Fayed, You're Resilient!

We thought he took a bullet in the throat.

Karen breathe, deep cleansing breaths

The hubby thinks that he heard Bill going "OHMMMMMMM". Now that was a tender moment

Yelp! Where's Jack?

Jack has been off screen a lot...hopefully he can take a quick shower.

I still have one piece of pizza left, but too much has happened to stop for dinner!

"M", is that how the 25th amendment really works? And in the 24-verse, you can just drop off a case at the Supreme Court? Congress has no role in this? Everyone raises their hands to vote? What if someone had raised their hand because they really had to go to the bathroom? And how did Tom end up as the meeting chair?

Get out! Ricky has been reading the Upanishads! Those sacred texts are read by many yogis! Bill is not CTU's the only seeker of truth.

Too much to comment on...and I'm still convinced that Milo is a bad guy. Why did Ricky destroy evidence? Is it a conspiracy?

Karen, there are consequences to abandoning your job. Stop your whining.

Karen, you NEVER leave your wing man

Never ever ever. Didn't you learn anything from Goose and Maverick? You can't abandon your post and then expect to sashay (my word of the day on my calendar) back into the bunker and be able to help the TEYOP!

aarrrggh 25th Amendment!

Give the TEYOP a shot a adrenaline to raise his blood pressure. Not to mention let's bring him out of a coma that he was only in for a few hours because of SERIOUS brain swelling. I just can't see how this is a good idea for Prinipal Wood, I mean the Prez.

I wonder how Jack's internal bleeding is going? Maybe it's just ecchymosis for both of them!

OK, If I Don't Eat, I'll be a Mean Blogger

"M", you've got to carry me for a bit. I'm eating a messy dinner, can't type for a few minutes...

"M" Says: No problem but maybe some mean comments are in order!! Hee hee.

Bauer Yoga: Buchanan Yoga

Namaste, Jack. The Sanskrit word namaste means, "The Divine Spirit in me bows down to the Divine Spirit in you."

I've actually travelled to places in the world where people use this phrase as a greeting. Imagine what it would be like to hear that greeting every day.

The 24 Blog thanks Tai for pointing out the Sunday NY Times article, "Walk Tightropes. Teach Yoga. Fight Terrorists." , which is about Bill Buchanan, yogi. (I mean, James Morrison, yogi.)

(Good thing, as I cavalierly recycled the Arts & Entertainment section without even reading it; I would have missed it!)

I believe that the best way to truly fight terrorism is by transforming ourselves and how we interact with others. (Which is what yoga is all about.)

And why watch 24, other than the sheer entertainment value of watching stuff blow up, generating compassion for Jack in his WOP, waiting for the next medical interrogation, wondering what Jack's carrying in his man purse, analyzing the women of the 24-verse against the stupid vs. evil paradigm, and awaiting Audrey's return from her Chinese "grave" and her inevitable agreement to set up a perimeter (even though her last known job description was as her dad's secretary)?

As man of the hour** would say, "Dammit! It is so we can transform ourselves and our country into something that looks very, very different than the 24-verse."

Because if Jack liked the way that world looked, he'd just leave well enough alone. (Or maybe kick back and open a yoga studio with Buchanan.)

In the meantime, namaste.

**(for "M", LPK, and Kieferskate, at least!)

Previously on 24: Lightning Strikes Once

The 28-year-old president (hereafter referred to as TEYOP) is apparently the first leading black man spared (thus far) by 24's writers. (We still don't know what has happened to Walid, although I'd put him in the "supporting actor" category. I wouldn't take bets that either of these fine men are off the 24 hit list.)

Improbably, the surprisingly unfettered medical team tending the comatose TEYOP accedes to Karen's plot to have the poor guy awakened. "W"'s fully conscious, looking quite energetic and babe-a-licious. He's totally ready to throw down with the Evil Veep over planned nucular strikes against some unnamed country that has nothing to do with the terrorists who blowed up Valencia, California with a suitcase bomb.

The Evil Veep roars (somehow without moving any of his facial muscles; note to self: Botox really must work) that TEYOP must not be competent...I'm sure we'll be coming back to that this week. Yaaaawn.

Jack has a ludicrous interlude with two guys. Mark works for some unnamed company and can get into some server that gives Fayed and Gradenko information they need to launch the next nuke. Mark's brother Brady is a computer savant who is otherwise a little slow.

I can't remember for the life of me how Jack and his cohorts come to be storming Mark's house, but they do. Instead of medically interrogating Mark, they manage to somehow shoot him and get him to cave and confess...and then to tell his brother to join Jack's team.

After tenderly briefing Brady, Jack and his team wire him for sound and send him off to a meet with Gradenko. Jack is talking into Brady's ear and telling him what to do. (If I may presume to speak for "M" and some of the Friends of The 24 Blog, I think that we would agree that it was tasteless to use this slow gentle savant as a plot point. An oozingly obvious device to assign tenderness points to Jack.)

Jack tells Brady to take a dive, and all heckfire breaks loose as the tac team goes all medieval on the terrorists. There is talk about 3 hostiles.

It looks like Fayed goes down, and Jack has Gradenko in his clutches.

Jack and Doyle have a very Jack and Tony CTU male bonding moment. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

There is some improbable data stripping in the field. ("M" is in IT, she was hysterical about this.)

No sign of the 3rd hostile. I'm sure we'll come back to that this week. (Maybe the Omar Sharif-like guy we saw the other week? Or had Gradenko just found a tube of hair gel? I couldn't tell in the half-light with my eyes on my computer screen/multitasking with the blog.)

Gradenko caves and starts confessing. No medical interrogation. He starts yammering about amnesty, failing to recall that everyone who gets amnesty on 24 pretty much winds up dead. (He must have missed the first few seasons.) Jack threatens him with as only Jack can. Ruthlessly.

"M" and I hope that Brady will be working at CTU next season. (Sigh, we both miss Eggar.)

Central sends some slick guy over -- another alumni of the Denver Starbucks where Ricky and Milo apparently locked lattes back in the day -- to prove that that Nadia isn't evil.

Nadia and Milo smooch. Bored now.

"M", anything else?

(Photo of Evil Willow from Geek Roar.)

Rudy's Been Watching Too Much 24

Evidence:

1. He says that, if elected President, his wife can be somewhat of a de-facto cabinet member (like both the adult President Palmer and the eeevil President Logan).
2. He has friends who may not be criminals -- they might just have very bad judgement (like Logan, and likely the Evil Veep).
3. Oh, yeah. I forgot: he wanted to suspend democracy after 9/11. We seem to forget his very public comments that maybe it would be difficult for there to be an orderly transition between the Bloomberg administration and Rudy's rule.

Hmmm. I'm hoping that at least one of the above will take him out of the running.

Worried about Milo's fate

I've been thinking. I'm a little worried about Milo's fate and morals. I think that he will be at the end of Jack's wrath sometime soon. I think that he won't fare as well as Milo the Curious cat on the right with his friend Otis. I think his destiny is more like the photo on the left. (This is one of my favorite movies -->) I wonder who is Otis the pug nose pup... maybe Chloe?

Jack's Man Purse

You too can have this Jack Bauer style man purse for less than $30! I think some of the other bags are pretty cool. I hope the hubby doesn't see the neat black backpack. He will want it! He has a bag issue :-)

PDAs for everyone Mio PDA w/ GPS

We can be just like Jack. We can purchase this from Buy.com for $299.99

Mio DigiWalker™ P550 - Full Featured Pocket PC w/WiFi and GPS Navigation

"A" can say "M"hloe, send me the coordinates to my Mio so I can get to meditation!

Well, Another Hour Of Our Lives

"M", I'm glad that we have this life-affirming way of sharing time together.

Highlights?

• Dammit = 2 (1 by Milo)
• Perimeter= 0
• Dead mentally handicapped savants = 0
• Dead black men = 0
• Magazines read by Karen=0
• Nucular detonations = 0
• Scenes where Jack was tender = at least 3
• Scenes where Jack was ruthless = every other scene minus at least 3
• Times that "A" was Wrong = 1
• Women proven to be stupid tonight = 0
• Women proven to be evil tonight = 0 (although, we're pretty sure about the Evil Veep's blonde factotum. (Or is it "factota"?)

Signing off for now...

COME ON How many times

can they use the 25th Amendment?!?!?!?!? They have to come up with something new!!

And as "A" mentioned he is a resilient bastard, like Walker and Tucker from Cliffhanger, one of our favorite B movies.

Thanks for reading tonight! It was one of the better 24's in recent weeks! I still worry about Jack's floating rib fragments and internal bleeding, but he like the president is a resilient bastard. I miss Curtis, he was resilient until Jack got him.

Principal Wood, I mean Pres Palmer

YAY!!!! You are in big trouble evil Veep!

I'm so relieved that the Handsome president wasn't killed off!

Gradenko, you know what I'll do

Gradenko is an Easy Mark

They haven't even done anything medical to him yet!

Oh, please. They all want amnesty on 24. Once you give it to one guy, everyone's gonna be whining for it. (But doesn't Gradenko know...things don't usually end well for people Jack gets amnesty for.)

The Evil Veep, staying the course. And his blonde toady, could she be more obviously sinister?

"W"! W is for Waking up! Oh, is the 28 year old president going to fire the Evil Veep????

W is also for wrong. I was wrong, wrong, wrong. I hope.

Medical Interrogation! Get Me My Man Purse!

Oh, if only Curtis were here to share this moment with Jack.

No Tony, no Curtis, no wingman to get Jack his man purse at this moment of (relative) glory...the capture and interrogation (medical, natch) of Gradenko.

(And no Audrey. Although "M" and I know she's not dead, Jack isn't letting on that he knows this.)

No wonder Jack is in a World of Pain (WOP)!

And was that Fayed they shot in the neck? And who was the 3rd hostile in the truck? I would have had to sign off if they had killed Brady; thankfully, even 24 isn't that tasteless.

Jack tell him to tie his shoe

Bend over!!!

COME ON!!!

The code team would be in the room with him! For heaven's sake, he is the President of the UNITED STATES!!!