Obviously, it hasn't been a great fall for television so far. I'm still reeling over love found and and so soon lost, if only "temporarily" (Pushing Daisies). Time to step up the Netflix consumption -- BBC and HBO, here we come.
It's not likely to be a great summer, either, not the least of which is because The 4400 has been cancelled. Now, I'm realistic, and even though I've always been a staunch champion of the show, even I saw that it was losing a little more steam with each season, and I wasn't into the characters as much as in the beginning. And then Heroes, which has a budget, came along. So the time had probably come. Still, though, it was nice to have something fun and a little different to see in the summer.
Maybe I'll have to start watching Monk. Or go outside...
(cross-posted from spinning-jennie)
If you're an Office fan, you might be familiar with the Dunder Mifflin Infinity game, with which I've been playing along. Well, the results from our first task are in, and I won our branch logo contest! I was a little geeked, since the tools they gave us were infinitely frustrating, and there were nearly 200 entries. Mine may be among the least creative (I really admire the shapes that some were able to acheive given such fickle tools!), but it is corporate-y, which was my goal.
And then there's nepotism. Goooo nepotism!
So now, the logo chosen by each branch goes to a public vote. Not only would I win real honest-to-goodness swag from the cast (squee!), points (or, SchruteBucks, in the game vernacular) would be earned for every one of the over 700 members in our branch.
If you could drop in and vote, that would be fantastic! Just go to:
http://www.dundermifflininfinity.com/tasks/globalvote?week=1
Our Waterloo logo is on the last page (page four). Just click on the image, and then hit vote. Easy peasy!
And I think you can still join the game, too. Sign up for the Waterloo, IA branch, and our Regional Manager will approve you ASAP. We have such a fun little community already, so I hope you do!
Quite honestly, I'd almost given up hope that there really would be a second X-Files movie. And frankly (*sheepish head-duck*) I'd kind of stopped... caring, as well.
But, in an interview with Duchovny (via TV Squad), he reveals that the script is finished, and it's likely they'll start filming in December.
Interesting.
Ha ha HA! Knit a Dalek! Via Cut Out + Keep.
We've just finished up with Series One of Doctor Who. Hit a bit of a slump there in the middle, but the finale has me excited to get started on Series Two.
Also: I didn't know until just right this moment that SciFi carries the reruns. Fat lot of good that does us, though, even with our ridiculously expensive cable bills (thanks, Comcrap!).
And: there will, indeed, be a Series Five, in 2010.
I may have to lay off the really hardcore postapocalyptic stuff for awhile. The most current culprits being Cormac McCarthy's gut-gnawing The Road, and CBS's Jericho. It's starting to infect my daily thoughts.
We keep a simple feeder in the back "yard" for the birds. They're demanding little buggers, and making sure it stays filled keeps me on my toes. So I was out there earlier, decanting a big bag of Kaytee into washed milk and cider cartons for storage/easy pouring, grumbling a little at the heft of it. Not really begrudging the wrens and chickadees their meals, seeing as it's not even a fair tradeoff for hacking down most of their natural habitat, and I'm kind of a fan. But lapsing into aimless, pointless, semiObjectivist musings nonetheless.
Which is when this disturbing thought popped into my brain: "Well, if there is a nuclear holocaust, and we somehow miraculously managed to survive (what with SF being only 35 miles away), at least we'd probably have twenty pounds of something to lure winged food right to our back door."
So. Yup. Time to lay off the atomic sauce.
Or, at least the ones I care about!
Sunday, September 23rd
The Simpsons
Family Guy
Monday, September 24th
Heroes
Thursday, September 27th
Ugly Betty
The Office
Sunday, September 30th
Desperate Housewives (and I'm really on the fence as to whether I should bother anymore or not)
American Dad
Sunday, October 7th
America's Funniest Home Videos (Yes. Shut up! It's family-friendly.)
October 25th
Scrubs
October ????
Masterpiece Theatre
Futurama and Lost won't premiere 'til 2008.
Of course, the rumors are all over the web, so you've probably heard about it, but it seems that Rowling is already hard at work on her next novel. I had the feeling she wouldn't be able to rest long!
There are very few novelists that have earned my lifetime adoration and readership (Philip Pullman, Gregory Maguire, Christopher Moore, Anne Tyler), the ones that I will happily hit the "Pre-Order" button for anything they put out. I'm so giddy to add her to my little list.
I'm so addicted to PopSugar's Celebrity Faceoff game, in which you choose the "most popular" of two celebrities. When you get one wrong, the game starts over.
I made it to today's leaderboard with a score of 46, but haven't been able to come close again, averaging about 15. It seems that, just the once, I had an abnormally long run of really easy ones. Like, say, Matt Damon vs. America Ferrera (not that I don't love them both equally).
It's the Faith Hill vs. Tim McGraw type rounds that get you.
As of today, there are over 5,000 classic movie review clips from the shows of Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, and Richard Roeper are available at atthemoviestv.com! Only tapes from the Buena Vista years were preserved (after 1985), but still. Sweet.
Read Roger Ebert's introduction to the archives here.
First, thanks to Megan for introducing me to Bookshelves of Doom! It's been incredibly useful so far; I've got Owl Service coming to me via Paperbackswap, with Dark Lord of Derkholm to follow, and I can't wait to dig in. Even though I wasn't a fan of The Dark is Rising sequence (blasphemy), my post-HP hopes for these are high.
BoD is also where I so very happily learned that Pullman is penning another novel, The Book of Dust, which will further explore the ideas presented in the His Dark Materials trilogy. I'll be breathlessly awaiting a release date on this one. Not that I'm planning on the film version of The Golden Compass being bad, but it's nice to know there's something to assuage coming down the pike if it is.
