fire volta gets duff policeman?

The weather is edging into spring here, and it's actually time to open the window in my office (only to be assailed by leaf blowers, pollen blasting my sinuses, and a bit of fresh air sneaking through there, somewhere or other.)

So my review of Alan Moore's 'Voice Of The Fire' was posted on Slashdot, and by and large, everyone didn't complain vehemently about it in the comments (although my quibbles about 'difficult prose' led one commenter to ask cheekily: 'Are you referring to the book or your review?', hah!) But it's nice to stretch my wings a little into needlessly over-florid verbiage, after over 2000 Slashdot posts which are each federally mandated to be 150 words or less.

Meanwhile, I'm getting a little annoyed at the lack of decent music videos on any US network. 'Subterranean' and 'Subterranean UK' only show very seldom on MTV2, and the rest of the time, the channels practically redefine the concept of 'heavy rotation' for the same ol' clips. Fuse occasionally show interesting videos on their 'Oven Fresh Keepers' show, which is where I saw the Mars Volta video for 'Televators' - really, oddly wonderful. But other than that, TiVo-ing MTV has only got me addicted to Hilary Duff's songwriting/production teams (The Matrix and others..) - is there something I can take for that? Oh, and I miss 'The New Tom Green Show' already.

Otherwise - here's the regular cacophany of media and events to discuss: TV ('Wire In The Blood on BBC America feels like a guilty pleasure because Robson Green is a Keanu Reeves version of John Thaw's Inspector Morse - like, deep psychological analysis, whoa?), books (Flann O'Brien's 'The Third Policeman', thanks to Alan Moore's referencing and Jess Nevins' pointing-out - what an amazing surreal transcendent experience of a book thus far!), games (the Flash masterpiece Warthog Launch - as based on Warthog Jump of course, how very meta - looking forward to Schadenfreude Interactive's upcoming products too, especially Age Of Ornithology), and... spam email (a Viagra spam arrived this morning with a quotation from Roman poet Horace in it - 'They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.' I feel spam-enriched already.)