Friday!

Mass Effect 2!
This is news that makes me pretty friggin' happy and since it's my friggin' blog you have to hear about it. Mass Effect 2 has a release date! Not only that, it's WAY sooner than I thought it would be. January 26 to be exact. Sweet! When BioWare said they were looking at Q1 2010 release, I was thinking late Q1 rather than early Q1 but early Q1 it is. Yay! Anyway, it's looking like they're offering some sweet perks if you order the game early, too.

Whedon!
Joss Whedon is a solid storyteller and show runner. I think on this we can all agree. But Joss Whedon is not without his flaws. For me, I've always liked that he uses ass-kicking female protagonists in his work. On the other hand, I hate that I can tell he likes that about himself way more than I do. (Quentin Tarantino does that a bit, too.) Ladies kicking ass shouldn't be of note, Joss, they should just be, that's the point of feminism. Anyway... Cracked has an excellent piece on why it sucks to be a fan of Joss Whedon.

Spike!
Anyone seeing Where the Wild Things Are? /Film has a video interview with its filmmaker Spike Jonze if you're interested.

TV Fun!
I love this sort of list. And when I say love, I mean they drive me the kind of crazy where I sit around on the floor crying in my underwear while crushing Chips Ahoy! cookies through my fingers. It's not the list itself, it's the possibility that the information in it may be true that bugs me. Ugh, Heroes is "OK"? Really?  REALLY? Really? Who is fucking who to keep that show on the air? Then there is the inevitable blog-o-sphere backlash against the list (me included, but I think only, like, four or five people are reading this -- thank you, BTW) and that drives me nuts, too. There's the inevitable cries about Dollhouse being "in trouble." Not sure why people are surprised. Then Pop Candy was all incredulous that Parks and Recreation is in trouble. Who thinks it's funny? Answer: no one. Know why? It's not funny. It's not funny, no matter how much we love Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, this guy, et al. And that's okay, Pop Candy. That's okay. You don't have to pretend to care. Or that you watch the show. Besides, when you want to treat a show a like a slow kid who makes some nice macaroni art because they had one funny bit that week, you always have Saturday Night Live to fall back on.

Authors!
Think writers are pompous, wimpy geeks with their fancy book learning and big words and working teeth? You're probably right in that -- but not about all of them! Some of them would/will kick your ass. Check out this list and feel the truth.

And finally…
Hopefully your weekend will be this awesome.