fine whine

I could talk some more about my tiny cubicle, or I could rant about how Hollywood's really, really going to the dogs.

While I am cheered to occasionally hear updates about a film of the Rudy Rucker (out-of-print-until-recently) classic Master of space and time, which I read as a kid, being made with Jack Black and Michel Gondry, no less, I also have caught word of a Dukes of Hazzard re-hash (I hear it's going to be a comedy, and with Johnny Knoxville and Seann Michael Scott (forever Stifler or half of Dude, where's my car?) and Jessica Simpson and Willie Nelson and so on) being made along with another take on War of the worlds even being made, by Spielberg no less, I can't help but wonder why nobody's trying out new ideas instead of using old ones.

I mean, c'mon. Did Starsky & Hutch do so well that some genius green-lighted the other car show to be a movie? What's next, if it too sells tickets? I've also heard rumblings of a Miami Vice adaptation, and that pretty much leaves Knight rider as one more scratching on the bottom of the barrel.

Seriously, though. I'm basically just waiting for the big screen My mother the car.

In other news, it would seem that I have a free pass all week at work to get nothing done under the guise of "unpacking". Woo hoo. There are also rumblings that I will be in New York for Monday and Tuesday of next week, where I will no doubt have an even smaller work space. If I go.