In the spirit of my theme, I've updated the time display to show ships bells as well as the actual local time of posting. The new feature echoes the most recent bell to ring on Scurvy Jake's Pirate Ship, and not the nearest bell.
The cutthroat moneygrubbers at ABC canceled Pushing Daisies. How about this: let's drop all new ideas and put more Dancing with the Stars and other banal reality shows on. We're too stupid for anything else.
Last night I watched Warrior of the Lost World (Season 5, episode 1 of MST3K). This movie was about "The Rider", whom Joel and the 'bots continually referred to as "the Paper Chase guy," who has a talking motorcycle and lives in a post-apocalyptic Mad Max-type society. Filmed in Italy, this movie was so bad that apparently it had a movie poster before it even had a script!
"The Rider" joins forces with a rebel cause to overthrow the current regime. He teams up with a woman that infiltrates the Omega HQ to rescue her father, but for some reason they leave her behind as they make good their escape. So they turn around and go back to rescue her, and that consumes pretty much the whole movie. It was really kind of stupid. The giant "Megaweapon" (a huge construction vehicle) had nothing more than a short-distance flamethrower on it. Mega my pigu.
I give this movie one empty seat, because I had to watch it alone. And any time I decide to watch it in the future will also be alone, because nobody will want to watch this stinkburger of a film.
Last weekend (Saturday to be specific) was the concert for which we've been practicing for several months now. The turnout was less than I thought it would be, in fact I was quite disappointed to see so many empty seats in a venue smaller than we had last year. Next year's practice starts on Sept. 26, quite a bit later than it has the past two years, we'll see if that helps, but if turnout continues to spiral down I'll have a hard time justifying putting that much effort into something with so little return.