News of Note
Good news out of Connecticut: Same-sex couples start marrying in Conn, judge cleared way Wednesday morning for gay marriage to begin. Whoo! "Couples immediately marched to New Haven City Hall to get marriage licenses, and less than two hours after the final court hearing, Peg Oliveira and Jennifer Vickery were married in a brief ceremony next to New Haven City Hall." :D :D :D
Meanwhile, checking out a tip from the lovely birdofparadox, I see that Susan Wood, the co-chair of Barack Obama's women's health advisory committee, is reported to be in the running for head of the FDA. She directed the FDA's Office of Women's Health until she resigned on principle over the continued delay in approving emergency over-the-counter contraception in 2005. ("I can no longer serve as staff when scientific and clinical evidence, fully evaluated and recommended for approval by the professional staff here, has been overruled.") Pro-life sites are in an absolute tizzy about this, especially she's told reporters that Obama will likely revise AIDS programs to include more funding for contraception. Whoo! I like her already.
This is very cool: a flickr photostream, A Message for Obama. And you know our president-elect is web-saavy enough that he knows about it. He's got his own flickr account, after all.
And in entertainment news, HBO greenlights A Game of Thrones pilot. HBO has approved production of a pilot for A Game of Thrones, a drama based on George R.R. Martin’s best-selling fantasy epic A Song of Ice and Fire. The cable network acquired the rights to the property nearly two years ago. Plans are for each novel in the planned seven-book cycle to provide a season’s worth of episodes. A Game of Thrones is the title of the first book, which was published in 1996. The Hollywood Reporter notes that if Thrones receives an episodic order, it would represent the rarest of TV genres: the full-fledged fantasy series. They’re just too expensive.
Set primarily on a sprawling continent called Westeros, A Song of Ice and Fire centers on a dynastic civil war for the Iron Throne, the threat of creatures from the north known as the Others, and the journey of the exiled daughter of the rightful king. The fifth book in the series, A Dance with Dragons, is tentatively set for release in April.
I . . . am excited, yet scared. This is such a good series. Cable is likely to do a better job with it (especially as it's drenched in sex and blood), and GRRM has said they will be faithful to the books. Now what actor can they get for Jaime who will ooze with evil and then three books later make you go "Awww, poor woobie. Wait, what did I just say? Ick! I need a shower! I just felt sorry for him!" ;)
Meanwhile, checking out a tip from the lovely birdofparadox, I see that Susan Wood, the co-chair of Barack Obama's women's health advisory committee, is reported to be in the running for head of the FDA. She directed the FDA's Office of Women's Health until she resigned on principle over the continued delay in approving emergency over-the-counter contraception in 2005. ("I can no longer serve as staff when scientific and clinical evidence, fully evaluated and recommended for approval by the professional staff here, has been overruled.") Pro-life sites are in an absolute tizzy about this, especially she's told reporters that Obama will likely revise AIDS programs to include more funding for contraception. Whoo! I like her already.
This is very cool: a flickr photostream, A Message for Obama. And you know our president-elect is web-saavy enough that he knows about it. He's got his own flickr account, after all.
And in entertainment news, HBO greenlights A Game of Thrones pilot. HBO has approved production of a pilot for A Game of Thrones, a drama based on George R.R. Martin’s best-selling fantasy epic A Song of Ice and Fire. The cable network acquired the rights to the property nearly two years ago. Plans are for each novel in the planned seven-book cycle to provide a season’s worth of episodes. A Game of Thrones is the title of the first book, which was published in 1996. The Hollywood Reporter notes that if Thrones receives an episodic order, it would represent the rarest of TV genres: the full-fledged fantasy series. They’re just too expensive.
Set primarily on a sprawling continent called Westeros, A Song of Ice and Fire centers on a dynastic civil war for the Iron Throne, the threat of creatures from the north known as the Others, and the journey of the exiled daughter of the rightful king. The fifth book in the series, A Dance with Dragons, is tentatively set for release in April.
I . . . am excited, yet scared. This is such a good series. Cable is likely to do a better job with it (especially as it's drenched in sex and blood), and GRRM has said they will be faithful to the books. Now what actor can they get for Jaime who will ooze with evil and then three books later make you go "Awww, poor woobie. Wait, what did I just say? Ick! I need a shower! I just felt sorry for him!" ;)