Baseball Toaster was unplugged on February 4, 2009.
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12) claiming your opinion isn't allowed when it's just being disagreed with
Longtime friend and frequent writing partner Chris Leavell has produced Are We Cannibals? - airing tonight as part of "Culture Shock Week" on the National Geographic Channel at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. You should watch it.
Chris and I met nine years ago while working on the short-lived sitcom, If Not For You. We got our first big breaks in television doing punch-up on scripts for that show, along with Brax Cutchin, who became another close friend. Brax is a musician first and foremost, and is in Tennessee today as part of his "Somewhere America" tour. He'll be back in Southern California in May. His latest CD, The Length of the Day, is on sale now. You should hear it.
Meanwhile, a grad school friend of mine, Liam Callanan, beat me (damn him!) in getting a novel published. Frankly, it was no contest. The book, The Cloud Atlas, takes place in Alaska and is a fictionalized exploration of a little-known aspect of World War II - Japan's experiment in launching bombs at the United States via hot-air balloon. You should read it.
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