MIND BLITZ
* My Name Is Earl Season 2 has started. Still good, though it's not feeling essential viewing any more. Possibly because I started watching The Office (us). Even though I'm prefering The Office, I'm deleting eps as I go, yet hanging onto …Earl. Something about The Office's feeling of unease makes it un-rewatchable for me.
* The South Park World of Warcraft was… OK. The balancing act it was doing of trying to please fans, people who have no idea what it involves and Blizzard made it an odd watch, with curiously little in the way of satirical messages. There was ALMOST something there about withdrawing troops from Iraq, but it didn't get developed. Still for what it was, a mainstream machina experiment, it worked.
* One Piece has now made me cry TWICE this week. The anime and the manga. And I finally worked out why it has the best crying in anime/manga – snot. The fact characters that who cry, regardless of who they are, get that dribble of snot from their nose that you get when you really gush, makes all the difference.
* Final (?) 7 episode season of Harvey Birdman started. Probably for the best as this one felt a little tired. And also because whatever they did with Shazzan could never be as funny as what Robert Smigel did with him on TV Funhouse.
* That Lupe Fiasco album is aces. However… a 3 minute intro? And more to the however, a TWELVE minute outro, with the most excessive shouting out known to man? Is there a track anywhere that exceeds this shout out-osity?
* Been enjoying the second Venture Bros season and likewise the just finished Tom Goes To The Mayor. Both seem not afraid to turn into horror shows as required. And TGTTM had Bob Odenkirk reprising some Mr Show characters in everything but name, so that was cool too. Apparantly Tim and Eric are doing a sketch show next for Adult Swim, which should be interesting.
* FOUR freshly subbed Kemonozume episodes this week. This is my favourite thing. It should be your favourite thing too. GO WATCH NOW, AND MAYBE I DON'T SET THE DOGS ON YOU, YES?