MUGWUMP

I guess it IS a comedy

Finally!!! An answer to the question "Who did they make the new 'The Pink Panther' for anyway??"

Lamentably ineffable

From today’s transcript of an exclusive interview with ABC News' Elizabeth Vargas, President Bush offered his views on a range of topics.

ELIZABETH VARGAS: A congressional report assessed the U.S. reaction as "woefully unprepared" not only for a natural disaster now but for a terrorist attack, the state of readiness right now of the United States. Setting aside future improvements that you plan, today do you agree with that assessment, that the United States is "woefully unprepared" for another natural disaster or attack?

PRESIDENT BUSH: I agree that we didn't do as good a job as we could have done on Katrina. However, I would remind people that there was a hurricane right after Katrina that hit Louisiana and Texas, and the response was much better coordinated, and the situational awareness on the ground was much improved. And so while I can't predict 100 percent success on a catastrophic — major catastrophic event, I can say that lessons learned from Katrina were being implemented quickly….

VARGAS: So you don't agree with that report that calls the U.S. "woefully unprepared"?

BUSH: I think the U.S. is better prepared than woefully unprepared.
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What kind of an answer is that??? “I think the U.S. is better prepared than woefully unprepared.”

???

How little effort does it take to be 'better prepared than woefully unprepared'.

“In fact Elizabeth, I'd go so far as to say we're ‘deplorably unready’ or ‘wretchedly unequipped’, rather than ‘woefully unprepared’. I mean, you know, this is hard work, after all.”

Another Script submission query:

All I did was cut and paste it from the email. I swear.
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SUPER BOY

"Scientist creates SUPER BOY in artificial womb.  By cloning mistake, infant talks and behaves like 50 years old genius.  2 years boy loves teenage girl and unable to perform sex.  Boy’s father (sperm donor) tries to kill boy with through mafia. How boy saves his love and teaches a lesson to his father is dramatized."
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Someone shoot me.

Pizza Pizza!!

The American Civil Liberties Union gives us a taste of what's to come.

JGL

The New York Times listed Joseph Gordon Levitt one of 2005's "Great Performers" for Mysterious Skin. Can't wait to check out Brick.

New Term: Blalker

Fictionally stalking Star Jones via a Blog

REJECTED

I've been waiting FOREVER for someone to put this animated short online. I saw it a few years ago when they were screening all of the 2001 oscar nominated Short Films and Animated Short Films together and remember laughing so hard I cried. (thanks Tom)

Sounds like Teen Dispirit

Now this is f'd up. I remember the good old days when shopkeepers would just tell us kids to "scram! before I call your parents!"

For the Posterity of the Posterior POTUS

THIS is what infuriates me about the current presidential administration. White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend says, "I reject outright the suggestion that President Bush was anything less than fully involved" [in his response to Hurricane Katrina].

I think their tack is to reassert lies such as this over and over again to slowly change our collective memory of the event. They know that people's memories are malleable and can be altered through repetitive suggestion.

Fortunately, back on August 31st, 2005, I posted this picture of Bush, somewhat 'less than fully involved' in his response to Hurricane Katrina. (Keep in mind that this picture was taken on August 30th and Governor Katherine Blanco requested that President Bush declare a major disaster for the State of Louisiana on August 27th.) [Katrina timeline]

"Presents"... hehe

One aspect of my job is to field script queries to see if there's something we might want to develop... so I wade through a lot of really bad ideas. I submit into evidence a couple of beauts that was waiting for me in my in-box this morning. Sometimes the ideas aren't as bad as the actual writing in the query itself.

"'MOPINS'

Synopsis: An archaeologist is in a struggle with tiny, devil-like, marble-sized alien creatures (MOPINS) living inside his body to escape the deadly atmosphere of earth.

All four little creature (YUMO, PENSO, ICKO, and ELDO) are comedic and serious in maintaining their inner-body existence inside TJ. When an angry and hurting TJ finally reveals their presents to others, and the FBI lab tries assorted methods to destroy the critters, the tempo intensifies. The creatures are capable of destroying TJ’s organs. However, in doing so, they would kill off the host that’s keeping them alive."
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and sometimes the ideas and the writing are equally bad:

"'LOVE JINGLES'

The characters are Kevin a young writer, his girlfriend Ingrid an artist, Kevin's father Frank, a retired detective, Leah an intellectual lesbian construction worker, Jonny DoGooder a rock muscian and Pamela his beautiful girlfriend who dresses in 1940s retro.

Themes of sex and class issues, coming out, a father son conflict, and lifestyle changes as the characters struggle in their relationshsips and move into adulthood are touched on. They are emotionally damaged and unable to fully connect in their relationships -- and mostly overcome their detachment through a series of interconnecting events."
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I might be mistaken to pass on both of these scripts... so let me know if you'd be willing to go see either "Mopins" or "Love Jingles" and I'll see what I can do!