Halloween

- New Homestarrunner cartoon commemorating the event should be out, hopefully.

- Once again, I'll be at work during the "trick or treating," which is fine, since I never took part anyway. I'm going to ask my boss to buy some candy to put at the desk in case kids come in (they never do, but I'm at the desk all evening).

- Vikings got trounced. I figured they would, but it's still depressing.

- Proposal 2 is on the ballot this november in Michigan. It basically bans affirmative action. There is an epidemic of panic and outrage on the campus over this; it's crazy. Still looks like it's going to pass though, so that's good.

- Looks like Studio 60 is getting the axe, for various reasons (i.e., people don't watch it). I agree with one critic completely, though, who said that the sketches they show blurbs of the show doing are not funny. He said that the show set themselves up as the savior of "good" television, and then they show us these absolutely below par sketches. I thought that was a good point.

Unfortunately, the rest of the program is suffering for it. Particularly in the last few episodes, Sorkin seems to have gotten into his rhythm. It was smart again, because Sorkin was writing about what he's best at... writing. West Wing was all around brilliant, but never so much so as when Sam, Toby, or Will were talking about writing (at least to me).

Apparently, writing is not enough to keep an audience. The cast is brilliant, again (though neither D.L. Hugley or Tom Corddry seem comfortable), and it bothers me that Matthew Perry won't be on anything, and this was probably Whitford's last series, at least for awhile.

- Heroes is a big hit, but I can't stand the show. I like the Japanese guys, of course. I like the brothers, and the cheerleader story. The problem is that they are focusing on so many different groups of people that nothing ever happens to anyone. It's kind 0f like Lost, only with no interaction between all the characters.

For a lot of people, the story and setting is enough. I like dialogue, I like back-and-forth, and I like character development off of other characters. Heroes excels at the first, with very little in the latter, while Studio 60 focused on the second to the detriment of the first. Guess which one isn't getting cancelled.