News reporting in the US ...

... still haven't found a decent news channel outside of BBC World (which at least has SOME international content). An example of the news reports that were on the various TVs at the gym this morning (don't you love how I included that little reference showing I was at the gym?):
* there is a fire in California started by arsonists - the report said: "Three firefighters killed in arson fire, one critical". Okaaay - so the other two are just dead but not critical?
* talking about the situation in Iraq, the news headline read: "will our soliders [sic] be brought home?". That is not my typo - that was the spelling that was repeated for at least the whole hour I was watching the program
* lots of reporting on the press conference with Donald Rumsfeld where he started having arguments with the journalists about the tone they were using, and fingerpointing. I thought they might start having hissy-slaps the way it was going. Such impressive reporting
I still very much enjoy the Geico (car insurance) adverts though. They spend a fortune on advertising as it seems that they only do phone quotes. The adverts usually involve a real Geico customer telling a story about the accident they had, interspersed with a paid celebrity's comments. The paid celebrity sits next to them and jazzes up their rather boring stories. Kind of B-list celebrities, but recognisable eg Little Richard, Chica, couple of older actors, the guy who does the voiceovers for movie trailers. They are very funny though, and nice idea.
The weather now in NY is COOOLDD. About 15 degrees C (mid-50s fahrenheit), and yesterday it was also very windy. Tonight it is about to start raining very hard in time for a wet and windy and cold weekend - YAY. I don't have enough clothes for this sort of weather, and can't start buying too much more at this point, as I will need to cart it all back to the UK in just under 5 weeks time. Yes, I can now count my return date in weeks. And of course for 2 of those 5 weeks I will not even be in the US ... Not that the weather in London is any better I understand, but it is more the logisitics of moving large coats, woolly gloves and furry hats.
I should say also, that I wrote up two posts in between the last one you will see published, but Blogger decided to crash on both occasions, and as fellow bloggers will know, it is no fun trying to repost the vitriol for a second time. So you missed out on my pronouncements on autumnal "fashion" in NY, and also the amusing story on the subway. However, I will be trying again to post my photo montage of a day in the life in NY. Unfortunately I did get so drunk the day/night I took the pictures, that none really survived after the one of me and the martini ...