The Nintendo 3DS just came out today. Immediately after first service at church we ran over to Gamestop and my eldest picked up his reserved copy, amidst a small crowd of fat smelly guys and average-looking gamer girls dressed up like aliens. In Nebraska.

Earlier today, Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head, along with as many as sixteen other people. The story's been bouncing around back and forth for a while - she's dead/she's not, a whole bunch of people are dead/not so many people are dead - I don't know the specifics, I don't think anyone fully knows it right now, though obviously the details will be everywhere in the next few days.

I've rambled on a bit about the decline of The Venture Brothers over the past two years, a show that I absolutely adored when it first came out, and loved for most of it's run, even the third season where most people started bailing out. If I've been harsh on the show, it's because I loved it once. It felt like it was the kind of thing that was made *Exclusively* for me, personally, and then, suddenly, it wasn't any more.

The Hollywood Reporter (No, I've never heard of it before either. Must be a local Florida paper or something) is reporting that FlashForward, the ambitious, experimental, but ultimately not-very-good SF series on ABC is dead, dead, deadily-dead.

Did I say 'dead?' That's actually a bit premature. The story doesn't actually *Say* FF is dead, but it's "Unlikely to return," this after its initial episode order was already whittled down by several hours several months back.