i really wanted to do a big old pop culture roundup post today - on "Lost," women in "24" (since "24" is the hot new blogging topic, ya know), maybe a bit on the new seasons of "alias," and my impressions of "Garden State," which i finally saw last night for the first time. unfortunately, i've got a hugeass essay to write for a grad school application on whether or not i believe there's an overt liberal bias in the media. and it's much harder to do than i expected. (i can't really just write, "duh, i'm a liberal, so no, i don't think there's a bias. but hey, even if there was, who am i to critique my fellow journalists advancing our communist agenda! mwahahahahah!"). also, i love how my JOB or REAL WORK doesn't displace blogging; other stuff that is NOT my job does. i LOVE my job.

so anyway. it shall have to wait. however, i wanted to point out what is perhaps the most retarded sentence in tv criticism about "alias" that i've ever read. courtesy of charles taylor in salon.com today:

Her entrance in last week's season opener, in a short blond bob and a baby-doll nightie with push-up brassiere, was the closest the show has ever let the character come to being a sexpot.

reading this grain of wisdom, i must believe that mr. taylor has never actually watched "alias", like, ever, not even for a half a second. honestly, the show would be bereft without jennifer garner and her slutty, slutty costumes. the only thing holding her back from being a true sexpot in every meaning of the word is her enormous shoulders. it's hard to be sexy when you look like a transexual linebacker half of the time, but i think if anyone can pull off it off, it's jennifer garner.