A new addiction, courtesy of O.O.D.

Readers (reader?) may remember that, a few weeks ago, OOD* suggested I take a look at a certain Sopranos episode. It featured our protagonist, Tony Soprano, having it off with his girlfriend du jour in the reptile house of the zoo.

After I viewed it, I agreed that it had a certain erotic possibilities, and perhaps we could recreate it ourselves in a similar location whenever an opportunity arose.

But here's the problem: After viewing that episode of the Sopranos, I discovered that another cable station (not HBO, I'm too cheap to subscribe) was re-running the entire series.

So the upshot is that I'm now putting lots of Sopranos episodes on my DVR and watching them into the small hours of the night. OOD, you have much to answer for.

I may mention this next time we chat. My guess is that he'll be amused. It's not that I avoid this genre -- I liked the first and second Godfather films, and especially liked Goodfellas -- but I generally don't watch a lot of television. And these days I should be concentrating on other things.

* See Key to Characters at right.