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Change, change, change and the 90s a blog-cum-essay that Neil Gaiman linked to several days ago. I really thought it good and insightful into what people like about the Sandman, why it gets into people's skins.

I will say that I think the one flaw is that writer underestimates teenagers. I'm sure there are teens who read Gaiman's Sandman with the thought that it was some vast teenage allegory about high school on the cosmic level but I suspect that view is post-shaded by your own impression of yourself at sixteen. It's missing what makes the best YA literature last: it's because you're taking something important about life and the adult you want to become from it.

I think it's important to note that I reserve a special hell for television and literature that is all a deep metaphor about fuckin' High School. As if the High School experience were the most interesting bits about becoming an adult. (Case in point: The first seasons of Buffy suck ass. It only gets interesting when they all graduate.)

I also thought these paintings by Laurie Hogan were really interesting.

Christmas Cheer: The Writers of Doctor Who and their favorite Christmas music.

I got reminded today that, even in Las Vegas, there is nothing to do for the next two days and all of my friends are too busy with their families. Which sucks because I'm not sure I laid in enough television provisions to last two days... but maybe I'll accomplish some writing.

Aaron Sorkin feels guilty about Studio 60.

Also met with the head of HBO programming, calls the internet a "bronchial infection on the First Amendment" (really, Sorkin, really?) and tells a hilarious story about trying a dinner where he and a bunch of other famous screenwriters tried to pressure an end to the Writer's Strike. The money quote: I know it sounds like a bunch of revolutionaries getting together to do the right thing, but you should know the dinner was catered.

The cut scene from Iron Man with Ghostface Killa. Kinda glad they left this out, even if I like his 'I have a giant glowing pill counter in my chest' performance anxiety.

Scottish penguin knighted by the King of Norway.

Hee.

Swedish wrestler stripped of bronze medal.

Good. What a poor sport.