Quentin Tarantino announced he's making a horror film called "Grind House" along with Robert Rodriguez that will have a spring 2006 release date. Also, some of the Inglorious Bastards cast was leaked by Michael Madsen. Eddie Murphy anyone?

The UK ARCs of Lunar Park have an official Lunar Park website URL in them. I've got the username and password you need to access it.

Ordered a new computer case from CircoTech.

I'm headed to the doctor in an hour to find out if I get to take off my knee brace. Shouldn't be an issue as it has really improved over the past couple of weeks. I'm probably at 75-85% of full strength and mobility.

UPDATE: I'm officially allowed to stop wearing my brace now, and I start physical therapy on Friday. My knee also seems to have made another leap in progress as it feels pretty good currently.

I'm going to open back up the comments on a limited basis. This is just a test entry to see what my templates look like.

Looking for new SciFi now that Star Wars is done?

An early review of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.

So Oregon has a ban on hugging in schools. Nice rule. I guess the next time that the girls volleyball team wins a home game, they are all going to get detention for hugging on the floor in celebration.

Or even better, if a student would commit suicide or die in a car crash, how many others would get detention for the hugfest that would ensue the next day at school as the kids deal with their grief.

Its just another in a long line of bad rules made by power-mad school administrators.

Congrats to Norman Mailer for getting more stupid than the last time we spoke of him. He's now claiming that the whole Newsweek debacle was the doing of the Right. The Right apparently set up Newsweek by feeding them bad info.

Oh, and hows that whole lets wait out the terrorists, they won't be mad in the morning strategy look these days? Its been 2 years, and they don't seem any less pissed to me.

The teaser trailer for The DaVinci Code is up.

Democrats, here is your leader. Which of his allegiences come first - Country or Party? It seems pretty damn obvious from this.

Regarding Osama Bin Laden - "I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found," Dean said during the 2004 Democratic primary campaign. "I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials." - Howard Dean

Regarding Tom DeLay - "I think he's guilty . . . of taking trips paid for by lobbyists, and of campaign-finance violations during his manipulation of the Texas election process," Dean said. "I think Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston, where he can serve his jail sentence." - Howard Dean

Playstation 3 announced for April 2006 release.

Why the PS3 beats the XBox 360

The one thing I don't get is why the XBox 360 will not be fully compatible with all/most of the current XBox games. Did Microsoft screw up the original XBox so badly that they had to redesign major pieces of it?

As bad as Newsweek's behavior was in printing an unsourced claim of Koran desecration, the freaking idiots in the Muslim world who siezed on it are going to continue to be a problem with attitudes like this:

"The apology and retraction are not enough," (Pakistan's) Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told Reuters.

"They should understand the sentiments of Muslims and think 101 times before publishing news which hurt feelings of Muslims."

That attitude needs to change, and I'm not sure how best to accomplish it. We certainly can't have news organizations publishing false claims, or even claims that they can't prove to be true. But we absolutely cannot restrain from publishing information out of the fear that we may 'hurt the feelings of Muslims'.

Thats an insane standard, and it needs to be thrown in this guy's face in a big way, and soon.

Violence at kids sporting events among the parents isn't too shocking anymore, but when a coach gets beaten to a pulp by 8 people at a GIRLS rugby game, it gets my attention. Girls playing rugby?

They'll sure look pretty at their prom with heir hair pulled back behind their cauliflower ear

Only 1 more week with my knee brace and I'm ready for physical therapy. Yippie.

Where are all the leftists chanting Newsweek Lied, People Died? I know, silly question.

We've been told for years now that drinking alcohol kills brain cells, but now it appears that it kills more brain cells in women than in men. The uptight scientists behind this finding are trying to use the data to convince women to drink less, but I think it ought to be an excuse for men to drink more.

I'm in the process of picking out components for a new computer system. The motherboard I've decided on is an EPoX 8KDA3+ PRO Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb.

I've got an EPoX board in my machine right now and it has been the most stable computer I've ever been around.

Some Lunar Park cover art is being revealed over at my Bret Easton Ellis site. The art is from Advance Reader Copies of the new novel and hopefully won't see the light of day on the final version of the novel.

Two more weeks in my knee brace, and then its off to rehab to get my range of motion back. With the brace off, I can only bend my leg about 15-20 degrees. The strength feels close enough to normal that I don't think it'll be a problem. Its still all puffy though.

The teaser trailer for Goblet of Fire is now out and the new Harry Potter posters won't be far behind.

I really hope that Jeep decides to put the Gladiator truck into production.

After a couple of very slow years for Bret Easton Ellis material, we may be getting the motherload over the next year or so. Lunar Park will be released this fall (more Lunar Park info); Nicholas Jarecki is going to make a movie of 'The Informers'; and the continued progress on the Glamorama film may finally reach a boiling point.

Oh, and my Ellis site was 2 years old as of Friday, April 29th. Yippie.

Ty Tryon is actually having some success on the Hooters Tour. Maybe the pressure is off.

Chuck Palahniuk's latest novel - Haunted - was released today.

Kellen Winslow Jr, of the Cleveland Browns, hurt himself in a motorcycle crash yesterday. If I'm the Browns, I go after every dollar of bonus and/or salary that I could possibly recoup from the guy for violating his contract (motorcycle riding is a no-no).

A big contratulations to Matt on the birth of his daughter.