Version 8? What happened to 6 and 7? Let’s just say this redesign has been a long time coming, and it’s still not done, obviously. I’ll be adding features here and there, nothing revolutionary – just what you’ve come to expect from the typical film blog. Hopefully things are easier to read and locate now. I think if I had eliminated any more of the clutter there wouldn’t have been much of a site left! Concerns and criticisms in the comments, please.

Sorry for the lack of updates everyone. I just spent a week with a stomach bug. The keep-a-bucket-near-the-bed kind, yuck. Even spent my b-day in bed. Now, I’m back up at work today and will be updating shortly!

Veidt.com has posted the contents of an email claiming to have information about season 3 of Dexter, Showtime’s hit show (airing edited on CBS) starring Michael C. Hall as a “good” serial killer. For those that haven’t seen it, here’s the basic plot : He works for the Miami Police Department as a blood spatter analyst, and uses his inside pull to let killers go free so he can later hunt them down.

Previously, I had been worried (especially with Dexter’s monologue in the finale stating something about the Dark Passenger feeling like something bigger than himself) that the new season would be based on the third book in the series by Jeff Lindsay, which has been largely disowned by fans of the character for introducing the story element of Dexter being possessed by a supernatural being as the genesis for his murderous desires.

However, it looks like we won’t have to worry about this element seeping into the show (even season 2 was largely new material, while the 1st more or less follows the first book very closely). Here’s the info, straight from the source:

I received an email about the upcoming season 3 of Dexter, from a friend in a position to know, and it contained the following hints of what’s in store:

“…new season seems is trending darker. Again, nothing to do with “Dexter in the Dark”…no body-switching demons. Think more along the lines of the serial killer convention story from Gaiman’s Sandman run, and Suspect Zero.”

The Sandman story referenced is issue #14, it’s an outstanding issue of an epic series, and can be found here. Suspect Zero is a criminally-underrated, 2004 psychological thriller that plays like a horror movie designed to scare serial killers.

This news has me stoked, I can’t wait for September, when the new episodes are set to premiere.

And got a speeding ticket for going 47 in a 35mph zone. Guilty as charged. I take my lumps, pay the ticket, and opt to take Traffic School to keep the points off my license so my insurance rate don’t go up. I find a course I can take online, which is pretty sweet compared to the last time I went through this process way back in 1998.  You remember, back when you had to sit in some dilapidated hotel meeting room for 5 hours with people who haven’t showered for days and listen to a guy attempt to justify the class being marketed as a “Comedy” Driving School course. Trust me, if those were jokes, I’m George F’n Carlin.

I digress… I’m running through the chapters one by one. Each is 25 minutes long, with a little countdown timer on the screen. I’m finding it really hard to actually *read* the material. My web reading habits are so scattered, I don’t think I actually really read anything online anymore – I skim it. If I find something interesting I start reading until it loses my interest, then I go back to skimming. At the bottom of every section are three questions that you must answer correctly to advance. I quickly skim the first article, drop to the bottom of the page, answer all the questions using basic common sense and click next, then wait out the time to start the next section while catching up on Celebrity Rehab.

Not so. The program pops up Yes or No questions while you wait (Doh!). Questions like “Is your name James?” and “Is your license number XXXX-XXXX?” and “Do you live on Such and Such Street?“. Questions that are an obvious YES or NO, and if you don’t answer them quickly – the countdown restarts. Five hours of this. The whole web at my fingertips… TV, DVD’s, video games… all impossible while waiting for this timer to count down. Easily the most torturous online experience of my life, second only to the great AOL busy-tone epidemic of 1994.

Next time, I’m taking the points.

Sorry for the lack of postage on my part fellas, real-life work has taken the drivers wheel these past couple of weeks. It hasn’t all been lollipopin’ and dandelions for me though, I’ve been working on bringing the feeds back to you all in a much bigger way as well as working on a brand new look for the old blogaringadingdong. The current design was fine for the relaunch, but really wasn’t what i wanted (think simpler/less busy). That is, I wasn’t sure what I wanted this blog to look like until I got it back up, then I realized what I didn’t want – and you’re looking at it. New look coming soon, then the posting (on my behalf – Tower’s been doing great keeping the fort down despite a newly acquired Rock Band setup – congrats I’m officially jealous) will resume on a regular schedule. Thanks for sticking with us, it will be guns blazing with the new look. Natch.