Woot! I knew I wasn't wrong about using a comma before an and. Now I can stop editing them out when I review the papers, reports, and blog entries I write, and I can feel good about it not doing it.

Hey folks, don't forget the new episode of Angel tonight.

Garth Franklin of Dark Horizons gives some "links, rankings and quotes from my reviews for the creme de la crap that blinded us in 2002."

I haven't seen some of the films he lists (The Master of Disguise and Texas Rangers) and one I hadn't even heard of (Abandon). Of the ones I have seen, for the most part, I agree with him (though I did like Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever. C'mon! It's a shoot 'em up with lots of explosions. Who needs a story?). His list of "Other Notable Fizzers" contains one that amused me (Big Fat Lier) and one that really cracked me up (The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, but probably not for the reasons that the producers, studio or Steve and Terri Irwin hoped for).

Mmmm! More Seann Scott!

Four consecutive days that I can't get into my Hotmail. I thought I'd found the problem on my end and fixed it because I was able to get in. Once.

Please don't hate me because I'm not replying to you.

The title bar of this Metafilter discussion made me very happy.

In the mail this weekend, I received an envelope from Max with a tape of the two hour pilot/finale ("Serenity") of Firefly that I had missed last month (thank you sooooooo much!).

I'm completely baffled by FOX's decision not to show it as the pilot. On it's own, it's a strong episode, well written, well acted, with action, humor and drama. More importantly, it was a great pilot. Everything was set up, the back story explained so much better than the blurb just before the theme song each week, and we're introduced to the characters and see the dynamics between them as they form instead of being thrown in the middle, wondering why He behaves that way toward Her and Him, and why She said what she said. It's a credit to the writers, cast and crew that Firefly as shown was addictive, but how many more viewers would it have had had this pilot been aired as intended?

I knew that Friday night would be death to the show, and I've considered often what night it should have been scheduled. After seeing "Serenity," I'm convinced it should have been a part of the Sunday night line-up, FOX's strongest night.

So, with it is with solid conviction that again I say, FOX fucking sucks.