Noooo! The show came back from the brink of cancellation to be renewed for the 3rd season — but now that season will be shortened and the show cancelled!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051111/en_nm/shows_dc

Arrested Development is probably my favorite show on television. Definitely my favorite comedy sitcom. It’s brilliant! I can re-watch the shows and discover new layers of comedy that I had entirely missed. Just the other weekend a friend of mine said that it was “even better than the simpsons!” EVEN BETTER THAN THE SIMPSONS! Do you hear that fox? Please don’t cancel the show!

Ok, now I need to get up off my knees and go buy the show on DVD. I don’t know what else I can do, maybe start a site like neverevercancelarresteddevelopmentoriwillbereallysad.net (.com is clearly already taken, good domains are scarce). I’m too tired to do that know, maybe I’ll do that tomorrow.

. . . as luck would have it, I get to go see Lewis Black live at the Wiltern! Some friends had extra tickets and I couldn’t be more excited! (well, my excitement is currently enhanced by a killer sugar-high, but even so! w00t!) I expect to be laughing so hard my stomach will ache. My only wonder is what his routine will be, will it be similar to his recent HBO special? Or all new? The show is titled “Nothing’s Sacred” — I guess that’s new, eh, either way, I’ll love it. Anyway, if you’re going as well, I’ll be one of the many people ROTFLMFAO. Yes!

The Wiltern Event Detail Page

Oh, and this reminds me, I also want to see John Leguizamo live if I ever get the chance.

Sweet (literally), we just went on a Candy Run! Now we’re all stocked up and ready for the next sugar high. The great thing too is that we’ve hidden it all away from ‘ol w00t’s McGee! hee-hee-hee-hee. The candy has already shifted to be xmas/holiday themed. And, sadly, the giant, fuck-all (thanks to Lewis Black for introducing me to this great use of the f-word – which has long been in use by the British) bags of candy only come out for halloween time. We were limited to buying candy in whoop-dee-shit (thanks to w00t’s for this great curse phrase), 3lb bags or less (no more 5lb bags).

Do I think I can sustain two blog posts a day (one here and one at another blog)? A sweet lychee gel will be my reward if I succeed! Well, at least one post a day, for two weeks and then I have my lychee gel. (In case you don’t know, I am, in fact hording lychee gels. I have about 4 more (of the awesome kind in the banner picture that are currently banned by the FDA). I’ve been very amazed at my ability to not eat them all immediately. Very amazed.

view of avalon

Originally uploaded by benchristen.

I just wanted to post this . . . I saw it come up in my sidebar and thought, “now, that’s a nice pic, I wish it had more views on flickr.” Also, I need to spend more time doing photo! I haven’t spent serious time on photo in quite a while (actually taking my camera out for the purpose of getting some nice shots vs. random shots with my cell phone).

Yes! bendogg.monathecat.com now featuring a 3rd column completely full of ads! Hopefully I can get about three-fitty a year in ad revenue off this site!

I got really excited in the Oakland airport today when I saw that the entire terminal has WiFi. So excited, in fact, that I b-lined for a seat and got out the lappy (laptop) to try and connect. Well, I don’t know why I got the impression it would be free – cause it wasn’t. And, I should have known better. Anyway, good to know if I need to send an urgent email in Oakland and I don’t mind the $9.95 then I’m all set. Also, it’s a Sprint network — wouldn’t it have been great to find out that they offer the service free to pre-existing PCS customers? A passionate user I would have been.

This week I’ve been recovering from an ear infection which has caused impaired hearing. It’s interesting to take note of what it’s like only having half my hearing. For one, I’m totally off my game. I shy away from talking to people or long conversations because I know I’ll miss most of it – and don’t know how the other person would react. Walking around the office, I don’t know if someone is trying to get my attention and thinking that I’m blowing them off (when, in reality, I’m not consciously blowing them off). Also, I’m basically hearing everything in mono – so when there are more than two people talking, it’s very hard to focus in on any one conversation. And, I don’t really know how loud I’m talking. Monday I was speaking at near whisper (which, is kind of close to my already low and mumbly speak). Anyway, just interesting to see for a bit (thank god it’s not permanent!) how it would be to not have 100% of my hearing. It gives me a lot more sympathy for those without it. Makes me think of an older relative who now can’t really go to parties because they can’t hear too well. In those situations you just don’t know what’s going on and it all amounts to a lot of confusion and people wondering why you’re confused — that sucks!

The coolest thing though — today I found out that if I open my mouth just right, I can hear the ocean!

Crazy! It has come down to this final weekend for the Red Sox, Yankees and Indians. The Red Sox basically have to sweep the Yankees this weekend and hope that Cleveland doesn’t do the same to the White Sox. The drama! Awesome.

This article explains it all (ESPN)

This is good solace for losing in the first round of my fantasy baseball league playoffs.