Why are the shows I like always cancelled?? Even when I don't know that I like them before they're cancelled? Alas, I'm currently mourning the cancellation of
Pushing Daisies... a show whose cancellation was mourned by the rest of the world almost about a year ago. (the rest of the world who cared anyhow, since color me skeptical that it would have been cancelled had the whole world actually been watching it...)
Despite its fully cancelled-and-buried status, I'm going to review it just the same. My advice? Go add it to your DVD queue on netflicks, and cross your fingers with me that it will be resurrected. I'm hoping for a movie, but word on the street is that the missing third season of
Pushing Daisies might be presented as a graphic novel... which would be pretty cool too.
Pushing Daisies has the quick-and-clever dialogue of the
Gilmore Girls, with the complicated situations of life-and-death interplay from
Dead Like Me, and a body count that you'd expect from
Castle. Its smart, funny, and sweet, and centers around, believe it or not, a pie maker-turned-detective named Ned who can bring people back from the dead with a single touch. Naturally its not quite so simple as that, because if Ned touches that person again then he or she is dead-for-good, and if the person he touched stays alive for more than a minute, someone else dies in their place, but it's enough so that Ned can use his gift to help solve murders and bring justice to those whose lives were ended prematurely.
The set of
Pushing Daisies is picture-book bright and cheery, probably to counter the inherent morbidity of a show centered so much around death, but the real charm of the show is in the characters. Skillfully acted, by a cast that includes the charming
Lee Pace (who apparently is making an appearance in
Twilight: Breaking Dawn??), the characters seem to care about each other. And they made me care about them too. Curses on whoever "ok-ed" that cancellation!
If you want to check out
Pushing Daisies yourself with absolutely no commitment, you can find
full episodes from the first season online. Chances are, you'll either love it or hate it. Let me know if you love it so we can commiseration together over its cancellation!
or her site if you want to hear more.
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a listen. 
or Michigan feel free to admit that you feel slighted. I do.) Entitled the Age of Adz
and set for release on October 12th, you can currently preview the tracks on Amazon, and even better, you can download the new track "I Walked" from Sufjan's site for free. Yayyyyyyy! 
that you apparently can't purchase as MP3s, so I'm not sure what was up with that. And I'm REALLY not sure how I didn't know about it. My bad. Or Sufjan's, for not sending me the memo.
