I can so few things with absolute certainty, but this is one of them: anyone who buys one of these is a twat.

For whatever reason I’ve been having a really shitty week-and-a-half, but it’s funny how one quick note of appreciation from a colleague (which he happens to copy to your boss, which he in turn send to his boss) can make such a difference. I still feel exhausted (without really knowing why), and I’m definitely getting sick — my throat feels like I did a shot of wasabe — but I feel a little less…I dunno, downtrodden than before.

Now if the frickin’ SUN WOULD JUST COME OUT!!!!!

Anytime a network executive says something dumbass like “extend a brand”, you know it means trouble, whether or not it’s tongue in cheek. ‘Cause he may be winking as he says it, but you know he’s still thinking it.

‘Daily Show’ Personality Gets His Own Platform

Why would they mess with one of their most popular shows? I know there’s no way to keep Colbert from leaving, but why would they try to piggyback on The Daily Show, even talking about split screen handovers? The core audience of The Daily Show like to consider themselves overflowing with detached irony; what makes them think a transparent marketing ploy is going to win them fans?

Youth And Young Manhood by Kings Of Leon arrived today. I was hoping With Teeth would arrive too, but no such luck. Future Shop’s usually pretty good about shipping early so that things arrive on the release date, but I can imagine how many orders for a new NIN disc there must be.

Still waiting on pre-orders of the new Spoon and Sleater-Kinney too.

Ever have one of those days where you think about something you did at 7:30 this morning and it seems like yesterday?

Goddammit, it’s May. No more hail and freezing temperatures!!

Yeesh, are we ever having good luck with the films we pick at festivals! Hot Docs announced their award winners today, and the audience price went to Street Fight [my review]. While we didn’t rate it as highly as Murderball, it was terrific and a worthy winner.

One minor regret: the winner for best first documentary was The Devil’s Miner, which we were supposed to see but couldn’t because I had Arcade Fire tickets. And while I wouldn’t have passed up that concert for anything, it’s too bad that we had to miss this documentary; sounds like it was a good one.

Changed desks today. Really my whole division is in the process of changing departments and/or desks, so today was a bit of a zoo…everybody running around trying to find everything, locate printers, find missing chairs. I travel light (that is, I keep no paper whatsoever and don’t have much personal junk on my desk), so I was unpacked by 9:00 and got a decent day’s work done. First in a while actually; I’ve been in a real lull lately. I blame the weather. And my chronic laziness, but mostly the weather.

All CDs and loose MP3s are now on the Nomad. Tags have been fixed, files have been renamed, playlists have…not been created. But the random feature’s pretty sweet.

Addictive. So very, very addictive.