Posts by Bob Munro
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When deciding whether a new show is for me or not I usually find something that leaps out to announce it. This line in the Wikipedia post about Californication did it for me.
'The show makes many references to the work of Warren Zevon'. Yay! It can't go wrong.
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It looks like there are still last minute attempts to avoid the strike going on.
Nope. It's started.
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Also, another boo... no more Daily Shows until further notice because of the strike? Did I hear that aright?
It looks like there are still last minute attempts to avoid the strike going on.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j9z48HzVgG3HdYSBT2GVQZwoUq0A
It does seem a pretty valid issue, writers wanting more of a share of the on selling, DVD's etc of their work. Writers always appear to get the short end of the stick. It's almost like no one likes to admit that all the wonderful and witty lines spouted by the stars don't come from inside their own heads, but are compiled by the gnomes feverishly toiling in the background and beamed up on to the auto cue.
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Yay! The Sarah Silverman Program ' starts C4 9.30pm Wednesday.
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...and the peerless Bag has Peter van Agtmael's photos of the graffiti on the latrine walls at Al Salem Air Force Base in Kuwait.
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The BBC has just posted a round up of Iraqi bloggers still in action, including Riverbend.
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"But we shouldn't assume for even a minute that in the next 25 to 50 years the American military might be able to come home, relax and take it easy."
Gen Abazaid, who delivered the comments yesterday at Carnegie Mellon University, said the US would also need to reduced its dependence on imported energy."I'm not saying this is a war for oil, but I am saying that oil fuels an awful lot of geopolitical moves that political powers may have there.
"And it is absolutely essential that we in the United States of America figure out how, in the long run, to lessen our dependency on foreign energy."
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Has an Iraqi squirrel learned to waterski?
If it did you would here about it first from
the winners of this contractU.S. military leaders in Baghdad have put out for bid a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of U.S. and Middle Eastern media in an effort to promote more positive coverage of news from Iraq.
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Anyway thats enough linkwhoring
Thanks Sonic. Yes I knew the link would be in there somehere. I was just too lazy to look for it. :)
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From Sonic
http://christopherhitchenswatch.blogspot.com/2007/10/back-to-iraq.html
Hitchens can still do poignant though.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/11/hitchens200711?currentPage=1