• Home and chilling with the laptop while the laundry cranks away. #
• Up before the rest of the house. SHould go put some laundry in the washer. #
• Nice quiet Sunday. Laundry, errands, and fun with the kid. #
• Hey everyone – say hi to new tweeter @yasko and show him some twitter love – he needs some followers! #

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• Weekend errands complete. Off to the in-laws for dinner later. Right now chilling. #
• Everyone say hi to new Tweeter @yasko – maybe he’ll post more if he gets more followers! He is in Central NJ! #
• At in-laws. Prime rib dinner done. #

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• At work, contemplating IMAPI errors and listening to TWiT. #
• Damn, Safari for Windows really renders pages beautifully – looks like I’m browsing on a Mac. But it just isn’t as robust as Firefox! #
• Flogging Molly "Requiem" up on iPod. I may have to check out more stuff from this band! #
• @bpende: I found the new POTUSA to be well balanced – not that pop, but just enough. Then again I love power pop. Fountains Of Wayne rule! #
• FISHBONE! "Party at Ground Zero". Half hour till I leave for the weekend. This is getting me totally pumped! #
• Going to dye Easter eggs… #

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• At work, headache again. Must go find Advil. #
• Chinese food ordered. Yum. #

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• At work and the help desk has been jumpin’ this morning. #
• Cool! TIvo Desktop 2.6 lets you watch video podcasts downloaded through iTunes through the TIVO. #
• Playing with Safari for Windows. I like the way it renders pages and RSS feeds, but it lacks a lot of advanced features. #
• Is there no sidebar for Safari? Mac users – enlighten me – does Safari have a sidebar on the Mac? #
• Looking at Friendfeed and trying to figure out its value…. #
• @bpende: Us Joisey guyz and galz gotta sticks tagedda, knowwhatImean? #
• @banannie: Is this like color war at camp? #
• @steverubel: Zappos is amazing. Bought sneakers last week from them. Took free shipping option. They upgraded me to 2 day shipping free. #
• @steverubel: Moreover the sneaks arrived in only 1 day. That was from a Friday evening, 8 PM to Monday morning I had my sneakers #

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• Mornin’ Twitterbuds. Work is quiet and I get to have my breakfast in peace. And that will probably jinx me. #
• Just realized the @jonathancoulton MP3s I bought from iTunes have DRM on them. That sucks. I thought all his iTunes stuff was DRM free #
• @mainpa Edible easter grass? Such a thing exists? #
• @yasko: General’s CHicken? #
• Let’s see….lunch done, now on to…..hmmmm…… #
• ALmost outta here….time to pick up the kid and head on home. #
• Home, dinner done, watching NBC news. #

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• Up and ready to head out to work. Tired though, got to bed too late. #
• @alyssab: There is no standard. Whatever is special to you, is special to you! #
• Already thinking about lunch. Teriyaki Boy Monday. Can’t come soon enough! #
• @mufan86: It’s up here for me. #
• I HAVE to get myself one of these Zibra Open It things: http://www.enjoyzibra.com/openit/ #

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• Watching this week’s Lost. #
• Up and kid is up too. Fairly Oddparents about to start and cereal has been poured. #
• The smell of Corned beef and cabbage has filled the house. Can’t wait for dinner! #

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• At work, printer jams resolved, and listening to This American Life #350. This rubber room story is bizarre. #
• "Walk The Dinosaur" – Was(Not Was) up on shuffle on iPod. Doesn’t get much goofier than this…. #
• Hmm…Styx’ "Show Me The Way" up now on iPod. Does anyone else remember this as a Gulf War 1991 song? #
• I remember radio stations putting messages for the troops in between the lyrics for that song. #
• What will help a sinus headache more – Advil or Aleve? #
• @bpende: Well, the nose gargling is out here at work. Figure Advil will suffice for now. #
• I find it amazing that Amazon still has on file all the stuff I’ve EVER ordered from them – all the way back to 1998! #
• @banannie: Lego Cake. One cake cooked in pan. Cupcakes on top to fit. Frosted, looks like piece of Lego. #
• Saw @cc_chapman made it for his son’s birthday. Pic in his flickr feed. #
• Home, pizza ordered. D&D tonight. #

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I’ve been reading through the collected “Y- The Last Man” comic books the past few weeks – there’s nine volumes and I got them from the library. It’s the story of what might happen if all the males of the world were wiped out in one fell swoop – minus one guy who is the last man on earth. It’s a really amazing series, and I can’t wait to get to the end to see what happens. What is really amazing to me is the amount of stories and the ground that is covered in the series. They travel the world, seeking answers for why the plague happened, and they explore the intricacies of a post-male world. Just incredible stuff, and for nine – soon to be ten collections – that’s 60 issues of the comic it goes on. They delve into a variety of subplots, and ancillary characters come and go.

So I’m totally and completely puzzled why they want to make it into a three movie series, which would amount to a mere six hours of storytelling – when it would actually be much better suited to being a nice 5 season TV series. A comic book like this is literally a pretty darn good storyboard for a nice long series. I’m not talking about a network show either – perhaps something along the lines of an HBO series – so they could use the full extent of language and sexual content. Maybe 5 seasons of ten episodes apiece – that would so the comic justice. But three movies? We’re going to lose a LOT of storytelling and depth. Moreover -it’s the kind of thing that can build a large and loyal fanbase over a period of months and years, rather than smack people in the face once every two years for six years (which is about what I figure for production time and release time). “Y” is just the perfect series to be brought to TV as well – and action adventure with a variety of settings, a lot of characters – it just makes so much sense on so many levels.

This is not the only series I’ve given this thought to either. While Harry Potter was certainly of movie blockbuster status as a phenomenon – the movies are pretty much disappointing for anyone who has read any of the books. The compromises made to fit in the key points of the mythos are sometimes extreme. Wouldn’t it have been much greater fun to have a TV series – where all the intricacies of Hogwarts could have been explored? I know, I know…there’s budget issues…but I’d gladly have taken a somewhat lower budget Harry for better storytelling. I wouldn’t be keen on turning it into “Hogwarts 90210″ – but at least we could have had some more Quidditch. I guess though once the Hollywood studios get a hold of something – they will milk it for all its’ worth, as seen by how much money they can make from it for that particular year, rather than do the actual artistic works real justice.

I’m sure there are other book series this could apply to in other genres I’m not as familiar with. I’ve not seen the Bourne series – but did those stand up to the books? How about some romance novels? Does anyone else feel that movies give book series the short shrift, and that a TV series would be able to fulfill a lot more?

–*Rob