It’s been an interesting day for AAR listeners in Chicago – the local station continued to broadcast in Chinese until at least 2pm according to the pre-show comments at Majority Report: The Network, Tonight, Next Week. However, sometime around 3pm or so, AAR was back on the airwaves at WNTD AM950. Listeners to Randi Rhodes show reported that the Chicago AAR staff wasn’t able to get in to the studio until then. My own personal theory is that someone walked off with the new keys after the locks were changed. Here’s my list of items AAR studio staff should have…
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John Cleese and Tim Curry have joined the cast of upcoming animated picture “Valiant. What is it? I hadn’t heard of it before, but based on this, it probably will not suck one tiny little bit. The animated comedy tells the story of a wood pigeon named Valiant, who overcomes his small size to become a hero in Great Britain’s Royal Air Force Homing Pigeon Service during World War II. Cleese plays an Allied pigeon who gets trapped behind enemy lines. Curry voices a character who is devoted to the pigeons’ destruction as part of the enemy’s Falcon Brigade, the…
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The big screen movie version of “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” may do just that, even if John Malkovich joins “Galaxy” cast. He plays a heretofore unheard of character created for the movie by Douglas Adams in the screenplay he wrote before his death in 2001.
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Florida gays in marriage lawsuit This puts Brother Jeb in the spotlight again.
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Chicago Tribune | Air America restored in Chicago Well, as of 832am local time April 16th, it’s still in Chinese. I’ve got a little AM radio at work today, set very low, so that I can hear if/when they make the cutover. Why? I don’t know. The situation is bizarrely fascinating. I’ve been chatting most nights on IRC. There’s a simpler way to get to IRC, for those people who have no idea what Internet Relay Chat is. It happens during the Majority Report live show weeknights. Go to http://www.undernet.org and click “webchat” from the array of buttons. Specify channel…
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We walked around the yard yesterday. There’s chunks of dead grass in the front under the hawthorne bush (Bush Must Go! Bush Must Go) from the actions of voles. There’s dead grass in the back (looks like moles). There’s a hole back there something dug – probably a toad – behind the star magnolia. Voles and moles and holes. Oh my! We’re calling somebody to come out and do something. Blech. Meanwhile, the rosemary in the “herb garden” didn’t make it because I didn’t mulch. The rosemary next to the house (big clue here, near the dryer vent) made it,…
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BBC NEWS | Africa | African clergy reject ‘gay’ funds Well, there had better be a trust set up for them somewhere, or divert it to charities.
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Dan Savage weighs in on his Salon column with Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | First they came for Howard …via onbeingunfunny
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Via AKMA’s Random Thoughts: Fools’ Errand, a new interactive virtual church experiment at Ship of Fools. With pews made from pixels, the congregation logging in from their home computers and the collection sent in by mobile phone, the world’s first 3D online church is going to be church like never before. The House of God is set to become the Mouse of God. Well, it sounds interesting, might be fun to log in and check it out when they get it running – it begins May 11th, but they’re still looking for funding.
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It’s time to stop screwing around with the machanics of the stupid blog and make some entries already. So soon there’ll be some more entries covering the week David and I spent hiking, eating, and drinking in Grassington, Yorkshire Dales. But first this cautionary tale. Do not go anywhere with dry toast in your pockets, or They will attack you from the sea and from the air. Who are They? The shadowy evil figures that haunt your dreams and turn them to nightmare. They are… the massive continuity of ducks!! Mu-ahahahahaha!! No, really, there are some really pretty canals in…