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It's that time of year again. We've begun the final week of 2003 and before the week is out, it will be 2004. Are your New Year's resolutions in order?

Breathe a sigh of relief--I promise not to bore you with mine! I toyed with that as the subject of this last Hello World column at CSIFiles for 2003, but instantly rejected it. New Year's resolutions are pretty personal, and who wants to read some else's anyways?

Instead, I'd like to raise a cyber-toast to an individual I admire a lot, and have this whole year (and well before that, too). That person is Joss Whedon. Most of you know him as the creator of the shows Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly.

Joss is a personal hero of mine, for many reasons, but in large part for his determination and can-do attitude. I can't think of anyone else (if someone is slipping my mind, please e-mail me!) who turned a movie in large part deemed a failure into a hit TV series so influential that its heroine, Buffy, has been turned into a feminist icon. Essays and philosphical musings have been written about the show, and its spinoff, Angel.

Joss suffered a setback with Firefly this year. As creative, exciting, and innovative as the show was, it gained a devoted audience but not a full season, thanks to episode shuffling and preempting done by the network it aired on. Did Joss give up on the show? Not hardly. He's currently working on a script for a Firefly movie. Many shake their heads, but if anyone can (and I believe will) make it happen, it's Joss.

So please, join me in raising a cyber-toast to Joss. When I grow up, I want to be just like him. Which is to say, I never quite want to grow up so completely that I lose my capacity to imagine or believe one should give up on a dream.

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Today's Television Listings

Tonight, CBS will show a rerun of the CSI: Miami episode "The Best Defense." Here is TV Guide's description of the episode:

"The two young owners of a city bar are gunned down after hours and another man is wounded in the attack, which was allegedly committed by a masked gunman. Meanwhile, Calleigh's dad announces he is now a public defender and needs her help with a murder case in which a woman stabbed her boyfriend to death in his car with a screwdriver."

On Thursday, January 1st 2004, CBS will rerun the CSI: Crime Scene Investigations episode, "Last Laugh". TV Guide describes the episode:

"Grissom and Catherine investigate the murder of a despised comic who died onstage, apparently after drinking from a tainted bottle of water. The case grows more puzzling when a 15-year-old boy dies in a convenience store after drinking the same brand of water. Also: Brass reopens a woman's accidental-death case after spotting the deceased's husband in a flashy new car with a trophy date on his arm."

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