It pretty much looks like tomorrow will be a return to normal after the holidays, from all signs. We'll see more posts and new content all over the internet starting tomorrow. The good thing is that there'll be a routine again. The bad thing is that there'll be a routine again. I took the outside decorations down today. I removed the ribbon from the columns and wrapped each of them up. I'll have to shorten a couple of them if I use them next Christmas, but the groundwork has been done this past holiday season. And the nails are still up for me to hang the lights on next holiday season as well. Kathy took down some of the ornaments off of the tree, and it looks like the rest of them (and the tree) will be taken down tomorrow. It's sad that it has to be done, but it doesn't do much good to have them up any longer.

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Okay, other sites have reported this, but I never said I was THE place for news like this. And that I couldn't participate in the fun. So let the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments commence, Matt Smith is going to be the next Doctor. That link had a picture, which I'm sure you wanted to see, and the BBC has more information here. And earlier today Kathleen David wrote a good piece to put fans' wants in perspective. And you're going to turn in, at least the first one, right? I go through the same thing with Kathy, she's not sure about the actor they've chosen as the next Doctor until she watches him in action in the first story and decides he'll do, and she likes him more and more, until they say another actor's taking over the role, and we start all over again.

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If you're like me and other comics fans you don't necessarily follow the Spider-man comic strip as you do the comics. Or just don't follow the comic books anymore. But it looks like the comic strip is now in line with the comic book continuity. And oddly enough, the explanation in the comic strips makes more sense than the one in the comic books.

Boy, it's amazing what all you can order online nowadays, isn't it? You can get just about anything you want online, and usually very quickly. One example of that is with watches. If you're in the market for Fendi watches or many different brands they have available such as Citizen watches, Seiko watches, Bulova watches, Victorinox Swiss Army and Nixon timepieces.

Kenmar Watches website is very easy to navigate if you're in the market for a watch. You can search by price range, style, brand or more. And they have a toll-free number where you can talk to a representative, but they announce on their website that it's closed until Monday January 5th to let people spend time with their families on the holidays, so if you have a question I guess you'll have to wait until then to call. And they've got this thing with Yahoo! Babel Fish where you can translate a page into a different language, which is a pretty neat feature, I guess. And their site is pretty quick to come up with pages when you click on the link. So it looks like a good site to shop for watches.

Things are still slow around the internet tubes. Looks like it'll start getting back to normal on Monday, when the holidays are over. Meanwhile, here's the latest Comic Book Urban Legends and new Roger Ebert Movie Answerman column. And The Beat has confirmed the rumors that the next actor to portray Doctor Who will be announced tomorrow. Read the articles and place your bets. It's something to do until Monday.

And here's another follow up, this time about Popeye now being in the public domain in Europe. As far as certain things entering the public domain when it's still out there I don't think much if anything will change because people will be afraid of lawsuits even if they're in the clear. Or actually, not being able to afford to defend themselves from lawsuits for big corporations. Case in point: the Walt And Skeezix reprints from Drawn And Quarterly. There have been 3 volumes published so far, but it's on hold right now because Tribune Media is threatening a lawsuit, and even though the material in question is in public domain (and published under a different name than the strip) they can't afford to fight a lawsuit. And again, as I said before, there isn't as many comic strip publications as there used to be. You don't see any paperback collections anymore, and other than the big guns you don't see any others. And the recent renaissance of strip reprints started with the "Complete Peanuts" haven't brought out that much more. So I guess my point is that it stinks that 1)large corporations can fend off any attempts to use material in the public domain with a little sabre-rattling, and 2) there aren't as many comic strip collections out there that there should be.

Here's a follow-up to yesterday's piece about the latest cable showdown. It looks like an agreement has been reached. But it's for now, and how much longer until the next cable showdown takes place? And will your cable source be the next participant? Plus, in all the articles about this showdown I found it interesting that it was noted that cutting off Comedy Central meant no more Daily Show or Colbert Report, but no mention of South Park. Nothing against that show, as I said, worth a mention.

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