Fox’s workplace sitcom, Do Not Disturb, is the first show of the season to be canceled. Three episodes have aired with two officially left in the can plus an unaired pilot.  So much for Fox starting the season earlier this year.

A 63-year-old Pennsylvania woman has given a new meaning to “packing for Disney World”.

Disney World security personnel reportedly discovered a … .32-caliber Beretta handgun had been loaded with seven live rounds in the magazine, but the chamber was empty.   Also found in (her) purse was a pair of scissors and a locked blade knife.

Maybe she was paranoid that the characters were out to get her or that the “magic” of Disney was going to add her to the previous three Disney World deaths over the past week and a half.

All I can say is that I’m glad that she wasn’t there when I was a few months ago.  And I’m glad that there’s obviously no “profiling” going on at Disney World.

Just a few days after his lawsuit settlement with Kanye West, Evel Knievel is dead. It’s a good thing that he wasn’t a rapper and that he was in bad health. Not good in the sense that it is good news (come on, the guy was an American icon, of course it’s a loss), but good in the sense that I’m not tempted to speculate some funny business.

Earlier this morning a friend of mine was on CNBC for a few seconds talking about a problem he (and apparently about 30% of owners) has had with his X-Box X-Sux 360.  (Yet another reason I don’t plan on buying one…what kind of “quality assessment” thinks 70% is acceptable?)

Anyway, to my point…

I think CNBC should be considered “Short Attention Span Theater”…I’m about to puke from information overload after watching all of those tickers go by AND the additional news alerts.  No wonder people “need” 65″+ televisions, as this is way too much to take on my “little” OR “big” TV.   And no wonder so many people are diagnosed* as having ADD or AD/HD.

Man am I glad that the kid programs grace my television during the day when it happens to be on.  And luckily the radio hasn’t gone to multi-tasking (yet).

* I’ll leave that rant for another time.

For anyone interested in updates on the Writers Guild of America’s strike, and possibly the status of your favorite television shows, TVWeek is keeping an updated news list, complete with links.

May everyone rest easier now…

Evel Knievel and Kanye West have worked it out.  The 69-year-old iconic motorcycle daredevil said he and West met at his Clearwater condo recently. They settled a federal lawsuit over the use of Knievel’s trademarked image in a popular West music video.

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