Driver 8, the blog that allows its readers to create the content. Best regards to Kat. No doubt she's actual size, nationwide.

It's okay. Usually, I don't even read your blog, so I'm not offended. ;>

Kat Donohue • 10/24/02; 12:56:07 PM

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[His head explodes from the shock.]

Charly Z • 10/24/02; 1:06:28 PM

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Someone got off the wrong side of the bed this morning...

Daniel Dolinov • 10/24/02; 1:22:26 PM

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Daniel: I live for the times when your English-as-a-third-language sentence construction "inadvertantly" results in a double entendre.

Charly: I was just kidding. I like to print out your blog to use as bedding material for my hamsters, and sometimes I accidentally read a word or two. I'll probably stop doing that, though, since they've begun reading Jonathan Franzen, Playboy, and making up Japanese-sounding names that result in dirty Spanish puns. ;)

Kat Donohue • 10/24/02; 2:32:19 PM

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Your hamsters sound like interesting guys.

OK, now I feel really dumb having said that.

Charly Z • 10/24/02; 3:16:10 PM

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Kat: Now I feel the weight of responsibility for your raison d'etre...

Daniel Dolinov • 10/25/02; 5:43:01 AM

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Charly: My appologies for the linguistic mishap. Had no intention to paint the particular orgiastic picture I did. In that particular business it's not the side that matters.

OK, I think I'll stop now.

Daniel Dolinov • 10/25/02; 12:25:16 PM

Right now Sci Fi is airing Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate, a movie based on Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novel The Club Dumas. The film, which I saw when it was originally released, follows "book detective" Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) on his search throughout the Iberic Peninsula and France for the existing copies of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, supposedly written by the Devil himself. An entertaining yarn, though not a movie that displays Polanki's prowess.

But watching this movie again I'm reminded of what I identified as its truly remarkable element: Corso, who with his glasses and goatee, his trenchcoat and messenger's bag in tow and the charisma Depp injects into him, is a character so richly textured, like Indiana Jones or James Bond, as to deserve a series of films built around him. Imagine, a book-worm hero, globetrotting in search of arcane tomes and mysterious collectors, stumbling upon plots of every stripe: political, supernatural, you name it.

Alas, the movie received a cold reception during its theatrical release, and by the end Corso seems to have walked into his final demise anyway. Not much chance for a franchise there. Still, the ending is ambiguous enough that, if the studios were looking for some fresh ideas to turn into movies, they could always bring back Dean Corso, dashing book detective.

Driver 8, the blog that allows its readers to create the content. With the sniper attacks over, it's possible that 20th Century Fox will now reconsider releasing Phone Booth, the movie about a man threatened by a sniper, as originally scheduled. Still, the question lingers: Are there "some subjects shouldn't be peddled as entertainment?"

"Law and Order" bases many of its episodes on disturbing current events. The treatment is artisitaclly good, effective and intelligent. Not releasing a movie just because the release will be temporaly close to a disturbing event is coy -- after all, the movie will be released eventually.

If the movie is good, it should be able to stand against any disturbing current event.

Daniel Dolinov • 10/24/02; 1:28:09 PM

Driver 8, the blog that allows its readers to create the content. Regarding Susie Lee, a redneck love poem of unknown authorship:

Thanks for the poem---I passed it on to friends and family.

Steve • 10/23/02; 9:21:37 PM

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Authorship will probably remain obscure, but boy this one was fun to read. Sort of reminds me of this sergeant I knew who came from the Appalachian Mountains and sired his first child at the ripe age of 13....

Daniel Dolinov • 10/24/02; 4:31:13 AM