Lorne ,'Time Bomb'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Strega, the tone reads to me like the what ifs are new what ifs, as opposed to common currency in a not-small genre.
And, okay, the opening sentence "What if ET isn't cute?" just made me sprain my eyes.
Also her "this is not science fiction" made me roll my eyes too. She's making stuff up. It is science fiction the minute an alien appears in her pictures, if not sooner. There can be science in science fiction, after all.
How freaking weird:
Hollywood star Minnie Driver and British comedian Eddie Izzard will play the husband and wife lead roles in a new US drama called Lowlife. The show - produced by the creators of surgical drama Nip/Tuck, sees Oscar-nominee Driver and Izzard as Dahlia and Wayne, a couple of traveling con-artists on a splurge through America. FX Networks president John Landgraf says, "It's a very complicated marriage, and both characters are really strong, so we needed two actors who are perfectly matched up and can hold their own." Production is due to start in early March.
Also, "Grandpa Munster" (Al Lewis) has died at age 95.
Driver and Izzard as Dahlia and Wayne, a couple of traveling con-artists on a splurge through America.
Huh. I think I like it.
But the question is, do they share clothes???
There's a great blog entry about the Muslim cartoon controversy, and where it might stem from. To summarize, the Saudis were starting to get flack in the Muslim countries because their lack of planning caused yet another stampede at this year's hajj that killed 350 people. They needed to wag the dog, so they started complaining in the press over the cartoons that were originally published back in September with no controversy whatsoever. The situation was then inflamed when right-wing European papers republished the cartoons.
"Grandpa Munster" (Al Lewis) has died at age 95.
The weird thing is that his family claims he was born in 1923, which would make him 83. My favorite part of the obituary I read was this:
A year later, he was back offering his recollections of a seminal New York punk band, the Ramones, on the DVD "Ramones Raw."
FWIW, No Depictions of Muhammad was covered in the most intro of J-school classes. The flames may have been fanned, but it's hard to imagine that the editor/publisher didn't mean for them to be.
OMG, speaking of blashpemy, one of the guys at the party I was at last night was wearing this t-shit:
On the front it said "The Devil is as Ugly as Sin" with this big hideous charicature done like those spray-paint shirts you see at state fairs and stuff.
On the back: a big cross, and the words "'Cause Jesus Beats Him with a Stick."
OMG, speaking of blashpemy, one of the guys at the party I was at last night was wearing this t-shit
The shirt is funny, but this typo is funnier.
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