Hey there Dear Listener. Am typing this frantically from a run-down motel in Jackson, Mississippi; leaching off wi-fi from a more upscale motel across the street and groovin’ on the sounds of a ‘party bus’ parked by my room. There’s quite a crowd gathered round, and as the Hotel Manager just exclaimed as she walked by, “They got it GOING ON.’

Anyhew, the thing is I am in the middle of editing ‘The Film Talk - Part 27 - Hancock is Wanted!’, (being oh-so-fine reviews of ‘Hancock’ and ‘Wanted’), and the sound chip on my Powerbook has failed yet again! I’ve been hectoring Professor Doctor Higgins for weeks that we should have ‘back-up’ shows already uploaded for just this contingency - so it’s my own fault for not following my own advice.

If the chip comes back online soon we’ll all get to hear Part 27 - if not, it’ll have to be on Sunday when I’m back in Nashville, Sweet Nashville, aka ‘the Big Sleepy’, aka ‘The Big Moon-Pie in the Sky’.

UPDATE 12:12AM The Sound Chip ‘unfried’ itself and the show’s been edited! Now I have to drive around to find wi-fi I can leech off of; wish me luck Dear Listener!

UPDATE 1:01AM Success!