a letter to the President.

today's Happy Is: listening to the Giles Sings clip from "Restless." been a while since i've listened to it. made me happy to find it again.

i probably let myself get much more pissed about people taking-the-last-cup-of-coffee-and-not-brewing-a-new-pot than is healthful. friggin' bastards.

some gossip reported on Dark Horizons today: "David Boreaenz, who plays Angel, on the WB series, could be stepping into the shoes of a legendary superhero - if my sources are correct. My source claims that the TV star was approached about starring in the forthcoming BATMAN movie (Im assuming he was refering to Year One) as Bruce Wayne/Batman. Boreaenz is still considering - but after much thinking, I think the Warner casting office may get something right for once."

Sci Fi Wire advertises for TVGuide: the August 25th issue of TVGuide will have new photos of the ship from Enterprise (which is called, uh, the Enterprise), and "will also feature three different covers, with stars Jolene Blalock (T'Pol) and Scott Bakula (Capt. Archer)." two addition covers with various cast members will be available online, probably for $20 (please oh please buy a few of those expensive online-exclusive covers. help generate some revenue for TVGuide so it can keep all of its employees, and i won't be laid off).

Sci Fi Wire news that probably isn't good: "Blair Witch Project co-director Ed Sanchez told E! Online that he's eager to get started on a third installment in the film franchise".

coincidentally, last night i watched BW2 for the first time, which is why i say a third one probably isn't good news. not scary. at all. and the stupid little "go back and watch for hidden images that may be messages from the Blair Witch!" crap was stoopid. seriously, if your subliminal "this is scary! and great! and ooky!" messages didn't work the first time i watched, they probably won't work the second time either. i got bored, so i read something much scarier: the script for the Buffy episode "Halloween".

Sudden water flow rushes down Mount Rainier. i never get to see anything cool like that.

not that i'm a big fan or defender of the tobacco industry, but when did extortion become a legitimate governmental practice?

TVGuide (print) says "Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America is in development as an HBO miniseries."

and over at TVGuide Online, Seth Green talks about Rat Race.

the Berkeley Breathed Q&A.
[waterfowl made flightless by Bradlands]

could this possibly be used to refute the cosmological principle? i've never particularly cared for that assumption.
[unravelling of cosmic tenets brought to you by Dean, who doesn't sleep with a teddy bear]

oh no. i just got the email. the company's bought ice cream for us again. someone's getting sacked.

Fox Sux. that was the place i went after watching an episode of Buffy that made reference to something that happened before i started watching. it wouldn't be so bad if they'd get scriptbooks for each season published, but right now, they're only up to Season 2. damn Fox.

ADHD TV, two guys who wanna be on tv. not as jackassian as Jackass (which is a good thing). watch clips from the show. Caveman vs. Monkey cracked me up.

QUESTION: In your opinion, is George W. Bush a new kind of
Republican, or is he basically the same as Republicans of the past?

Yes 34%
No 61%

what? given the choice between "This" and "That", one third answered "Yes"? does this mean that people are stupid or that CNN/USA Today/Gallup polls are stupid? ok, there are more questions than that one, but a couple of them are stupid like that.

happy is:

• waking up and not finding Orange Cat sitting next to my head grooming himself and annoying me with his *smack smack* sounds. yay!
• finding a one hundred dollar bill stashed in a planter while brushing your teeth, one for which you can't account, even after itemizing your income and expenses for the last 60 days. yay!
• hearing "Love Is A Battlefield" during the drive to work. yay!

If Jesus were invited to a lunch with Bush.

speaking of Jesus... (and, btw, "Bloody Revenge of the Invincible Jesus Ninjas" is a great title and premise for a game). Christ's miracles are rated.

oh. David Hasselhoff is the Anti-Christ.

now that Jimmy Bond is nowhere in sight, Seann W. Scott has become my new Hollywood crush (actually, it's more like Chester Greenburg and Billy Hitchcock. what can i say? i like 'em big and dumb).

how about some Spike links? Spike-Stock 2001 and Heat. Desire.

here's one on the missing Riley.

chat with Oz (Seth Green) tonight at 7pm CDT. you and a few hundred thousand other people.

Joss: "One of the most dramatic moments from last month's three-week long Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif., was, ironically enough, also one of the quietest. During a poolside shindig thrown by the WB, network bigwig Jamie Kellner slithered over to Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon and — egad! — shook his hand." more here at TVGuide Online.

Angel (link may be a little spoilery. read at your own risk): "Since its 1999 premiere, Angel has solidified into an hour of quality television that rivals — and this past season arguably even outshone — its sire. In fact, if the final WB episode of Buffy (before its fall transfer to UPN) is an "instant classic" — and, frankly, it is — then the four-episode fairy tale with which Angel rounded out the year is at least a mini-masterpiece." more here, again at TVGuide Online (and once again, may be spoilery).

ACT scores remain flat. i heard them talking on the radio about this during my drive to work, and they added that, in Oklahoma, the average actually fell a few tenths of a point, but that, of the ACT taking students from schools with the touted enhanced curriculum, which requires more core classes to graduate, half did better than the national average. they didn't bother to mention that it also means that half did worse. i'll bet they're worried that last part will refute their claims that the most recent education plan will really improve state test scores.

personally, i think they should focus on some of the more immediate problems, like how school started today, but last week, Tulsa public schools was still searching for 50 more teachers. and how long term veteran teachers are retiring early. and how, when i stopped by my old high school to look in on four of my favorite teachers, and that i mentioned off-handedly that i may still want to teach, and three of those four said 'Don't do it. It's not worth it anymore."

Large shark school dissipates off Florida coast.

don't bet on it. they've finished their strategy meeting, and now they're moving on to carry out those plans. makes me very happy that i'm in landlocked Oklahoma, where it's unlikely that a wereshark will be moving among us.

Hundreds of sharks spotted off Florida. it appears that the Rokea are amassing. they're tired of us dumping our trash into their home. they're about to invade us.

the worst thing about all this shark business is that it'll replay visions of Jaws in everyone's minds, they'll get all sared, and then do stupid things to hunt/trap/repel/destroy sharks, first in coastal touristy waters, then later in the open ocean. sharks are modern society's equivalent to medieval society's wolf (well, sharks share that modern distinction with the wolf, because there are people who still blame the wolf for all their woes. apparently, those little wolves are crafty).

in conclusion, the extinction of any shark species should be blamed on Steven Spielberg. and wolves too.

and when the devil did Hell-Mart start selling roleplaying books?