Melodrama & muck

I've never been able to get into Desperate Housewives, but I do enjoy BBC's Footballer's Wives. It's a really crazy show.

I started watching near the end of last season, maybe because there's not much else to watch on Sunday at 10pm, but partly because of all the great melodrama. Even more than American soap operas, FW is full of glamourous women (Tanya!) and crazy situations (a hermophrodite baby?)

But the new season started the other day, and talk about drastic story changes! People are just gone now! We knew that Jason got killed, but Chardonnay dropped dead from anorexia, the coach has dissapeared (gone crazy from his bad-ass daughter) along with his daughter, and where is the sexy Italian?

And what do they give us instead? A sexy pervert with his Baliwood wife?

It's a great show, though. Very over-the-top.

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Yesterday I heard a strange story about some muck oozing out from under downtown LA!

It started the night before. There was a strong sewer smell, so they called the City out, but they couldn't find anything. Then, some cracks started appearing in the street, and the street had to be closed down. Then some muck started oozing out from under an apartment building, and everyone had to be evacuated!

First, they said it was a white substance oozing out. Then it became tarlike, but it was very warm. The nightly newscast said that a neighboring business had been pumping out some hot water, and that might account for the heat. The next day the news said nothing about this neighboring business.

They did say that there are some oil fields in the area, and I think they said only lately did they stop pumping oil from that area.

So is downtown LA built over old oil fields? Are there hollow places down below where the oil used to be? In earthquake country?

This doesn't sound good to me, but what do I know?