For the past couple of months, I’ve been a semi-regular correspondent for the BBC. I phone in about every other week, and report on whatever it is that I’ve been doing. It’s really fun, and I love that I can add “BBC correspondent” to my resume. 🙂
Tonight, I’m talking about:

• Goth Day at Disneyland (I went)
• The recall election in California
• Who is my hero and what makes a hero?

I go live sometime about 6:25 PDT (0225 GMT) on Radio Five Up All Night, if anyone would like to tune in.
UPDATE: Well, as they say in NASCAR racing, “Fuck.” Time has come and gone, I’ve sent lots of e-mails to BBC in the last hour or so . . . and haven’t heard back . . . I’m assuming that it’s related to the spam filtering problems that I’ve been having lately. Goddammit. >:( I guess we’ll try again another time.

I got the 20th Anniversary DVD of National Lampoon’s Vacation at Amoeba Music yesterday . . . after seeing Freddy Vs. Jason* with Darin.
It’s pretty good . . . the transfer is beautiful, the sound is great, and the movie is, of course, a classic.
The special features aren’t as good as I’d hoped, and they seem to have replaced “I’m So Excited” (AKA Christy Brinkley’s Theme) with some other Pointer Sisters song, without any explaination . . . but the commentary is really fun to listen to.
But check this out: the dog who played “Dinky” is the same dog who played “Chopper” in Stand By Me! I found this out listening to the commentary, where Harold Ramis told us that the dog’s name is “Popeye,” and that he went on to work in several other films.
(Freddy vs. Jason possible spoiler below)

Lenny Bruce rules:

“I took exception. I took offense,” [police officer] Solden told Bruce. “We’ve tried to elevate this street. I’m offended because you broke the law. I mean it sincerely. I mean it. I can’t see any right, any way you can break this word down, our society is not geared to it.”
Bruce said, “You break it down by talking about it … How about a word like ‘clap’?”
“Well, ‘clap’ is a better word than ‘cocksucker,'” Solden replied.
“Not if you get the clap from a cocksucker,” Bruce rejoined.

The whole great story can be found at Salon.com.
Speaking of Salon.com, did anyone catch Joe Conason on Crossfire? Every single Liberal in the world should watch it, and learn. It was awesome.
And if you are sick to death of the myth of the liberal media, (meaning that you’re looking for a non-corporate, progressive, honest news source) you should really subscribe to Salon.

Happy birthday to you,
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Happy birthday dear website
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Three* years ago today, I pushed the Big Red Button, and six weeks of constant (some may say obsessive) work paid off.
WWdN has changed my life. It’s taken me from Hollywood has-been to Just A Geek, with a Barefoot Dance along the way.
None of it would be possible without logjamming.com, fark.com, slashdot.org, the WWdN soapbox, Spudnuts, Something Awful and, most importantly, you.
I mean, it’s nice to write about stuff, but what’s the point if nobody reads it? WWdN is just another bunch of 1s and 0s on the Internet without you.
So happy birthday to WWdN, and a HUGE thank you to all of you who peek into my head.
Now, this has *nothing* to do with WWdN, but it put a HUGE smile on my face.
RAWK!
*(of course, buy three, I mean 2. Two years. Math is hard. Tragic, but hard.)

I almost forgot!
I’m going to be on The Screen Savers tomorrow (Friday).
Originally, I was just scheduled as a guest, to talk about Dancing Barefoot, but they needed someone to co-host, and I heeded the call.
It should be massive fun. I’m co-hosting with Kevin Rose.
And on Saturday, I’ll be doing my last signing / reading of the summer at Ralph’s Comic Corner in Ventura, California. Ventura is about an hour North of Los Angeles, between LA and Santa Barbara, so if you’re in the area, come by! You can go to the Lobster Clambake at Fisherman’s Wharf (I always want to write that “Worf”) on the way home.