• Aaaaaaaack! I’m really falling behind on the posts here. And it’s gonna be like that for the next week or two, as I kick up work on a couple big projects. Meanwhile, I’ll keep y’all amused, or at least mildly distracted, with stuff for today…
• First, I would like to congratulate Gilmore Girls for airing their 150th episode today! And it was a fantastic episode. I said it about last week’s episode already, but it goes as much or more for this week’s episode as well - it’s so great to have the show back in the previous wonderful form it had been some time ago. I was not a fan of much of season 6 of the show (last season), and had mixed emotions when hearing of show-runner/creator husband/wife team of Amy Sherman-Palladino & Dan Palladino leaving the show at the end of the season. In retrospect, I think it was a good thing. New show-runner David Rosenthal has done a marvelous job at getting the show back to what it does best: wit, charm and some of the best dialog in the history of the medium (not to mention some beautifully low-key dark humor). The cast is insanely talented (ask any actor to watch the long, single takes on the show, with the kamikaze speed dialog and they’d be horrified at attempting the same), and they deserve heaps of praise for the achievement of the show. And any day now it’ll be known if the show will get a pickup for next season, or if the upcoming 3 episodes will be the end for the show. TV Guide’s Michael Ausiello (who’s always on the bleeding edge of news like this) shows some confidence that CW will do at least a short 13-16 episode season. If it gets it, fantastic. If not, the show enjoyed a long and successful run.
• Also just finished watching yesterday’s episode of Drive. I’ll admit that the show is growing on me. It’s taking a bit for it to get past those typical initial growing pains. After seeing creator/producer/writer Tim Minear’s previous shows hit the ground running in top form, I was a bit surprised that this show was a bit unsteady at first. But, many great shows take a bit to get their footing, and I’ll surely give this one more than a fair chance. Yesterday’s was a pretty good episode, and I look forward to where things head. I don’t envision this series approaching the absolute brilliance of Firefly or Wonderfalls (two of Minear’s previous shows - and two of the greatest shows of all time), but it might at least be as good as his quite good previous series The Inside. I do have to credit Drive for the raw ambition of the production. This show just wouldn’t have worked 10 years ago, production-wise, or at least it would look downright awful. And speaking of Drive, Tim Minear has begun making the scripts for the episodes available.
• Released today to DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray is Planet Earth. If you haven’t seen the show (a BBC/Discovery Channel co-production), it’s a stupendous, astonishing, fantastic documentary mini-series. The quality of production and material is absolutely staggering. Featuring state-of-the-art filming, you get to see tons of amazing footage and images. What’s even more amazing is how fast it moves along. And to see it in HD is breathtaking. Absolutely amazing. There, that enough superlatives for you?
• Ah, the fun speeds of Internet2
• Good grief. A blood-alcohol level of .47? And a former cop, no less.
• Rubber ducks? Seriously?
• My co-worker has a problem with rabbits on his property. Guess he shouldn’t be complaining…
• It may be for a completely stupid reason, but any burning of effigies towards Richard Gere are fine by me.
• A business model nearly as secure as mortuary homes
• Awwww, how romantic…

Random Fact Of The Day: Due to staggering inflation in the 1920’s, 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 German marks were worth 1 US dollar.

Dialog Of The Day: “Here’s a news flash for ya, OK? Sports cars don’t think they’re better than other cars, OK? Hatchbacks don’t have SUV inferiority complexes. And sedans aren’t afraid to get dirty.” (Luke Danes, played by Scott Patterson in Gilmore Girls 7.19)

Video Of The Day: What the !@#*?