Just finished reading Watchmen by comicbook genius and freaky mystic Alan Moore. Life changing experience. Am considering changing name to Rorschach.

Tom Strong is a REAL superhero. You can tell by his hyperbolic metaphors. For example, reflecting on an old Nazi dominatrix foe:

"Ingrid Weiss . . . as vile and as insidiously glamorous as Fascism itself."

His wife and daughter are a little more direct:

"Little woman, tell me where my husband is, or I shall tear out your WOMB."

"Uhh . . . Mom, really, you don't need to do that."

Good times. Check out Tom Strong.

Katharine Hepburn, nominated for an all-time record 12 Academy Awards during her career, died just 5 1/2 months after Meryl Streep broke that record by receiving her 13th nomination.

Did Streep kill Hepburn?

Camp is absolutely the bestest movie EVER. Goofy, awkward, cheesy, absurd, and glorious, I plan to see it about 50 times before it leaves the theaters, so anyone who wants to go, drop me an e-mail.

In reading various mixed reviews of the movie, I have a theory. I think that it's hard to enjoy this movie if you have completely forgotten what it was like to be a teenager. If that theory proves to be true . . . well I guess I kind of feel sorry for people who don't like this movie.

Gold stars for anyone who gets the "'Night Mother" joke near the beginning of the movie. I want to be your friend.

From a review of "Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter," the independent movie musical released in 2001:

"In a much-appreciated rejection of modern cinematic conventions, [Jesus Christ] Vampire Hunter abandons the tired clichés of 'plot', 'sense', and 'exposition', replacing them instead with garbled post-synchronized dialogue and lesbians. A fair trade, I'd say."

I can stay silent no longer. After suffering through another interminable hour, I have to shout to the world . . .

THE WEST WING SUCKS! Really really bad.

Watching it is like watching a roadside car wreck with fatalities. It curdles my intestines. I want to turn away, to stop watching . . . but I can't. I'm frozen with shock.

Comparing the end of last season to the beginning of this season, it appears that the characters have all been labotomized in some group procedure over the summer. They have each returned missing about 50 IQ points and 60% of their usual vocabulary.

And CJ has been turned into a moody doormat. That really pisses me off.

I had a friend in college who was obsessed with "Gone With the Wind." She had read the book several times. When the sequel, "Scarlett," was released in the early 90's, she read it. And she wept.

"Margaret Mitchell's prose is so sharp and powerful," she cried. "This . . . this is like OATMEAL!"

Now I know how she felt.

In tonight's episode, there was even a "silly mixup" subplot, where senior White House staffers sort of jokingly wrote disparaging remarks about someone and whoops! the insults somehow managed to actually get on the President's teleprompter . . . without ANYONE NOTICING.

What the fecking hell? Is this a sitcom now, with wacky misunderstandings and comic mayhem around every corner? Can we expect Janet and Chrissy to show up soon?

I LOVED this show. It's about the only thing on TV that COMMANDED my viewership.

I feel like it has been taken from me.

DAMN THE GODS!!!

OK . . . The Reagans . . .

It may be the first great camp classic of the millenium. It's like Mommy Dearest a la The West Wing. And toward the end, in a bizarre case of show business irony, Judy Davis' perfomance as Nancy Reagan becomes a sort of bizarre homage to Jane (Reagan) Wyman's 80's era performance as the evil matriarch in Falcon Crest.

Rocky Horror facts from the Fresh Air interview of Tim Curry:

- One of the first known people to start the Rocky Horror audience participation craze was Angie Bowie, David Bowie's first wife. David went to see the movie in the late '70s with a huge entourage. When Riff Raff was about to kill Frank, Angie yelled out, "Don't do it!" A phenomenon was born.

- Another early participant in the Rocky cult was Mark Shaiman, more recently composer of the South Park movie and the musical Hairspray.

- When Tim met Princess Diana, he assumed that she had never seen Rocky Horror. She surprised him by saying that she had. "It quite completed my education," she claimed.

The interview can be streamed here.