{"id":3344,"date":"2009-02-26T17:30:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T22:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2009-02-26T21:53:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T02:53:47","slug":"thursday-various-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3344","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Andy Richter comes full circle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/2009\/02\/24\/andy-richter-is-rejoining-conan-on-the-tonight-show\/\">re-joining Conan O&#8217;Brien<\/a> on <em>The Tonight Show<\/em>. Anything that keeps him from starring in another Olsen Twins movie, I guess.<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=14895\"><em>The Middleman<\/em> has been canceled<\/a>. This has been a long time coming, and not really a surprise, but I&#8217;m still bummed out by the news. One of the things I did instead of watching the train wrech\/best show ever that was last Sunday&#8217;s Oscar ceremony was finally watch the last episode of <em>The Middleman<\/em>. And it was as delightful and silly and smart as all the (all too few) others.<\/font><\/li>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>What I do want to know is: when&#8217;s <em>The Middleman<\/em> Paley Center tribute? Heaven knows they&#8217;re honoring shows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2009_02_18.html#016687\">that have been on the air even less<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Meanwhile, though, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2AizV9vmGG0\"><em>Torchwood<\/em> returns<\/a>, albeit with a short miniseries and not until this summer. It looks quite good, though, from the trailer. I recently re-watched Season 2 and was pleased to discover that by and large it actually was as good as I remember &#8212; not just when compared to the pretty dire first season, but genuinely good science fiction all on its own.<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">While I&#8217;d personally like to see the Joker not return in the inevitable <em>Dark Knight<\/em> sequel &#8212; in that universe, who could replace Ledger&#8217;s iconic performance? &#8212; I think it&#8217;s just plain silly to think the character, which didn&#8217;t originate with him, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmjunk.com\/2009\/02\/13\/heath-ledger-fans-want-the-joker-retired-from-film-forever\/\">should be retired<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">And finally, how did I miss this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/oddlyEnoughNews\/idUSTRE50M4XT20090124?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=oddlyEnoughNews\">Goat detained over armed robbery<\/a> story? [<a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/bondgirl\/\" title=\"Gwenda Bond\">via<\/a>]<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Richter comes full circle, re-joining Conan O&#8217;Brien on The Tonight Show. Anything that keeps him from starring in another Olsen Twins movie, I guess. The Middleman has been canceled. This has been a long time coming, and not really a surprise, but I&#8217;m still bummed out by the news. One of the things I &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3344\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}