monday morning

Man, my webmail client makes molasses look zippy.

Today seems to be "networks officially announcing renewals/cancellations day." In sad (to me) news, "John Doe" got the axe. Sad, but not surprising, I should say. In mixed news, "Angel" was renewed. This is good because where they're going with the plot could be interesting, and because we'd hate to see all things Joss disappear from the lineups. On the other hand, it's bad because I was kind of hoping not to have to make the big "whether to keep watching" decision. It certainly would have been easier on me if they'd canceled "Angel," since I won't exactly have a lot of time for TV next fall.

Then there's the fact that they're moving "Smallville" to Wednesday to be "Angel"'s lead-in, which is mostly bad news, because having all my shows on the same night is a serious pain in the ass and I will therefore probably have to give up "West Wing." :P Why couldn't they have moved "Angel" to Tuesdays? Too many bad associations if they put it in "Buffy"'s previous time slot, I guess. And then, of course, there are the casting spoilers. (I don't know that they really count as "spoilers," actually. I doubt many people will be able to avoid hearing them throughout the entire summer.) I'm ambivalent about those. I'll have to wait and see.

BTW, I finally got around to watching the "Angel" season finale and I have this to say about it: why the hell couldn't the *whole* season have kicked that much ass? I was seriously annoyed by how excellent the finale was, because the whole season thus far had sucked rocks, and I was all ready to say "okay, I did my duty and stuck out the season, now I can quit," but then the finale rocked and now I'm going to have to watch it again next year. :P !

( one mildly spoilery comment about the Angel season finale )

In other news, it's a cold rainy Monday morning. I should SO not have to be wearing a jacket and hat -- a hat, for chrissake! -- in mid-May. Yeesh. At least it was nice weather for our Fenway outing yesterday.

amusing links

Things that make me giggle:

* The fact that the Grr! Argh! Guy has a website.

* The fact that the British have voted on the dumbest product labeling messages. Including such gems as "May cause drowsiness" on a carton of sleeping pills, and the instructions on a packet of airplane peanuts which read "Open packet, eat nuts."

* The fact that some researchers actually gave a bunch of monkeys a computer to see whether they would type the works of Shakespeare. (They didn't.) Also, the fact that the output of the monkeys' typing is available online.

* Pick-Up Lines for Superheroes, including several that would be appropriate for "Smallville"'s Clark Kent, like "Look, you might as well take the top off because it's been medically proven that X-Ray vision can give you cancer" and my personal favorite, "I know you're a supervillain and are plotting to put a big bubble over the city and set it adrift in space. But maybe after I foil your plans, I could take you out for coffee?" Hee hee.

* Last Friday's Foxtrot comic strip.

* Last Sunday's Doonesbury comic strip, although it's really only funny if you understand at least a little French. :)