You know what I realize? That since Marg Helgenberger, who plays Catherine, is busy with other projects as she does this show, that probably explains why we are seeing less of her this season than we could otherwise see. I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I enjoy the newbies of this show being given their better chance to shine. On the other, I don’t like her being underused throughout the season especially since this might be her only return to the franchise because I’m guessing the next season will have another returning cast member from the original season.
Continuing
on with more of Science Rock, there’s a song that they did about the skeletal
system called Them Not-So-Dry Bones. It seems to be inspired by and even use
some of the lyrics of Dem Dry Bones. I like Dem Dry Bones better and wonder if
this song is supposed to cut off or only seems like it does. It could be an
uploading error or to avoid going beyond fair use. (I’m almost certain that me
accidentally going beyond fair use is why there is a warning over one of my
posts in my Madam Secretary blog, but am currently unsure as I wasn’t told why
that was.) I’ll get to Dem Dry Bones in the next blog post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns4Im3jBWUc
The
first boss of The Wind Waker is Gohma. This version is obviously different from
the one that we saw in the Deku tree at the beginning of Ocarina of Time. I’m
not sure why they have the same name when they look different enough to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0apQlANJUcQ
The
original singer of True Colors is Cyndi Lauper. I’m going to include her
version of that song now. I will feature more of this song in the next two
posts as there is even more that I can milk out of it thanks to a cover of it
that appeared in a movie that I’ve seen and like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPn0KFlbqX8
Continuing
on with the next part of Songs from the Heart, the next song that was in the
concert wasn’t on the DVD and I’m not entirely sure if this is where it belongs
in the place at the concert. But this is my best guess as to where Carolina Rua
goes as I’m pretty sure that a different version of this had Chloe on stage at
the end. When I watch the concert, I even pause it after the previous song to
watch this one and then go back to the rest of the concert. This isn’t the only
part of the concert when this happens, a song being randomly cut but somehow
the official concert version of the song is available online.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOMf-8lGLnw
Now
having mentioned some about nomenclature during the previous post, I now feel
like sharing one of the greatest Weird Al songs, one called Word Crimes. It
does explain things like the phrase I could care less, which means you do care,
at least a little. Most people who say that actually mean that they couldn’t
care less.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
Football
team ranking update: There are 32 NFL teams and I have a ranking for a lot of
them. The bottom ones are 32- Patriots, 31- Bears, 30- Cardinals, and 29-
Falcons. As for the highest teams on down, they are 1- Rams, 2- 49ers, 3-
Chiefs, 4- Colts, 5- Raiders, 6- Steelers, 7- Titans, 8- Broncos, 9- Chargers,
10- Jaguars, 11- Buccaneers, 12- Texans, 13- Dolphins, 14- Eagles, 15- Panthers,
16- Browns, 17- Bengals, 18- Vikings, 19- Lions, and 20- Packers. I will get to
the next three in the next post.
In
this old link from my Madam Secretary blog, I do a bit of comparing deaths that
Republicans make a big deal about. I can talk a bit about that more. I also
talk some about which team did better in the Rams versus Chargers seasons over
the years from 2017 to 2022. Basically, the Rams got a great new coach starting
in their 2017 season and they always had a better record than the Chargers from
then until 2021. Then the Chargers got a new coach while the Rams had a
terrible season with the Rams doing way worse and the Chargers going into
postseason in the 2022 season.
I
talked a bit about speedruns and want to post a speedrun race at some point in
time. I might do that some, but I still have yet to find one between just two
players that work well or one between three players either. I’ve found good
ones between four players. I also talk about an injury affecting Tim Daley who
plays Henry and it was sort of written onto the show with scenes being affected
as a result.
I
talked some about the size of the Supreme Court. It started with just six
justices (one of them the chief justice), then it went to seven at one point,
was expanded to nine, and went all the way to ten. It has nine outside of for a
long time in 2016 when it only had eight. I will do research as to who won
Nobel Peace Prizes and if any went to a secretary of state from the US. I do a quote
about soccer versus rugby from Invictus. I also talk about something Jimmy
Kimmel related, but have largely switched instead to Jimmy Fallon and now want
to share a video relating to football from the Tonight Show since I mentioned a
part with Jimmy Kimmel and football.
https://adamdeckermadamsecretaryblog.blogspot.com/2017/05/episode-from-1-29-2017.html
WARNING!
Political section
There
is a lot that I want to do mentioning political countdowns. I realize that I
could mention some dates and people that have certain set end of dates of their
time in office, but I won’t single any of them out. This is partly because I
don’t want to say them in this blog, but largely because I don’t want to delay
future acrostic poems for a long amount of time.
Speaking
of poems, I will be more likely to first cover states that have gubernatorial
elections in 2023 and then in 2024 if I can as long as there is still more to
blog about the season. That is why I singled out Louisiana first. I will be
counting down to that state’s primary sometime only if one of the following
happens: 1- I have all of the countdowns updated to this year, 2- I see the one
for Wisconsin’s primary show up in memories on facebook, or 3- I see a
political commercial for any Kentucky election that will happen this year. Note
that any new countdown that I start on facebook will be put in the cast updates
of my Good Wife blog.
There
are three different types of election countdowns. One is to primaries that
different states have. I want to countdown to the one Indiana will have in
2024, but a date for that has not yet been set. I’ll have to wait a while. Another
is general elections. And the last is countdowns until someone is out of
office. I will only share that last one here if it is to January 3rd
of an odd numbered year which is the set last date of members of Congress and Senate.
I
have combined primaries and general elections in addition to primaries and countdowns
to the end. I will now combine countdowns to the end with one to the general
election. I have yet to combine all three into one grouping and can only group
four together at most with as many as I want going on all at once.
I
have six countdowns going on at once, with three already combined that I’ll get
to the days away now. I don’t want to combine all of the general elections into
one. Thus, 2025’s elections will not be combined with the ones in 2023, 2024,
and 2026. I am also wanting one to the end of Mike Parson’s term to stand on
its own for now as well. I at least only want it combined with things that come
before it. Thus, it will be the countdown to Jeff Landry’s last day in office
that I will countdown to even though he may yet win a different office. Anyways,
it is 299 days until the 2023 elections, 631 days until the 2024 elections, and
1,390 days until the 2026 elections.
END
POLITICAL SECTION
Movie
update: On Friday, I finally finished watching Despicable Me 2. I would have
finished it sooner, but I chose to watch it in French with English subtitles
instead of just in regular English. On Saturday, I watched The Princess Bride.
I replaced that with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. On Sunday, I had
other plans for lunch so I didn’t watch a movie then. On Wednesday, I watched part
of crossover tape 2. I do not always know how I will watch that tape or how
long it will tape year after year. I do know that this time, I watched just the
first part of Invasion covering Supergirl. I will watch more later. On Tuesday,
I watched Toy Story 3. That will obviously be replaced by Toy Story 4. Here is
a video called Everything Great about Toy Story 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjgdMQEdZlU
The
first part has a possibly relevant recap. I like recaps. They are always nice
to have. I wrote about them in my TV blog. Anyways, a woman is thinking that a
Reggie might be there only Reggie is dead yet still stealing food. Beau and
another person find a non verbal boy in this place. The team tries to get
evidence from him. Beau seems to connect with him well. He has an interesting
ear. The person who seems to be ordering the murders of the season (I’m
guessing the as of yet unnamed big bad) might have sent them a thank you note.
It
seems that a woman named Sam who is missing and might have been dismissed as a
mere runaway is looked for again. They find a dead woman named Kara who might
have been dumped for a while since she is at least one week dead. They also
think that a person named Michael was buried alive. Another thing that they
wonder is if other missing women have been killed and buried around there as
well.
The
second part has more of the investigation at hand. Kara was possibly also
buried alive, being held as a prisoner who was raped a lot. They think that she
gave birth, likely to a child from rape. There could be others. It is possible
that the kid was reunited or first got to meet his grandparents. Bees and honey
could be one of the keys to this case. A lot happened that I miss and find hard
to summarize.
The
third part has a person being interrogated, but he claims that he was gay with
Kara as his beard so that he could keep her secrets as well. The kid rejects
his sandwich, perhaps as a joke, only to be freaked out when offered water. I
can’t make sense of all of what’s going on in the show. Catherine helps with
the case as the honey angle is talked about which I also don’t quite understand
right now. But at least I know it was an episode this season. They could find
other bodies.
Kara
was pregnant before she disappeared as they find Jake, the father of the boy
who I think if named Michael? And there might not be a Sam like I said there
was. In the meantime, Penny is still convinced that there are bodies buried in
the riverbed that is dried up. They find a dead baby of Kara.
The
fourth part has it rules that drowning was what happened to Kara that lead to
the death of her and maybe her daughter. They have to talk to Michael as he is
the only one who might know. Water scares him. While at the house, Beau goes
downstairs and finds a lot of mold there which is weird to him as it would be.
He finds a place that seems to be a secret basement or passage or something.
The
fifth part has an apartment being revealed in the basement with only one way in
or out. Pete is evil. Michael was protected from him. They think that Kara
might be unrelated to the other missing high school girls. I think that
different characters keep changing the pronunciation of Kara’s name which is
why I was confused a bit. They realize that the room was filled with water due
to a burst pipe that killed her and almost killed Michael as well in addition
to her daughter. Jake was the captor.
Beau
is convinced that Mary had to know something about this case and can’t get
custody on Michael. She wouldn’t let her husband go on the trips that she did. But
she is guilty this time and arrested as well with Michael talking again. And this
person named Sam is found and taking custody of Michael. I wish that I
understood more of that part of the story, who this Sam person is. Maybe it
will be touched upon more later? I guess we’ll see for sure or not. Beau wants
to work in the lab only and not in the field at all. There are no scenes from
next time so I guess that I’ll be back whenever with the next episode that
probably isn’t next week. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.
