"Puppet wrangler? There weren't any puppets in this movie!" – Crow T. Robot
Of the new Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars miniseries premiering on the Sci-Fi Channel next month, executive producer and co-writer David Kemper says:
The miniseries certainly pushing things to an edge we didn’t have in the series.
Yeah, ’cause Farscape‘s not what you’d call an edgy series…
You know, I filled out the paperwork and registered to vote when I got my New York State driver’s license at the end of last month, but so far I haven’t received any confirmation to that effect. I seem to remember being told I’d receive something within six weeks, and I’m reasonably sure it hasn’t been quite that long, but still, I’m just a bit worried. I want to vote in this election — and not just to assuage whatever guilt I might have from voting Nader last time around.
I don’t know if there’s anyone I can call if my registration is still being processed, but I also don’t think I should try and register twice just to be on the safe side. Should I? As I noted last night, the deadline’s coming up pretty soon.
High praise indeed:
Though it soon devolves into a laughable mess, The Forgotten at least spends its first 10 minutes or so raising provocative questions.
From Keith Phipps of The Onion, who, as it turns out, also has an online journal.
I think it varies state to state (here in New York, it’s 25 days before the elections), but if you haven’t, and can, please register to vote. Whomever you decide to vote for, this is going to be an important election.
From an interview with Bruce Springsteen in today’s Salon:
The free press is supposed to be the lifeline and the blood of democracy. That is the position of responsibility that those institutions have. Those things are distorted by ratings and by money to where you’re getting one hour of the political conventions. No matter how staged they are, I think they’re a little more important than people eating bugs. I think that for those few nights, the political life of the nation should take priority, and the fact that it so casually does not means something is wrong. If you want to watch people eating bugs, that’s fine, I can understand that, too, but let’s do it on another night.
Maybe — I don’t really believe this, but just maybe — if they had the candidates eating bugs…