We’ve been a little slack in the postings lately and I can tell you my excuse is three-part: 1 part work, 1 part non-blog hobbies, and 1 part glorious TV. By TV I mean the pseudo-edutainment reality-style programming of TLC, Discovery, HGTV and A&E.

In recent months I have glommed onto the numerous house flipping shows such as “Flip THIS House”, “Flip THAT House”, “Property Ladder”, “House Hunters” (both US and BBC), “Curb Appeal” , etc.

But all these home shows (lightly interspersed with Project Runway, The Dog Whisperer, and Miami Ink) are soon to be overshadowed by one potentially awesome (or potentially awful) show — AMERICAN INVENTOR! I’m really getting my hopes up for this one.

I’m picturing a bunch of Dick Van Dyke-esque, charming, American eccentric nut-jobs toiling away in basements across the country. What sort of strange and wonderful oddities will they be revealing to us? A better boiled egg timer-thing-a-ma-jig? A way to train my cat to stop waking me up in the morning? A thin, imperceptible sunscreen dispenser that can be screwed onto the shower nozzle and applied IN the shower (one of my personal ideas, sure to be a big hit in 2040)?

I’ll be tuning in Thursday, March 16 at 8/7c for the Season Premier on ABC to see if this show can live up to it’s Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang-Dad-From-Gremlins-Data-From-Goonies potential.

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