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THE GOOD

Come Again - Last week we plugged Lloyd & Rees' refreshingly real comic novel about love, in this equally funny sequel they take on weddings.

Degrassi: The Next Generation - It is coming. Will it be as good as its forebears? Let's hope. But see also THE BAD.

Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter - We don't really know what this independent film is like, but that title don't half grab the attention.

Powerpuff Girls - How could we have stayed away from this for so long? Three very young girls fighting crime before bedtime (I just remembered, that's the tagline), making for classic Saturday morning cartoon material if there still was such a thing.

Basic Instinct 2 - Because it's been shelved again. Apparently partially because they couldn't find a male actor willing to play in a sexy film opposite Sharon Stone. Glenda, at least give an excuse that sounds real.

Love is a Four-Letter Word - Tuesday, 9:30, ABC, right after The Bill. The ABC's latest comedy-drama series, a wicked little thing about the friends of lives of a couple with an 'arrangement'. Who happen co-own a pub. You'll learn important lessons, too, like 'don't diddle your da's girlfriend'.

Emma the Awards - The Evil Bunnies' annual recognition of all that is good and bad is on again. It's still running, so you can still vote and I can still plug it.

THE BAD

Mark Aaron Polger's in trouble - Mark has been running the www.degrassi.ca internet domain for some time now, and has been largely responsible for so much continued fandom and interest in the eternally classic Degrassi TV series. This climb in interest has prompted Epitome Productions to start production on a new series. Their first move? Bring legal proceedings against Mark for using the Degrassi name.

Trying to hypnotise the police into letting you go - Olga Metzger of the Ukraine just tried this and it doesn't work. Bugger, back to bribery, then.

'No, he bashed my fist with his face' - The claim of Singapore attorney Edmund Wong Sin Yee after an altercation with another motorist. Hey, do you think he's Olga Metzger's lawyer?

Getting caught with your pants down - An American woman ran into trouble recently when she posed online wearing very little and bearing an automatic pistol for a 'sexy girls and sexy guns'-type feature. She wasn't arrested for what she wasn't wearing, though, but what she was - the tag that marks her out as a convicted felon and therefore prohibited from carrying firearms.

Headline of the week - From a British news service that headlined that Buddy Holly 'dies on this day in 1959'. Present tense, too. Well, I guess it's new for some people.

Paying for Napster - Quite likely come July this year, as the controversial file-sharing program considers a subscription program to pay off all the artists whose sales they're boosting. Wait, this might be a step for creator rights and therefore good...nah, we have to fork out cash. It's bad.

Setting your legs on fire because you see it on TV - Considering the MTV show that featured this stunt was called Jackass, you'd think people would get the hint, right? Nope, a bunch of Connecticut teenagers thought that this looked like great fun, and used a re-enactment as the springboard for ending up in hospital. Damn. Probably time for another 'evil media' fad, then.

THE UGLY

Picking on Those Upstairs - As if the recent Indian earthquake wasn't terrible enough, local civil aviation minister T John had to pour his icing on the cake by saying that it was God's revenge on Hindus for attacking Christians.
Mr John isn't the civil aviation minister anymore.

Strip-searches - They're funny when they happen to 40-year-old comedians on TV, but not when they're done to thirteen-year-old kids. The powers that be at Joshua Butler Elementary in Indiana replied to protests by saying that they were perfectly within school policy to do this. Well, that makes it all better, doesn't it?

Dr Seuss' words - Not so much them as where they turned up. A recent pro-life (as in abortion debate) poster used the line from the good doctor's Horton Hears A Hoo!, 'a person is a person, no matter how small'. Seuss' widow is severely unimpressed and so are we. No matter which side of the 'debate' you're on, surely there's some things you just don't need to bring into it.

Jumping into frozen-food bins in your underpants - As some Winconsin chaps discovered this week. Winconsin laws are evidently different from Australian ones, where people go grocery shopping wearing what the hell they want.

Trying to explain the story to the last half of Frequency - We've tried it and it can't be done. Just rent the movie.