Restored version of 1977 animated “The Hobbit” being screened Wednesday in Savannah

Psychotronic Film Night at The Sentient Bean on Wed., Jan. 11 features a restored version of the 1977 TV film of The Hobbit. There’s lots more information about the 8 p.m. screening here.

Here’s a homemade trailer by a fan:


Click on the post to see another homemade trailer pairing images from the animated 1977 version with Peter Jackson’s film scheduled to be released in 2012.

The Goddamn Gallows – The Wormhole – 01/18/12

From The Goddamn Gallows official website bio: In 2007, they left everything behind and spent the next 4 years living out of whatever vehicle would get them to the next town. Building upon their original sound of “twanged-out, punk rock…

S.C. Coastal Conservation League director vows “long and expensive battle” against Savannah River dredging

Steve Eames, director of the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League’s Beaufort Office, has a provocative editorial up today at FITSNews. I appreciate Eames’ piece because he actually knows the facts involving the Corps of Engineers’ predicted environmental impacts, especially regarding…

Governor Deal’s press release on improving the business climate in Georgia

I’ll circle back around and make some comments about various specifics here soon. My initial impression is that this is a surprisingly modest agenda given a) the problems facing Georgia’s economy and b) the fact that governors rarely seem to…

Mitt Romney on health insurance portability and how much he likes firing people

Another awkward moment from the Romney campaign. First he seems to be giving a pretty good endorsement of the idea of health care exchanges under “Obamacare”, and then he riffs: “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.”

Los Angeles Magazine, NYT take long looks at parking — and all those spaces sitting idle

I don’t know what my life is coming to. Friends sent me two lengthy and interesting pieces about parking today — and I read them both in their entirety. From Between the Lines in LA Mag, which focuses largely on…

Savannah Stopover announces key dates, new logo, new Facebook page

There’s not a lot of final news in this post, but I thought some of you would be interested in some of the information in an email this afternoon from Savannah Stopover founder and CEO Kayne Lanahan.

Governments cutting jobs at record rate since 2009

From Under Obama, a Record Decline in Government Jobs by Floyd Norris at the Economix blog at the NYT: When Barack Obama ran for president four years ago, he appalled some Democrats by saying Ronald Reagan had been a transformational…

The Economist: Worldwide GDP and inflation forecasts for 2012

We’re by no means out of the woods yet, and the biggest danger for 2012 (the biggest one we know about, at least) remains the possible financial contagion from a deepening crisis in the Eurozone. But there’s a growing consensus…

April 2012 auction scheduled for everything salvaged from the Titanic

A few details here, more in the post:


I’ve also embedded the trailer for the 3-D version of James Cameron’s “Titanic”, which will be released on April 6th.

Joan Didion on her latest book “Blue Nights”

Joan Didion reads from her new book “Blue Nights”:

Watch Joan Didion Reads From ‘Blue Nights’ on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.

Open the post to listen to an interview.

Savannah Stopover preview: Grimes and Born Gold

Here’s Grimes with “Vanessa”:

Grimes – Vanessa (Arbutus/Hippos and Tanks 2011) from Grimes69 on Vimeo.