I just finished the last season of Angel, Joss Whedon's spinoff of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  While I didn't get as into Angel as much as I got into Buffy, I was sad that I no longer had any Joss Whedon works to devour.  My TV-related relaxation time was on the verge of dissolving into anarchy, lacking form, direction, or hope.

Two days ago, my little brother and I were driving down to Chicago to meet my mother, when I heard on NPR the words "horrible sing-along" and "Joss Whedon."  I got so excited my brother was afraid I was going to crash the van.  This would be unfortunate because we were nearing our destination after three and a half hours of following computer-generated directions that were at best unnecessarily and at worst sadistically complicated, taking us by the least sensible route it could conceive.  Anyway, it turns out Joss Whedon's created a new three-part musical called "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog," which is only available on the Internet.  Its arrival could not have been more timely.  It's about a scientist who's trying to become a super-villain, and it stars Neil Patrick Harris, whom I totally saw on Broadway in a revival of Assassins.  Nathan Fillion is in it, and it turns out he has a pretty respectable singing voice!  It's really, really good, and I think you all should watch it.