This Just In

All right, it's 7 AM and I haven't got all the Galleries ready to go yet. 8 out of 14 ain't too bad, though, and now that I've got the process down smoothly the remainder should be relatively easy. But the sun is coming up and I'm fried. Will continue tomorrow, or technically, later today.

Update Update

Note from future me:  this post and several around it relate to the previous version of TDV before I moved it all over to Blogger, in a tradeoff of fine detail control for convenience.

Spoiler: Snape is Tyler Durden

Got an unexpected invitation to a midnight showing of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", at the Alamo, naturally (are there any other theaters worth speaking of?). Just returned from that, so this is a quick initial-reaction dump, hopefully soon to be revised into an actual review. Caution, contains some spoilers for a wildly popular story published four years ago.

Because I want you to hate me, okay?

Fig. 1. Marilyn Monroe in a Slinky Dress

Short Reviews of New TV Shows

More to come as I watch them...

* Mental: It's House in a mental hospital! Only instead of an asshole, House is Patch Adams! Every bit as appealing as it sounds.

* The Goode Family: Remember that hippy-dippy teacher from Beavis and Butt-Head? This is a show about that guy's home life, for an hour. Not quite as good as it sounds.

* Don't Forget the Lyrics!: Sort of a karaoke game, dragged out to an hour-long show with Millionaire-style artificial suspense. We'll skip the obvious question of whether Wayne Brady will, at some point in the show, be required to apply pressure to the throat of a woman he considers personally unpleasant. Somewhat better than it sounds.

* The Unusuals: That guy who played Michael on Lost is in a cop show. That's all. Much duller than it sounds.

*Glee: In the actual commercial, actually put together by the actual station to actually promote this actual show, one of the characters says "Glee makes me want to claw my own face off." I have no intention of viewing this.

* I Survived a Japanese Game Show / Ma Ji De: I'm afraid to examine this show for subtext because I might find something, and it can't be good; similarly, I intend to deliberately avoid learning the translation of "Ma Ji De" for as long as possible. It's entertaining as pure spectacle, though. Of the episode I saw, the highlight in my eyes was the fact that, in a show with a good deal of untranslated incidental chatter in Japanese, they felt a need to translate "Ay dios mio".

GET OFF MY TUBES!

An overdose of the Internets for you.

Because plain old text is boring, that's why.