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So the new issues of X-Factor and Wolverine: First Class are out.  Might be some stuff there worth discussing.

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Just cuz Marvel sent ComicMix the artwork.

I feel frustrated because I haven’t had the chance to post my thoughts on Barack Obama going Mr. Miyagi on a White House fly during a TV interview.

The first thing that occurred to me is, Wow.  Great reflexes.

The second thing was, What a tragedy that SNL is done for the season.  What the world needs is Will Ferrell as GWB doing an interview and a fly buzzes in and lands on his head, and he knocks himself unconscious.

The third thing was, I can’t wait for PETA and Jeff Goldblum to weigh in on this.    I wish I posted it yesterday, because then I’d look psychic, because PETA bìŧçhëd about it this morning and Goldblum showed up on Colbert this evening.

Ah well.  Maybe the Ferrell thing will happen somewhere.

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The photos coming in from Iran with the country erupting over the likely theft of the presidential election are just horrifying.

What concerns me is that President Ahambreakingbad might simply decide to dispose of Mousavi and be done with it. On the other hand, how potent would Mousavi as a martyr be? In jailing or assassinating his rival, he might wind up screwing himself.

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I am so desperately going to miss “Pushing Daisies.”

I still remember sitting at dinner with Len Wein during the San Diego con a couple years ago and he was describing this new series he’d just seen the pilot for. He couldn’t be effusive enough about it. He talked about how it was brilliant and funny and quirky and smart. And it all sounded terrific, and I said so and I meant it, but all I could think was, “No way it lasts.”

This has been a brutal season for shows I was enjoying. “Sarah Conner” got terminated. “Eli Stone” was pulverized. “Reaper” was condemned. “Chuck” barely survived, but God knows what the budget cuts are going to do to it. But somehow the worst was the plucking of “Pushing Daisies.” From Jim Dale’s narrative (I’ve started using “the facts were these” in daily speech) to the whimsical scripts (television has little tolerance for whimsy in the one-hour form) to the brilliant balance of the stellar cast, there was virtually nothing like it on the air. And now there is literally nothing like it on the air.

And I can’t even enjoy Kristen Chenowith in “Legally Mad” since NBC passed on it. I wonder if it was whimsical?

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