Replacement Roundup

Well, some issues Blogger had over the last day or so disappeared the real Thursday post, so you'll get some of this instead.

-- Thor was a pretty good movie; a lot better than I had feared. They wisely eschewed the Elizabethan dialogue Stan Lee created for his version of the Thunder God but left his speech just archaic enough for some fish-out-of-water segments. And Asgard looked phenomenal. Somewhere, Jack Kirby is smiling.

-- Look, I know that Will Ferrell created half a hand's worth of funny characters during seven years on Saturday Night Live, fewer than Denny Dillon but spread out over a much longer tenure. And I know that he's put out two decent movies (Anchorman and Stranger than Fiction) from a list that's easily thirty movies long. But that's still no reason for the media to play such a cruel joke on him as to say that he'd be given the Mark Twain Prize for America Humor. What? It's real? Joke's on me, I guess.

-- Rumored that Ashton Kutcher will replace Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men. Of all the things Charlie Sheen has done, his failure to kill that show is the one that simply can't be forgiven.

-- Sportswriter Jason Whitlock likes to say that he gives forth the opinions that other sportswriters don't think of or are too chicken to say. Sometimes that's true. And then sometimes, when he says things like the pairing of Dwayne Wade and LeBron James is better than Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen, he's just dumb.

-- Is there anything the Scots can't do with booze?