William Shatner BBS
Capt. Kirk has a weblog. Mr. Sulu, ahead warp factor 2.

No posts for a few days is a good thing. This means I've been busy doing something important ($). My latest project is Rod Adair for Lt. Governor. I like the color scheme that shook out of his brochures and letterhead and the like. So hopefully John Sanchez will get the nomination for Governor, and Rod for Lieutenant, and then I'll have the websites for the whole Republican ticket. I spoke with a local jazz musician earlier this week, but he tells me the financing for his website isn't there right now. Too bad. I need to do something besides political sites.

Tom Benavides for State Auditor
Some of the "down ballot" races can produce some hilariously amateur advertising work. Look at his photo and then look closely at the symbol in his name. So cute.

I guess the traffic caused by the controversy over that domain name has died down. The story's far from over however.

My wife and I did something today that we haven't done for a long time: we rented a movie. Since HBO we've done that only rarely. Jeff gives us movies all the time too. They're not always good ones but sometimes they are.

We watched Songcatcher. It's quite a good film, with an excellent premise. The time is early in the 20th century: 1907. A female "musicologist" misses a big appointment at her stuffy university so she goes to see her sister who is teaching in a Appalachian Mountain village of inbred illiterate hillbilly freaks. She discovers the mountain music and decides that she must document these songs that came over from England and Scotland with the original settlers in the area. Naturally she falls in love with the best banjo picker. There's a lesbian relationship in the film, and an obvious feminist agenda, reflected too in the soundtrack, which all women. I'll try and keep from passing judgement but I didn't have much use for it. If you're intersted in renting this video, you'd better start looking. We had a hard time finding it.