This little puggy went to market...

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One word comes to mind...disapPOINTED!!

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Comments.

I haven't gotten word on Reblogger so I've decided to switch to a new comments service called BlogBack. Since my host does not support cgi, asp or php, I had to find another remotely hosted comments service and that took a little while. Hopefully BlogBack will work out. I like it so far.

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Embattled NYC Fire Commissioner Von Essen will not seek re-appointment.

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"These three scandals clump together into a nearly indigestible lump of chicanery in a state whose familiarity with political corruption is faint. Nobody is suggesting that the previous half-century in the state was an unblemished stretch of probity, but nobody can remember anything remotely like this."

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Why am I doing this?

The twelve-year-old boy living inside of me has taken over and impels me to direct you to this site. I made a Long, Death-Like Ripper that was Really Bad. Cool.

WARNING: If you consider yourself an adult, stay away. Believe me, you can't appreciate it.

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Reblogger Trouble.

My Reblogger comments script isn't functional right now. Let you know when it is.

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Buffy Soars to Music.

Last night's musical episode of Buffy was, well...just read this. She says it much better than I can.

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Retraction.

From Salon's Nothing Personal column, once again:

"Breathe easy: Michael Jackson's rep says the "Invincible" singer does not have anthrax. "That must have been a rumor, spread by a terrorist," Howard Rubenstein told the New York Daily News of a report quoting Jackson himself. "It is totally without foundation." "

"Spread by a terrorist"? To what end? That American society would crumble in the wake of such an event, I suppose?

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"An information vacuum often brings out the worst in journalists. Speculation becomes more prominent and service to the public becomes less valued than filling airtime with what -- to some -- sounds like handy hints for terrorists."

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"The stories had to be true. They had to be "one to three pages long, about anything at all," Mr. Auster said recently, "big or small, tragic or comic." But he particularly wanted stories "that defy our expectations about the world" and that reveal the mysterious forces at work in human existence."

NPR's National Story Project.

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Da Bomb.

Anthrax? Eh. Flying? Still one of the safest ways to travel. This is what will keep me awake at night and turn my knees to jelly. I thought I was done worrying about that.

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SuperFreak is at it again.

From Salon's Nothing Personal column:

"Has Michael Jackson's mask let him down?

The musician is apparently convinced he's caught a few anthrax spores through what's left of his nose.

"I don't know if I should say this, but I'm very sick," Jackson told the London News of the World. "They're going to test me and the children for anthrax. We're all very, very sick right now ... My chest burns very, very much. It's hard to breathe. And when I swallow, it stings." "

Scariest part of that? The phrase, "me and the children."

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News on the next X-Files movie.

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More Star Wars News...well, sort of...

From SciFi.com SciFiWire:

"Lucasfilm is suing the producers of a pornographic version of Star Wars, alleging that it's too similar to the SF epic, the Montreal Gazette reported. George Lucas' production company filed a federal lawsuit against Media Market Group Ltd., the New York producers of Star Ballz, claiming copyright and trademark infringement, the newspaper reported.

The suit argues that consumers could be confused into thinking that Lucasfilm sponsored or produced the X-rated movie. But Linda Wildblood, a partner at Media Market Group, told the Gazette that her company's movie is an animation parody. "Just like Scary Movie is a spoof of horror movies, Star Ballz parodies many different movies and themes," she said. "No one in their right mind could look at it and say this is Star Wars." "

She should also thank Lucasfilm for the free publicity.

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That's a baby?

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Should You Get The Flu Shot?

My mother was urging me the other day to get the flu shot. She gets the flu vaccine every year, and she should: she's over 50 and suffers from slight asthma and allergies. I, on the other hand, am not in a high-risk group: I'm in my 30s, relatively healthy, and the last time I had the flu was over 20 years ago. Her reasoning, born of over-exposure to the anthrax news coverage, is that if I get the flu shot it will make diagnosing anthrax easier should I become infected. I told her that I wasn't going to get a flu shot because I see the risk as minimal and she told me I was crazy and intractable in my inability to take precautions. I feel vindicated after reading this article, but I'm still not going to address it again with my mother. I'm not that crazy.

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Hope emerges from the dust.

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What people will do.

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I have all sorts of TV news to report today - this week is a busy one! There have been season premieres of other shows already (The West Wing, Enterprise), as well as special events (The Emmys), but there were more important things going on in the world and I guess the diversions of what used to be everyday life paled in comparison. With the distance of some 2 months from the attacks, I feel more comfortable getting excited about something as silly as a TV show.

So. Here are some of the TV happenings of this week that will have my full attention:

Tonight

Buffy: The Musical - UPN, 8:00 PM EST. "A Demon is summoned to Sunnydale forcing Buffy and her friends to sing their deepest secrets to one another." I've been waiting for this for months!

24 - Season Premiere - FOX, 9:00 PM EST - The year's most talked about new show.

Thursday

The Tick - Season Premiere - FOX, 8:30 PM EST. "Leaping from rooftop to rooftop in a single, hard-hitting thud, a mysterious, blue defender of justice patrols the city known as The City. He is THE TICK, and his limited understanding of all things human does not interfere with his over-zealous desire to protect humanity."

Sunday

Last, but not least...

The X-files - Season Premiere - FOX, 9:00 PM EST. Believe it or not, The X-Files is back for a ninth season. Scully is now a mother, Mulder has vanished and Doggett has a new partner.

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"It's not like chicken -- it is chicken," Internet entrepreneur Dayna Steele Justiz of Houston said of NASA's culinary concoctions she sells to the earthbound at thespacestore.com.

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"Breathing."

Lucasfilm, Ltd. has released a teaser trailer for "Episode II: Attack of The Clones", called Breathing. (You'll need Quicktime 5 to view). It's very short, under a minute long, but it's pretty cool, I think.

If you're like me, you'll be waiting to see if Episode II will deliver on the promise that "Episode I: The Phantom Menace" did not. I think we all have a list of changes we would make to Episode I if we were allowed to; click here to read about someone who did just that - re-edited the movie and called it "The Phantom Edit". You probably remember hearing about the distribution of "The Phantom Edit" a year or so ago. This article delves a little deeper into the events surrounding its creation, distribution and the other versions that followed it. The author also talks about the ramifications of viewers and critics digitally modifying movies in order to create versions they think are better.

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Invisibles!

First off, Filmwise has posted this week's Invisibles quiz, #48: Cop Out. My first 8 out of 8! Woohoo!

Also posted at Filmwise is a new twist on Invisibles called DVD Cover Art - Invisible Style.

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Someone give this girl a cheeseburger, please.

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