I'm trapped in a "Gilmore" cycle and I was thinking that all I watch these days are DVDs of the shows I love. Which is fine. No prob there. If my hardest decision of the night is "The Venture Brothers" or "Arrested Development", well, I'm sitting in that proverbial catbird seat (what the hell does that mean anyway?). But, although those choices are far from painful, it's gotten me thinking that I might need to buy more of these TV DVDs as I think I'm wearing out "The Venture Brothers" and "Arrested Development". I was trying to make a mental list today of the shows I need to adopt and care for and overwatch for years to come and it dawned on me that I've zero in the way of "Buffy". And I even wrote a whole real published article about how much I loved the show. So, as the money pot drains, my brain dreams of ordering this.
Oh, silly brain.
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You need to borrow my season 6 DVDs and watch them in time for this.
Have you thought about Dawson's Creek?
RE: Catbird seat, here's a site that gives a little history. The first part of the explanation I did not know, ie. the James Thurber connection.
The mockingbird or catbird connection I had heard before:
//The basis for the expression is actually quite simple, I'm told. The phrase is said to derive from the habit of the catbird of sitting on the highest point it can find to deliver its song, thus suggesting an effortless superiority. Subscriber Dan Lufkin confirmed this in an e-mail: “If you lived in catbird country, as I do, you would instantly recognize the catbird seat as the highest point in your yard, from which a catbird — or its cousin, a mockingbird — begins loudly staking its territorial claim at first light, typically about 4:45 a.m. in the nesting season.”//
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cat2.htm
You may now go about your day. All questions have been answered.
Goodness, T2, I would have shot that bird a long time ago should that have been my area of the country, with apologies to Harper Lee, 'natch. Thanks for the knowledge!
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