Cold times in Geekville...

It's another Friday night, and I'm sittin' here with a cold, dark lager to my side as my hands prance away at the keyboard, all the while trying to wind down after another work week.

Again, not a lot has really gone on in geekville. We did have that tall, dark bastage known as Death do his dirty work on a few genre actors during the week (or if you're a Gaiman fan: that short, cute goth chick known as Death). Good ol' Uncle Owen (actor Phil Brown) passed away peacefully in his sleep this past week, which is WAY better than being burned to death by Imperial Stormtroopers as his character was in SW: Ep. IV, ANH (Do I really have to spell that out for you.... Star Wars Episode IV, A New Hope. That was the first one released in '77... dumbasses!). Then we had actor Andreas Katsulas, who played Ambassador G'Kar (dude with big forehead that was spotted on Babylon 5), pass away due to lung cancer. He also played a Romulan on a few episodes of the Star Trek franchise and he was the "man with one arm" in the movie version of The Fugitive with Harrison Ford.

They finally have fleshed out the cast of the next Bond film, Casino Royale. It appears as though Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen will play the lead villain, Le Chiffre. This guy has one of those '80's hairband, shock rock names. Kinda like Blackie Lawless. He's a spooky looking guy, who would be a virtual unknown had he not had a part in the Clive Owen opus, King Arthur. They also have a Vesper Lynd cast. The actress's name is Eva Green and she's French who is a virtual unknown. She was in a film called, The Dreamers as well as some other artsy-fartsy movies. What would you expect? She's French.

Since I got through this week of crappy weather and crappy Halmark holidays to make us single folks feel like freaks of nature, I'm going to treat myself to a fun filled weekend that will include a trip to the local Comedy Sportz (started ere, in Milwaukee) and going out to see a local band that the aforementioned, Mr. Salt, is in, Phsychomania. It's a shock-rockabilly band (psychobilly) that will have lots of creepy staging and undead fun. I'll let you know how that all goes.

Until next time, stay vertical.

Zangz.