My new favorite show!

Hopkins, ABC's summer-filler show, is six-part series that takes a look at the lives of all the fabulous surgeons working at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. It's the best thing on TV this summer! The First episode introduced Dr. Alfredo Quiñones, a professor and accomplished brain surgeon, who came to this country many years ago as an illegal immigrant!

Eat that Lou Dobbs! He came from Mexico and did migrant farm labor WHILE attending community college! After Quiñones gained legal status he attended the University of California, Berkeley. From there he attended Harvard Medical School, where he graduated with honors. He went on to complete his residency in neurosurgery at the University of California.

He's such an inspiration, immigration has been such a hot button issue over the last few years. Maybe Mr. Quiñones can sway some of the curmudgeon, bigoted, Anglo-Saxons, towards a path to residency for some millions of people just looking for their American dream.

So besides all this, Hopkins is an awesome show, watch it! Thursdays @ 10 on ABC.

Signs of the Season

Summer is in full swing. Time to unfold the hammock, sweeten the lemonade and turn up the Corinne Bailey-Rae CD and de-stress. There's one essential summer ingredient that is oftentimes overlooked, and that is the bubble making kit.

Said kit usually includes, a container with equal parts soap and water and some form of wand/blowing apparatus. If old school flavor isn't your steez, then try a bubble making machine.

What is it about bubbles that fascinates us so? Blowing them, watching them pop, its so much fun yet soothing at the same time. Kids love bubbles, they'll jump up and pop them as long as you'll blow them. That's why today, while babysitting I loaded the bubble maker with "bubble juice" got cozy in the hammock and turned the record on, to my favorite song of course!

It most certainly is not!

OK I need to rant for a minute. The people at Comcast Cable are the most infuriating, incompetent group of individuals I've ever had to deal with in my short life. you know what...

Dear Comcast,
you guys SUCK to all eternity! How DARE you charge me a late fee for a bill that was sent in on time , that YOU ALL LOST! How DARE you threaten to "terminate service" after one late bill that, need I say again, YOU LOST!

How many times have you come out to my apartment building and disconnected my cable? All I ever get is a " oh one of our serviceman must have disconnected the wrong wire"

Not an apology, not a credit, for chrissakes HOW HARD IS IT TO LABEL THE WIRES!!!!! Your customer service is something to behold. Why is it that whenever I need to speak to one of your reps I'm on hold for at least half an hour?! When I do finally get to speak to someone they act as if IM inconveniencing THEM!

I am a good customer! I pay my bills on time! DO NOT charge me a late fee because you can't find my bill, I sent you all a copy of the check. Maybe you need monkeys to help sort the mail, because the people you have doing it now are UTTER SHIT!

Woe be onto you when Verizon FIos becomes available in my neighborhood! You defiantly will rue the day you took advantage of my loyalty! Piss off Comcast!
~Your Very Disgruntled Customer
Deonn E.

In Memoriam

I haven't been shocked and upset over a celebrity's death since Aaliyah. I've never had my jaw hit the floor with such velocity over ANYTHING. I think, besides the fact that he was only 58 years old, the most shocking part about this was the fact that I had seen him on the Today show THAT morning while I was getting ready.

For YEARS I've spent my Sunday mornings, helping my mother clear the table after breakfast while she watched Meet the Press on the minuscule tv that we had in our kitchen. He asked questions that needed to be asked, and he asked them, not in a pretentious way, but in a likable way. A way in which the person he interviews knows immediately that he's not asking me this question for ratings, he's asking me this because its what the average citizen would want to know.

He was unbiased and had such a passion for his work. It's just so sad to see the amount of work he put in thorough the Primaries and he won't even get to see which nominee makes it to the finish line. The pundit game will never be the same. Good luck in the great beyond Mr. Russert

Wishing all the Geminis, myself and Anderson Cooper included a wonderful birthday this month. We truly are an amazing group of individuals! Loud, quiet, sympathetic, indifferent, but never boring! Happy B-day y'all!