Rescue Me is back on and I couldn't be happier. Even though the show gets outrageous and seems to cover pop-over-the-top issues of the week, it's just so enjoyable and occasionally emotion that I can't get enough.

I finally saw the Dennis Leary on The Daily Show. It was great cuz he was not only pimping his own products but he pimped a CD he likes from some band as well as pimping the early works of Hugh Laurie as a comedic actor on Black Adder. I thought that was pretty damn cool of him.

I've heard a lot of mixed things about X-3, but on the whole, I still give it props and maybe I'm more forgiving than some for the movie, but here's why. I'm thrilled to see comic book films being made and I'm a support of them as a viable artform in both print and film in the same way that I support video game design as a very serious artform. The fact that we get to see these movies made at all is amazing. I'm 36 now, and I can remember how thrilled I was at 7 or so when they did Superman the first time around, and pickings were slim back then. I don't count Howard the Duck as a landmark, but the first Batman and even the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were a pleasure.

But X-3 isn't the painfest that some folks make it out to be. I don't like the direction as much as the Singer ones and as a closet Salem Center purist, I don't like how some of the lesser characters were incorporated or changed, but I still got chills with the ol' Fastball special routine, and when a giant severed Sentinel head hit the ground. It's not the greatest X-Men movie of all time, but I don't see it as bad as some people are. It's certainly not at the bottom of the barrel (Elektra, I'm looking in your direction).

Oh, and the gf and I fit in about twenty hours of game play on X-Men: Legends this weekend, built on the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance engine. Highly recommended and at times certainly more fun as a non-tie-in to the movie.

Done for now...