Just a quick little post: I saw that a whole bunch of TV shows got the axe today. Heroes, Flashforward and Happy Town all got cancelled.  (Yes, the original Law & Order got cancelled too, but I don’t watch that.)

I admit that I slogged through all of Heroes – somewhere into the third season it was time to stop watching, but I felt that I had put enough time into it that I should at least see how it ends. The show is cancelled, but from what I’ve been reading, they’re going to try to give it an ending with a two- or four-hour miniseries finale. Fair enough.

Flashforward was a bit of a surprise, though its ratings have been plummeting. It’s become a little ridiculous, though, in its inability to give any answers but also string the viewer along. Honestly I don’t really care about any of the characters on it, and I suspect I’m not alone in that.

As to Happy Town, well… I watched the most recent episode, and I realized that this cancellation was the right idea. The show is just way ridiculous; even the music is hilarious in its shift between dramatic and whimsical. The characters are lame and uninteresting, and it’s mostly just pseudo-mystical that’s not going anywhere. Still, I feel bad for Amy Acker, as this is the second show she’s been on that’s been cancelled. Sad.

All the right shows got picked up: Community, 30 Rock, Castle (SVU?) V as well, but that show is frustrating to watch. And there should be a new set of shows that could be interesting: I’ve got my eye on JJ Abrams’ new show Undercovers, and maybe The Event and The Cape. We’ll see.

Ha, wow. Now that I have the site actually done, I have to fill it. That didn’t seem as daunting before as it does now. I have a few things that I’ll write about eventually, but I don’t want to start in on them just yet.

I know – let’s talk politics. Clearly everyone has gone crazy in the past year. Like, really crazy. Just today, Pat Buchanan asked:

Indeed, of the last seven justices nominated by Democrats JFK, LBJ, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, one was black, Marshall; one was Puerto Rican, Sonia Sotomayor. The other five were Jews: Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.

If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats.

Is this the Democrats’ idea of diversity?

Now, I know that I’m giving a platform to what Buchanan has to say, but come on – the Jews? Really? We’re back to good old-fashioned anti-Semitism, I suppose.

It’s nice to know that, despite the fact that people everywhere are trying to outdo the last person to do something really ridiculous, there are still some glimmers of sanity. Consider LittleGreenFootballs. Pre-9/11, it was just one guy’s blog about biking and random crap. After the towers fell, though, he sort of went off the deep end and became fairly anti-Muslim, and his readers followed. Since then, though, he’s really pulled it together: he’s very against the teabaggers, Creationists, Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck fans, and homophobes. I actually got the link for the above quote from glancing at LGF earlier in the day. Obviously I don’t condone everything he writes, but some of the stuff he publishes, like a set of pictures of stupid teabagger signs – referred to as Teabonics, is actually pretty good.

And if nothing else, it makes me happy that there are still some people who haven’t permanently descended into this anti-government rhetoric that’s become so strong as of late. Finally, I’ll leave you with a quote from the President. Here he’s talking about the Republicans:

After they drove the car into the ditch, made it as difficult as possible for us to pull it back, now they want the keys back. No! You can’t drive! We don’t want to have to go back into the ditch. We just got the car out.

Yes, that’s right: after countless iterations of this website, I’ve finally found something that I’m happy with. New design, new outlook, and a whole bunch of new things to talk about. I’ll admit that in the past I may have slacked off with keeping this updated, but no more! I’m going to try to update once a day. Or maybe once every other day.

Anyway, keep an eye on this page, as I will probably have something to say in the near future. I’ve got a totally spiffy RSS feed…