Seen at Father Jake’s: BUSHFLASH – I knew that was AAR’s Mike Malloy doing the spoken word part, but the flash animation and music are great, too. I’ll have to go back and listen to “Did you get the memo?” too.
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All praise be to St McTivo, which captured the return of AAR’s Al Franken Show to Sundance Channel. They have an attactive new set and the TV show broadcasts one hour of the 3-hour radio show, which works better for me. I can’t really listen at work without either disturbing my neighbors or slowing down my computer’s connection to certain systems (there’s a network problem somewhere, and the suspected culprit is either excessive bandwidth use by all of us, or a whole lot of spyware). Anyway, it’s good to see Al and Katherine, and it gets me all het up…
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From Boing Boing: 2005 Risks in Global Filmmaking Map is a likely first stop for the producers of TAR to start mapping out places to take people around the world and torture them for our amusement. I sat up until 3 friggin’ 30 last night watching the webcast from the Emmy awards that featured Dennis Miller, TAR producers, and former TAR racers in a panel discussion. It was mostly a stitch, but Bertram Van Munster really didn’t want to talk about that car accident in Botswana when the cameraman got hurt. Assume “out of court settlement,” I guess. And they’ll…
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One of the rare treats being a digital cable household in this area means we get BBC America, and thanks be to St. TiVo, I get to watch one of my favorite “Britcoms” when it occasionally shows up on the local PBS channel, The Vicar of Dibley. This show came out about 10 years ago, and following the British model, it aired 3 series (that’s “seasons” but with several years’ lapse between each) and several holiday specials. Recently, TiVo snagged the Christmas and New Years‘ specials – the Yule special before we left on vacation, and the New Years’ one…
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Joey and a few other bloggers say The Worst Line in “Revenge of the Sith”… is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I’m with the WBEZ announcer who broadcast to all and sundry on Saturday that the worse line is actually “Hold me… like you did by the lake on Naboo.” We might get to see the movie again this weekend in the company of friends. Heh.
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What can one say about a movie franchise that’s been a part of one’s life for, oh, nearly thirty years or so? Well, not much. My husband David and I went to see Revenge of the Sith yesterday, as stated. Before the movie, we had a really nice, leisurely meal at Brass. After the movie, we came home. In between, we waited to see how Anakin would end up in the Darth Vader armor with the menacing breathing and codpiece and buttons on his chest and all. Once upon a time, in a locality far, far away, each installment of…
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FIREFLY (FOX) – The Sci Fi Channel has landed the repeat rights to all 15 hours of the short-lived FOX series (and basis of the upcoming “Serenity” feature film). The network’s July schedule lists the series as joining its Friday lineup on July 22 at 7:00/6:00c where it will precede original episodes of “Stargate SG-1,” “Stargate Atlantis” and “Battlestar Galactica. Via ***Dave :: Shiny! Can I get a “woot?!?” We’ve been pining for new episodes of Stargate and Atlantis and now we will be in the habit of re-watching Firefly again. Yes, yes, we already have the DVD, but sometimes…
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Because Father Ted used it as an example in a recent sermon at Holy Moly, I’ve been wanting to see Chocolat again, and that’s a bit dangerous. Even more since I’ve been reading French Women Don’t Get Fat and getting a double dose of passion for chocolate, eating well, and living life to the fullest. It’s an interesting premise – eat as the French do, enjoy food, and still avoid getting fat. However, it’s pretty unworkable in practice here in the States, as much of it depends on daily walks to the nearest fresh farmer’s market, seasonal foods in great…
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Hey, the Happy Boys are getting hitched:
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my husband David gripes about the coming series finale of Enterprise. I’ll be very sorry to see the end of this series, not only because it’ll be the first time in years that there is no Star Trek-universe series in production. I’ve really enjoyed the current season, even after wandering away in boredom after the previous one. And the last few episodes have actually been enjoyably kick-ass. The TWOP recapper Keckler thought the episode was a simplistic snooze worthy of a D and fake fangirly hyperbole, I disagreed only because they had the presence of mind to cast Peter Weller…