haiku review: battlestar galactica, miniseries and season 1

I've come late to Battlestar Galactica. I must confess I was exceedingly skeptical about the prospect, dismissing it as yet another attempt to uncreatively remake something old rather than bothering to think up something new.



But I finally got around to renting the miniseries and the first season, discovering that as is usually the case, on those rare occasions when I'm wrong about something, I tend to be spectacularly wrong.

Darkness. Pain. Loss. Hope.
Worlds end, humans struggle on.
Best show since Buffy.

most depressing day of the year

gawker today snarkily notes [I know, when do they non-snarkliy note anything?] they got a rather asinine press release proclaiming that 24 January (that's a week from today) will be the most depressing day of the year.

Isn't that like declaring that one single particular grain of rice is the riciest rice there is?

Quoting: "While post holiday blues are common, stress expert Dr. Kathleen Hall, author of the new book “A Life In Balance”, says there are many steps people can take to create happiness in their dreary lives during the darkest and coldest days of the year."

To which I reply, "why bother?"