Apparently there's a US version of Wire In The Blood in the works. Hmm. Good that they have a guy who worked on the UK version involved, but that sort of thing didn't help Coupling much. Casting and tone, casting and tone.

yeah, it didn't really work for Eleventh Hour.

Thanks, Gar. I was hoping you'd chime in since I knew you'd put a lot of time and energy into thinking through these issues.

If you have questions on specifics beyond what you find in the short articles, my profile addy is good.

RIP, Ted Kennedy. [link]

That's ... hard to even react to. He was ... wow.

are you available and up for lunch tomorrow?

I should be. I'm trying to ration the migraine meds and ER visits, but it hasn't been getting bad until the afternoon.

Dang, poor Teddy. Can we pass health care on his ne now please?? Also, who's going to take that seat now? Or, well, be appointed.

Well, fuck. Poor Teddy.

Probably not the best timing with Ted Kennedy's passing (because even I know to identify big news when I know next to nothing on them. Especially when dad, who spent his first few years in U.S. (1958-1962, between the ages of 4-8), is clinging to the foreign news channels as a sort of a life support), but -

There is such a field as philosophical geography. 4 realz. I'm now waiting for philosophical geology, philosophical electricity and philosophical hydrology. Some shit I'm into is almost 'pataphysitic.

I heard some insider talk on the Cape (like, the person I was talking to had been talking to Ted that morning) that they were hoping his wife Victoria could be appointed. Apparently she is a smart cookie. Did they pass that exemption in MA?

Oh man, Teddy.

flea, I don't know if they changed that yet -- meara, when John Kerry was running for president and there was a Republican governor, they made a rule that it needs to be a special election, not an appointment, or something.