slow going

There has just been almost nothing worth blogging about these days. I was planning on writing a rather gleeful post about the Cardinals this afternoon, but after two straight disappointing losses at Detroit I just can't get into it. Maybe they'll repay KC with a sweep this weekend and break even for this stretch of interleague play. I could be happy with that.

I just watched another character disappear off the great BBC show Spooks. Very few of the original cast members are left, and not only does the show handle the exits in interesting and unexpected ways, but it manages to maintain its quality despite the turnover. Be careful on the website, however, if you haven't seen any or much of the show. Spoilers abound in the character profiles.

Saw the Get Smart movie over this past weekend. I was entertained. People seem to be complaining largely on the grounds that they made too much of an action movie for it to be a faithful adaptation of a show that was largely slapstick and verbal humor. Personally I'm not sure you could sustain a feature film on shoe-phone and "missed it by that much" jokes. I think there were enough nods in there to the original show without being too campy about it. Primarily, though, the cast is just too good for this movie to be bad. Alan Arkin is great fun, Steve Carrell is his usual self, and there's an amusing Bill Murray cameo. So I enjoyed it.