After a weekend of what one cast member has called "the most fun audition experience I've ever had" the Theatre Guild of Rockingham County has got the cast for its production of The King and I a little more than two months from now.And... I'm playing Phra Alack! He's the secretary to the King, and gets to throw his authority around a lot. Unless the King is in the room, and then Phra Alack throws himself down on the floor a lot. Gonna be a fun...
Monday, April 12, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
And on a more serious note...
Two great tragedies have I observed in life: unrequited love and unrequited repentance.I harbor no doubt as to which is the more miserable, if also the less celebrat...
First photo from the set of THE THING prequel
The guys at /Film have come through with the first pic of the set for the as-yet-untitled prequel to The Thing: John Carpenter's classic 1982 science-fiction horror movie...That's the Antarctic research camp that the SwedesNorwegians have, before they make their icy discovery and all hell breaks loose. The prequel (scripted by Ronald D. Moore, the mastermind behind the revamped...
Report: U.S. Navy sub crashed 'cuz navigator was listening to iPod
Awright, let's be clear about something: the navigator was not listening to his iPod while at his station. But he was in his cabin listening to his iPod when he was supposed to have been at his station. Which in some ways is indicative of plenty more that was wrong on this sub."iPranged a submarine" screams the The Sun in the United Kingdom (gotta love those wacky British...
New hope for cancer patients: Drug chokes off energy to tumors
On the medical side of things, researchers at Ohio State University have hit upon a promising new lead in the fight against cancer: an experimental drug that kills cancerous cells by cutting off their supply of sugar.From the article at the university's website...Researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute have designed an experimental drug that chokes...
Saturn's weird hexagon replicated in a lab
Here's something that's intrigued me for quite a few years. Saturn - the second biggest planet in the solar system - has an odd feature and it ain't them purty rings: there's a huuuuuge hexagon-shaped cloud formation, thousands of miles to a side, surrounding its north pole. It's a persistent phenomenon that has mystified astronomers ever since it was first discovered.So...
Friday, April 09, 2010
GEARS OF WAR 3: Video gaming's worst-kept secret EVER!
If you can't hear the hair-rending going on right now at Epic Games' studios in Cary not far away from here, I'd bet good money that Cliff Bleszinski's Twitter feed is about to go pure apoplectic.For more than a week Bleszinski - the creator of Epic's Gears of War series - had been hinting heavily that his appearance on Jimmy Fallon's show on NBC late night would herald the...
The temporal battle of Want vs. Need
Lindsey Nobles - Christian blogger extraordinaire - has posted some thoughts on her struggle with her wants and her needs as part of her ongoing series on life goals and motivations...I grew up surrounded by affluence. I grew up in a community where success was too often measured by the title on your business card, the size of your bank account, the car you drove, the places you had traveled, and the street you lived on. And oh, how I loved love...
I love rain
Especially when it washed away all of this pollen that has plagued too many of us this week.I've also a newfound appreciation for Zyrtec (thanks to longtime friend Kelly Hart for suggesting it, and your results may var...
Thursday, April 08, 2010
I hate pollen
Couldn't God in His infinite wisdom have come up with a better way for plants and trees to have s...
Lucasfilm developing animated Star Wars sitcom
Yes, April Fools Day was a week ago. But no, it's not a joke.A quarter century ago, on Saturday morning cartoons gone far, far away...That's the title sequence from the short-lived Star Wars: Droids animated series on ABC. The theme song "In Trouble Again" was co-written and performed by Stewart Copeland of The Police. Anthony Daniels again provided the voice of C-3PO.Twenty-five years later and with Star Wars: Clone Wars a certifiable success...
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
LOST Season 5 soundtrack CD gets a release date!
A little more than a month from now on May 11th, you and me and all the other Lost fanatics will finally get to buy the soundtrack from Season 5. Click here to pre-order it from Amazon. It'll street for $17.98 but you're likely to find it for less depending on where you look.Lost is the only television series that I've ever gone to the trouble of buying the soundtrack CDs, and I'm looking forward to putting more of Michael Giacchino's beautiful...
First animals discovered that live without oxygen
Meet Loricifera, a group of tiny aquatic multi-cellular animals. And they are now the first form of animal found to be completely absent of the need for oxygen for its metabolism.Quite exotic and interesting, yes? Perhaps this means that other, maybe even more complex, organisms might be found in other environments that do no require oxygen.More info at the li...
My DVR has gone mentyl
If this is a technical issue, it's darn just about the weirdest one that I've ever seen in a lifetime filled with playing with gadgets.And I'm also reminded of Auric Goldfinger's classic line to James Bond: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action." If this happens a third time, I'm going to have the whole thing stripped down and examined,...
"Happily Ever After": Post-episode reaction to this week's LOST
Before uttering a word about Lost, I just wanna say that Buzz Aldrin was all kinds of kewlness on Dancing With The Stars and even though he's gone from competition, his was a presence that truly moonwalked on the dance floor. Looked like he had a heck of a fun time!Now, on to "Happily Ever After"...The episodes of Lost that center on Desmond Hume have been some of the very best of the show's entire run: witness "Flashes Before Your Eyes" and "The...
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
A libertarian thought for a Tuesday morning
To live for the satisfaction of a government of men is the most seductive and evil slavery of a...
