Ok, a whole bunch of things I wanted to write about in the last few weeks fell through the cracks, let's see if I can get them all this time:<\/p>\n
A Charlie Brown Christmas Special was on the other day, and I love that everything <\/em>stops for that special. Everybody I talked to watched it, even though they were in the middle of doing other things.<\/p>\n The fake Rolling Rock is running this ad campaign that makes their own fake controversy, the tv spots apologize for their other spots with a guerrilla at a pool party(which I don't think actually ever aired on tv, just the web). The new webpage is horrid and has a "timeline" which is all stupid lies, trying to sell out the Rolling Rock brand and their list of '33' mysteries is pitiful at best. Just in general it's horrible and I'm so sad to see it gone.<\/p>\n I just saw video of the brawl at the Mexican President's inauguration. Apparently U.S. politics are quite boring (they also showed clips from Czeck, Russian and Tawainese politics, and yes, we're boring here).<\/p>\n Peter Jackson was "fired" from The Hobbit. Apparently New Line owns the rights to produce it, but only for a short time longer. And since Jackson is suing them for royalties they owe him for the LotR trilogy, they are trying to force him out of that lawsuit before their rights are up. theonering.net<\/a> has some good coverage of the situation if you're interested.<\/p>\n The official Star Wars site is running a contest to come up with Jacen Solo's Sith name. I'm about five books behind, but basically, Princess Leia and Han Solo got married had three kids (Jacen and Jania, twins and Anakin, no deceased), Jacen went through this huge journey in The New Jedi Order, and basically discovered that there aren't two sides of the force, just the force, and how one uses it (and coincidentally, the Sith were a race of people originally). He was basically groomed by his uncle, Luke Skywalker, to head the Jedi Order, and now he's "going to the dark side," so I don't know how they are making that mesh with what we learned about the nature of the force earlier. Still could be cool either way, you'd get your name in the acknowledgments! (ok, I'm a huge dork, I know, and it continues below)<\/p>\n I got to watch all of Firefly, a TV show (a Sci-Fi Western, yes, it's possible and it works very well, it has been endorsed by Orson Scott Card, the author of Ender's Game) from Joss Whedon, and I fell in love with it. I think if it had been on for any extended period of time, it would have been better than Buffy (Buffy had somewhere between 140 and 150 shows, Firefly aired 11). However, Fox decided that the pivotal pilot episode shouldn't be shown until the middle of the season, confusing everyone, and otherwise mismanaged the show. It lived on in the feature film Serenity, which I saw first and fell in love with the 'verse there. Check it out if you get a chance, you won't be disappointed, even though it sucks how it ends, you can tell Joss had much story to tell and suddenly, no more.<\/p>\n