Someone I’m acquainted asked me today about printing my comic (the Gifted ashcan) and my plans for the future, and I started off on a long, rambling tirade (but quiet. A quirade) about how I’m pretty hopelessly depressed about writing and the like lately. How I’ve been querying agents the past few weeks and artists for work on other projects, and with the exception of one agent, none have given me the courtesy of a rejection, just a blank empty nothingness that says “You are beneath me, I shall not respond to your ridiculous requests.” The whole thing has just really bugged me and it makes me feel like I can’t work at all.

Then I realized that she meant “Where and how did I physically get it printed?” and I glumly said Kinkos.

So that’s what creativity has been like for me lately. Everything else is pretty fucking sweet.

TV

Fringe - Is very entertaining, like a very early X-files. No real connections to any of the characters yet, as its been mostly plot. A small cast will do that, and if they aren’t careful this will hurt them in the long run.

Terminator - Shirley Manson is a T1000? Really? I mean, I geeked out hard when there was a T1000, because I was telling someone before the premiere that you could absolutely do a 1000 on TV now and have it look like the movie nearly 15 years ago. AND THEN THEY FUCKING DID IT! Sweet! And this weeks Cameron secret origin was great. A Terminator civil war? Yes. They need to have a vote in Terminator congress to talk about the proposed bailout of Terminator Wall Street, and if their continued unending War on John Connor will ever amount to anything more than wasted Terminator lives and billions of Terminator dollars. Terminator Larry King should have them debate this on his show, after a debate moderated by Jim Lerher (he’s not a Terminator, though).

Ugly Betty - Fun, typical, Betty. No big surprises yet.

Heroes - I said that if they start the season again with someone going to the future and then coming back with a warning of great disaster then I am going to stop watching. They called my bluff. It is seriously every story they have ever had on this show, already. After a season and a half. Ali Larter is trying to understand her powers and come to terms with them. Global disaster from the future. Hiro is naive. A character goes on a long journey by himself to discover a great revelation. Irritatingly, it’s still entertaining and I’ll watch, but seriously, you guys are in trouble. Shape the fuck up.

True Blood - Every place I hang out online seems to hate this show, but I enjoy it. I never really get down with the whole anthropomorphizing of Vampires (except Buffy), and this straddles the line really close. However, they are still fairly ferocious, if not sexsexsex Vampires, and that’s to be expected. Anna Paquin needs to see the dentist, though. Mind the gap.

Dexter - Good, solid first episode. Big cliffhanger, so I’m pleased.

Gossip Girl - I will fully admit…I like this show. It is trash, delicious, soap opera-y trash, but its lowest common denominator fun. Despite the fact it exists in an alternate universe where the drinking age is 7, and that most plot points you can see coming like Vegas at night. However, it will throw you a curve ball every once and a while, so that’s good.

Boston Legal - Last season jitters. I hope Denny goes off his meds and becomes, well, competent. That’d be a twist.

Desperate Housewives - Again, a good pick-up of last seasons flash forward. I knew Mike wasn’t dead, though, and I’m waiting for Lynette’s evil stepdaughter that they sent away to come back as a total fucking psycho teenager. With knives and a gun. Plus, Edie’s new husband (Lt. Hawk from Star Trek First Contact) is the right kind of creepy.

Project Runway - I’m amused that Kenzie is having the “Grrr I hate that person” reaction when it comes to Kenley, as I had that with the neck tattoo retard and the Fierce guy.

Entourage - Remains entertaining.

SNL - I would accept 4 years of McCain/Palin for 4 years of Tina Fey as Palin. Every time I see those sketches I take about a year off my life laughing.

The schedule is brutal though, as the week is front loaded with a lot of shows on top of each other. No Monday Night football for me this year. Speaking of, the Giants are 3-0. I’m happy, despite the fact that they had to go into overtime to beat the Bengals (really? really?) and its not how you start, but how you finish (remember last year? I do.)

The only other bad thing is that tonight my phone broke, and the battery has to be rubber banded/taped into place so it stays on. Thankfully, I’m eligible for a phone upgrade next week. I think I’m going to invest in a Blackberry-esque phone so I can keep my work shit organized. We’ll see, because I don’t want to have to pay for the data package, but if not that then what’s the point?

Which brings me back to where I started.