View From the Bushes

Back around the turn of the century (yes I'm talking about 2000, I'm practicing to be an old timer), there was a TV show on the WB called Popular. It was seemingly one of the dozens of interchangeable angsty teen dramedies that UPN and WB unleashed every year; somehow among all these I ended up getting hooked on this one, though not until the second season and unfortunately just before it was cancelled. Lucky for me, while the show apparently didn't have the numbers to sustain production, every TV show has the numbers to justify a DVD compilation. As a result, I ended up picking up season one a couple of weeks ago. Hi, I'm Ross and I enjoy revealing embarrassing secrets online.

I finally got around to watching my DVDs last night. I watched the first four episodes in one sitting, which caused me to stay up too late, which caused me to drink a caffeinated beverage much later in the evening than I should have. The result being that my mind was racing with all the scenes from what I'd just seen, so it took me forever to get to sleep and when I did my dreams were consumed with surreal high school imagery involving cheerleaders, ambigiously-gendered biology teachers, pink military vehicles and Dr. Pepper.

Anyway, enough embarrassing detail, there was an update to the story of the runaway car I posted the other day. Renault is calling the story a load of crap, which upon reflection does make a certain amount of sense. There's a story about it here, but unless your French is pretty good, you'll just have to take my word for it. Or you could get Google to translate if for you, but in the past I've been somewhat unimpressed (from a translation standpoint -- from a technical standpoint, it's pretty dang cool).

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross