No TV Party Tonight

I know it's been a while since a post, but a little thing called "reality" has a way of taking up most of my time nowadays. I'm loathe to discuss my non-pop culture life here, but the economy, which is messing up everyone's life, is also affecting mine. Except that I have what I would call an "anti-economy" job, by which I mean, the worse the overall economy is, the more time I have to spend working. Since things are pretty screwed over now, you can imagine how much time I spend in the office.

On top of that, my TV died. I poured a 40 over the picture tube and dragged it out to the curb. The upside is I have an HDTV coming soon, just in time for hockey season, 30 Rock, and the last half of Mad Men.

To start with a clean slate for fall, here are the capsule reviews of what I watched over the summer/what I plan to watch over the fall: X-Files movie: sucked beyond belief, horrific box office, let's hope the series is dead and buired; Tropic Thunder: Uneven, but funny; The Dark Night: Don't miss it; Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs: Better than the last Futurama DVD; Mad Men: Still great, why are you reading this instead of watching it?; The Shield: Gotta catch up when the new TV arrives; Dollhouse: Was highly anticipating the series' January debut, now worried about quality.