Quick Shots

The Earl /Office hour on NBC is classic, the start of a new era for television comedy.

Interpol is the best band of the new new wave, and the best dressed (not that that matters). Bloc Party is a close second, the band that is going to say something. Franz Ferdinand is just ludicrous.

Bob Dylan's "Chronicles Vol. 1" is preposterously good, although to be honest I would have preferred a straight narrative instead of the jumping around. His focus and language is hypnotic and perfect... until he jumps ahead a decade and has to get you hypnotized all over again. A minor quibble however

Buffalo Pundit Alan Bedenko is right, the American Girl controversy is perfectly ludicrous, and worthy of our contempt / mocking.

The Star Wars DVD marathon is scheduled for Wednesday October 26 at 9:00 AM (a copy from Blockbuster has legally entered my temporary possesion); after the coalition / radio show fundraiser and before my cousin's wedding (which looks to be blocking going to that damn Ratdog show) and election day madness. Election day madness will then subside in time for the radio show's possible (very likely if I have my way) Wal-Mart documentary showing event thingy, which happens to preceed the fourth Harry Potter movie in IMAX and then it's HOLIDAY MADNESS. It is a busy time, but damnit I am watching those damn movies in the fashion always dreamed by Uncle George, the father of our popular culture feast.

It's only been 28 years in the offing. The countdown has begun.