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Slings & Arrows

If you've ever spent a lot of time in a theatre, Slings & Arrows -- the Canadian drama set behind the scenes of a theatre festival -- will instantly bring to mind everything that goes with it: Histrionic actors, craven administrators, ill-starred and fleeting romantic liaisons, endless budget crises, infuriating productions meetings, profound levels of sleeplessness, the endless race against the clock, the stress of opening nights...

If you've ever spent a lot of time in a theatre, Slings & Arrows will make you deeply, deeply homesick.

Still more comics journalism that sucks

From Newsarama's front-page blurb about DC's Blue Beetle series:

Despite the odds and naysayers, DC's Blue Beetle keeps gaining fans as it moves into its second year.

From this analysis of DC's month-to-month sales at another site:

03/2006: Blue Beetle #1 — 50,678 [69,752]
04/2006: Blue Beetle #2 — 43,770 (-13.6%) [50,190]
05/2006: Blue Beetle #3 — 41,711 (- 4.7%)
06/2006: Blue Beetle #4 — 38,622 (- 7.4%)
07/2006: Blue Beetle #5 — 35,490 (- 8.1%)
08/2006: Blue Beetle #6 — 33,181 (- 6.5%)
09/2006: Blue Beetle #7 — 29,079 (-12.4%)
10/2006: –
11/2006: Blue Beetle #8 — 25,861 (-11.1%)
11/2006: Blue Beetle #9 — 23,785 (- 8.0%)
12/2006: Blue Beetle #10 — 21,358 (-10.2%)
01/2007: Blue Beetle #11 — 19,865 (- 7.0%)

Alias Shazam?

Is it just me, or does this Mary Marvel action figure kinda look like Jennifer Garner?

Jack, Jack, Jack, season's off track...

As much as I continue to enjoy 24, I have to admit that this week's sequence of Jack Bauer trying to steer the nuclear warhead-laden drone plane away from its intended target was like something out of Bloo's movie trailer.



Oh: Posting status is now upgraded to "intermittent."

I did not know that.

The Bill Richardson campaign just sent me a mass e-mail from former Kennedy/Johnson-era Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. My reaction to which was, "Stewart Udall is STILL ALIVE?!?" Turns out he's alive, kicking, and 87. Good for him.

We now rejoin our regularly scheduled hiatus.

Powers Boothe=Fred Thompson?

Monday night's episode of 24 was part of the great softening-up to prepare us all for the specter of a Fred Thompson presidency, wasn't it?

(Still on hiatus, but it needed to be said. Also: Ricky Schroeder is sufficiently annoying that he made me forget to be annoyed by the continuing presence of Eric Balfour. I did not think that was possible. Perhaps Ricky Schroeder could join the cast of Heroes and make Milo Ventimiglia bearable next.)

Hiatus

I am swamped with work at the moment and have no idea when I'll be posting again.

Guilty, guilty, guilty.

It occurs to me that Scooter Libby's indictment and conviction both took place on days that I was working from home.

I should work from home more often.

I got nuthin'

Presented without editorial comment:

Yes, that was Sen. Ted Stevens at National Airport on Sunday taking charge and flinging bags off a stalled conveyor belt to help other passengers and, of course, find his own bag. "He looked quite good and in shape for a man of 83 in the middle of the night lifting bags," said fellow traveler Joe Mendelson, who worked alongside Stevens.

When the music stopped, however, neither man had a bag. "Well, I guess we're [expletive] out of luck," the senator said.