Site News and Other Random Stuff
I am so paranoid at my new job, that I am reluctant to spend any time at our site checking things out for fear of being shown the door for goofing off. Of course, the only solution was to add a “work-friendly” theme so I could surf more discreetly. If you venture down the side bar to our handy theme-switcher, look for the “veryplaintxt” theme. Switch back and forth as the need strikes.
In other news, there is a new Thomas Pynchon novel coming out in December. It’s called Against the Day, and the author has caused a bit of a stir this week by posting the Amazon blurb himself. Richard Ford ford also has a new book coming soon, called The Lay of the Land. Hopefully both books will be more interesting than their titles. Richard Ford will be reading at the Margaret Mitchell House in the fall. Thomas Pynchon – not so much.
In movie news, Scott Rudin has production in the works for movie versions of The Corrections, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. I think that’s the literary hat trick. Javier Bardem is scheduled to star in the movie adaptation of Love in the Time of Cholera, while somebody named Giovanna Mezzogiorno will play the role of Fermina. I don’t know who Giovanna is, but she had better be smoldering.
Finally, I’m not a gambling man, but I am willing to bet that this is the best rap video featuring one-way ANOVAs that you see all day. I love the stats tats.
July 25, 2006 10:08 pm 
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By Weezie, July 27, 2006 @ 11:40 am
Holy crap, I must immediately send that video link to all my stats peeps! I think I like the stats grills better than the stats tats. (But what’s with the wig and the bathrobe?)