Mood:  incredulous

first, two men were arrested in idaho for dumping dirt in the forest. apparently, it's illegal to dump anything in a national forest, including dirt. and, these guys even raked the dirt out so it looked nice. still, they were arrested. go figure

second, who said they could change strawberry shortcake's hair? seriously, if you want to be nostalgic about old toys or just rip them off because you can't be creative enough to come up with new ones, have the decency not to fuck with them. don't make the transformers look like multicolored pieces of crap (with overcomplicated transformations, mind you, if one kieran acquired recently is any example). if anything, make them look more like real vehicles, with real coloring. improve them for the better, like that isn't the damn definition of the word. and, don't try to make strawberry shortcake look like someone new. if you wnat strawberry shortcake, have strawberry shortcake. if you want someone new, make someone god damned new. don't recycle old ideas because you don't have nay news ones. recycle old ideas because they are that damn good and deserve to be revisited. if you really want to change them, make them better, make them more interesting under the surface. don't just shallowly cut some hair or recolor some outfits or panels. you want a better strawberry shortcake or a better transformer, make them talk, make them transform themselves (the transformers, that is--though a transforming strawberry shortcake does sound fun. anyone have her manufacturer's phone number?), make them more like "real" versions of what they are supposed to be. then, soon, we'll have walking, talking teddy bears like in AI...

speaking of AI, was it that he was such a cynic that made the bear just about the most human character in the entire film? or was it a commentary on humanity's attempts to recreate itself that in joe and the bear we get more "human" characteristics than in david, who is intended to be more "human"?

and, i want one of those bears. he was cool. pessimistic and cynical, just how i like my bears. none of that happy-go-lucky picnic basket stealing crap or teddy ruxpin stroytelling-with-a-happy-ending-and-a-song crap. we need more negative children's characters. maybe not like that tarabisho chick, but let's get oscar the grouch his own yearly doll and get rid of that elmo kid--and shouldn't elmo be going through puberty by now? that could make for some nice mood swings and a whole new series of dolls. nocturnal-emmission-elmo, erection-in-class-elmo, acne-scar-elmo, and all that

and cable's screwed up today, keeps cutting out (kinda like my brain, if you have been able to keep up enough to notice). it better be fixed in time for tv tonight... speaking of which...

watchlist:

• jeopardy - first post ken episode. hope emperor zerg with her vietnam era hairdo plays as badly as she did yesterday and is gone quickly, not that i'm still bitter in anyway in relation to jeopardy, not like i passed their test twice now and they'd let retarded folks on before me (not that i'm saying zerg is retarded; the two things were separate)
• lost - babies and psychics and monsters, oh my
• ghost hunters - a couple haunted houses. hope something (anything) happens
• south park or good eats if i'm in the mood
• the daily show