Thanks, taxpayer!

That’s about the only time I’m going to say that between here and tax season, not only because I’m going to get nailed to the wall by the IRS like I do every year, but I also have taxes for my production company, which are a total bitch and feet of paperwork (as opposed to exaggerating by saying “miles” I say “feet,” because my paperwork stack is several feet high).

The good news is that my company does banking with Bank Of America, where we started our newest checking account mere days before Lehman took the plunge. And usually, I’m not a big fan of BoA, not because they took bailout money, but because their customer service alternates between the fast service I’d expect and the shittiest shit over-the-phone bullcrap, and they switch completely randomly.

That being said, BoA looks to be giving me the chance to upgrade from a 2D showing to a 3D showing of Monsters Vs. Aliens when that flick comes out, which is perfect since we’ve already established that Monsters Vs. Aliens will have an additional 3D fee.

The question being asked is: Is this our bailout money that is paying for this?

This story isn’t going to be constantly updated like the one below, so I might as well place the bad news below the cut…

Let this be a lesson to me: never wish you had something to post about.

From Time Out NY (I would link to it, but this story has crashed their website):

EXCLUSIVE: Time Out New York learns of actress’s untimely death. She will be greatly missed.

Last night it was reported that the actor Natasha Richardson had critically injured her head in a skiing accident at the Mont Tremblant resort outside of Montreal, Canada. Although public reports have not yet confirmed it, sources close to Richardson’s family and friends say they have already been told the awful news: She did not survived the accident.

This precipitate loss is a terrible one. Richardson was only 45 and had two adolescent sons; our thoughts go to them and to her husband, the actor Liam Neeson. The theater world, too, is bereft by her departure. Richardson has been the most verdant new branch of one of the great English theatrical family trees: the child of Vanessa Redgrave and the late Tony Richardson, the niece of Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, granddaughter of Michael Redgrave. She has pursued the family business with uncommon class and distinction. On Broadway-in Anna Christie, Closer, A Streetcar Named Desire and especially in her Tony-winning turn as Sally Bowles in Cabaret-her work has been elegant, smart and forceful. She will be missed.

EDIT: Story retracted, sort of. Natasha is NOT DEAD, but possibly might be BRAIN DEAD as reports Gawker, who has some sort of line to Time Out New York and their busted-ass site.

A Time Out spokesperson has retracted their original report that Richards had already succcumbed to her injuries. The site’s back up, but the link is still not loading. According to their P.R., they are amending their post to report that Richardson is, and this is a direct quote, “brain dead and not expected to survive.”

UPDATE AGAIN: Things keep looking up for Natasha Richardson and horrible for news outlets reporting otherwise. I guess me included, but I feel less guilty.

From TMZ:

The hospital tells TMZ Richardson is sedated and suffering from brain swelling — but, contrary to some reports, is not brain dead.

I first heard about this Battlestar Galactica UN conference while waiting for the first part of the three hour finale “Daybreak” to air last Friday. Maybe it was the wine, but I initially didn’t believe it. It just seems that the United Nations might have better things to talk about than and Sci-Fi…Um SyFy…show.

Then again, there was a US Government 24 conference a few years ago to discuss torture, so maybe this isn’t far off…

Hey, guys! Remember Anna Nicole Smith and her horrible death of horribleness that might have had more to do with who got her son, who killed her other son and who inherited her millions she herself inherited from an old guy who wanted to boink a hot ditz for a few years? I think she had a reality show I didn’t watch as well.

Put on your 2007 hats, because Howard Stern and two doctors, Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich, have been handed down felony charges for the prescription drugs (including sweet opiates and sedatives) they illegally gave to Smith in the years leading up to her death…

Hey, guys! Remember Anna Nicole Smith and her horrible death of horribleness that might have had more to do with who got her son, who killed her other son and who inherited her millions she herself inherited from an old guy who wanted to boink a hot ditz for a few years? I think she had a reality show I didn’t watch as well.

Put on your 2007 hats, because Howard Stern and two doctors, Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich, have been handed down felony charges for the prescription drugs (including sweet opiates and sedatives) they illegally gave to Smith in the years leading up to her death…