penn griffin last man turns burnout apple..

So, it's a New Year, innit? A very happy one to everyone who checks out ffwd from time to time. We had a quiet time at home, since Holly's a bit under the weather with that flu/cold thing that seems so 'en vogue' right now, aww.

Things slowed down a little around Xmas, so I was able to catch up on some TiVo - particularly enjoyed Showtime's re-running of the first season of Penn And Teller: Bullshit!, which is really a skeptical debunking documentary-style show, a little like the excellent Mythbusters, only with real-life issues like the environment or psychics, rather than goofy exploding lavatory gags. A particular highlight of P&T:BS! - a skeptical look at environmentalists, arguing that many who want to 'save the rainforests' are really pushing larger political and anti-globalist goals, or, perhaps, just turning up to salve their guilt. Not always true, obviously, but some very good points were made.

Also over the Xmas break, we wandered up to San Francisco to catch a stand-up gig by Kathy Griffin, who, despite the fact she's had a pretty weird career, middle-of-the-road sitcoms and all, is pretty much hilariously sharp when it comes to celebrity-bitching and scandalizing. We've probably seen almost everything she's ever been in, even Kathy's So-Called Reality on MTV, which was a super-short-lived bitchfest that kinda rocked if you dug reality shows - which we do, heh. Anyhow, good stuff.

Oh, and also viewed on TiVo of late was The Last Man On Earth, a somewhat overlooked, downbeat adaptation of Richard Matheson's 'I Am Legend', about a vampire plague that's wiped out the world. There's been a modern version rumored for a while, with Will Smith possibly attached, and The Omega Man was another film version, but this '60s Vincent Price-starring version, made in Italy, by the look of it, is chilling and rather beautifully underplayed.

Been playing a few of the games I got for Xmas - primarily Mario Kart: Double Dash!! for GameCube, which is, of course, excellent, and is even fun for somebody who worked on a kart racer, and might theoretically be burnt out on the genre. Also, picked up for a budget price as an online deal, the crash mode in Burnout 2: Developer's Cut for Xbox is well worth the price of entry alone... mm, car wrecks for fun and profit.

Oh, and when bneely came over to hang out and play videogames the other day, he was wearing a T-shirt from As The Apple Turns, thus alerting me to this frickin' hilarious Mac rumors site. Heck, I don't even care that much about Mac rumors, and I'm addicted to the page's sass, already.