kma CBS

Fucking CBS dumped "Love Monkey" after 3 episodes. Hey idiots, way to piss on the 25-35 year old male with disposable income demographic. Why is it that more than half of the new shows that I actually want to watch get canned after three episodes? Firefly? Wonderfalls? Oh, well, at least it's not the Fox network again.

Random 2.11.06

Lying on the bed. Drifting. Snow swirling down, tree in the background. With the light sort of grey and hazy, the snowflakes against the trunk and branches look like blood cells moving through arteries.
And then I fall into a nap.
The new Belle and Sebastien is playing from the other room when I wake up. The snow is gone, temporarily.
I drag myself out of bed, still tired, willing myself to snap to attention. Maybe I should eat something. I pour myself the last cup of Lilo and Stitch cereal. I measure my cereal now; I measure all of my food lately to calculate over the course of the day; how much fat, protein, carbs...alcohol. Yes. I follow up the cereal with a white russian chaser. When they target-marketed that blend of cocoa-puffs and marshmallows I bet they never anticipated that.

What Tarot Card Are You?

You Are The Sun

You represent the best of life - vitality, success, and and truth. You tend to have a strong, centered, balanced personality. Inspiration and discovery are your fortes. You are very mentally strong. A talented mind, you tend to excel at math, philosophy, and music. Your fortune: As well as you have done in the past, the future is going to be filled with more success. A new creative project is coming your way. Feed it, and it will grow into something huge. Great riches, recognition, prosperity, or happiness is coming your way. And it's possible that a fantastic vacation, or a new baby, is coming sooner than you think.

What Tarot Card Are You?

Craft Fair

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A couple people I know are selling stuff at this; if you are into excellent crafty stuff go check it out.

super bowl

Okay, I know that Pittsburgh was supposed to win anyway, but was it really necessary for the refs to give it to them? So many ticky-tack calls. What a steaming pile, waste of my night that was.

brilliance

Sometimes I am struck by the number of singularly brilliant people I know, or know of. People who have talent to spare, who are driven and go beyond being merely smart almost (sometimes) to the point of savant. It is...intimidating, in a way; I am pale in comparison. Sure, I do what I do pretty well, but then again, I have tried to escape my school district only to be ignored or to fail to move on, so maybe I'm not so great at what I do. But that's not my point. I don't know what my point is, really, perhaps I just wish I had more to offer this world. Maybe I am jealous. Not sure. Maybe I'm just a bit loopy from being underfed and imbibing White Russians. But when your circle of friends and acquaintances includes so many survivors, so much raw talent, so much passion and drive, so many people on the bleeding edge of what they do, such raw lyricism in words and life...maybe I'm just having one of those days where I am not sure how the hell I got invited into the midst of such a group.

a million little pieces

Over the past week or so it has been virtually impossible to avoid the debate over this guy James Frey and his pseudo-memoir. I haven't read the book, don't watch Oprah, and don't really much care about the whole thing. But I will say this: The guy is a marketing genius. He has managed to ride this little "controversy" into another round of free publicity, which will of course translate to more book sales as people try to decode the book for the truth and the fiction, aside from the potential readers that were missed in the first wave of "selling it". We love our larger than life stories in this country; American history/mythology is a testament to that. This is nothing new, and it will happen again.

Review: Clone Wars I and II

The Clone Wars is an animated series produced in between the 2nd and 3rd Star Wars movies. The primary animation was done by Genndy Tartakovsky, whose previous work includes Cartoon Network favorites Dexter's Lab and Samurai Jack.
The purpose of the series was to fill in the storyline gaps between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, after a fashion. The feature movies don't require seeing the cartoon, but the Star wars mythology includes a period of fierce battles in the interim.
If you're into Star Wars then you probably won't mind watching an animated version of it. The bonus here is that this is a well done piece of work; Tartakovsky's style suits the material well and the pacing is spot on. Actually, it would be fair to say that the writing and overall structure here is better than some (most? all?) of the movies. Worth seeing.
Rating: flush.