Andrew Sullivan, Chris Hitchens, and now Chris Buckley.

Birds of a feather and all that.

There was a time in my life when V seemed like the greatest TV maxi-series of all time. Now it’s going to be re-made for ABC.

Let’s hope it’s done well.

Galley Friend M.R. points us to this fantastically in-the-weeds mock review of season seven of Firefly which, sharp-eyed readers will remember, never made it past its first half-season.

But to really, really get in on the funny, keep following down to the comments, where people take the gag and run with it. Sample:

At least Firefly season 4 stayed true to the fun action of the first season — it could have gone completely dark like season 2 of Wonderfalls, what with Jaye going increasingly crazy and ending the season locked up in a mental hospital.

And who in the world thought it was a good idea to give Freaks and Geeks a 10th season — all of the characters now are either homeless white trash victims of Reagan’s Welfare reform, have contracted HIV, or are Wall Street yuppies. Did we really need to see Bill OD because he was trying so hard to fit in that snorted enough coke to kill an elephant?

And:

The third season kicked a@@! (They won three Emmys, for frak’s sake! And I STILL say Joss was screwed over – Abrams is good, but “Lost” was [and STILL IS] just a ‘gimmick’ show!) But I thought Mal being on the other size of the law let them explore some “gray zones” of morality – the REAL cause of Bowden’s Malady (with the great Gregg Henry reprising his role as Sheriff Bourne) – And Badger revealed as a paid snitch for Blue Sun – Or what about the two-parter where the crew finally gets their (legal!) revenge on Niska? And who didn’t shed a tear over Zoe’s pregnancy? Okay, Wash going undercover with the carnival was just a rip-off of “The Trouble With Tribbles” -except with baby geese – but it WAS funny! And speaking of funny, what about the episode with Jayne’s mother and four sisters get quarantined aboard Serenity for a month? I usually don’t care for Melanie Griffith, but I thought she was perfectly cast here…I could go on, but I urge everybody to go back and take another look at Season #3!!

Tina Brown has launched a fun looking site, The Daily Beast. Today’s edition carries a story by Scott Horton about how my boss Bill Kristol put Sarah Palin on the McCain ticket. Horton contends that it all began when Kristol met Palin in Alaska on The Weekly Standard cruise.

I won’t spoil the fun for you, but I’ve written a small bit about it here. Let’s just say that the Daily Beast is living up to the very best traditions of British journalism.

All hail the New Media!

The Pig sends us to this amazing site collecting the most idiotic Realtor^TM ads you’ve ever seen. A sample:

This stuff can’t be real, can it?

So if you get Blu-ray discs from Netflix, they’re going to charge you more than a regular subscription.

I know it’s only $1 a month, but still. Pray they don’t alter the deal any further.

Despite my constant belittling of Sony’s Playstation 3, I’m about to buy one because Sony has found a killer ap–The Dark Knight on Blu-ray, coming to a store near you on December 9. Believe me, no one else is more horrified than I am.

Yet my impending purchase of a PS3 does little to convince me that they system represents an enormous failure for Sony. I had stopped following console sales for a while, but looking at the numbers now is pretty shocking: The PS2 sold over 50 million units in its first 36 months of release. In its first 24 months, the PS3 is on track to sell 15.7 million units.

And it’s not like there’s an army of losers (like me) rushing to reverse the trend. For September, the PS3 is predicted to see sales declining by 7 percent, to a paltry 160,000 units per month. This while the Xbox 360 is seeing a 31 percent increase in sales, to 320,000 per month. And all of this is just jockeying for second place, as the Wii is crushing them both.

You know how Hugh Hewitt is always, like, talking about how stupid and dead and moronic the, like, you know, Old Media is? You know, how it’s totally like the difference between, like, steam power and the tall ships with the saily thingees?

Yeah.