God hates Pakistan

Or at least has it in for her. I can't even keep track any more, is this the second quake in so many months? Where's a discussion of Tectonic plates when you need it?
Anyway, back to the business at hand. Note: not all trilogies get publicity. I just saw an ad on a bus for 'The Work and the Glory: American Zion'. It's the second one! I was going to say that that's the sad part, but the closest thing to a name in the cast is R.D. Call! And I don't even know who he is!! Apparently, he's good friends with Sean Penn. Maybe I was thinking of B'zar Getty, I don't know. Anywho, lightning can strike sometimes, like with Darkness Falls, although success still seems to have eluded most of that cast (except for Lemony Snicket, of course). Maybe the third installment due 2006 will generate some actual publicity, although they might have to show the first two for free to do it.
In tragic news, Fox cancels 'The Simple Life'. Even more shocking, it was on for THREE seasons!!!! Apparently, the producers ... rather, the reporters say that 20th Century Fox Television itself hopes that someone else will pick up the show; maybe CBS or ABC, that kind of thing. Trust me, guys. Paris and Nicole are old school in this regard: if they hate each other, they hate each other. They've got real money. Probably more than Fox Television! They have actual lives to get back to. It's like saying there was one babysitting job in your life that changed your destiny irrevocably, but .. nah, bad example. Think of all those people ruined by Bart Simpson! More like if you were at the store and picked an apple from the bin that would unclog all your arteries and make you buy a winning lottery ticket. That's what the show means to Paris and Nicole.