Can we get on with it now?

Poor media have to find something new to obsess about now.

( CNN: Clinton endorses Obama, calls for party unity. )

Super Power Go Girl

Reel 13 is a short film showcase by WNET New York. The winner of June 7, 2008 is a short film (originally made in 2005) titled "Super Power Blues" written and directed by Greg Pak, who also happens to be the current writer on The Incredible HulkHercules.

"You know my name."

I should really have liked this more than I did. It's not that it's not entertaining, mind, but the second part hasn't really changed my opinion about the first. It's Moffat by the numbers. Oh, there are clever touches, but it all seems a bit hollow compared to his earlier efforts.

( Into The Forest of the Dead )

You are free to eat

Just came back from Kung Fu Panda. Loved it — in fact, it's probably the first of the Dreamworks CGI-animated movies that I've actually really enjoyed. But then I'm a sucker for the unabashed, whole hog, cannonballing into a swimming pool type of joy and pleasure that Americans seem to take in over-the-top representations of Chinese kung fu movie tropes. It's funny, it's kid friendly, and it moves along at a quick clip.

I can tell you exactly where the movie got me. The moment where I sat back and decided to enjoy the ride. It's in the first couple of minutes of the movie, when Jack Black (as the titular Kung Fu Panda, Po), in response to a emphatic, "How can we ever repay you?" replies:

"There is no charge for Awesomeness."

(Which isn't true: the ticket cost us $9 a pop. But the movie is awesome.)