Random Thoughts 10/1/09

• It's October!!! Best. Month. Ever. It smells like pumpkin pie and bonfire smoke, feels like dry leaves and fuzzy hoodies, and sounds like a high school football game. Mmmm… October.
• Michael Bay is giving the world another Transformers movie, a year sooner than expected. We can now watch $200 million special effects cover up plot holes in 2011.
• I don't usually call them this well, but… in my fantasy football league I drafted rookie backup San Francisco RB Glen Coffee at the end of the draft. Coffee was my super-sleeper. It's week 4 and he is now starting for the next few weeks. It's just too bad that Coffee plays for the 49ers.
• ABC is not a friend to sci-fi nerds. Like other networks (I'm looking at you FOX), ABC is going to keep it's sci-fi on a very short leash. Anything outside the regular formulas (cop drama, medical drama, lawyer drama) must either be a runaway success or will be immediately pulled. The news is that ABC is already skittish with upcoming series like "V" and next spring's "Day One." Both sci-fi shows are getting four hours to prove their worth, or they are getting canned. It almost makes you not want to watch in the first place.
• The most beautiful iPhone apps here.
• The Olympics is a money-pit. I hope Chicago doesn't get it in 2016. Let somebody else lose money like Beijing and London, et al. have hemorrhaged cash (and London hasn't even had theirs yet!). I say let China become the permanent Olympic host until they're at least as bankrupt as we are!
  
• Wow the Chiefs are bad. Really bad.
• Speaking of China… I wonder what Korean War vets think of the Empire State Building being lit up in red and yellow for Communist China's anniversary? Thousands of Americans fought and died to protect the world from the evils of communist China. Now it's celebrated. Wow.