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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Eat up, you're stuck in-flight

Some quick notes:

The Eugene (yes, Oregon) Register-Guard: Airlines say fliers eating up snack boxes: If you like bright yellow tortilla chips dipped in tiny dishes of Tito's Cantina Salsa made in Seekonk, Massachusetts, you'll like them even better when you're shoved between two other people for 4 hours with no air. Yes, it's airline snack time. Unless you buy-on-board. I mean, we accept credit cards. C'mon! It's AU BON PAIN for christ's sake!

Newsday cribs The Baltimore Sun to dish the latest radio station to license "Jack" from Vancouver.

Latest on Netflix: Bubba Ho-Tep. 5 stars; this is the first film in a long time to give me temporary apoplexy. The King of Rock and Roll vs. The King Of The Dead? Can't go wrong with that.

Currently looking at his mushrooming netspace: Waymorefunner, which is destined for the blogroll alohng with sheilaomalley.com and dooce.com. NOTE: I have not been DOOCED yet.

Farewell to Topic A with Tina Brown though I've never seen it.

Still haven't checked out BCBEAT.com.

I've got to start tracking a) Maria Menounos news and b) Maria Menounos news coverage because I was part of the many lucky folks who went to college with her. I've also got to get her Woody Woodpecker laugh as a sound on my computer. Off the top of my head:
--Channel One
--Entertainment Tonight
--"One Tree Hill"
--Pantene Smoothing Comb-In Treatment commercials
--Pet Star on Animal Planet
--..."Some movie that is coming out soon," Alicia, is "Fantastic Four." Hold on to your butts!
....Of course it would make more sense to just link to her IMDB listing. (Type in her name misspelled and her primary listing is "Actress, Entertainment Tonight.")
....ANNNNND she is also co-EPing a movie that features DAVID HARARI and JOHN STEPHENSON on the IMDB crew list. Props!

So apparently one of my favorite actresses who's just as temperamental as the rest of us bitches, Felicity Huffman, is playing a pre-op MTF in Transamerica. And yet the movie's crux/thesis/plot is not integrally about the gender-change operation. Killer. ....Wait, the movie doesn't even have a distributor??????????? No. Relax. It premiered at Tribeca Film Festival; it is getting limited release to theatres in October of this year.

If "any kid with a modem can get a press pass" to the House and Senate, maybe I should get my butt down there just for kicks. (Marianne Means, Hearst syndicated DC columnist, via Seattle P-I)

78 journos died in 2004.

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