Here's an interesting story about Delaware politics and the next Delaware Governor. Even if you don't live in or near Delaware, click in to see my own fine pic with Delaware's next Governor.
And two TV reviews-"The Women's Murder Club" and the new psychic reality series "Phenomenon". Pic of the Day

ABC’s-”The Women’s Murder Club””The Women’s Murder Club” HERE.I’ll allow that it might be sour grapes but I did read this book by James Patterson (actually I listened to it on audio tape). I didn’t like it at all. The book by Patterson had one of those killers that would not die. As I recall the antagonist kept coming back to life over and over until I was ready to kill the guy myself.
But the television series by the same name has a bevy of very different problems as I judged by the episode aired on 10/19/2007. As an aside, I note that it seems a high percentage of new TV series take place in California and by me this is almost always a bad sign. This series takes place in San Francisco and it doesn’t get any scarier than that.

The premise of this series is the formation of some sort of “club” that includes four women. The four women all have different careers but as a group these same careers meld fluidly to better enable the solving of crimes. Angie Harmon is the center of the group and she is a homicide detective…has Angie Harmon ever played anything other than some sort of cop? There’s also a medical examiner, a newspaper reporter and an Assistant D.A.
San Francisco can now fire their entire police department because these four ladies can do it all.
First thing, this series depends mightily on Angie Harmon and let’s be honest here folks, Angie’s a little long in the teeth now. Surely they could found some younger and hipper “Charlie’s Angel” type with bouncy boobs for this part. The other female characters are young and pretty.
I’ll admit I’m not that fond of Harmon’s acting although you’d think she’d be great at it by now as she generally plays the same character in everything.
The show on the night of my viewing involved a killing of three people on a subway train. Of course the talents and sources of all four members of the murder club were required to ascertain that the shooter was hired by a local crook who should have shot and killed only one person on that train. There was the required drama as a brother of one of the victims was recruited from his life in a gang to wear a wire and get his brother’s killer to talk.
The women in this special club each have their own personal dramas as per normal. Angie is married to a detective on the series and I must ask, why is the presence of an-already divorced couple so necessary on so many drama series today? Of course they almost always still love each other but there you have it, from “Desperate Housewives” to “Private Practice” and now “The Women’s Murder Club” we have a couple of people who were once married to each other as major characters in the series.
This show fits your normal crime story template. It keeps the viewer’s interest in a fashion and there are worst things for one to spend an hour to view. This show will likely not win any awards any time soon and I have doubts if it will ever reach the heights of “Charlie’s Angels” that it so obviously wants to emulate.
NBC’s ”Phenomenon”NBC’s Site for this series HERENow here’s a reality show that intrigues. How about this…a reality show for Psychics?
Indeed, this is the “American Idol” for would-be psychic entertainers. In fact, the judges for the show are Criss Angel, a so-called “Mindfreak” and Uri Geller, known across the fruited plains for bending spoons with his mind.
This show premiered on Wednesday 10/24/07 and as I conclude, the viewing audience can vote on their favorite psychic. Four contenders were featured that night and I thought they were good enough to garner an audience of sorts.
First, my reservations: for while I enjoyed the displays of extraordinary ability displayed by the contenders, I can’t shake the feeling that no matter how much they try to illustrate how totally random their act might be, it all could still be staged as let’s get real, we’re out here in TV land and the fellow who had phone numbers picked from random phone books STILL might have arranged to know the numbers in advance in some form or fashion. Even the best act of the night that had one contender playing Russian Roulette with nail guns, well even this could have been staged.
The viewing audience can be fooled is what I’m saying here and by the very skeptical me I’ll never fully believe in this kind of mind power unless the contender was right here in my house and The Wise I came up with a demonstration of psychic ability that suited me as to its reality.
Along with the psychic judges we must have a couple of celebrities currently out of work on the show and indeed we have Carmen Electra, Rachel Hunter and Ross from the Tonight show. Ross’ picture should be under the word “Gay” in the dictionary, not that there’s anything wrong with that. The job of these celebrities in this series is to serve as props and dupes for the various psychic acts as put on by the contenders.

For instance, one of the four contenders on the premiere episode had Carmen and Ross stand on stage. The contender, one Ehud Segav, would touch part of his body then ask Carmen to ask where on HER person did she feel touching. Segav touched his forehead then Carmen described touching she felt on her forehead. Ross was asked to touch part of his body and again, Carmen was asked to describe where she felt that touch.
Other contenders included a guy who said he could feel no pain. His act was pretty lame although he did end up with his hand inside some sort of animal trap thing. The main part of this act was getting Ross to scream and squeal like a girl as the contender would pretend to grab Ross’ hand to stick into the bear trap.
The best act of the night as I saw it was the guy, Eran Reven, who lined up six nail guns, only one of which was loaded, by Carmen Electra of course, with an actual nail cartridge. Thus one nail gun, if held to one’s vulnerable skull and the trigger pulled COULD shoot a nail into one’s head. The rest of the nail guns were empty.
There was appropriate drama as Carmen was blindfolded and asked to recite the numbers of the six nail guns then laying on the table, one of which had been loaded with deadly nails by Carmen before she was blindfolded and reciting nail gun numbers. The psychic contention was that Reven could tell which gun Carmen loaded with nails by how she recited the numbers.

The guy really did hold those nail guns to his head and pull the trigger, this accompanied by the drama of seeing his mother in the audience as she held her breath and closed her eyes lest she witness her son shoot a nail directly into his skull.
Below is a short video of this interesting psychic act.
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