CBS greenlights The Amazing Race 6 for later this year or summer 2005. Yay! (Link courtesy of TVTattle)
An inside look at the pilots in store for the fall season, with suitably snarky commentary. (Link courtesy of TVTattle)
Do you like kites? Takaza got a cool catalog in the mail from Into the Wind – they have a fabulous collection of kites for sale at surprisingly low prices. Once we have some disposable income, I plan on grabbing a couple of thse beauties.
Manitoban town’s ATM closes down, leaving the closest bank services nine hours away by car, or three days by bus. (Link courtesy of Fark)
The Webby Award winners have been announced. Not that I particularly care, but it is a neat way to find cool websites you might never have come across before, like Map24 and ZeD.
Was it you or Takaza that liked Firefly? I forget. I’m borrowing the DVD set from a friend and like the
‘star wars at the ok corral’ feel.
Yay Firefly!
We’re both big fans, actually. And yeah, it’s exactly that tone, plus the kind of gritty feeling that permeates the whole series that really attracted us to it. And there’s a movie in the works, too!
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Fascinating. I also liked Wonderfalls (Minnear again) but felt it was intentionally over the top sometimes.
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Yeah, I was just getting into Wonderfalls – I agree about the over-the-top-itude. It helped that it had a lot in common in tone with Dead Like Me, a Showtime series created by Brian Fuller (who was the co-creator of Wonderfalls). Ooh, and it looks like not only is Season 1 of Dead Like Me coming out on DVD this month, the second season starts in June. Woo!
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I thought it had a more ‘Joan of Arcadia’ theme to it. Hey, I’ll watch any show with a talking (wax) lion in it 🙂
Lynn Lake is north of here, but still in our province.
There’s a lot of nothing in Manitoba…
Yeah, after I read the story I pulled it up on Mapquest. The funny thing is, the closest city isn’t all that far away, relatively speaking, but I’m guessing that the roads up that way are complete crap. I admit, though, there’s an allure of being that far out in the bush…
A lot of the communities out that far can only be driven to during the winter on the “winter roads.” You know – after the lakes have frozen solid, they drive semis full of fuel and food and other supplies out there across the lakes.
Plonq and I were thinking about driving up to Flin Flon this summer just to say we’ve been there. Apparently the drive is very pretty. ^.^