I'm betting this would be popular if Volkswagen decides to go forward with plans to bring by the Microbus. Apparently they are looking at this for North America only, with no word set on if, when, or how.
Via CrunchGear
Wow, it has been a rough week of rehearsals. But then doing comedy usually does lead to a lot of hard work. As we have our final dress rehearsal tonight for Unnecessary Farce at Wayside Theatre, I find myself in that unsettled place I usually am when working on a comedy. I don't think anything is funny anymore and I've lost all perspective. Drives me nuts, because I know we have one heck of a funny script and a very funny cast doing great work.
My staff gets tired of hearing me say I hate comedy, but in the final days before an audience shows up, I really do hate staging comedy.
Tomorrow we'll see just what adjustments we need to make once we get first audience reactions. I'm actually really looking forward to that. It helps me re-live why I loved the play in the first place.
I don’t know why anyone is surprised by this given how easy it is to edit Wikipedia and how politicians (and others) love to shape and reshape their images. The New York Times has picked up on a story that has been floating around during the Labor Day Weekend that Republican VP choice Sarah Palin’s Wikipedia entry was edited at the end of last week leading up to the announcement.
Apparently the individual doing the editing, named YoungTrigg, (her youngest son is named Trigg) started polishing up Palin’s entry. Others did as well. The Times details some of the edits, and it basically looks like a PR polish job from what I’m reading.. It also looks like another user or users did some re-working of the re-working. Apparently another user edited the entry on Thursday night to say Palin was the VP choice.
But given that Wikipedia does make it reasonably easy to edit, and that quick editing has been credited with some breaking (or should I say premature) news of late, it raises some interesting questions that have been raised before about objectivity and Wikipedia’s role in the information game. Some are calling it typical dirty tricks. Heh. I say it is just taking advantage of the opportunities that exist.
Some Sunday morning reading to share.
It looks like the Gulf Coast is going to be hit extraordinarily hard by not just one, but possibly two hurricanes, although the path of the second is still much in doubt. The language being used to encourage and force evacuations sounds terrifying. Thoughts and prayers to all who are in harms way.
Ernie the Attorney is going to hang on in New Orleans and is blogging about his experiences.
Gustav is forcing the Republicans to consider changing their plans for the Republican convention and rightly so after the Katrina debacle. It will be interesting to see how the Republicans can pull off basically a no-win situation.
McCain has certainly shaken up things with his choice of Sarah Palin for his VP. I think the jury is way, way, out on what impact this will have, but it is taken an already fascinating and historic election and added to it.
Comcast this week said it would begin capping broadband at 250GB per month for home users. Stacey Higginbotham lists 10 Things To Know About Metered Broadband.
As some, like me, feel very shaky and dissatisfied with Comcast’s cap plan, Steve Gillmor sees it as possibly the dawn of the Streaming Era.
Andy Borowitz on the GOP Campaign as an Unproduced Goldie Hawn film.
So, I guess the Silly Season is really officially underway now with what looks like a classic case of feeding frenzy beginning to build. Blogs and websites have been running speculation all day that John McCain’s VP pick from out of nowhere, Sarah Palin is actually the grandmother of the child she says his her number 5. The very liberal leaning Daily Kos has picked it up and his trumpeting it across the Internets, (or a series of tubes as Alaska’s Ted Stevens would say) and I’m sure it will soon quickly roll out into the mainstream media.
Why? The media doesn’t like it when they aren’t a part of the process, and McCain pulled a fast one by picking Palin. She was basically an unknown, and the media will most likely be anxious to jump on this as if to say, “you should have let us help vet her.”
The Daily Kos,and other reports,base their evidence on several things”
While the evidence as is being presented might smack of a family coverup of a family problem, no one really knows anything at this point. That said, assume there is substance to the speculation, here’s the “history repeats itself” rub.
Given Sarah Palin’s ardent pro-life stance, she would have gathered far more sympathy and support had she come clean about the situation instead of trying to pretend she could hide from the facts. No one would have batted an eye, except the most voracious of partisans. Yes, you can say she was trying to protect her daughter. But while that is noble, like everything else in a coverup, if true, it will backfire big time.
Tonight marks the end of a very successful run of Always Patsy Cline at Wayside Theatre. It has been a tremendous run, with our two actresses, Sara Story and Thomasin Savaiano entertaining audiences since July 12. It also marks the completion of the first run of a show in our newly renovated theatre.
We’ll all miss this show and it will forever be associated with the re-opening of the theatre. It helped bring back life to the theatre and to our town and put many a smile on many a face. But as is the case in our business, we let them go so we can move onto the next one.
Well here we are. Labor Day weekend in the US traditionally kicks off the Silly Season of the presidential campaign. It only gets sillier and wackier from here. For those who thought the primaries were silly, the next 66 days will probably make you turn off of politics all together (which in some quarters is both the design and the intent.)
Hypocrisy, hyperbole, and hyena-like howls of hooliganism will abound through the media and the blogosphere. When you hear or see what looks like righteous indignation over some slur/slander/slime, just know it is because those who are being indignant are only ticked off that they didn’t come up with the idea first. Anything goes and will go, and I’m guessing this fall will be uglier and funnier than most, even with, or because the stakes are so high.
So, now that Obama has the nod for the Dems, and the Repubs are debating whether to hold their convention this week or postpone it due to a hurricane, here is some of the funniest Silly Season craziness I’ve seen just this morning.
From HolyJuan via The J-Walk Blog
From Faux Fox News.
And from Andrew Sullivan (who has been tearing it up lately.)
I think we should get ready for lots more.
This was a speech for the ages. This is one that will be brought up again and again in campaign after campaign. It was symphonic. It hit the emotional chords. It had intellectual resonance that will echo for generations. And as my wife says, it was filled with so much common sense
There were so many moments to remember, that I’m already exhausted trying to hang on to them. But the one I am remembering the most tonight is word one, spoken with a full throated passion that seemed to shake the stage in Mile High Stadium. When Barack Obama spoke from deep within his soul and raised his voice to yell Enough!, I felt things change.
I don’t think I am alone in that. One word. Focused. Drilled. Delivered with passion. That one word says it all.
It is time for a change. The change has begun. Our better natures have been challenged. It is time for us to respond.
Oh, please, no. Please, please, please, no. Christmas creep gets earlier and earlier every year. It looks like it is happening this year before Labor Day. Someone spotted Christmas wrapping paper at a Walgreen’s, sitting on the top shelf.
Via The Consumerist.
Whew.
Today was the closing performance and then strike for Moonlight and Magnolias. It was a great show. Just this last week, Potomac Stages picked the show as a must see in the Washington DC area. It is always sad to see a show close, and this was one of the sadder ones. The cast, Peter Boyer, Chris Reeder, Chris Todd, and Leah Raulerson, were all wonderful and provided a lot of great laughs for audiences.
But like all shows this one has reached the end of its run, and we got rid of all of the bananas and peanuts and now move on to donuts and sex farce.
Always Patsy Cline has one more week to play while we continue to rehearse Unnecessary Farce. It will almost seem like a vacation with only two shows to worry about this week. But not really. We’ve got a lot coming up and we’ll all be a bit crazy here pretty much up to the holidays. But hey that’s a life in the theatre.
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