As was widely reported around the time of the theatrical release, Adam McKay said that the first cut of Anchorman ran about four hours and that they plan to include an entire second film on the DVD release [December?].
This post on a message board discusses an early preview of the film with an
entirely different subplot. Perhaps this will comprise the second
film. [Don’t read it if you want to be surprised — I stopped
reading the post about halfway through because I didn’t want to know too
many details. Sure, it’s just one person’s account, but still.]
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They should name a rest area in New Jersey after M.K. Styles, who collects Tha H0TT3$T hip-hop, R&B, and theme song MIDI files on his website. If you have a USB cable or can access his site through the browser on your phone, you can save yourself a few bucks on rings.
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If you can call successfully guessing a password and posting a new front-page entry a hack, then I guess some nudnik just took someone these guys to $CH00|_.
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I’ve been meaning to note this stuff for a while, just because. I get the impression that Google’s cache could expire at any moment, so I saved a local copy of this article about the man who was banned from the Ann Arbor District Library for cussing loudly.
Usually people like this man have interesting websites. Not this guy — he is busy with his second book, an unauthorized bio of ol’ black-turtleneck-guy from Apple. About all I could find that weren’t directly related to his first no-seller were a couple of articles here and there about his “library activism:”
- A librarians’ zine — I guess they didn’t know him like we did.
- His Congressional testimony imploring them to keep the L.O.C. open later at night.
- Among several articles about him in his old haunt, Seattle, was this piece where he asks the Microsoft exec — the subject of his first bio — for his government record, which he believes MS has.
- Oh, and this doozy of an op-ed he sent the AA News about how Ann Arbor was supposed to welcome his abuse. Lord knows I can get trite here, but I’m not foisting my invective on a real newspaper.
As is apparent to the reader by now, but I remember this guy from my brief time at the library. I could talk for hours, but I’d like to sum it up by simply saying that he spent hours at a time in the lab, the incident in question wasn’t the first time he cussed out a library staffer, and, by and large, he had it coming. I only wish I could’ve been there to wave at him on his way out. You know he’s going to parade back in there at 9am on December 30, and smugly continue upon his path of devastation. Or he could also go pretty much anywhere else in the world except within 20 miles of the bpdw.commentary mansion, which, frankly, would be ideal.
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Quietly last winter, OCLC began beta testing a service called Open WorldCat, in which Google and Yahoo searches of authors and book titles would return a link to a page listing libraries near the searcher’s ZIP code [when the ZIP was entered by the searcher].
Longtime readers of this enterprise may recall a time when I wished aloud for exactly such a service. So I thought I was doing a good thing when I posted to Metafilter about this open beta test, but the way in which PageRank works has unintentionally made the page I created the number one hit for the phrase “find in a library” + either of the two authors I mentioned on that page, ahead of the WorldCat results to which I was trying to draw attention.
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Ten minutes from the end of the season finale of Six Feet Under and the cable, which has been hiccuping on the digital channels all day, finally gives out.
The helpline people are no help — they tell me to turn the box off before they send it one of their Magic Reset Signals — No end-of-Six-Feet-Under and no Entourage finale for me tonight. Possibly not until Tuesday between two and four o’clock, which is when they’re sending the guy out.
I almost admire their moxie when try to sell me on Showtime and Encore before ending the call. Sure, I might consider it, IF MY HBO FRICKIN’ WORKED.
I’m starting to think maybe there’s a reason why the cable company inserts all those commercials about how terrible satellite-TV is and what a mistake it would be to switch to it. Maybe satellite-TV is actually PRETTY GOOD.
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Following our recent move, this site now emanates from the fabulous BPDW.COMMENTARY
Mansion, north of Detroit [formerly the Orbit Magazine Mansion, formerly the Fun Magazine Mansion, formerly the Monthly Detroit Mansion]. I apologize for the downtime but take great comfort in knowing that I kept in touch with all two of my readers via email and bar nights.
A couple of things I noticed that I’m just going to throw in this entry:
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