Thursday is almost as bad as Monday when it comes to overcrowded primetime line-ups. We'll start with ABC and the "Ugly Betty" premiere at 8 p.m. Every time we watched an episode last year we thought, "Wow. We should really be enjoying this more than we are." Occasionally cute, occasionally funny, it was never consistently anything. And we especially hated how they decided to change an entire storyline during the middle of the season......

After an extended stay in Seattle that proved in most ways a trip two years into The City's fashion past but thankfully in a few ways a look to the future, we returned to SF with a thirst for Fashion, with that sexy capital "F" (featuring the thinnest of perpendicular lines). Mere hours after landing in Oakland on San Francisco Halloween Saturday we found a Barneys New York tux at our fave, Thrift Town, for thirty bucks. Quelle joyeux! Just what we were looking for as we set out to cameo as Hitchcock in a Recommend this!

No new premieres tonight, so let us take this opportunity to speak of a series we weren't able to get to last week: "Ugly Betty." As you might have heard by now, it's based on a very popular telenovela, and produced by Salma Hayek, no stranger to telenovelas herself. We watched the pilot, and like most viewers, we were pretty much enchanted. The show has a weird power. It's a little too goofy, a......