A WikiHow contributor posted a useful tip today on how to confront someone who is giving you the cold shoulder. I was enjoying the article, which started out with good solid advice. "Make sure you're not just being paranoid." Good point.  Now I'm paranoid about being paranoid.

The article continued with calm and sympathetic advice on how to resolve the issue peacefully using empathy and understanding. But I was feeling aggitated, and I couldn't quite figure out why. Until I realized, HE was there.  Cold Shoulder Man himself, standing there in his black and white mime hoodie, giving me the freaking silent treatment, just like they said he would in the WikiHow tip.

So, I asked him. "What are you lookin' at?"

Of course he said nothing.

"Ohhhh, I see!  Okay, now I get it. You're here to make a point. Well, I hear you loud and clear, mister." And then I threw in, "Do I know you? Didn't we date in college?"

I took a deep breath, and set out to the work at hand. I practiced confronting him using the 9 Step Program outlined in the WikiHow tip. It took a while, but finally I felt closure. I patted myself on the back, as instructed in Step 9, and thanked Jeebus that I was not just being paranoid.

September 26, 1966 - General Motors introduced the first Chevy Camero in an attemp to compete with the Ford Mustang.

True crime shows are all the rage in Prime Time television right now. Thank you, Jeebus! Anyone who knows me knows that I am a sucker for non-fiction and biographies.  I was the kid who thought the Encyclopedia was the best book in the entire library, and couldn't figure out why all of my tween friends (this scenario takes place back in the day when we were just called kids) were going bonkers over Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

All my life, I have sort of secretly hated television because it was just one boring novel after another. Occassionally there would be a break in the Fantasy Island, Love Boat, Dukes of Hazard routine, and a new pre-Reality TV show would shake up the airwaves.  Real People, I'm talking about you! 

I'm getting to the true crime part, I swear. Just keep reading.

• The First 48
• Dog the Bounty Hunter (shout out to  Ryan Ozawa, my Hawaii Blog friend!)
• American Justice
• City Confidential - Note: This is my least favorite True Crime Show. Ugh, the narrator blows.
• Cold Case Files
• SWAT (Dallas, Detroit, Kansas City)

Discovery Times- http://times.discovery.com/

• 48 Hours Hard Evidence
• Decoding Disaster - Not always crime related, but still great.
• Investigative Thursdays
• Most Evil
• Sensing Murder
• City Cops
• The FBI Files
• Sensing Murder
• The New Detectives
• Most Evil - My ABSOLUTE Favorite
• Best Evidence
• Crimes That Shook the World
• Deadly Women

Discovery Health Channel

• Dr. G Medical Examiner
  

Court TV- www.courttv.com

• Forensic Files - This is a half hour show. Most of the others are a full hour.
• Psychic Detectives
• Haunting Evidence
• The Investigators
• Masterminds
• Arrest & Trial
• Dominick Dunne's Power Priveledge and Justice
• Body of Evidence
• LA Forensics
• Murder By the Book
• North Mission Road
• Saturday Night Solution
• Suburban Secrets
• S.W.A.T. USA
• Til Death Do Us Part - True crime stories, but dramatized.
• Inside - Prison Documentaries

MSNBC- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

• Dateline
• Dead Men Talking
• Unlocking the Past
• Lockup - Prison Documentaries

I haven't mentioned any of the Cops or police chase shows since they're really not my cup of tea.