Thursday, October 31, 2002

Oh my god. I got a voicemail from Rudy Giuliani, urging me to vote for Bill Simon for governor. At first I thought it was my brother imitating Giuliani. I thought to myself. "That's a good imitation." Then I realized it really was the former mayor of NYC, the hero of 9-11. He didn't leave a number for me to call him back at. I'm starting to get pissed at all these political spam voicemails. [Scripting News] Giuliani better be getting paid well for the political shilling he's engaging in - California, Massachusetts, trying to sell Republican gubernatorial candidates in moderate states by connecting them to the most acceptable Republican in the country. Hopefully it won't take.

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Interesting bit from a Law and Order rerun from last season that I'm watching right now - Dr. Emil Skoda interviewing a killer whose lawyer claimed his racism was a symptom of insanity. It was strange to hear Skoda sitting on the other side of ultra-racist arguments, since I'm used to seeing him as Schillinger on Oz...
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Looking at today's referer logs, I see this: 4. http://us.f404.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?Msg... 2 5. http://64.4.18.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&;lah=... 2 6. http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&;lr=&ie=ISO-8... 1 7. http://us.f408.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?Msg... 1 8. http://us.f215.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?Msg... 1 9. http://us.f142.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?Msg... 1 10. http://us.f124.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?YY=... 1 11. http://mail.laramie1.k12.wy.us/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/A... 1 It seems that a link to here got mailed out to a pretty big list of people, if that many actually bothered to click over. Unlike normal referers, I can't tell who pointed people here, or why they were pointed here. Now I'm curious...

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posted by taz at October 31 7:02 AM. "You will have heard, Dr Sir I doubt not long before this can have reached you that Sir W. Howe is gone from hence. The Rebels imagine that he is gone to the Eastward. By this time however he has filled Chesapeak bay with surprize and terror." - Sir Henry Clinton Spy Letters of the American Revolution is an excellent site offering such gems as a captured letter written from Rachel Revere to husband Paul, a message from a colonial scientist written in invisible ink, and Benedict Arnold's encrypted message to the British offering to surrender West Point for £20,000. The site includes photos of the documents, back-stories on each letter, profiles of the people involved, and descriptions of methodology, as well as a timeline and route map. [MetaFilter]

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Come on Eileen. I swear. What he means. You're so dirty and lean. I said come on. Eileen. [Scripting News] My god - Dave's gone completely off the deep end. He's quoting Dexy's Midnight Runners out of context.. =)
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I've found more multiple-Sorkin actors... actor American President Sports Night West Wing Nina Siemaszko Beth Wade Holly * Ellie Bartlett Ralph Meyering Jr. General (none) Tom Richard McGonagle Rumson Staffer (none) Sen. Warren Thom Barry Guard (none) Mark Richardson David Graf (none) Chase * Col. Chase Aaron Lustig (none) Stanley * Senate Aide * Felton Perry (none) Man * Alcoholic Politician AND Public Defender! Darren Foreman (none) Jack V.P. Aide #2 * Mary Ostrow (none) Female Patient * Sharon * Dafidd McCracken (none) Patient * Agent #1 AND Security Officer Nadia Dajani (none) Tina Lake * Lily Mays * Allen Garfield (none) Chuck 'The Cut Man' Kimmel * Roger Becker * Spencer Garrett (none) Peter Sadler * Richard Will Christopher Francis (none) Staff Member * Passenger AND Student John de Lancie (none) Bert Stors Al Kiefer Alanna Ubach (none) Catherine Brenner * Celia Walton * Clark Gregg (none) Stranger/Calvin Trager FBI Agent Michael Casper Kelly McNair (none) Woman * Pollster * Amazing what you can do with a little obsessive behavior and IMDb... =) That should be it - the complete Aaron Sorkin Concordance...

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Because I'm a tremendous dork, here's the beginnings of a concordance of Aaron Sorkin actors...ie, actors who've appeared on one or more of the three Aaron Sorkin-created media pieces - The American President, Sports Night, and West Wing. This was inspired by seeing Joshua Malina aka Jeremy from Sports Night on West Wing last night, and realizing that he was also in American President. If you've seen any two of the three Sorkin pieces, you've almost certainly seen more overlap - Martin Sheen, for example, as Chief of Staff on American President and then obviously President on West Wing...so here goes... (* means a one time appearance) actor American President Sports Night West Wing Joshua Malina David Jeremy Goodwin Will Bailey * Felicity Huffman (none) Dana Whitaker Ann Stark * Greg Baker (none) Elliot interviewer? * Jeff Mooring (none) Dave Reporter Phil Timothy Davis-Reed (none) Chris Reporter Mark Lisa Edelstein (none) Bobbi Bernstein Laurie Ted McGinley (none) Gordon Mark Gottfried Janel Moloney (none) Monica * Donna Moss Martin Sheen A.J. MacInerney (none) Jed Bartlet Timothy Busfield (none) (director) Danny Concannon Anna Deavere Smith Robin McCall (none) Nancy McNally There may be a number I missed - people with only guest appearances on Sports Night or West Wing - I didn't go through their guest star lists, or American President's cast list. Why, you ask? Because this is obsessive enough as is. But it does show that Joshua Malina is the first to appear on all three...

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