OK, seems as though Keenspace has worked through it's little glitch. However, you (possibly) may have noticed there's no update for Friday. Well, that one was my fault. Hopefully I'll have it up later today.

On an unrelated topic...

Have you seen the new Duck Dodgers show on Cartoon Network? I've seen a bit so far, and it seems to be looking pretty good. It's sleek and well animated, and not pandering to the latest craze...it looks almost like vintage Chuck Jones (which it should, since he did the original short). It's got your favorite characters (even Marvin! hehe), it's got minor characters who made walk-ons in the original cartoons (like Dr. I. Q. Hi and the vampire, though now he apparently eats fat), it's even got hot babes (can you say Martian Queen? Yowza). And it's so refreshing to have the kind of cartoon that's a kind of throwback to the original shorts. It's just classic Warner Bros, and it's something we don't get a lot of anymore. (Am I sounding too old? "Ahh, well, back in my day...")

Even the website is fun, with all sorts of little things to click. The games are a little hard, though. Although that could be due to the fact that I do not have l33t sk1llz.

Speaking of classic Warner Bros, flipping though I watched a few minutes of Bugs n' Daffy, with the whole "duck season/wabbit season" schtick. They were swapping recipes in order to entice Elmer, and he claims, "Oh, I'm a vegetawian. I onwy hunt for the spowt of it." Two things irked me about this statement. One, I'm pretty sure he's attempted to cook rabbit or duck on other occasions. Two, I'm surprised PETA didn't go all apeshit over that. They've had, like what, at least 40 years, right?

I also noticed, since this happened to be a late night viewing, that they left a lot of the gunshots in. You know, where Daffy's beak goes in all kinds of directions, and it's hilarious? It seems like they've been editing out a lot of "cartoon violence" in recent years (not that I've been monitoring, but I'm sure it's been happening). Understandable in some respects, but then there's the whole "kids are smart enough to know better" argument, of which I would lean more toward. (Damn, that sounds like a grammatical nightmare.) I would like to think kids know better, but then there are stories of kids lighting fires because of Beavis and Butt-head (or leprechauns, I dunno). I'm starting to worry that we're breeding stupider children with each passing generation. Well, part of it is the whole stupid political-correctness thing too. *sigh* Ah well.
posted by Tim at 1:50 AM