Pie R Delicious Or Hopefully The Show Won't Be Pushing Daisies Any Time Soon

Writer/Producer Bryan Fuller has created two of my all-time favorite TV shows, the criminally short-lived Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls.
Three episodes in, it looks like he’s created a third all-time favorite with Pushing Daises.
I hope it lasts longer than the other two did.
If you haven’t seen the show, I strongly encourage you to check it out. Like Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me, the show has a premise built around the supernatural, and has a delightfully quirky view of life that’s full of equal measures of comedy and tragedy.
I’d say that Daisies is a little sweeter and less cynical than Dead Like Me or Wonderalls (though the cynicism of those shows existed mostly only on the surface, with a certain sweetness at their core), but certainly not in a bad way
Fuller is also one of the thousand or so Executive Producers of Heroes, though his distinctive touch is not so evident, which is hardly surprising, because there seriously are at least a dozen Executive Producers on that show.
In any case, on Daisies, as on Dead and Falls, the writing, direction, and performances of the cast members all mesh perfectly in a way that is exceedingly rare on television – mostly because shows like this never last.
But it deserves to last, so I really hope that people are watching.
The main character on the show is a pie maker, so pies figure rather prominently in most episodes, and I have to say that watching the show has given me a craving for pie.
So I actually bought one today. Specifically, an apple pie. I was actually craving a blueberry pie, but the only options in the way of frozen pies were cherry and apple, and given that I didn’t feel like actually making a pie of my own, I opted for an apple pie, which has just finished baking and has filled the house with all sorts of apple pie-y goodness.
Personally, I’d rather have a Mrs. Maki apple pie, but given that she’s a thousand miles away Mrs. Smith will have to do.
After yesterday’s post I was contacted by another IT recruiting company looking to fill a NOC position.
This one is considerably more attractive than the other I was contacted about, as it would be a full-time position (after three months, anyway, as it’s “contract to hire”), and the starting salary is actually about $3 an hour more than what I’d been making at AOL.
Hopefully it pans out, but I am, of course, not holding my breath.
Even though I low balled it, I think my salary requirements scared off the person contacting me about the technical writing position.
Oh well.
After meeting at the comic shop, Scott and I tried out yet another of the restaurants in that plaza, a very good Mexican and Spanish restaurant called El Mariachi.
While there I taught them the following equation: White tablecloths + Salsa + Jon = Expensive cleaning bills
Still, the food was excellent.
After that we headed down to the Air and Space Museum to meet up with Stacy and take in a showing of Transformers in the IMAX theater.
The huge screen made the action even more satisfying than it was in the regular theater. Scott pointed out that there were several scenes in the IMAX version that weren’t in the regular version. And he should know, as this was his fourth time seeing the movie.
As we were leaving, Stacy pointed out how cool it would be if I were to get a job right away, making my severance package money that I could just pocket. I pointed out that it was unlikely that my luck would work that way.
She responded, “Hey, Murphy has to stop shitting on you eventually.”
I was going to say that Murphy has an extremely high fiber diet and has ready access to laxatives, but Scott beat me to the punch saying, “He hasn’t stopped so far; why would he stop now?”
Love the optimism there, Merlin T. Wizard.

Pie Update:
I just had some of the pie. Very good.