A few random notes:

*If you're not watching Robot Chicken on Adult Swim, you should. Basically, it's a bunch of really geeky skits done with stop motion animation. Last week's episode was iffy, but the few weeks before that was great. It's tough to hate on a show that does "Electric Mayhem: Behind the Music" and a skit featuring Cobra Commander,
Skeletor, Lex Luthor, and Mum-Ra carpooling to work. One of the few shows where I say "Damn, I can't believe it's already over" at the end. OK, it's 11 minutes long and they cram a bunch of skits in, but still...

*New worst commercial on TV: the "bling it on" ad, which is a machine that allows you to paste shiny beads onto objects. Several youngsters applied the "bling" to things like laptops and notebooks and say the word "bling" about 1000 times. But the worst is this woman in her 40's, who exclaims "It's not just for kids. I love to "Bling it up" too," and she puts on some sunglasses adorned with the shiny beads I swear, I die inside when I see this. It makes Burger King's new ads look like the Mean Joe Greene commercial.

*Have you seen some of the goofiness surrounding the Pope's death? Like the ritual where they hit him on the head three times with a silver mallet to see if he's alive? Holy crap, it is 2005, isn't it?