Money starts becoming an issue in “Shaking the Cookie Jar.”

Every time I get a favourite show on TV that my week starts to form itself around (first Firefly, then Arrested Development), the World At Large reminds me that it would far rather fill the networks with the fine quality and fulfilling entertainment found in any of literally dozens of reality game shows. I hate that about the world. I really do.

So, I’m not sure why it was such a painful surprise when I read about the cancellation of Pushing Daisies on io9.com today. I KNOW it was a total rip off of Amélie , but I loved it anyway. It was a bright and funny and cute place to visit every week, and the world will be a dark and far more dreary place without it.

I know Fuller said he’d wrap it up in comic form, but, even being the comic nut I am, I think that’ll end up falling too far from the mark.

A follow up "Boo-urns" to you too, TV watching audiences. "Boo-urns."

I tried to watch the Colbert Report and the Daily Show last night for the first time in a long while. I used to be a big fan of both shows and their respective subversive and not so subversive humour, but, after years and years, it started to bring me down. While the jesters were funny and the Court was laughing, no one was doing a damn thing about it and the status quo remained King.

Well, I gave it another shot last night. Sadly, (while I still love Stewart and the whole crew) the Daily Show felt flat without an idiot ruling the free world or the power behind the throne shooting people in the face. Colbert just irritated me, and I think I know why. A while ago, at the Publick Nuisance blog of my much loved Venture Brothers, I read this:

Mr. Stephen Colbert has decided not to reprise his role as Professor Impossible this season, for reasons which probably have something to do with him being all super-famous, super-busy, and no longer in need of a few hundred bucks here and there. We figured this would happen eventually, considering his monumental success in the years since our first season, but we held out hope that the WGA strike would leave him with enough bored free time on his hands that he’d have a go at it. But after getting shuffled around from his assistant to his assistant’s assistant to his agent to his manager, one of them finally shot us an email saying: “Stephen has neither the time nor the interest in participating in your project.”

Was the “nor the interest” really necessary? I would have bought the “time” part without question, but man…you gotta kick a guy when he’s down like that? Well maybe I’m not interested in your ice cream, mister! Or your book. Unless someone buys it for me for Christmas.

I gotta say, that kind of… I dunno… stardom(?) really bugs me. I can’t imagine ever being in the mind frame that I would treat ANYONE I’d ever worked with that little respect. Even if, for whatever reason, I wasn’t interested in working with them again, I’d make sure they got an upfront, personal, and professional explanation. To so completely dismiss people you’ve worked with during your rise to stardom is pretty gosh darn uncool. It’s a long time after the fact, but I’m afraid you’re getting a “Boo-urns” on this one, Mr. Colbert.

The boys at A.T.H.U.G. are at it again! This time, Wally and Jason have done an interview for Pinkraygun.com.

Momma always said, “Creepy Is As Creepy Does,” and Winter is no exception.

Vagabond’s back (and the girls, no less) with an appearance that’s seriously hard to miss in the A.T.H.U.G. webcomic. Much thanks, guys. That’s mightly flattering.

http://www.athug.org/10.html

Susan dreams in technicolour in “Through the Looking Glass.”

Looks like the folks at A.T.H.U.G. have taken an interest in Hits-In-Head-With-Bottle-Guy.

http://athug.org/blog/?p=48

Careful with him, boys. Bottle Guy’s a bit of a loose cannon.