Brian Flemming's Weblog about me   |   email me W H A T ' S   G O I N G   O N My most recent film, The God Who Wasn't There, is available on DVD at the official site and elsewhere. Bat Boy: The Musical is currently being staged in productions of various sizes around the world. A movie adaptation directed by John Landis is in development, with no casting announced or shooting date set. My next feature film, Danielle, remains in development. Bill Gates is still dead. B L O G R O L L FILMMAKING: Cinema Minima Filmmaker HD for Indies indieWIRE Blogs Hollywood Liberation Army The Movie Marketing Blog FREE CULTURE: Creative Commons Copyfight EFF Deep Links Freedom to Tinker Lawrence Lessig POLITICS: Atrios Daily Howler Orcinus The Raw Story Talking Points Memo OTHER FAVORITES: Boing Boing GreenCine Daily Nora Murphy Pharyngula J O I N Original text in this weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons License A R C H I V E S March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 powered by

« October 2003 | HOME | December 2003 » November 2003 Oh. Canada Oops. Forgot to mention this here on my blog before I left, but I took off for Canada for a few days. I wanted to dodge the draft, but my daddy couldn't get me into the Texas Air National Guard,... November 27, 2003 What a maroon NY Times Thomas L. Friedman on London protesters: To be sure, some people simply will never be winnable because they hate America above all else. (That may explain why you don't see any protesters here carrying signs saying, "Death to... November 20, 2003 "Reflections of a reasonable vegetarian" MacDiva, a semi-vegetarian, has a response to this semi-carnivore's recent entry about the alligator.... November 19, 2003 Give 'em hell, Wesley Ah, so that's how you speak to Fox News in its own language. General Clark is going to make an excellent vice president. Josh Marshall points to the clip.... November 19, 2003 View from my bathroom window November 19, 2003 Schwarzenegger's brilliant budget plan Turns out I was wrong when I suggested that Governor Gangbang didn't have a plan for the budget problem. He's got a great one: Let's slash the car tax now, forget about the other problems, and just make our children... November 18, 2003 "Nothing So Strange" on the David Lawrence Show Nothing So Strange executive producer Brian Clark and I spent a nice hour talking to David Lawrence on his radio show tonight. Lawrence makes his shows available after the fact for 25 cents an hour with BitPass. We're on Hour... November 18, 2003 Michael Jackson story from GQ , October 1994 Whenever these allegations about Michael Jackson come up, I remember Was Michael Jackson Framed? The Untold Story by Mary A. Fisher†from GQ, October 1994. Jackson is a lot like Bat Boy--a freak about whom it is easy to believe freaky... November 18, 2003 Mickey Kaus, meticulous researcher... ...or tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorist? Here's Slate's Mickey Kaus, as my pal Josh Olson would say, jerking off on the grassy knoll: Hello! Opposition Researchers! Here's a paragraph from a David Broder column dated June 30, 2002: He had been asked... November 18, 2003 Dogs art Nora has even more cool stuff up at her store.... November 18, 2003 Massachusetts Supreme Court: State wrong to ban gay marriage The horrible, horrible nightmare of equality is one step closer. Mark my words--next they'll be giving them the right to vote and to sit at the front of the bus. From the Post: Massachusetts' highest court today struck down a... November 18, 2003 I wish I could vote for the mayor of London From the Independent: Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, launched a stinging attack on President George Bush last night, denouncing him as the "greatest threat to life on this planet that we've most probably ever seen". His provocatively timed comments,... November 17, 2003 "Bat Boy: The Musical" Houston poster Here's a jpeg of the poster for the Houston production of Bat Boy: The Musical, opening December 3. There have been some good posters in regional shows. I like Bat Boy's ears and fangs in this portrayal, but I wish he were bald. That's always been a producer/author conflict on Bat Boy productions. Larry, Keythe and I strongly feel that Bat Boy should look like the freak portrayed in the Weekly World News, but sometimes those who worry about filling seats in the theater try to make Bat Boy more "attractive." November 17, 2003 Schwarzenegger increases deficit by $4B in one day The emperor has no clothes, but we knew that even while he was running. Schwarzenegger is going to: 1) Decrease the amount of tax revenue the state takes in. 2) Make no deep cuts in any programs people want. 3)... November 17, 2003 "Respect Copyright" disrespects me respect copyright, motion picture association of america, mpaa November 17, 2003 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger inaugural address Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger inaugural address... November 17, 2003 Paris Hilton sex tape transcript The first (but likely not the last) piece of art to emerge from Paris Hilton sex tape. Dan Michalski transcribed it, and the results are weirdly compelling: [...] TV (in background): Yo honey's shot! Proud African black man motherFUCKer! PH:... November 16, 2003 Sexual harrassment lawsuit to be filed against Arnold Schwarzen "Governor, you've been served." Will these be the most memorable words of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's inaugural? filchyboy thinks maybe so: In what appears to be my first scoop I can share with you the following: Apparently on Monday November 17,... November 16, 2003 Save the alligator! (But screw all the non-newsworthy animals) Imagine a Martian is given an assignment by his superiors: Go over to Earth, study the humans there, and determine how they feel about the other animals on their planet. My guess is the first lines of the resulting report... November 16, 2003 "Rebuilding Bodies, and Lives, Maimed by War" The New York Times story that the chickenhawk warbloggers, no doubt, won't be reading. UPDATE: Eric Alterman in The Nation: During the run-up to the Iraq war, it was impossible not to notice that those most gung-ho for the adventure... November 15, 2003 Copyright out of control A couple interesting legal articles on the Web. First, Nothing So Strange's lawyer, Ken Tabachnik, tips us off to a FindLaw article by Julie Tilden (pictured at left) that discusses the merits of Matt Drudge's claims against the HBO show... November 14, 2003 Keythe Farley invites you to a graveyard My pal, "Bat Boy" co-writer and actor extraordinaire Keythe Farley sends the following about his upcoming performances in L.A.: Dear friends, I'm playing Jacob Marley in the Circle X theatre company production of MARLEY'S GHOST. †I hope you'll come see... November 13, 2003 JFK assassination audio evidence on Court TV We get letters: From: "Mr. Whipsnaade" Date: Thu Nov 13, 2003 10:47:32 AM US/Pacific To: vagrant@slumdance.com Subject: New JFK Evidence from Court TV Court TV has put up a special section on their Web site for their upcoming special "The... November 13, 2003 Seek and ye shall find my ass Some recent searches that led people here: fair and balanced my ass idiot son of an asshole koran + "slay the infidels" joseph wilson flemming... November 11, 2003 Moms and blogs Very funny Onion story about a dude who finds out that his mother has discovered his blog. Widmar said he expects his site to provide Lillian with ample cause for worry. "Even on that benign front page, she found something... November 11, 2003 The Meatrix PETA rocks. (Flash animation.)... November 10, 2003 First Run Features gets (more) political indieWIRE on the new FRF Community at First Run Features: ...one indie distributor has stepped into the political fray with a new website designed to both act as a meeting place for people concerned with the U.S. government's role in... November 07, 2003 Guys with confederate flags As Thomas de Zengotita writes in this month's Harper's Magazine (article not online, bastards), U.S. conservatives, especially pundits and talk-show hosts, have managed to pull off an amazing trick over the past couple decades: They have cast themselves as rebels,... November 07, 2003 Comments progress I really want to get comments working again. I can't believe it is such an impossible thing to fix. I hit up another person for help--Andrew, the tech guy where the Slumdance server is hosted. It's not really his job,... November 06, 2003 WTF? Regular BFW reader Susan writes in with: One last thing - please explain yesterday's blog pictures.† Sometimes I'm a little thick-headed, not to mention I saw them at 4:30 or 5:00 this morning.† Neat pictures, but I didn't understand... November 06, 2003 Seattle photos Okay, I kept putting it off because I wanted to write up a photo essay, but I just haven't found the time. (I admire bloggers like Tony Pierce, who manage to do so many on a regular basis.) So the... November 06, 2003 Nothing So Strange in Beirut It's in Beirut, and it's in a documentary festival, and this is what the Lebanon Daily Star (English edition) has to say: The American film Nothing So Strange is a mockumentary (a documentary form that makes fun of reality), where... November 06, 2003 It's time 32-second QuickTime movie. Some folks at Detritus pointed the way to footage of President Bush just before he announced his war, and I used it to slap together this short. small large... November 05, 2003 Busy November 04, 2003

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