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Saw the Shel Silverstein tribute last night outdoors at the millennium park bandshell in downtown Chicago. Big, happy, dancing, smiling, singing-along in the cool breezes crowd of families. Ella Jenkins and Tim Kazurinsky were among those who did readings from 'Where The Sidewalk End's and 'A Light In The Attic' among others, and there was a great band including an incredible steel guitar player performing some of the songs Shel wrote. One of them was 'Boy Named Sue' that Johnny Cash performed and made famous at Folsom Prison way back when. Nice night, good times!

Just really digging the 50th anniversary special motion picture being shown on AMC of Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo in hi-def no less. I've recorded it and am planning to groove on this classic western some late night. Walter Brennan is very funny and all the actors are great. So is the music. Did anybody else check it out?

For fans who enjoy Fry, Leela The professor, Zoidberg, and that lovable rascal Bender 'Bending' Rodriguez and all of Futurama, here's some news right off the gotfuturama website (link below right, scroll down and check out a great site). "A spokesperson for 20th Century Fox Television confirms that the cable net has ordered 26 new episodes of Matt Groening and David X. Cohen's late, great animated series to air beginning in 2010. The studio cites Futurama's "blockbuster" performance on DVD and in reruns on Comedy Central as the reason for its rebirth."





After four movies released to DVD during the past two years they are returning the show to the air with regular episodes. Awesome! Now if Reno 911 will just stay around it'll be manna from heaven next year on the boob toob.