Did you know that Elvis Costello wrote a song for Chet Baker? And that Chet liked it so much he added it to his repertoire? It’s true! The song is “Almost Blue.”
Archive for September, 2002
LikeSaturday Tammy and I were at Broken Horn‘s once-a-year sale. I stood less than three feet away from a baseball-capped William Shatner as he shopped for horse supplies. Talk about a crazy day!
Sunday we went looking at some great townhomes in Anaheim Hills, nearly all of which happen to be in our price range. It’ll be a painful commute, but it’s a fantastic area with good-sized properties that we can afford. The plan is to buy something within the next six months.
News of Farscape’s cancellation and the Internet effort to save the show made it to CNN’s headline news today.
It looks like the ‘Save Farscape’ campaign is having some effect. Not the effect we want, but some effect nonetheless.
Sci-Fi has just entered into negotiations for a two-hour season finale, and the deconstruction crews have been ordered to stop for the time being. According to series producer David Kemper, this is a direct result of the thousands of faxes, emails, and snailmail they’ve been receiving.
From savefarscape.com:
As part of a concentrated effort to show solidarity with our brother and sister scapers on the picket line tomorrow I’ve been trying to drum up participation in an email barrage to Tom Vitale pressing the send button at 12:00 noon eastern time. I have been requesting that as many scapers as humanly possible email tv0ntv@scifi.com with the subject PLEASE SAVE FARSCAPE and have requested that they send a short polite note requesting Farscape be renewed for a 5th season.
I don’t have a whole lot of hope for Disneyland’s Special Events department when they consider charging as much as $395 to a sneak-preview of a kids play area in a deserted theme park.
If you use ICQ, Yahoo Chat, MSN, or AIM and are sick and tired of looking at ads and a bloated interface, then you definitely need to check out Trillian.
Trillian 0.74 was released today. This one program can replace all of your separate chat applications. Best of all, it’s free!
Also released today is Trillian Pro 1.0, a $25 version with some extra bells and whistles.
Trust me, the free version is plenty!
I’ve always felt that John Edward was a dirty scam artist who preys on the weak and the elderly.
The latest rumor is that his rising salary was partially to blame for Farscape’s demise. If that’s true, then I hate him ten times as much as I did yesterday.
Henson Productions has put up a Farscape cancellation hotline recording at 323-802-1609. You can also leave messages, but you should really be directing your efforts at the SciFi channel.
The straight poop is this-
Sci-Fi had contracted for a 4th and 5th season of Farscape, but the contract contained a clause that allowed them back out after the fourth season if they so chose. As was defined in the contract, the 4th and 5th seasons would have cost the exact same amount of money to produce. After the fourth season ended, SciFi changed their mind about the amount of money that they wanted to commit to a fifth season. They went to Jim Henson’s parent company, EMTV, and requested a reduced price for the 5th season. EM.TV, who has had its own share of very public money problems over the past five years, said “Yeah, right,” so SciFi exercised their right to terminate the contract.
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