All right, just a few bits & pieces. Just a few, mind.

I'm constantly and continuously amazed by South Park. Not simply in terms of what they get away with -- especially for a show on a mainstream cable channel -- but for what they're doing, and what they're saying. "Saying"? South Park isn't "saying" anything...is it? Why Virginia, I'm glad you asked! (What?)

Out of the three episodes I saw tonight (yes, three; I was on a viewing-spree), one was a biting and, uh, slightly over-the-top commentary on recent revelations of child molestation amongst Catholic priests, and a look at the general, and ongoing, loss of faith in the Church as an institution. Some would see this episode as blasphemy, but that's far from the truth. The show actually presents real issues, and real solutions, and it's not being blasphemic -- it's presenting two sides to every topic, and letting the viewers figure out what's right and what's wrong. It makes fun of absolutely everything, yes, even issues that are considered completely forbidden -- case in point, the second of the three episodes I watched, where infanticide was a plot-thread. In a comedy. An animated comedy. But the rest of that episode offered, again, a really topical and interesting commentary on the trend of directors changing their films for the "better" (Spielberg's reissue of E.T., for example), and how art, once it's made available to the public, no longer belongs to the artist, but to the people. Good stuff. Wrapped in a really, really absurd wrapping. But brilliant. Absolutely, freakin' brilliant. See it. Support it.

Forget about the "bits & pieces" -- that's the only bit and piece I have time for. G'night, all!  ¶ 22:57