Embrace the Dull

The State of Things

The coolest thing to happen in the last couple of weeks is Liz landing a "role" as a server on the reality-based cooking show, Hell's Kitchen. It's a 3 month gig that will afford her national television exposure with none of the stigma that can follow reality show morons (the show is about the chefs, not the staff, so she's just window dressing. Hot babe window-dressing). So while it's not an acting gig, per se, the money and the exposure are bad-ass.

Not bad for being in LA for 2 months.

Quiet Library continues to chug along, holding meetings with more TV/digital production people this week. The 3 deals that we have in pre-production remain relatively stagnant due mostly to contract-drafting sluggishness; we remain optimistic that at least one of the 3 projects will enter production before the end of the year.

Also, one of our sketches will be featured (or rather, it's scheduled to be featured) on CW's Online Nation on Sunday (9/30) at 7:30

The only bad thing to happen this week came Wednesday morning when Emmett, Jake, Holly and I woke Liz at 7:00 a.m. while I was getting ready for work.  She was angry spoke to us from a very dark place that I didn't know she had - this exchange took place,

"Does it need to ring every single time you get an email?"

"It doesn't ring it beeps"

"for every motherfucking email?"

"I forgot to turn it off"

"All four of you are grounded"

Beyond that, we are healthy and well...except for Emmett, who is healthy, well and stinky.

And civility was instantly restored to the American dialogue

Breaking: House Votes to Condemn MoveOn.

Doooooo'ooooh!

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The wife of former Australian cricket champion Shane Warne says their marriage reconciliation is over after he mistakenly sent her an incriminating text message.

As Callahan got the couple's three children ready for school in Melbourne, a text dropped into the inbox of her mobile phone, she told New Idea magazine.

"Hey beautiful, I'm just talking to my kids, the back door's open," the message from Warne said.

"You loser, you sent the message to the wrong person," Callahan sent back.

j/k! Bff??

Literally?

But conservatives on Capitol Hill were critical. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, said he thought the invitation to Ahmadinejad was a mistake "because he comes literally with blood on his hands."

That must have been gross

And here's another reason why Bush is such a fuckhead

Because I know you asked...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadeinejad:

"What religion, please tell me, tells you as a follower of that religion to occupy another country and kill its people? Please tell me. Does Christianity tell its followers to do that? Judaism, for that matter? Islam, for that matter? What prophet tells you to send 160,000 troops to another country, kill men, women, and children? You just can't wear your religion on your sleeve or just go to church. You should be truthfully religious. Religion tells us all that you should respect the property, the life of different people. Respect human rights. Love your fellow man. And once you hear that a person has been killed, you should be saddened. You shouldn't sit in a room, a dark room, and hatch plots. And because of your plots, many thousands of people are killed. Having said that, we respect the American people. And because of our respect for the American people, we respectfully talk with President Bush. We have a respectful tone. But having said that, I don't think that that is a good definition of religion. Religion is love for your fellow man, brotherhood, telling the truth."

Speaking to 60 Minutes

So this thug, this demogague, comes to our country, my country, and is entitled to walk a moral high-ground because George Bush and "5 Deferments" Cheney have through blunder, deception and murder ceded that high-ground to him.

This holocaust-denying animal gets to take advantage of our free press and level accusations at us.

This president from a nation of public hangings and jailed dissidents gets to come here and shift the focus from the lack of civil liberties and personal freedoms in his country, to the war of aggression transgressed by ours.

Well thank you Messrs President, see you both in hell.

No one was uppity - no a single one

Discussing his recent dinner with Rev. Al Sharpton at the Harlem restaurant Sylvia's, Bill O'Reilly reported that he "couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship." O'Reilly added: "There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.' "

MMfA

What's the lawsuit, Kenneth?

NYT Dan Rather, whose career at CBS News ground to an inglorious end 15 months ago over his role in an unsubstantiated report questioning President Bush’s Vietnam-era National Guard service, filed a lawsuit this afternoon against the network, its corporate parent and three of his former superiors

He contends that the network committed fraud by commissioning a “biased” and incomplete investigation of the flawed Guard broadcast and, in the process, “seriously damaged his reputation.”

Whoa, nelly, call the neighbors and text the farm-hands, I bet Dan's madder than an impotent jack-rabbit.

U of F campus police weigh in on the Kerry incident

I like that Jesus has a lazy eye in this picture

And that the lion sort of looks like Emmett. And that Jesus sort of looks like Maurice Gibb.

LCD Soundsystem: All My Friends

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Part of me can't believe how good this song is - the part of me that does believe also believes in chocolate for dinner and fairies and happiness that rains down like glitter.