So sad. Looks like my beloved Gilmore Girls is going the way of the dodo. According to an inside source, Lauren Graham and the freakishly youthful Alexis Bledel were asking for "wheelbarrows of cash" and the CW wouldn't fork it up. Granted, the premise was wearing a touch thin, what with Lorelai's "Look how quirky and young and irresponsible I am" shtick seeming awfully forced in a pre-Botox Meg Ryan kind of way now that Lauren Graham is 40+, and the writing this season has been decidedly under-parr (ever since they fired creator/writer/producer Amy Sherman-Palladino and replaced her with... Lauren Graham). Still, for a strong dose of lifestyle porn, you don't get better than fictional (oh so fictional) Star's Hollow, where the townsfolk are quirky yet kind, everyone has time to stop at the diner for a cup of the world's best joe, the weather is collegiately crisp every day of the year, and a quasi-flakey, somewhat foolhardy woman can run a hugely successful inn and live in the world's most stylish house while struggling cutely.

I want to struggle cutely. Mostly I just flail and bark which might sound adorable but is, in fact, not.