Hi everybody! I’m working on the site’s design, including the header. I’m an experimenter so it’s going to take a few tries before I’m happy with it. Just wanted to keep you posted as to what I’m doing.

I have something untold about me to tell. It’s not really a secret. Just something that no one knows about me. I’ve never thrown a:

• cocktail
• dinner
• brunch
• or birthday party

Did I leave anything out? Oh yes- I’ve never thrown a Tupperware party either.

Oh, I have place settings for twelve including real silverware my ex-roommate lifted from Ritz-Carlton in Orange County when he worked there. I could give a list of reasons why I haven’t hosted a get-together at my place but it suffices to say that my apartment is just big enough for me, my two cats, and one or two other people. If anybody else showed up they’d have to go out into the hallway if they needed to change their mind. That, and I’m a lousy housekeeper.

There you have it.

We LOVE the Parker Poseys. Watch her interview about her latest film Broken English by clicking the link below.

Film.com sat down with Zoe Cassavetes at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival to discuss her new film Broken English, which she wrote and directed. Joining in the interview are stars of the film, Parker Posey, and Drea De Matteo.

Film.com – 2007 Sundance Film Festival

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I love my Zune. I love the wide video screen. I love the choice of
brown, black, and white.
I’ve never been programmed with an iPod so the click wheel instead of touch never bothered me. But what does bother me is skipping within the first fifteen seconds of each song after the player has been playing for about fifteen seconds. Blah! And Microsoft- you have all the money in the world and you couldn’t get support for podcasts on the player? Really dumb move.

As a consumer I’m not at all excited at hearing rumors of a new Zune player already in the making for release later this year. I haven’t had my player for even thirty days yet and instead of creating a firmware
and software upgrade you plan to make new players instead. So I’m supposed to be stuck with the player that the Zune team realizes needs immediate improvements? Are you going to give me a discount when the new player comes out? I think not. So guess what? I’ve already gone to my Amazon.com account from which I purchased the Zune and applied for a refund. Yep, I’ve packed the Zune up and it’s going back today. It’s too bad because it looks like if it had the attention it needed
to present a proper product- instead of rolling it out to market like
wham-bam in time for Christmas sales- it would beat any 30gb player out
there.

One last quip. The selling point on this is you can share music with
fellow Zuners. Problem with that is plenty of songs are locked down
from sharing by the record company’s and, get this, I have yet to run
into just one other person carrying a Zune. And I live in the heart of
Chicago. Hardly the sticks.

I hope you’re reading this, Zune team.

Leo Laporte hates the Zune!

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