Best headline I saw today was along the lines of "Attorney General wants to extend Patriot Act." This just in, water still wet. Pope still dead.
Speaking of which, I'm on the air this Thursday. Anyone know any Pope songs? The only one I can think of is "Antipope" by the Damned. I know, I know... it really is unseemly to be riffing on the death of the Pope. On the other hand (to paraphrase John Bigbooté), it's not my goddamn planet, monkey boy.
Also seen today, an article saying that the Watchmen movie was having problems. Can't remember what sort of problems, if it's a pre-production thing or whatever. I'm pretty sure they're not actually filming anything yet. But I'm not sure how much credence to grant this article, since they identified Alan Moore as creator of Hellboy. I may not know my comix history like the back of my hand (hey, what's that?) but I'm pretty sure they've confused Hellboy with From Hell (which is kinda like confusing Snow Crash and Snow White).
Art car season! Actually, it's pretty much always art car season somewhere but the first major event for Sarah's coming up this weekend, Auto Fair Carnival in Charlotte. Should be a blast. I've met several of the other drivers who'll be there, but I'm very excited that Dave Major (AeroCar) and Dalton "Button King" Stevens will be there. Sarah met Dave and his wife at an event in Charlotte a few years ago, which I sicked out of. He was at Artscape one year but I never got the chance to meet him. So that'll be cool. And the Button King. Damn! He was one of the featured artists in Harrod Blank's first movie, Wild Wheels. Not only that but my shareware screensaver at work includes a pic of him. No car, alas, but it does show his button covered coat, banjo, toilet and coffin.
Oh yeah, and the Monster Garage gang will apparently be there. Plus it's, y'know, a carnival. So lotsa deep fried goodness.