Archive for May, 2006
A Prairie Home Companion Movie
Garrison Keillor and his radio show the Prairie Home Companion are familiar to anyone who has listened to PBS in the last 30 years. Keillor and director Robert Altman (M*A*S*H and Nashville) teamed up to create a movie based on the show. The premise of Keillor’s script is suitably Altman-esque - we see the radio show performed as it has been every week for 30 years, in front of a live audience at St. Paul’s Fitzgerald Theater, in what turns out to be its final night, as the show has been unexpectedly cancelled by a Texas radio executive (Tommy Lee Jones as the Axeman).
The cast includes Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Lindsay Lohan, Kevin Kline, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly, Virginia Madsen, Tommy Lee Jones.
Links: Wikipedia, Rotten Tomatoes
Blawg: Preparing for the first day…
In which I engage in a flurry of activity that will likely prove useless tomorrow…
Website Graphs
A website graph of lukegilman.com. Others on flickr.
Introducing the Blawg
Starting May 30th, 2006 I’ll be a 1L in the evening program at the University of Houston Law Center in Houston, TX.
I’ve been blogging for a couple of years now with my own High on the Hog Blog and as a regular contributor to Metroblogging Houston so it only made sense that I would join the blawgosphere as well.
My plan is to post on the law school experience, specifically at the University of Houston, as well as relevant legal and community news. If you’re a blawger, particularly in and around Houston, please let me know and I’ll add a link to your site to my blawgroll. I’m also considering a separate website project that would aggregate the RSS feeds of law-related blogs in across Houston and possibly Texas as a whole.
Questions or feedback, I would love to hear from you. The comments are open or e-mail me.
Getting Started with Podcasts
Podcasts are the big thing right now. Podcast this. Podcast that. Simply because I’m the geekiest person some people know, they automatically assume that I know all about it, that I don’t have a life, that I just sit at home and listen to podcasts all day long as if I had nothing better to […]
This is what a Honda sounds like…
I’ll take their word for it. While we’re on the subject, check out this unbelievable Rube Goldberg-inspired Honda commercial.
Drop Shadows Not Bombs
Stylish and hilarious.
Of Bits and Books
Kevin Kelly’s recent article Scan This Book! in the NY Times recounts the efforts of companies like Google and non-profit groups such as Brewster Kahle’s Archive.org to scan the world’s libraries into digital form.
Scanning technology has been around for decades, but digitized books didn’t make much sense until recently, when search engines like Google, Yahoo, […]
Orientation at the University of Houston Law School today
First up - take a test. It was an evaluation of our writing proficiency, but still. It was very test-like and made law school feel that much more real and looming, which of course it is. Our first class is next tuesday.
Immigrants Hear God’s Word, in Chinese, via Conference Call
Really interesting article from the NY Times, a lot of issues if you read between the lines
Just before midnight, the calls start coming in to the church on Allen Street in Chinatown. They come from Chinese restaurant workers across the United States.
Chen Yingjie, 25, is one of those on the other end, dialing the Manhattan […]