I like my racing and my bloody and disturbing violence separate, thank you very much.

I thought the crashing cars sending tires and other debris flying into the spectator stands was a big part of the attraction?

Wait. Harley the existing Harley? Did she get bit by a radioactive spider or something?

Hey, there isn't an Ivy on Guiding Light, is there? Because, if so, I sense wacky hijinks will ensue.

Blow by blow of the Harley hijinx.

ita, that is hilarious. Thank you.

Also, for any aspiring tv writer types, it seems that NBC is doing a new writers outreach program this year. (I'm assuming it's new since this is the first time I've heard of it.) It seems to be a bit like the Warner Bros. Workshop.

The deadline is November 17. More info here.

I saw a very little bit of the Guiding Light thing. My reactions were "Huh," and "Wow, she's got good abs."

Dana, that's my emotional range when watching Lost. Well, I also sometimes have "Man, I'm hungry", too.

My six year old is playing basketball right now, which is the first break he's taken all day from storyboarding his two films.

One animated. One live action.

I don't think he knows he's storyboarding -- that is, I don't think he knows the term. But he started to talk about his films (which originally, was just one film, but he had two ideas, so decided to make it two), and then decided he needed to plan them, and so he took most of the paper out of my printer, and drew pages of his scenes, and his three "chapters." I told him that in filmmaking, they sometimes call them "acts," but he likes "chapters" better, and...erm...to sum...

Unca Tim, can I crate him?

Cindy, that's so cute/wonderful/creative! I love it when little kids have big ideas.

Thank you, Stephanie. It is. I just think it's so weird that he's storyboarding stuff. And he has a list of scenes to shoot, too. They're almost like sides. And he's thinking this all up on his own.

They made Superman films this summer. Chris was always Superman. Ben was always the villain (Super Geek, with his shorts pulled up to his ribs, and various other geek airs). Julia was Lois Lane (although sometimes, her Lois Lane dressed like a princess or ballerina). That's the only experience he's ever had with film making. It's not like he's watched or read anything about it.

He was starting to sound like Dawson until the last sentence, Cindy.

I remember as a kid that age, I would break down computer software program design. A few years later I had added (effectively) business plans to the mix. My parents really didn't know what to do.