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06:17 PM Woo-hoo! Die Fledermaus is gay!

(Thanks for sending along the latter link, Nick.)

By the by, all, whenever I should refer to The Tick, I'm referring to the wondrous mid-'90s animated TV series or possibly to the original Ben Edlund comic, and not to the upcoming "live action" series. That will have to overcome a lot of skepticism on my part because (1) I don't understand why good cartoons can't be left as cartoons instead of being contorted into an inappropriate format; (2) Barry Sonnenfeld is producing it; and (3) if Fox is so fond of The Tick, why the hell did the network cancel it in the first place?

And speaking of things that don't make sense, IMDB says that if you like the cartoon Tick, you might like Last Action Hero, and if you like the live-action series (which you haven't seen yet), you might like ... Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. That's not what you would call a good sign.

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12:01 PM I have started reading Don Quijote, because I've never read this book that is supposed to be a classic, and because I have been accused (not incorrectly) of tilting at a windmill or two in my time. The preface to this particular edition points out that Quijote was most likely the world's first work of metafiction, in which the fictional characters are aware they are fictional characters. Which means that, however great this book may turn out to be, it is at least partly responsible for Malcolm in the Middle, and for that it must be held accountable.


In a recent and inexplicable development, I now habitually and uselessly rinse out paper cups before disposing of them.

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03:41 PM Here is a dandy primer for all on my state's little energy problem. Attention fellow California residents: you should read this too, so maybe you'll see that this conundrum is not simply a matter of corporate greed. California is out of power because California has been using more power without making more power. Funny how that works.

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08:17 AM How not to start one's day: I walked into the store at my workplace to get breakfast, and what was blaring over the sound system -- the first "music" I had heard all day -- was Patrick Swayze's "She's Like the Wind."


How am I supposed to get excited about, or even interested in, a Super Bowl whose quarterbacks are Kerry Collins and Trent Dilfer?

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10:25 PM Here we go: right out of the box, the president-illegitimate is working hard to make sure that the world remains dangerously overpopulated, and that a damned zygote gets more rights than I do.


I promise, this site will not keep being this political. Only while hypocritical, coke-addled, intelligence-deprived, hate-mongering Republicans are in charge.

OK, not nearly that long.

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07:47 PM I wound up doing a smart thing yesterday: not dwelling on the grim national event taking place. I was having trouble deciding what to say anyway. Now, I know what to say, and it's clear and brief:


My president would be legally elected, not maneuvered into the Oval Office by the machinations of relatives and party flunkies. My president would not claim to a be "a uniter, not a divider," then set out on wildly divisive courses of action before even taking office. My president would not be a dolt.

The simple truth of the next two years (before the next legislative elections) is this: gridlock, that thing so many blame for our country's governmental troubles, is, in fact, our only hope.

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