now that was a good episode of lost

finally, we're getting somewhere.

for those who saw the episode

transcript!

yeah, that's how i feel too

*sad charlie brown walk*

well it's finally over

"Arrested Development," the critically praised but low-rated Fox show that won an Emmy for outstanding comedy series, as well as Emmys for writing, will not be resurrected on Showtime as rumors circulating for months have suggested.

A source close to the negotiations said that creator Mitch Hurwitz had decided after a lengthy period of debating an offer from Showtime that "Arrested Development reached its end, creatively, as a series."

Reached on his cell phone while filming a movie in Toronto, star Jason Bateman said he had mixed emotions about the news, saying he was sad for the series to end but happy that the beloved series will live on DVD for people to enjoy.

"I'm so proud of it and so like it as a TV fan that I'm happy we're not going to get a chance to screw it up," he said, in the deadpan style of his character, Michael Bluth, about the only sane member of the dysfunctional Bluth clan. "Our luck wouldn't have held. There would have been cast fighting. We would have messed it up."

second source

"Arrested Development" creator Mitch Hurwitz says he will not be continuing with the series, throwing a major -- likely fatal -- monkey wrench into attempts to keep the Emmy-winning laffer alive for a fourth season.

Series producers 20th Century Fox TV and Imagine TelevisionImagine Television had agreed on a deal to move "Arrested," previously on Fox, to Showtime -- assuming Hurwitz was willing to come back. In the end, however, a mix of creative and financial concerns has prompted Hurwitz to move on.

"The fans have been so ardent in their devotion and in return ... I've given everything I can to the show in order to try to live up to their expectations," Hurwitz told Daily Variety on Monday in a telephone interview from GothamGotham. "I finally reached a point where I felt I couldn't continue to deliver that on a weekly basis."

well i'm definitely tuning in now for sure

Based on the ABC e-mail, it appears that victims of hate crimes and violent home invasions and families coping with the loss of a child killed by a drunk driver make for good television. And the show would also absolutely love to feature those battling skin cancer, Lou Gehrig's disease, and muscular dystrophy. Oh, and families with multiple children with Down Syndrome would be ideal, whether the kids are "either adopted or biological," the e-mail notes. And, shooting the moon, the program's "family casting director," Charisse Simonian, would love to locate a kid suffering from Progeria, the rare condition that causes rapid aging in a child (for those unaware of Progeria, the ABC e-mail helpfully describes it as "aka 'little old man disease.'")

pix from downtown chicago

fyi

update: re uploaded to fix some cropping.

i have returned from chicago

more on this later.

p.s. the plane was snake-less rather than snake-ful.

finalized film festival

to accomodate adam and ryan's parties:

Lucky Number Slevin
Sunday, April 02 > 2:30 PM
The Bridge

Shadowboxer
Sunday, April 02 > 5:00 PM
Prince Music Theater

Wristcutters: A Love Story
Sunday, April 02 > 9:30 PM
Prince Music Theater

Lady Vengeance
Tuesday, April 04 > 9:45 PM
Ritz East Theater 1

A Bittersweet Life
Wednesday, April 05 > 9:45 PM
Ritz Five

Fuck
Friday, April 07 > 10:00 PM
The Cinema at Penn

Welcome to Dongmakgol
Saturday, April 08 > 9:30 PM
Ritz Five

Wedding Party, The
Sunday, April 09 > 2:45 PM
Ritz East Theater 1

Two Days
Monday, April 10 > 9:30 PM
Prince Music Theater

worst thing

.. is opening up the washing machine and finding bits of torn tissue on your wet clothes. then you put the clothes into the dryer and the tissue is reconstructed on the lint filter.

i swore i checked all the pockets. >:(

snakes on a plane

oscar shit right here.

On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin, bent on killing a passenger who's a witness in protective custody, lets loose a crate full of deadly snakes.

trailer

get active in the philadelphia unit

two new zeldas in one year?

oh god yes please

nike makes glasses now?

8)

the will vuong plan for a healthy lifestyle

1. don't justify eating a slice of cheesecake because you worked out that day or whatever. one step forwards and one step backwards does not get you anywhere.

2. eat and drink in moderation. margaritas and some drinks are known to have like a billion calories. also cut down on the soda, cheese, candy, and bacon.

3. replace 3 meals a week with a salad. grilled chicken salad.

4. do 2-3 30 minute sessions of cardio (running, jogging, etc) a week.

5. add more fresh fruit to your diet. like apples and shit. a small lunch and an apple.

do this and you probably won't die in your early thirties (this means you, derek and scott).

america, fuck yeah

this makes ;_;

sonuva

it's like everywhere outside philadelphia but not in philadelphia proper. :(

oh god just like that they've taken it away again

Guys,
I'm sorry I gave inaccurate info on the cartoon.I was told on one end that the
TV show was a go but DXC enlightened me (with a hammer) that this was
not the case.I think there is a Futurama project as in DVD's but I appearently
had bad info.But I do live to give good Futurama news to people.So I must've
died or something.

All eyes on the skies,

Billy

*charlie brown sad walk*

great news everybody!

Welcome Parker 151,

Thanks for your post! I hope you realize that this is your last--- naw,just
kidding! I'm glad that you got to see that stuff and you laughed.
I've talked extensively about this subject.Here's a little of the story.

All the stuff you see or hear from when I was on-- ended 11 plus years
ago.Some of the audio replays are from 16 years ago.I got out when I was
at the peak of my radio career.You rarely get a second chance to go out
on top like that.I was all done with it in 1995.I started in Boston in
1981.That's 25 years ago.I'm a radically different guy than I was then.But
it's so pissa' to see this ''internet arguement'' continue until people's
fingers fall off.I'm just tending my garden and when a few A-holes attack
me over this stuff,I just give 'em the old ''digitus impunicus.''

I'm thisclose to selling my show--''Billy Bastard--Amateur Human Being,''
And the other good news is that they're doing 26 new episodes of
''Futurama'' for TV and we're hammering out the deal now.The original
plan was to have the DVD's first but that's no longer the case.I'm totaly
jammed dude.

Greetings from the year 3000! It still sucks!

Billy

:dance:

:dance:

:dance:

shouldn't i get some sort of discount?

my tentative schedule:

District 13
Friday, March 31 > 7:30 PM
Ritz East Theater 1

Lucky Number Slevin
Friday, March 31 > 9:45 PM
Ritz East Theater 1

Shadowboxer
Saturday, April 01 > 7:30 PM
Prince Music Theater

A Bittersweet Life
Saturday, April 01 > 9:45 PM
The Bridge

Wristcutters: A Love Story
Sunday, April 02 > 9:30 PM
Prince Music Theater

Lady Vengeance
Tuesday, April 04 > 9:45 PM
Ritz East Theater 1

Fuck
Friday, April 07 > 10:00 PM
The Cinema at Penn

Welcome to Dongmakgol
Saturday, April 08 > 9:30 PM
Ritz Five

Wedding Party, The
Sunday, April 09 > 2:45 PM
Ritz East Theater 1

Two Days
Monday, April 10 > 9:30 PM
Prince Music Theater

it's like season 1 of 24 again

film festival picks

this is what's hot on the streets so far.

lol warcraft nerds

MORE DOTS!

i thought i escaped all of that

so i used to live in this apartment building in west philly that was pretty decent for undergrad and grad students. i know a lot of people who lived there at least once in their lives. it's like some sort of coming of age ritual or commonality that we all share. i still know a few people who live there.

anyway, there is this really weird guy who worked at the reception desk. he talked to himself, had a short temper, and from what i understand did an excellent job of creeping people out if you shared an elevator ride together. he also did an outstanding job of creeping out my exgirlfriend at the time. from what i understand, management gave him room and board if he worked reception. he didn't creep me out so much but i did always make sure my back never faced him when he was near.

so i moved on and i live in my center city building now and things have been kicking rad for like a year and half now. my building is full of young urban professionals and if anybody was creeping anybody out, it was going to be me. so everything's rad until like a month ago.

the first time i saw her, i was exiting the elevator in the early evening on the ground floor to pick up a package at the front desk. our paths were crossing when she entered the elevator and said, "have a great morning" and stopped right next to me as if she was waiting for a response. i was kindof dumbstruck because i was still parsing what she said to me at 6:30pm in the evening and was trying to find its context. so i just said "ok, thanks you too" and kept going. maybe she was just tired and said the wrong thing. i know i do that too sometimes at the end of the day so i just wrote it off as an isolated incident.

before continuing on, she's a late 40ish to 50ish woman. five foot two or three. diminuitive. really short gray hair. she kinds of reminds me the really early simpsons episode where the parents hire that woman criminal to babysit the kids. well obviously, she really stands out in my building.

so like three weeks ago, i saw her again in the gym running really slowly on the treadmill. she was wearing a button-down dress shirt, untucked, and a pair of denim shorts. she looked weird but she was giving it her all out there. a while after that, i saw her again downstairs in the gym on the treadmill; this time in a sports bra and denim shorts. gravity didn't do her right. i didn't appreciate the imagery of this sweaty 50ish woman.

a week ago, i was walking back to the apartment and i saw her jogging down the street in front of me in a dress shirt and denim shorts. the scary part was that she looked like she was ignoring the car traffic in the streets she was crossing. i thought she was going to get hit by a car and a few cars stopped right in the cross section to let her go. at this point, i'm like wtf. she crosses the street to the other side but then back pedals back into the street into traffic without looking. she jumps back on the curb and then back pedals back into the streeet a few more times. at this point, i'm like super wtf. cars had to stop. i was standing on the opposite curb. i'm the kind of person that helps people but shit, i wasn't going to jump into traffic to pull this retarded woman out of the street. she finally gets the cars' honking messages and runs down the sidewalk towards our building again. before getting there, she runs into the indoor parking garage next door, freaks some people out, and then runs out of the garage and finally into my building.

tonight, i was on the treadmill and she comes in and gets on the treadmill next to me. dress shirt and pair of jeans. seriously, wtf. anyway, she starts running and i finish up and get off the treadmill. i say "do you want me to leave the tv on?" and look at her. she didn't even hear me, she had her eyes closed, and she had her face towards the ceiling. i just walked away and left the tv on.

and then she killed me in my sleep and posted on my blog. seriously, wtf is going on here.

solid gold

lollers.

i remember mario teaches typing on the mac performa 550.

can't sleep

hey you shut up

Theaters are trying a number of ways to silence cell phones, from sweeps by ushers to funny fake movie trailers urging viewers to shut off phones.

Fithian said owners were considering other steps if that does not work.

"We will actually petition the Federal Communications (Commission) to remove the block" on jamming cell phones, he said.

this is the reason why i avoid mainstream movie theaters like the plague. also, nextel phones are annoying and i hope the nextel company is thrown into a well to die.

what's going on in this jury of your own peers?

WHAT IF IT were your child who saw ruthless drug lords commit a murder?

Would you want him to testify?

That's what Assistant District Attorney Mark Gilson asked me this week, at the end of a stunning day in court in which one witness after another recanted earlier statements about the schoolyard slaying of Faheem Thomas-Childs.

Gilson said he was frustrated and angry - but not surprised - because it happens in homicide cases every day.

"They have to go back to the neighborhood with a big fat 'S' on their backs," he said of the reluctant witnesses.

They're afraid to be labeled snitches, Gilson said, and parents counsel their children the same way the father of the 18-year-old witness in Faheem's case did this week: Say you don't remember.

Then Gilson posed the question to me:

"What would you do if your son said he saw a murder and knew that the vicious gang in the neighborhood had done it?"

I assume Gilson was expecting the morally correct answer: I'd tell him to testify, of course.

But the truth is: I don't know what I'd do.

The larger truth is I live in a safe neighborhood that makes it unlikely I'll ever have to make that decision.

this sounds more like the premise of an awesome bruce willis movie... called mercury rising.

p.s. way to go, jackasses.

tony, no!!!

:(

24'ed.

p.s. did you guys see desmond from lost on the preview for next week's 24? it looks like he found a way off the island afterall.

two of my favorite things

legos and cool military stuff.

state of the ankle address

i guess it's been while since i updated everybody on my ankle.

i've been back on the treadmill since early february. at first, i had to take it really easy and slow with slow jogs. one mile. one and half miles. 2 and a half miles. i've been slowly climbing back to 5k distance and was able to hit 5k in early march. i still wrap my ankle in sports tape, just in case. right now i've been focused on incline training by running at 3.0 grade on the treadmill. 3.0 grade is incredibly challenging; my lungs are on fire and my legs ache around the midpoint of the run. i hope to conquer this by the end of the month.

i haven't run outside yet. the weather hasn't been warm enough quite yet. my night vision has been sucking lately too. and there might be some anxiety about running on the same surface that damn near killed me. there's still a month left until my first 5k run of the season.

it still doesn't feel quite right but it's getting better. here's to team ram rod!


p.s. i heard there was a friendly pool starting about derek's finishing time.

spore

the coolest game that i suspect will be dumbed down before it ships. :(

awesomeness

the curtain has been pulled back

arrested development season 3 on dvd

More news, Season 3 is hitting DVD on June 13th!

It's up for pre-order at Amazon, just 21 bucks or so. 2-disc set, just read about it over at TVShowsonDVD.com...

my expensive headphones

i've been wearing my etyomotics er6i isolator headphones at work since i got them on monday and i've been really impressed with how much sound they block out. of course it's really weird to push these things partially into your ear canal at first but i've gotten used to it. the hygenics is still kinda gross to me though.

anyway, they do a great job of blocking out noise and helping me concentrate at work. when i have them on with music, i can't even hear my cubicle neighbor when he's on the phone. fyi with these headphones, the noise isolation and music is about perfect at the 1/10 of the max ipod volume or so. the big test is for my flight to chicago in a few weeks and then my cross country flight later in may.

i'm no audiophile but i can definitely pick up on details in the music that i haven't heard before. with outside noise blocked, the music is much clearer and all those little instruments that i've never picked up on really shine through now.

are these worth $100? yes, definitely if you value your peace of mind.

fiery furnaces

new band to me, i've been listening to their new album "bitter tea" (which i don't think is actually released yet...).

my first impression that this is really weird. like white stripes + radiohead + bjork. i can only describe it as electronic-folk-experimental. it's definitely one of those albums where each individual track isn't very strong by itself but the sum is very extraordinary within the context of an album. and i can't imagine most of these tracks being radio-friendly either.

it really grew on me and i've really liked it once i got used to it. i'm going have to grab their earlier stuff. i wish there were samples or something somewhere i could point you to but i guess this older material is good for a flavor.

IT'S A MONSTER!!!

Citing sources familiar with the negotiations, E! Online TV columnist Kristin Veitch reports that show creator and exec producer Mitch Hurwitz is contemplating a deal put forth by Showtime offering to buy two 13-episode seasons with the option available for a third.

24, holy shit

unbelievable.

24 wins this season.

lost, you can go home. there's really nothing more i have to say to you until you get get interesting again.

fyi

After aging out of foster care, 27% of males and 10% of females were incarcerated within 12 to 18 months. 50% were unemployed, 37% had not finished high school, 33% received public assistance, and 19% of females had given birth to children. Before leaving care, 47 percent were receiving some kind of counseling or medication for mental health problems; that number dropped to 21% after leaving care. (Courtney and Piliavin, 1998)

i wish i could quit you

almost everything is better when set to the brokeback mountain soundtrack.

one of my favorites

my new fighting technique is unstoppable. then spins off into my new filing technique is unstoppable. genius.

and get your war on started right around 9/11. what's really interesting is to start on page one of gywo and follow the progression from fuck yeah to what a goddamn mess.

you're breaking my heart, ani

lollers?

omg it wants our flesh

read this article and get the 28mb video.

it's quite freaky.

i hate ups

they held my package in phoenix, arizona for 3 days. it sat there untouched for 3 days. unbelievable.

sooo awesome

for all (remaining) simpsons fans

waaaaalllttt!!!

lollers

i think the writers need...

more time to write themselves out of and into more jj abrams bullshit.


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i still love you though.