Our baby.

Elayna is now eleven years old!

Yay for our Ides of March kidlet, who's just two years away from being a teenager!

New Amazon $9.97 DVD sale!

Amazon's got a ton of movies (mostly from Fox Studios) on sale for $9.97 each, ranging from 50%-67% off. The biggest surprise, to me, was The Thief Lord, which only just came out, and is based on one of Elayna's favorite books.

Other deals:

Animated/kid films:

Cheaper by the Dozen "Baker's Dozen" Edition

Fat Albert

Ferngully (2-disc edition)

First Daughter

Ice Age "Super Cool" Edition

Robots

Action/crime movies:

Elektra (Widescreen)

Flight of the Phoenix

The French Connection

Man on Fire

The Mark of Zorro (the Tyrone Power movie)

Master and Commander

Ong-Bak

The Transporter: Special Delivery Edition

Drama:

The Five Heartbeats

Cleopatra

I ♥ Huckabees

Kinsey

M*A*S*H (two-disc special edition)

Documentaries:

Ronald Reagan: An American President

Shelter From the Storm: A concert for the Gulf Coast

Utter crap:

Cloud 9

Puddle Cruiser

The Simple Life 3: The Interns

Taxi (the recent movie, not the TV series).

A new SMRT-TV.com!

The latest issue of SMRT-TV is up, featuring yet another Zoinks! column by yours truly.

The full blurb, courtesy of friendly neighborhood editor in chief lizlet:

Poorly-timed illness conspired against getting this episode up on
time, but never fear! SMRT-TV is just as tasty, even a day late!

In FEATURES, D. Roberts Keenan continues his Seven Deadly Podcast
series with an analysis of Wrath and the dearly departed SPORTS NIGHT.
Meanwhile, Erin O'Brien takes a look back at this last season of
PROJECT RUNWAY, the rare reality show featuring non-idiots.

In TV ON DVD, Luke Geddes delves into the surreal world of PROFIT,
where shades of grey have their own shades of grey.

In COLUMNS, Andreanna Ditton ponders the mythological significance of
CSI. Michael Adams delves into why networks play so fast and loose
with scheduling. CJ Quinn takes on the British digital cable invasion.
And Adam Lipkin has the lowdown on some neat cartoon developments.

All ready for your reading pleasure! Read, link, and discuss in the forums!

Liz Shannon Miller
E-I-C, SMRT-TV

Veronica Mars

Don't forget -- Veronica Mars returns tonight! With Yet Another Annoying MTV Reality Slut as a guest star (each season needs one, for some reason -- last year, it was Paris Hilton, this year, it's the girl from The Real OC), but as long as it's back, I'll deal.

And if you haven't watched Big Love yet (and why wouldn't you? It's got Bill Paxton and crazy backwoods Mormons!), it's like a VM best friends reunion show, as Amanda "Lily Kane" Seyfried is Bill's oldest daughter, and Tina "Mac" Majorino plays her co-worker.