Taryn Asher

I think she would look better with shorter hair.

It's a Sunday and the Fox 2 News Crew is phoning it in today. I haven't seen this many production failures since my high school days when I was forced to endure them during assembly. Any way, I might talk to Kim about switching to channel 4 or 7. At the very least, we won't hear about a Detroit woman being beaten to death while taking her trash to the curb.

Yes, folks. A woman in Detroit was beaten to death while taking her trash to the curb.

Happy holidays.

Sinqua Walls

He portrayed Lancelot in ABC's "Once Upon A Time".

All right, so this just struck me. Almost everybody on Once Upon A Time is white. That's fine, it is mostly an amalgamation of European fairy tales, and most people looking for roles in Hollywood are white. What isn't fine... is what has happened to two black characters on the show. Lancelot saved Snow White and protected the survivors of the curse as best he could. He's killed by Cora off screen. Gus, or Billy after being cursed, was one of Cinderella's mice that helped her thwart her step sisters and step mother. He became Billy after being cursed, and was going to go on a date with Ruby. He was killed by Albert Spencer off screen in order to frame Ruby for the murder.

Now, I don't care so much that the characters were murdered. It advanced the plot, whatever. It just so happens that two speaking roles portrayed by African Americans in a European American dominated show got murdered. Is Hollywood racist? Is Once Upon A Time racist? I don't know, but stuff like this bothers me.

Sound off in the comments.

Bill Richardson

He probably didn't do anything too bad, but the tolerance for political mutual back scratching has been greatly diminished these past few weeks.

Ok, the first post of the new year. What do I have to say about my life? Well, I am madly in love with Kim, and I aspire to be a little bit better every day. I am going to become more active on the aspie forums of which I am a member of. I need to find an aerobic exercise routine that meshes well with my new lifestyle. I think maybe an exercise bike, an episode or two of Mythbusters.

I need to rein in my habit of sniffing things. It annoys Kim. I think I am going to indulge in a few benign online special interests while I still can.

Oh, I need to post pictures more often. I think I will take pictures of things in my neighborhood during this week.

Ah, Munchkin. Ron plays the game, and his wife is pregnant, so maybe Kim and Maggie can commiserate while their boys get their geek on...

Jason Robards

He helped stop a war.

So, the Sci-Fi channel is screening "The Day After", again. If you have never heard of or seen it, it is an early 1980s made for television movie that depicts a fictional nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. The special effects are substandard, there is a great deal of stock footage...

That does not matter in the least. It is a gripping story, and if you can handle a few hours of absolute "bummer", I sincerely suggest you check it out. Now, some of you reading this might wonder what a Reagan era TV movie has in it that would compel me to write about it. The simplest explanation is... a warning.

For the last Five thousand, nine hundred, and fifty years, before the modern era, human nations could conduct total war, that is, genocide and privation, without worry of eventual extinction of the species. Read the Old Testament sometime. Joshua was a real asshole. That all changed within the last fifty years.

We have the tools and the talent to kill each and every one of us. It's not something most people like to think about, but as a species, we are one REALLY bad day of perfect accidents, insane leaders, or a confluence of factors that I would rather not think too deeply on... away from extinction.

Hell, it isn't even a day, is it? It's more like 17 minutes.

Look, I don't know what your opinion is on nuclear energy, war as a catalyst for economic development, or whatever. However, I am pretty sure you don't want the paint sucked off of your house and your family being given a permanent orange afro.

Spend a couple of minutes writing to your favorite candidate, talk to a loved one about nuclear war, make a commitment to vote in the next elections... just do a little part to take this issue off of the back burner.

Peter Weller

Every time I watch "Engineering an Empire", I expect Mr. Weller to get his ass kicked by Kurtwood Smith.

Robocop could kick Batman from here to Pacoima. That is all.

And Spiderman is over-rated.