To March or Not to March; Experimenting with Max; Anal Probes

Last night or early this morning, I woke up and meandered into the living room, as I am wont to do, to watch television. C-SPAN was re-airing some of the speakers of the Washington March. I realized that I had not seen any of the coverage and was, more or less, oblivious to the whole thing. I always wonder what impact such events have. "Rolling Stone" arrived in the mail today with an aritcle on the state of gay politics. The NGLTF and the HRC were at odds over the same issue. Barney Frank indicated he thought it was a "waste of time that will use up the political, finanical and economic resources of gay and lesbian people."

I had another hit of "Roswell" this evening. We're told there is a fourth alien. The shadowy alien-catchers have caught Max. The new deputy is revealed to be the shadowy head of the shadowy alien-catchers. Actually, there is a fifth alien who has been in the role of daddy to the fourth. But is it really good or really bad?

The ending was at a carnival with a mad run through a house of mirrors. It managed to pay homage to Orson Welles' similiar scene in the "Lady from Shangai" without being a mere duplication. Anyway, some very sophsticated camera work. I suppose I could carpe about the camera shots from inside the lockers; it seems so overdone.

One of the difficulties of "Roswell" is getting the tone just right. The emphasis has been on the aliens passing as regular teens but done with a self-deprecating touch. But now things are mucho-serious. The trailer for next week showed a semi-nude Max being subjected to some type of experiment. (Oddly enought, it looked very much like the preview of a semi-nude Oz being subjected to something in tomorrow's "Buffy." And Faith pops up again. Gawd! Alas, I'm beyond being able to have any sympathy for her.)

I can't pass up the opportunity to mention a "Kids in the Hall" skit I caught last week. Two of them are aliens whose job it is to conduct anal probes of Earthlings. One of them begins to wonder why. What good does it do? "We find out that maybe one in ten likes it." And why is we don't make contact with their religious or political leaders. Why is it always some guy in a pickup truck!

That's it buckaroos. This is about as imaginative as I'm gonna' get.

PAX!