available. For those of you who are not familiar with EZ Pass, it’s basically an automatic toll payment that electronic sensors read as your car passes through the toll plaza, thereby eliminating your need to stop or wait in long lines.

The reason I bring this up is that just recently I relinquished possession of my EZ Pass, which had been sitting unused in my car for the last 9 months. And seeing as how the likelihood of me driving my car back to the East Coast any time soon was very remote, I decided that it was time to send said Pass back to NJ to my parent’s house where perhaps it might get some use during those rare times when I’m back to visit.

It wasn’t hard to part with it or anything…so don’t worry about me…i’m fine.

In other news…

I watched the season premiere of Thief last evening on FX. All in all a very promising pilot episode to a show that has some big shoes to fill being penciled in to The Shield’s time slot now that this season of The Shield is over. If anyone is looking to add another hour of television to their weekly schedule or fill the void that the end of this season of the Shield has brought then definitely check it out (although presumably if you watch The Shield you probably did check out Thief as what else would you have been doing at 10pm on Tuesday evening).

I also finished listening to the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, Show Your Bones. It is quite good. I think overall I like it even more than their first album. So feel free to go ahead and check that out also.

Otherwise, i’m still rocking the status quo, waiting for the plumber to call us back to set up our next appointment, so that they can bust open our ceiling and peep our pipes.

Alright kids….in the immortal words of The Audrey II

I think it’s suppertime.