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Monday, January 27, 2003

I finally finished the 5th installment in the Trading Cards of the Bizarre series. Once again, we're showing some skin.

Also -- Happy Birthday, Tony!

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Wednesday, January 22, 2003

Smallville: the best show you're not watching.

So, yeah, I admit that Smallville isn't the greatest show ever. It's got plenty of WB-style cheese and probably spends too much time with soft-focus shots of freshly-scrubbed beautiful people. And it's melodramatic as hell. Law and Order, Buffy, and Six Feet Under are much better shows. But you're already watching them, right? Smallville is worth a look.

This week's episode is a fine example of what makes the show great. The writers give all of the Superman fans plenty of material to chew on, while still creating an engaging story that makes sense for anyone, even if you know nothing about Superman mythology. The series is ultimately about family, honor, and commitment, and how those forces shape the person we become (for good or for ill).

The current episode is a very satisfying payoff to many plot-threads for those of us that have been watching since the beginning, but I think it also manages to give just enough backstory to include new viewers. This is a very difficult trick to pull off, and I admire the Smallville writing team for doing it right. The WB will replay this episode ("Insurgence") this Sunday at 5pm, so set your TiVos (or whatever primitve recording device you have in its stead) and give Smallville a try.

(One thing you need to know before you watch: Clark has not yet figured out he can fly. It ain't an obvious power... after all, do you know if you can fly?)

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Wednesday, January 15, 2003

My blog looks cool. Check it out. There's, like, weird stains over there on the right, as if someone left it out in the rain, or in the bottom drawer of a desk in the basement of an abandoned library. My blog has little metal dealies on the left holding it in place, like clamps for an X-ray slide or something. And they have rust on them. Probably from the foul, dripping water that seeps through the rotted roof of the abandoned library. And let's not forget that font! It's so classic and formal, like an antique book on anatomy or insects. The kind of book you might find decomposing on a forgotten shelf in the abandoned library's reference section. It's got style, my blog. It looks... cool. Yeah.

Sure, it has nothing to say. But come on, do you really need that? I mean just look at it! Cool.

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Monday, January 13, 2003

Here I go, blogging someone else's blog. I'm pathetic, yes. But hot damn, Scott is on a roll lately.

... I am not qualified to answer these questions, so I will leave them for those who will come after us - most likely a race of robots, since our planet will soon be cloaked in an atmosphere of pure nacho cheese that will be deadly to all living things.

Indulge in the Bounty of America at Scott's blogsite.

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Wednesday, January 01, 2003

"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." -- Stephen Jay Gould

Happy New Year everyone.

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