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There aren’t too many shows that I go out of my way to watch. One that I try to schedule my Sunday evenings around is The 4400. It started as a special-extended mini-series thing and turned into a weekly off-season season thing. A bunch of people (4400) disappear throughout time, then reappear and none of them have aged. For example, people that disappeared in 1918 at the age of 20 returned to the year 2004 at the age of 20. And some of them have come back with special powers. Simple.

There’s an X-Files type vibe to the show as each week tends to focus on a new 4400 and their special power. Investigating are NTAC agents Tom Baldwin and Diana Skouris. While Diana Skouris is pretty hot, she’s no Agent Dana Scully. Especially the Agent Scully from the later seasons. I miss the X-Files.

The best part about this particular season has been the addition of Jeffery Combs as Kevin Burkhoff. You may, or may not (and probably don’t), remember Combs as the lovable Dr. Herbert West from the Re-Animator series of movies. In The 4400, Combs plays a doctor-type that does some stuff to save some people. And the best part is that the serum that he develops to save said people is the same glow in the dark green that the re-animating serum is in the Re-Animator movies. Freaking awesome, the makers of The 4400 are.

Sadly, tonight was the season finale. So if you haven’t been watching, I might have just spoiled some stuff. Oh, and don’t read the title, because that spoiled a lot too. I don’t really care because you’ve missed a great show and should feel bad. Real bad.

A fair amount of my traffic comes from Google queries. Recently, for example, I have been getting a lot of hits for Thundercats related things, especially “sword of omens” and “give me sight beyond sight”. It’s always funny to see how people find your site.

So, imagine my joy today when I checked my site stats and found that I had received a hit for the search: “I hate Phillip Fulmer”. Further imagine the laugh I got when I actually did this search and found that I am in fact the only result that you get for this query string. Unfortunately, its a link to my pre-WordPress site and its now non-functioning directory structure and link paths.

Go Dawgs!!

Holy good deal! Not only is the original 1933 King Kong headed to DVD on 11/22, but you can get the 2-disc Kong packaged with Son of Kong and Mighty Joe Young for a mere $27.94 at Amazon. That’s fantastic, but don’t tell my dad because I’ll probably buy it for him for Christmas.

I have wonderful memories of watching these very movies, plus Godzilla, every Thanksgiving on New York’s WOR (or, it might have been WPIX). It was always great fun spending time with the grandparents, eating way too much, and watching these movies for the millionth time.

And finally, Peter Jackson’s version of Kong is due December 14th. Teaser trailer here.

Deftones will release B-Sides and Rarities on October 04, 2005. Not the new stuff that I’ve been hoping for, but I suppose it’ll do for now. You’ll get 14 tracks and a bonus DVD featuring all of their previously released music videos and some live shit. I am most looking forward to the acoustic version of “Change (In the House of Flies)”. The disc will also feature some great covers: “No Ordinary Love” (Sade), “The Chauffeur” (Duran Duran), “Sinatra” (Helmet), and “Simple Man” (Lynyrd Skynyrd).

From what I’ve read, they also have a new studio album recorded and almost ready to go. Hopefully we’ll hear it soon.

Scott and Lisa tipped me to the fact that one Bruce Campbell was in town for a book signing. Who’s Bruce Campbell? He’s only the best B-list actor ever. You have the Evil Deads, Congo, Bubba Ho-Tep, Brisco County Jr., The Majestic, etc. So, I wisely spent $25 on his new book, Make Love The Bruce Campbell Way and autograph.

Unfortunately, the guy responsible for taking photos was not able to actually take a picture of my time with Bruce using my camera. There’s one whole button to push, so its understandable. Fortunately, the photos I took are here.

Last weekend I went to Charleston, SC with some friends and had a great time. Before this I had only really been to Charleston for around 3 hours, so it was nice to spend some time there and see the sights.

First, we killed the 6 hours and 55 minutes that Google Maps suggested as a trip time. Next, declaring that every meal must contain seafood was probably the best idea ever. Finally, waking up at 7:30 am after going to sleep at 2:30 am for a historic walking tour is something that I’m glad we did.

Most of the weekend was planned and organized by Sarah Foo, and obviously she did a great job. If you end up going, you should stay at the Holiday Inn: Historic District and also talk to the best concierge in the history of time, Kevin McQuade. Don’t believe me? Check out Trip Advisor and read some of the reviews. Its pretty funny, really.

Photos here.