Guns are too dangerous and too easy to get in America, our gun control measures suck, and our tragedy-driven 24-7 news media feeds into the death-egos of psychos. And once again, because the killer was white, not a single news article mentions his race. If he had been black, Asian, Muslim, gay or any other minority category, that's all we would hear about. Seriously, you can watch this happen every time. The next time some dude goes batshit, check the news and watch institutionalized racism in action.

Roger Rabbit. Erm.

You know what movie doesn't hold up, twenty years later? Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The murder "mystery" plot is threadbare and clueless. The animation integration is lousy. Much of the animation itself is lousy. Roger's voice is embarrassingly grating. The constant Warner Bros character cameos only underscore how much of the Looney Tunes library is completely unseen these days. If you made this movie today, no one would even want Bugs Bunny in it.

Not that I'm begrudging it as a museum piece, as a stepping stone towards animation's more liberal acceptance today (OMG! Cartoon characters can swear!)... it's just a far better movie in my 1988 memory.

I'm officially inconsolable on BG&E.

Somebody put together a list of (mostly) exclusive GameCube games that Wii owners might want to look into and of course Beyond Good & Evil shows up and everybody starts jumping in to lionize it.

I just don't get it. The story sucked. The ugly people are the bad guys. Their plan is pathetically obvious. All the good characters fall all over themselves to help you out, and the entire "resistance movement" comes down to you snapping three photographs. Sure, the gameplay is good, but it's too short, too linear and there's too little of it. BG&E belongs nowhere near the likes of Wind Waker, Mario Sunshine, Chibi-Robo, or Eternal Darkness. It doesn't even rate against Ratchet & Clank.

$3 saved!

I was going to buy Tiny Titans #1 this week until I saw that DC is making that one of the free books for this year's Free Comic Book Day.

Multiple inputs are the shiz-nit.

One of the greatest upgrades with the new TV is the amount of inputs built in to the box. I used to have an RCA/s-video router handling all of my video, plus secondary lines taking all the audio into the surround sound receiver. Now everything goes into the Sony and one audio goes out to the receiver.

Although I am exceptionally curious as to why Sony would number the HDMI inputs thusly: 1 (on back), 2 (on side), 3 (on back, right beside 1). That was pretty damned confusing for a few minutes when I couldn't figure out why HDMI 2 wasn't showing video... because I plugged into 1 and 3.

PixelJunk Monsters is reason enough to buy a PS3.

Mike and I spent all weekend playing it. All weekend. And we still couldn't even open up the final difficulty tier! Somehow, this is one of those games that is so hard, but yet still makes you think like you're in control, like just one better decision and you'd beat the level. I'm very excited about potential expansion levels.

Big Rock Band freakout.

This weekend we played Rock Band on the HDTV for the first time and as you may know, the game includes some calibration options depending on what kind of TV you own. The various TV types - plasma, LCD, standard, etc - have millisecond differentials in how they sync up video and audio... and in music games, those milliseconds can mean a lot. I changed my setting to LCD, thought I was a genius, and then was immediately failing out of drums on easy. The solution was to set it to DLP instead, which I guess is an even finer tuned setting for HDTV sets like mine.

And it obviously worked, because I nailed Clarksville medium (guitar) with 100%, and made through another handful of songs on the hard campaign.