Me Like Media Too

MTV decided to show the Tom Green Subway Monkey Fun special again last night, so I have it on tape now, too. Missed a new episode of X-Files to see it (which is probably actually a good thing now that I think about it, since it was apparently one of those "let's do a goofy episode to show off how clever we are" episodes, not to mention the general quality of the show these days). I appreciate the offer though Rusty.

I'm looking forward to Spider-Man too. He's my favorite superhero character--an ordinary guy who leads an ordinary life and can never seem to get a break, always struggling to follow his conscience and live up to his uncle's advice about power and responsibility, despite all the crap life throws at him even when he does do the right thing. What I've seen from the previews looks good, and I think Sam Raimi can make this work.

April is looking to be a really good month for animation DVDs--several Gundam discs, Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis (with the Cowboy Bebop movie trailer!), Evangelion boxset, Transformers season 1 boxset, Batman: The Animated Series Vol. 1, and the long-awaited unedited version of Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.

I may have spoken a little too harshly about Angelfire, as their "contact us" form has reappeared, the bandwidth outages appear to have ended (for now), and they finally sent out an email about the change in the amount of storage space this weekend. We'll see how things go, though. (Bravepages does look like a better deal)

And now, a serious message about a serious and controversial topic:

Daylight Savings Time needs to be stopped. There is no need for it. If you find that you really do for some reason need an "extra" hour of daylight to work or whatever, then just go to bed an hour earlier, and get up an hour earlier on your own. Don't force your needless stress-causing wake/sleep cycle changes on other people's bodies. If there is some real need for having the clocks set an hour ahead, why do it only for part of the year? Why not make it Daylight Savings Time all year round so we won't have to bother changing our (both mechanical and internal biological) clocks at all? Who needs that hassle and stress?

It's no doubt an economic liability as well. How many hours of work are missed this time each year because people forgot to adjust their alarm clocks? Think about all those people feeling tired from having to wake up earlier, hurting their productivity on the job, hurting our economy in turn. I urge you all to write to your congressperson, urging them to take measures to ban this unfair, wasteful, stress-causing, and unhealthy practice. Join me in the fight against this oppression!