Andrew Auseon has decided that the Internet is woefully bereft of Andy (too true), and that he needs more fun in his life (don’t we all). What better way to bring in the fun, bring in the Andy, than with an Andy-centric comic book! (Don’t let it make you sad. I think it will have a happy-ish ending.)

Authors Supporting Intellectual Freedom celebrates Banned Books Week every week, in a way, by championing “those who stand against censorship, especially of books for and about teens.” Just think: if Robert Cormier’s The Chocolate War had been successfully banned at my school and I’d never read it, my career as a writer might never have started.

You know there are those sites Overheard in New York and Overheard in San Francisco? I am starting a new feature: Overheard in My House. This week:

S: (Singing while folding laundry) “Don’t bring me doowwwwn, Bruce! Don’t bring me dow-ow-own, Bruce!”

G: Bruce?

S: Bruce. You know that ELO song, Don’t Bring Me Down?

G: Yeah, but…Bruce?

S: Well, what else could they be saying?

G: (shrugs) I just don’t think it’s “Bruce.”

I checked the all-knowing Internet. Apparently there is a longstanding tradition of people believing the word is “Bruce” when in fact ELO is singing a nonsense word (or a German word, depending on which side of the debate you fall).

America’s Next Top Model. Oh, Tyra. Tyra Tyra Tyra. You are turning into a charicature of yourself. (And lose the wig already. Stop talking about it. DO it. And I would really love to see Mr. Jay’s natural hair color while we’re at it.) But the season looks promising.

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. So far, so wonderful. For some reason, I never became a West Wing viewer – I think it was on a night when I was doing stuff, or I missed the initial launch and it’s hard for me to get into shows unless I was there from the beginning. I can say that I’ve been a fan of Aaron Sorkin from the beginning, truly, because we saw the touring production of A Few Good Men, the play, in San Francisco a couple of years before it was a movie. Michael O’Keefe had the lead, and I remember thinking, wow, this writing is awesome. I’m looking forward to seeing where this show will go. And by the way, also looking forward to 30 Rock, which debuts in October and seems to be about the same thing ast Studio 60 but in sitcom format.

It’s raining and gloomy. Bah.