Month: September 2003

NaNo NaNo

Donna wants to know if I’m going to take part in NaNoWriMo in November. Given that one of their mottos is You will be writing a lot of crap I think it’s fairly evident that I meet the (lack-of-)quality bar; it’s quantity I’m concerned about.

(Actually, it’s story that most concerns me. I don’t have anything resembling an idea that will stand up for 5000 words, let alone 50000.)

(Then again, as Douglas Adams wrote, I love deadlines. I especially love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.)

Ping me in a week or two, Donna (or anyone else). The seed’s been planted.

Ornery

One of these days I’m going to put together a series of web pages, each of which is explicitly de-optimized for one browser but looks fine in all the rest. The pages will include graphical banners reading This page looks worst when viewed in browser X.

Just wanna have lunch

After sitting on a shelf at Warner Brothers for over a year, Rutles 2: Can’t Buy Me Lunch, the much anticipated sequel to Eric Idle’s 1978 mockumentary, will receive its world premiere in Los Angeles on August 16.

Hans ten Cate

One presumes it will appear in more venues in the near future. It’s about time!

The DVD finally came out earlier this year. It’s not as good as the original… more like Eric Idle Rips Off Eric Idle.

Barenaked server

Well, the Barenaked Ladies weblog that looked so promising seems to be a bust:

HTTP/1.1 New Application Failed

This may not be a permanent issue; the text is a generic IIS/ASP error message, which could indicate that the site’s been hacked or is just down (like that’s never happened before). Seeing as there hadn’t been any updates since June it wouldn’t be a huge surprise if the BNLBlog has simply gone the way of the dodo. Whatever the cause, it’s a disappointing development.

Well, the site is back, but the content is still ancient. Sigh.

…and all the regular boneheads

There’s all kinds of great news about… The Boneyard Man (mu-hu-hu-hu-ha-ha-haaaaaaa). The Boneheads (and I mean that lovingly, of course) are about to premiere special editions of their radio noir series on Rogers Television (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 10:30pm, Fridays at 4:00pm, and Sundays at 9:30pm), and they’re going to start the sixth season of the live theatre show on September 26th and 27th at the Spriet Theatre in Covent Garden Market. And not least, they have a new website. (I’m probably jumping the gun posting that last bit, because it seems in a bit of disarray at the moment, but what the heck… it’s still great news.) Now all they need is to get that mailing list working a little more reliably….

Chef Boyardee

Sometimes I worry that I go on too much about how much I enjoy Lenni Jabour‘s music. Then I read something like Scott Andrew LePera’s post about Edie Carey and realize I’m not the only one who gets really into this stuff called music: Here’s a sure danger sign: more than once I found myself complaining and then what happened? as the two-minute MP3 sample tracks ended abruptly in mid-verse. And then I played the samples again and again and again, until I finally stopped torturing myself and bought the record…. This is like finding a four-leaf clover pressed inside the child’s book you picked up at a yard sale on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon.