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Oct 21
Movies, Music, TV, Tech 5 Comments
* The rumor mill is flying that a second season of ROCKSTAR: INXS would be ROCKSTAR: VAN HALEN.
* A classic quote from Douglas Adams: “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
* David Hahn makes a few excellent points about the complaints against expensive movie experiences.
* TV Update for the weekend: The PBA returns to ESPN this Sunday afternoon. It’s starting to feel like Fall again.
* Meanwhile, the PBA is staging a special event to air on Christmas Day called The Final Frame. It’s a little convoluted, but it promises an all star cast of bowlers fighting for exemption.
* Broadband via hot air balloons/airships.
* Coming up on Sunday: Photos of last week’s flooding here in Northern NJ.
Oct 21, 2005 @ 15:15:31
Got an email a while back from someone active on a Douglas Adams newsgroup saying that they were researching the “deadlines” quote, and as far as they’d been able to determine I seemed to be responsible for it escaping into the wild. I heard him say it as a reading/signing at UMichigan and added it to my .sig file, which seems to have been the earliest public distribution of it other than from Adams’ mouth.
Oct 21, 2005 @ 16:13:19
A new season of RockStar with Van Halen…very interesting…
Oct 21, 2005 @ 17:14:26
Update: Van Halen is denying the rumor in the strongest possible terms. MTV News is apologizing for the story. Back to rumor mongering about Queen, it looks like.
Oct 21, 2005 @ 17:20:52
Van Halen doesn’t need a new lead singer, it needs to dry out Eddie and his ego.
Oct 22, 2005 @ 10:00:21
Queen! No, I hope that someone will not let that happen. They were one of the great bands of all time and no lead singer will EVER be able to replace Freddie. I would pay money to see that they wouldn’t do Queen on that show. (Which I think is an abomination, btw)