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MTV has a "first look" at the movie version of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are. Music video director Spike Jonze is making it, with a scheduled release date of Oct. 3 2008.

More at Cinema Blend...

Voices: Joe Bageant's Deer Hunting with Jesus blog is one of the more interesting antidotes to the daily drone -- check out Recruiting Trench Liberals and Leftnecks, which begins,

Despite what Internet liberals may think, most real working class Americans, and I mean the people who tune up your Prius or press your dry cleaning, haven't given a flying fock about the Iraq war for the last couple of years now. Not until recently, when it became pretty clear we are losing it -- losing being the worst possible thing in a society force fed on sports and the winner-loser mentality which created the uniquely American contemptuous epithet, "a loser." But now as my friend Buddy, who at middle age has been reduced to bagging groceries and "shagging carts" in the parking lot at one of the local Food Lion supermarkets says, "If we ain't losing, we seem to been over there entirely too long to be winnin'. That's for shore."

Buddy the bagboy hasn't the slightest notion of how national politics in any way affects his life. ...

His readers aren't boring, either: Tired of fear and loathing in Los Angeles.

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Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore speaks during a conference on climatic change in Santa Cruz on the Canary Island of Tenerife, Spain, Monday, June 25, 2007.

Why run? Life is good: Al Gore's $100 Million Makeover at Fast Company. Headline is misleading -- it didn't cost $100 million, he's now worth that.

Timing: ComicWonder: Let somebody tell you a joke.

To do: Current puzzles at Puzzability, created by three former editors of Games Magazine. which creates puzzles such as the Times' Op-Ed Puzzle Archive.

Long time coming: On maps, why is north always up? Eventually the answers to all my childhood questions will be found on the Web.

The iPhone killer: rPhone.

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1 Comments

Kelly Fitzsimmons said:

Thanks for the mention, Sheila! Our official launch is September 15th, Glad you found us.

Here's my favorite joke thus far: http://www.comicwonder.com/joke/3c5662601

Link | September 6, 2007 8:31 PM
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