Use The Force, Luke... Very, Very Quickly

George Lucas has given the go-ahead to a condensation of the Star Wars saga by the Reduced Shakespeare Company. Estimated run time: 20 minutes.

Thanks to Anne for the heads-up.

Go Ned!

In case you just emerged from a cave, Ned Lamont beat Joe Lieberman in the CT Democratic Senatorial primary.

Excellent takes on the meaning and effects of the outcome by Kos and Joe Conason. My own short form? 'Bout damn time. For years now, Lieberman has been representing his interests, rather than those of his constituents, and undermining his purported allies. And that is what it pretty much comes down to. We don't know yet what kind of legislator Ned Lamont will be (and, sure, he may lose the general election and we'll never know). But we know exactly what kind Lieberman is.

And it seems that Sore Loserman will indeed run as an "independent Democrat", whatever the hell that is. Uh, Joe? Remember whan Chimpy tried to claim a mandate after winning 51-48 (or 51-49, depending on how you miscount)? You got beat by a greater margin. Sit down, Joe.

Oh, and, all of you tender-hearted, well-meaning Republican pundits, telling us how devastating a Lieberman loss will be for the Democratic Party, fearing for what will happen to us? Blow it out your asses. Sugar Ray never listened to Marvin Hagler tell him how to fight Marvin Hagler for a real obvious reason. For weeks now, you've all been spouting the talking-heads version of "puh-leeeeeeze don't toss Joe in that briar patch!" And now you're all going to be shocked and horrified and worried for the very soul of the Democratic Party because Joe wasn't tossed in the briar patch, he was right out in the open, and we used conventional weapons (i.e., grass-roots door-to-door democracy) and his own words against him.

Screw you. When a "Dem" is getting support from Hannity and Coulter, that's the only clue one needs.

Now That's Boss

I'm pretty happy with the desktop/laptop recording rig I'm using now. I know the software; I can get the noise I want.

But damn. This is a tempting little beast. And it Froogles at about four hundred bucks.

With built-in effects and a drum machine.

The 14-Second Emmy

Okay, here's one we can likely debate all month.

Ellen Burstyn has been nominated for an Emmy for fourteen seconds of screen time.

Nothing at all about the quality of the work -- I mean, hey. It's Ellen Burstyn. And it isn't about whose paycheck is bigger, or who contractually gets credited higher (I thought right away of Brando in Superman). Do you think that a fourteen-second performance is potentially award-winning? Cite whatever examples you like. I'm not sure myself, but I will admit that I think Gene Hackman earned the entire paycheck for The Birdcage near the end by the way he kept saying, "I don't understand".

New iTom Song

"Blue Screen of Death".