First, a brief rant about CSI. I realize that there are folks who love this show, who enjoy it thoroughly, etc., but in case you've not noticed, I'm really picky about things.

So, one day I turn on the t.v. and am presented with the corpse of a young girl. The corpse is pale, but intact, and the skin still has a faint pink glow to it. The staring eyes are glossy and not atrophied at all. There is one (1) maggot and, for the gross-out shot, a rat comes out of her mouth. I had a small fit then, wondering how we were supposed to believe that this fresh, un-gnawed corpse already had a rat work its way through to the interiour rather than just nibbling the extremities or the nummy eyeballs or whatever. Then, we get some guy holding forth on how the girl must be a prostitute or something because she has crabs (with the definition of what they are, how you get them, and lots of shots from the parasite's eye view). I start to rant and then switch the channel. I later find out it was CSI.

Months later, I'm flipping though channels until I see the following scene: Woman standing next to a car, two other people in positions of frozen terror nearby, and a pretty corn snake is snake wrapping itself around her ankles. I can't get my corn snake to do that, how did they get the corn snake to do that, I rant. Sound effects of a rattlesnake (because *everything* sounds like a rattlesnake). The woman shrieks and freaks out. A guy tells her to hold still, he's going to have to shoot it. He's going to shoot the pretty corn snake. I change the channel. There is much protesting. Later, I find that it was, once again, CSI.

So, for all of you who were wondering, I don't watch CSI. This doesn't mean that you shouldn't watch CSI or whatever, it just means that I don't want to. I also can't handle survivor-type shows where people can't identify sugar cane when they're walking through it whining how hungry they are. And so forth. Please try to keep your hate mail to a minimum, and take a number, please.