I stopped going to Circuit City after the reprehensible way they treated their employees. When they fired their employees, and rehired them at lower wages, I vowed never to spend another dime in one of their stores, even if they were having a penny sale on flat screen TVs.

Good cheesy fun, Louis Jordan was a great villain, of course, Adrian Barbeau in a low cut shirt didn't hurt either.

I was into comics at the time, and I remember the Swamp Thing comic shop discussions I heard on my weekly trips to get my stash. It sounded intriguing, but if it didn't have muscle bound men and big breasted women beating the crap out of each other, I wasn't interested. My money was limited, so I just bought what I knew I would like.

I didn't really discover Alan Moore until Watchmen, it had superheroes, but in a way I had never seen them done before. I'm almost kind of glad I didn't read it back then, it will be fun to dive into that world for the first time. Great article, I'll be checking out this collection this weekend.

She was the first person I thought of when everybody was up in arms about Caroline Kennedy's possible appointment to the senate. To me, anybody that didn't complain when this clothes hanger was appointed to Sonny Bono's seat, shouldn't be complaining about Caroline Kennedy.

If Sonny had been a democrat, she would be a democrat.

No movie could ever do justice to Alan Moore's original work, but I think Zack Snyder has probably made the best movie a studio would actually allow to be made. All the other attempts at bringing it to the screen altered the story dramatically, updating to present day, using terrorism instead of the cold war, etc.

Snyder fought for it to be as faithful as possible, and had the clout to win a lot of those battles. He couldn't win them all though, so the squid is gone, and the pirate story as well. I would have preferred a year long HBO series, but the movie was going to be made regardless, so I'm glad it had a director that respected the source material, and worked to bring as much of it to the screen as he could.

I really enjoyed Snyder's version of Dawn Of The Dead, even Romero admitted that it was an entertaining movie (just not his idea of horror). If nothing else, it seems Rorschach was perfectly cast. Jackie Earl Haley looks perfect for the role, I can't wait to see it later today.

Roger Ebert loved it, he gave it 4 stars! He's already seen it twice, wrote a review, and a seperate blog post delving deeper into the characters. It seems the movie struck a chord with him, he's never read the graphic novel, I hope he seeks it out, and writes his thoughts on that as well.

But a round table discussion? Really?

The writing on early SNL is amazing stuff, I appreciate it all the more as time goes by. These days, anybody with a webcam fancies themselves a comedy writer/performer. And I will admit there are some gems out there on the internets. But most of it just makes me long for the days when when we had daring young talents, like Franken, Davis, and Lorne Michaels, given the forum and the resources to show off their skills.

SNL is occasionally funny these days, Kristen Wiig is a bright spot on the show. But mostly, there best days were the first 5 years. I also have an affinity for the SNL of the late 80s and early 90s, I think that also coincides with when Al Franken returned to writing for the show.

I was happy with the ending, and the season in general. I didn't start watching the show until last year. I avoided it because of the horrible original show. Sure I dug the original show when it was on, but I was 11. It's hard to believe anybody could enjoy it today as anything more than nostalgia.

But, thanks to the beyond cheesy original show, we have 5 years of one of the best shows ever produced, of any genre. The basic premise of the original was great, but even as a kid, I knew they could have done so much more with it. I'm glad somebody else realized this, and did something more with it.

I finally rented the mini-series, after hearing how great the show was. I was blown away, I quickly watched the rest of the seasons. The only show I can think of that may be better was The Wire, but it's a close call.

The finale might not have been perfect, but it was very good. These were people had just been chased for four years by technology they had created, so I didn't think it was that out of left field that they would reject technology on their new world. I might have ended the show with Adama gazing out on the horizon, but that's a minor quibble. Thanks to the actors, writers, and producers that brought us this fantastic show. It was a great ride, and I very much look forward to Caprica.

As far as Gore is concerned, the 2000 election was so long ago, I don't really want to bother to research that. But considering that Bush was a C and D student, I have a hard time believing that Gore's grades were worse than that, he wouldn't have completed college if that was the case.

I do remember the news story your referring to with Kerry. Yes, there was an article comparing their grades, and Bush came out slightly ahead. However, if you had bothered to read the article, instead of just the headline, you would have discovered that they were comparing only their freshmen years. Kerry went on to become an honor student. Bush, to put it politely, did not.