Wow - a 6-minute film called "80s Ending"... and it's exactly that: the ending to every 80s movie you've ever seen. This struck me as a so-so idea, but the execution is brilliant. Certainly a better film than those Project Greenlight doofuses (doofi?) are ever going to make.

[A: Channel surfed into the end of Lucas (1986, starring Corey Haim as the nerd) and I had to laugh as the pass that would win the big game flew in slow motion towards the nerdy guy. But they put a twist on it and he dropped it got smashed up and carted off in an ambulance. Then I lost interest and flipped away. I'm sure it got cockle-warming by the end.]

BBQ at Casa L'Orange on the Fourth. EVERYONE is invited to my house for meat and roughage. Carbs to be supplied by beer. Someone (Hifumi) bring about 10 feet of surgical tubing, a funnel and water balloons so we can, err, "interact" with Big Javan's BBQ.

If at all possible, can you let me know whether you can make it so I don't order too much meat (although, if Glen makes it that won't be a problem) and so I can make an informed decision between Pony Keg and bottles of beer.

BTW, I hate change and this new format has me flummoxed

As far as wacky advertising gimmicks go, this is a pretty decent idea.

[RM: I'd say it's a great idea. Pay some stripper a couple hundred bucks to stand around in pasties, get the internet distribution for free. Expect to see naked chicks walking around Oakland with "Luka's Taproom, Oakland, CA" painted across their backs.]

[SL: make them walk slowly towards the pub and you'll have instant customers! btw, you'll need someone to paint these images on their backs. i'd like to volunteer for that job, so i can be THAT GUY!]

[A: A few other angles.. I was wondering what website it was for. It is for gambling, (goldenpalace.com), not porn.

Just in case this applies to anyone, New York Real Property Law Sec. 17: Heirs of patriotic Indian

The heirs of an Indian to whom real property was granted for military services rendered during the war of the Revolution may take and hold such real property by descent as if they were citizens of the state at the time of the death of their ancestors. A conveyance of such real property to a citizen of this state, executed by such Indian or his heirs after March seventh, eighteen hundred and nine, is valid, if executed with the approval of the surveyor-general or state engineer and surveyor prior to January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, and thereafter with the approval of the commissioner of transportation indorsed thereon.

Me Father in LAw Done Good.

The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame announced its 2003 inductees at Woodbine Racetrack today. The inductees include Roy Johnson of Calgary, Alberta, the only man to train a colt from Western Canada to win the Queen’s Plate, along with builders Frank J. Selke, the man who imported the sire of Bunty Lawless who was Canada’s Horse of the Half-Century, and Murray Brown, a native of Cote St. Luc, Quebec, public relations director for Hanover Shoe Farms, the largest Standardbred nursery in the world.

Brown gained his fame as a publicist and pedigree expert with Hanover Shoe Farms in Hanover, Pennsylvania where he’s served as public relations director for over thirty years. He is considered one of the most knowledgeable pedigree experts in North America and also serves as vice-president and general manager of the Standardbred Horse Sales Company which conducts a yearling auction and mixed horse sale each year in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

? Does anyone remember when Eric had to disarm Russ after he had pulled Andrew's sword off the wall

[jv: AD remembers when Little did a flying sidekick that basically knocked MY ass unconscious. Plus I remember freshman year in college, silent-E put BOTH flyE (nee good ole Big) and I in wrist locks with some of that Ko-REE-uhn voodoo. Whatever happened to that guy? You want to know respect? When my brother started taking martial arts last year I advise him to take Little's style, Hapkido (which I have never taken personally), rather than advise him to take one of my previous styles. I'm ready for the rematch now, though. I got a new style.]

{A: I remember all that crazy shit. wouldn't be a night till blood was shed. anyone see the sumo documentary on that guy Akebono? aka the Chad .. "His size made him a basketball prospect" could you imagine...}

SH: Damn, JV that is some genius linking. There's a lot to this bio: "6-foot-9, 510-pound naturalized Japanese citizen born in Hawaii; first foreign grand champion in sumo wrestling's 2,000-year history; retired in Jan., 2001." I liked the Americans, but I have to admit that my favorite has always been Takanohana. That thing where he always touches his opponent and helps them up after rocking their world is like some mystical hunter praying for the soul of his prey shit.

Arnold for Gov! We mentioned it a few months ago, and now we're one step closer. He can't be stopped - IT'S ALL HE DOES. Comedians around the country are praying to their god of choice for this to happen.