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A Wee Hiatus

Please pardon the light (read: total lack of) blogging this weekend.  Things are a little hectic as the final pieces come together for the announcement of the Big News.

Thankfully, not a whole lot has been going on in my absence.  Goss no mas.  Hayden pre-emptively criticized.  "Bush" on Meet the Press.

Caught up?

Then on the topic of lamentable hiati, let's move on to the important business of the evening - the weekly Sopranos post.  It's a liveblog tonight, so feel free to check back between 9 and 10 Eastern for your real-time mobblogging fix.

Need catching up there too?
Franchising Killed the Mafia Star
Woke Up [The Echoes] This Morning
From South Park To North Jersey: Sopranos Family Politics
Sopranos Open Thread
Woke Up This Morning

Update 9:15  Looks like tonight's theme is once again "the times are a-changing", and once again with a religious bent.  Paulie Walnuts butts heads with a local church over a longstanding arrangement by which the Soprano crew nominally organizes (and primarily benefits from) the church's annual feast. Instead of the typical $10,000 honorarium, the new priest in town wants $50,000.  "These are different times," says the priest.

Meanwhile, Christopher is still living clean and sober, suddenly shotgun-married to a heretofore unseen floozie carrying his child, and off capping vipers with glee and aplumb in a mildly ironic wine theft.

Update 9:20  Obligatory boneheaded line of the night from Christopher (in a one-on-one conversation with Tony):  "Oh, the s*** we've been through... the three museketeers."

Update 9:21  Oh boy, we're now flashing back to Christopher confronting Tony about Adriana talking to the feds.  A key missing scene from the last season... Imperioli shows that despite his increasingly stoogelike persona, he's still one of the better actors in the series.

Update 9:30  Okay, scratch that "clean and sober" part.  Chrissy is fully off the heroin wagon. Lying in the park, cuddling with stray dogs, the works. Interesting counterpoint up to this point between his own nearly maniacally gleeful sobriety and the furious depression suffered by Adriana's similarly sober grieving mother, chance-encountered by Carmela at the mobbed up church feast.

Update 9:40  Mobbed up church feast goes awry when a teacup ride (perhaps overloaded by Janice and one of her stepsons) breaks down, breaks a woman's arm, and knocks a kid's teeth out.  Janice wastes no time making the tragedy all about her ("I can still hear the screams!"), showing up in a subsequent scene with a neckbrace and inducing Bobby to rough up the ride operator.  Meanwhile Meadow takes it upon her stick-it-to-the-man self to clamor for monetary damages for the wronged parties.  When Bobby learns that it was Paulie's slapdash, corner-cutting method of feast management that led to the use of unsafe equipment, a throwdown ensues.  Bobby seems to have been drinking his share of Janice's rabid victimization koolaid during the hiatus.

Update 9:50  Political allusion of the night (Tony to Paulie, in re his slipshod feast management style): "Heck of a job, Brownie."

Update 9:55  Truly bizarre image of the night: Rock 'n' Roll Virgin Mary (mother of Buddy Jesus) appearing above the Bada Bing bar to Paulie (who's been having strange headaches and only recently learned his real mother was a nun, and that his presumed mother thus had him in a somewhat miraculous way).  After the reconciliation between Paulie and mom that soon followed, we got another dose of the blowing tree leaves outside the window, a thematic element that's accompanied the "winds of change" throughout the season.  The leaves suggest we're fully into fall by now though, which would sync up with last week's plot device involving the '05 Notre Dame - Michigan game.

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A Wee Hiatus

Please pardon the light (read: total lack of) blogging this weekend.  Things are a little hectic as the final pieces come together for the announcement of the Big News.

Thankfully, not a whole lot has been going on in my absence.  Goss no mas.  Hayden pre-emptively criticized.  "Bush" on Meet the Press.

Caught up?

Then on the topic of lamentable hiati, let's move on to the important business of the evening - the weekly Sopranos post.  It's a liveblog tonight, so feel free to check back between 9 and 10 Eastern for your real-time mobblogging fix.

Need catching up there too?
Franchising Killed the Mafia Star
Woke Up [The Echoes] This Morning
From South Park To North Jersey: Sopranos Family Politics
Sopranos Open Thread
Woke Up This Morning

Update 9:15  Looks like tonight's theme is once again "the times are a-changing", and once again with a religious bent.  Paulie Walnuts butts heads with a local church over a longstanding arrangement by which the Soprano crew nominally organizes (and primarily benefits from) the church's annual feast. Instead of the typical $10,000 honorarium, the new priest in town wants $50,000.  "These are different times," says the priest.

Meanwhile, Christopher is still living clean and sober, suddenly shotgun-married to a heretofore unseen floozie carrying his child, and off capping vipers with glee and aplumb in a mildly ironic wine theft.

Update 9:20  Obligatory boneheaded line of the night from Christopher (in a one-on-one conversation with Tony):  "Oh, the s*** we've been through... the three museketeers."

Update 9:21  Oh boy, we're now flashing back to Christopher confronting Tony about Adriana talking to the feds.  A key missing scene from the last season... Imperioli shows that despite his increasingly stoogelike persona, he's still one of the better actors in the series.

Update 9:30  Okay, scratch that "clean and sober" part.  Chrissy is fully off the heroin wagon. Lying in the park, cuddling with stray dogs, the works. Interesting counterpoint up to this point between his own nearly maniacally gleeful sobriety and the furious depression suffered by Adriana's similarly sober grieving mother, chance-encountered by Carmela at the mobbed up church feast.

Update 9:40  Mobbed up church feast goes awry when a teacup ride (perhaps overloaded by Janice and one of her stepsons) breaks down, breaks a woman's arm, and knocks a kid's teeth out.  Janice wastes no time making the tragedy all about her ("I can still hear the screams!"), showing up in a subsequent scene with a neckbrace and inducing Bobby to rough up the ride operator.  Meanwhile Meadow takes it upon her stick-it-to-the-man self to clamor for monetary damages for the wronged parties.  When Bobby learns that it was Paulie's slapdash, corner-cutting method of feast management that led to the use of unsafe equipment, a throwdown ensues.  Bobby seems to have been drinking his share of Janice's rabid victimization koolaid during the hiatus.

Update 9:50  Political allusion of the night (Tony to Paulie, in re his slipshod feast management style): "Heck of a job, Brownie."

Update 9:55  Truly bizarre image of the night: Rock 'n' Roll Virgin Mary (mother of Buddy Jesus) appearing above the Bada Bing bar to Paulie (who's been having strange headaches and only recently learned his real mother was a nun, and that his presumed mother thus had him in a somewhat miraculous way).  After the reconciliation between Paulie and mom that soon followed, we got another dose of the blowing tree leaves outside the window, a thematic element that's accompanied the "winds of change" throughout the season.  The leaves suggest we're fully into fall by now though, which would sync up with last week's plot device involving the '05 Notre Dame - Michigan game.