Poem of the Day--Batter My Heart

Holy Sonnet: 14
Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you
As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurp'd town, to another due,
Labour to admit you, but O, to no end.
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betroth'd unto your enemy ;
Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

-John Donne, 1633


( Real Life Woes )

And Sci-Fi has its say

Here's what the Sci-Fi channel has to say about the possibility of an 11th season: not gonna happen unless MGM lowers the price it charges. Sci-Fi has a contract it will hold MGM to that says they can't put Stargate on any other channel, and the only way Sci-Fi will pick it up is if the price goes down.

Y'know, I'd thought that all the people who were complaining about the way Sci-Fi handled the cancellation were just whining--there's no good way to announce a cancellation. This however ... are they trying to make the fans mad? I can understand them not wanting to shell out the money for it. But saying no one else can take it over is just plain mean. And admitting in public that the cancellation is basically a ploy to get the price down does not exactly endear them to the fans of the show. Nobody likes getting jerked around, and that's what they seem to be doing.