Month: May 2007

NBC has announced that it’s renewing the low-rated but high quality, critically acclaimed “Friday Night Lights.”

Interestingly, its numbers are around six million, which puts it right around the numbers “Drive” drew in its debut.

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I asked everyone to wait a week before discussing SM3 with spoilers, and for the most part everyone has obliged. So if you guys want to chat about the film with spoilers–discussing specific plot point–here’s where to do it.

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FNSM #20 and the Kelly Kulick appearance attracted the notice of www.bowl.com, one of the premiere bowling websites. Check it out. My only regret is that there’s no mention of Todd Nauck; it sounds as if I drew the book.

http://www.bowl.com/articleView.aspx?i=13018&f=1

Gee, I wonder if journalista! will pick it up? A Gary Groth product featuring something about me that’s not negative? I’m thinking not.

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…people get people fired.

I’m a free speech advocate and also I’m against undeterred gun ownership, so the item below really brings my two Constitutional priorities into conflict.

http://jinwicked.livejournal.com/156836.html

I’m definitely going to have to give priority to the First Amendment here: This is completely ludicrous. That a guy is fired simply for talking about acquiring a rifle, and that his depiction of it in a webcomic gets a police investigation, for crying out loud? Insanity.

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My daughter Shana brought the following to my attention: An actual poster that’s all over Paris. Zut!

http://bp3.blogger.com/__XCWUd8FFjQ/RkB7BxtieTI/AAAAAAAAA0o/22Q5MIAshpM/s1600-h/cheeseweb.jpg

Personally, I think it’d go down great with a side of Fantastic Fries. Maybe wash it down with a Silver Slurpee.

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Congrats to the FBI. With nary an illegal wiretap or any of the other intrusions on civil liberties that the administration seems to believe is the only way to fight terrorism, the FBI arrested a home-grown terrorist cell composed of amateurs and incompetents. I don’t phrase it that way to diminish the accomplishment, because even morons with rocket launchers can still inflict serious damage, and it’s not like the Virginia Tech guy was an experienced merc. It’s just a factual description of a group of would-be terrorists so stupid that their cell was infiltrated practically from the begining because they wanted to transfer a training video from VHS to DVD, couldn’t figure out how to do it, and wound up with an alert video store clerk tipping the FBI.

The Feds then effortlessly infiltrated them and, sixteen months later, busted them when they tried to buy weapons for an intended strike on a military base. Dix: It’s not just a name for an army post. They’re now dubbed the Fort Dix Six. I’m hoping that someone does indeed try to make a movie about them called “The Cell That Couldn’t Shoot Straight,” which they would then turn down, so that Variety could run a headline that says, “Dix Six Nix Pix.”

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