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How long had you been trying to get Kenny Loggins on the show?I think they contacted us. He might share an agent with one of our actors and they said, “Kenny thinks all that stuff is hilarious, and if you’d ever like for him to be on the show, he’d be into that.” So we wrote an episode all about Kenny Loggins. He was g...
There’s a huge Arrested Development connection on Archer, with Jessica Walter and Judy Greer voicing Malory and Cheryl, and then Jeffrey Tambor voicing Len Trexler.
I was a huge fan of that show. It’s my second favorite sitcom of all time after Andy Griffith. David Cross has also been on. We’ve repeatedly tried to get Will Arnett. We’d love to do an Andy Griffith crossover, but I think the window on that has probably closed.
If and when Malory’s nemesis, Trudy Beakman, is revealed, you should totally have Liza Minnelli voice her.
[Laughs] Oh my God! Have Liza come on as Trudy? That would be good! We’re going to have to start greasing those skids!
Will there ever be a live-action Archer movie, and have you had those discussions?
The budget would be a lot! But yeah, we’ve been asked about it several times by FX: “So… what would this take?” And I’m like, “How much do you have?” I think the budget would have to be huge, unless we did a live-action movie where they’re all stuck in an elevator—which I know people would just line up to see.
How long does it generally take to create an episode of Archer?
From start to finish, an episode takes five weeks. I turn in a script every three weeks, and I start April 1 and then we go to air in January, so I’m on Episode 6 right now. After I turn in a script, everybody at work gets it, and the character designers start designing what the characters will be wearing, or what they...
Who’s the most difficult character for you to write on Archer?
Lana. It’s weird to have one of the funniest women in the business, Aisha Tyler, doing the voice, but her character has become the de facto voice of reason because no one else can be depended on to do that; all the others are very strongly in the “let’s just mess everything up” camp. It’s hard for me to be reasonable. ...
So Aisha doesn’t want Lana to be the buzzkill, but is totally cool with all the jokes about her character’s man-hands.
Yup! I think because, in real life, Aisha could be a hand model if she wanted to. She has amazingly beautiful hands.
Is it weird to see all the current animosity between the U.S. and Russia now? You were really ahead of the curve there on Archer with the Jakov plotline.
Putin doesn’t have nearly as glorious a mustache as Jakov.
Nobody did. Nobody did. I bet [Putin] could take him in a fight, though.
That’s probably true—judging by those shirtless horse-riding photos.
[Laughs] Exactly. Dressed up like a bear.
How long do you see yourself doing Archer? We’re entering Season 6 now.
I’d like to keep doing it ’til they lock the doors and don’t let me into the office anymore. It’s sort of a dream job, so I’d like to do it for a long, long time. I think someone else will make that decision for me! The bar’s going to close at some point but I’ll be the drunk guy there being like, “No! One more season!...
Six Italian peacekeepers are injured after their vehicle is blown up in south of the country.
At least six Italian peacekeepers have been wounded in southern Lebanon after an explosion blew up a UN vehicle they were travelling in, security sources said.
Friday's explosion occurred on a highway leading to the southern port city of Sidon, the sources added. They, however, did not confirm initial reports that said one of the peacekeepers had been killed.
The army sealed off the area with yellow tape and was keeping journalists away. But a blackened white United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) jeep could be seen, its top and left side destroyed.
The powerful explosion caused a large crater and broke the cement barrier on the highway.
The attack happened on the same day the UNIFIL was commemorating the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers to honour colleagues who lost their lives in the line of duty.
UNIFIL's deputy spokesman, Andrea Tenenti, told Al Jazeera there were "some reports of casulaties", adding that "teams" had been sent to the location to gather more information.
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr, reporting from the main highway linking Beirut, the capital, to Sidon, said there had been no claim of responsibility.
"I have been speaking to officials from the UN peacekeeping operation; they're refusing to blame any party ... until investigations are completed," she said.
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, condemned the attack and said "it is all the more deplorable because today is the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers".
"We are still receiving details, but it is already clear that a number of UN peacekeepers have been wounded," he said.
Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate, Najib Mikati, also condemned the attack in a phone call to the UN special co-ordinator for Lebanon, Michael Williams.
Franco Frattini, the Italian foreign minister, praised the UNIFIL mission, saying it made a "decisive contribution to the stability of one of the most sensitive Middle Eastern areas".
UN peacekeepers in Lebanon have previously come under attack.
The last attack was in January 2008, when a roadside bomb struck a UN vehicle travelling along the coastal highway south of Beirut, lightly wounding two peacekeepers.
The deadliest attack was in June 2007, when six peacekeepers - three of whom Spaniards and others Colombians - were killed after a bomb hit their armoured personnel carrier near the Israeli border.
There have been 292 fatalities of peacekeepers serving with UNIFIL since its establishment in 1978.
The 13,000-strong force, of which Italy forms the largest contingent, was expanded after a 2006 war between Israel and the Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah.
With Thanksgiving officially come and gone you can move onto the next important holiday tradition—Christmas and Hanukkah decorations. One of the best ways to express who you are this time of year.
Whether loud, subdued, simple or over-the-top, your holiday decor says a lot about you. So if you consider yourself a bonafide geek and aren't afraid to admit it, here are seven decorating tools to help you celebrate the holidays with pride.
Whether you're celebrating Christmas or Hanukkah, you can be happy in the knowledge that you're also helping the environment with this LED tree or menorah made from recycled motherboards.
Powered by a single nine volt battery, the tree's sixteen red LEDs blink in a random pattern, while the nine red LEDs on the menorah can be individually controlled with a retro 9-bit DIP switch. They're both a little small to serve as a dining table centerpiece, but are perfectly sized for your average cubicle. $15 eac...
Fighting over missed birthdays, sibling rivalries, and other family issues is no way to spend the holidays. But fighting over who shot first, Han or Greedo, makes for a perfect after dinner debate.
There's nothing like a little bit of science to intrigue and entertain a room full of geeky guests, so liven up the crackling fire in your fireplace with this set of powders that will produce a rainbow of colored flames.
A hallmark of being a geek is embracing and holding onto the trends and fads you grew up with, which are of course far superior to the trends and fads of today. So forego a wreath made of pine boughs and proudly hang this 8-bit homage to retro gaming on your front door.
Holiday decorations always seem all the more impressive when they're made by hand. But if you're not so handy with a hot glue gun you can drag out that bin of Lego I know you keep readily available and build your own Star Wars themed ornaments courtesy of master legosmith Chris McVeigh.
Every year the folks at RetroZone put together a custom holiday-themed NES cart, complete with blinking Christmas lights visible through the housing, and a couple of retro holiday titles.
What's the point of being a geek if you can't occasionally use your powers for evil? You're probably going to rack up quite a few nice points on Santa's list by fixing your visiting family's computers, so you can afford a couple of naughty points which are sure to come your way with the Tannenbomb prank ornament.
Last week, Paramount Pictures deepened ties with two of its Chinese partners, as the studio signed a strategic agreement that will have China’s Huahua Media and Shanghai Film Group co-finance the studio’s full slate of films over the next three years. But maybe as important as the funding — which could add up to as muc...
Huahua CEO Kefei Wang, who has distributed more than 40 films in his decade in the film industry, said one key to the success of movies like “Transformers” and “Star Trek Beyond” in the Chinese market was enlisting pop stars to come up with custom songs, a tactic he said Huahua came up with.
While certain types of Hollywood films have become reliable performers at the Chinese box office — the Marvel Cinematic Universe and “Fast and Furious” franchise are especially popular there — Chinese films haven’t really made much of an impact in the U.S. even as the country’s box office continues to grow exponentiall...
Wang said he’s excited by Paramount’s entire slate, but there’s one movie he’s clearly eyeing that should be a monster hit in China.
For three weeks running, Fast & Furious 7 has dominated the American box office. As of Sunday, 17 days after release, it became the fastest film in history to make $1 billion at the global box office - other Hollywood heavyweights Avatar, The Avengers and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, all reached the bi...
Its $1.153 billion box office total, as of Sunday, has made Paul Walker's final film the seventh biggest of all time so far.
Furthermore, ticket sales have made the film's income larger than the GDP of 16 countries, including Gambia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada, according to the International Monetary Fund.
While the film met with mixed critical reception, fans have flocked in their millions to watch the film franchise say goodbye to Paul Walker, its star, who died in Los Angeles last year in a car accident.
Almost 75 per cent of world heritage coral reefs have been exposed to heat stress that causes coral bleaching in the past three years, UNESCO says.
The draft report on climate change released overnight is outlined in the agenda paper ahead of a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) meeting in Poland next month.
It states three-quarters of coral reefs over the past three years of the 29 world heritage coral reefs were exposed to conditions that cause bleaching.
"Coral mortality during the latest global bleaching event most likely has been the worst ever observed, including at world heritage property reefs," the paper said.
It states the Great Barrier Reef bleaching event as the most widely reported and it would need to be assessed by the World Heritage Committee.
Other reefs that suffered severe bleaching were in Seychelles, New Caledonia and the United States.
UNESCO expressed its "utmost concern regarding the reported serious impact from coral bleaching that have affected world heritage properties in 2016-17 and that the majority of world heritage coral reefs are expected to be seriously impacts by climate change".
The UNESCO draft paper reiterated the importance of governments to implement and ratify the Paris Agreement as soon as possible.
It urged governments where possible to strengthen all efforts to build resilience of reefs to climate change including the reduction "to the greatest extent possible" of all other pressures and threats.
Scientists will undertake further work and advise UNESCO on what can be done to limit the risks and severity of bleaching in the future.
Queensland Environment Minister Steven Miles said the paper showed the extent of the problem across the world.
"Sadly it is not just the Great Barrier Reef that is suffering this catastrophic level of coral bleaching — it is being seen right around the world and it is good that the global community is seeing it as a global issue," Mr Miles said.
He said Queensland was focused on reducing other impacts as stated in the paper, including an additional $63 million per year for reef water quality in the recent state budget.
"There is no doubt we are entering a period where these bleaching events will become more common," he said.
"Early reports from our meteorologists suggest that next summer could be even worse — that's very concerning."
He said his message to the global community was Queensland's reef was still incredible, but it was under threat.
"I think we are going to need to start having discussions about recovery projects — what is it we can do to give certain reefs a better chance of surviving," he said.
He said scientists were turning their minds to that with coral seeding and genomic projects.
2019 will be a very important year for the Moon – not only has there already been footage sent back from the reported ‘dark side’ in recent weeks, but we will this year be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landing on the surface of the satellite. NASA has in recent months also revealed ...
Reports show that the French-based Ariane Group will be looking to mine the satellite for a certain resource it intends to study in greater detail. Joining forces with PTScientists, based in Germany, the researchers intend to explore and drill into the Moon’s surface to derive an ore known as regolith. Regolith, it is ...
Regolith is an ore which reportedly holds both oxygen and water, meaning that if studies are successful, it could mean that a base of sorts could be set up for future missions on the Moon’s surface. Certainly, if the efforts to mine regolith go to plan, it could mean that we will be able to travel to more distant locat...
“The use of space resources could be a key to sustainable lunar exploration, and this study is part of ESA’s comprehensive plan to make Europe a partner in global exploration in the next decade – a plan we will put to our Ministers for decision later this year at the Space19+ Conference,” Human and Robotic Exploration ...
The moon mining project could be set to go ahead as soon as the middle of the next decade, if not sooner – meaning that plans to land on the surface and to start drilling could be getting the green light ahead of 2025, alongside a variety of other Moon-based missions and explorations to be rolled out in the years to co...
He is co-author of Money Well Spent: A Strategic Guide to Smart Philanthropy (2nd ed. 2018), Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Professional Judgment (2010), and articles on constitutional law, philanthropy, and impact investing. His current courses include Problem Solving for Public Policy and Social Change and Adv...
Several Record readers alluded to the unique status of Lincoln Village and the Country Club area as being considered part of Stockton but located not within city jurisdiction. There are a number of county "islands" that are situated within Stockton.
The Lincoln Village Shopping Center is just a part of a much larger unincorporated residential area that extends west of I-5. Lincoln Village existed long before the city of Stockton extended its tentacles north of the Calaveras River. As more urban subdivisions were created, Lincoln Village and other areas remained co...
The city of Stockton has been successful in annexing some of these islands. Each annexation proposal goes through different levels of city and county government.
When I managed the city's annexation program, a number of county residents cited a litany of reasons why they did not want to become part of the city governance. Some preferred the county's laws and regulations over that of the city. Some feared higher costs.
Upon annexation, a portion of the property taxes go to the city instead to the county, but the property owners would see no difference in their property tax bills. With the recent passing of Measure A, businesses within the city jurisdiction will be charging an additional 3/4-cent sales tax starting April 1.
Will this cause me to prefer Lincoln Village stores over Miracle Mile shops or our malls? Absolutely not.
A letter of apology to the community regarding the "tacky behavior" of a guest on a non-registered boat in the Stockton lighted boat parade.
The boat R Sea Villa, did not register for the parade but was decorated and just jumped into the parade line of march. A guest (an assumption) aboard the R Sea Villa used very bad judgment in "mooning" the spectators at Weber Point.
This act was disturbing enough to the crowd that some spectators called the sheriff's department.
Marina West Yacht Club wants the community to know that we in no way condone this behavior, and the non-registering of the boat. This parade is a gift to the community in which all the registered boaters take much pride. This is also a charitable event and all registration fees are donated to a charitable organization.
We look forward to sponsoring our 35th annual Delta Reflections Lighted Boat Parade, on Dec. 6, 2014.
There are more than a few similarities between Sears and today's titans of retail.
Creative destruction. The term was coined by economist Joseph Schumpeter to name the process of businesses eliminating one another as they evolve. Today, no company better represents this evolution than Sears Holdings (NASDAQOTH:SHLDQ), the parent of Sears and Kmart.
Now a retail dinosaur and officially bankrupt, Sears was the largest American retailer as recently as the 1980s, and it dominated over the postwar era and much of the 20th century. Many of the innovations and strategies the company pioneered were borrowed by Walmart (NYSE:WMT), the biggest American retailer of the last...
Like Amazon, which began as just a bookseller, Sears also started out small in the 1880s, focused on a single product line: watches. Also like Amazon, Sears embraced what was the e-commerce of its day, the mail-order catalog, taking advantage of the U.S. Post Office's decision in 1896 to bring door-to-door delivery in ...
After a new partner, Julius Rosenwald, joined Sears in 1895, the company ramped up its product selection to things like bicycles, sewing machines, and buggies, and it appealed to customers with low prices and a wide selection, two strategies that served as a template for Walmart and Amazon. Sears' catalog had titles li...
By 1906, the company had a giant, three-million-square-foot distribution center in Chicago, and it put an illustration of it at the back of every catalog, essentially advertising its dominance. More than a quarter of Americans received Sears' catalog then, which was sometimes titled Wish Book, a forerunner of Amazon's ...
As the country urbanized and automobiles began to replace the railroads, the company adapted, opening its first department store in Chicago in 1925. It expanded rapidly from there, with more than 300 stores by 1929. Amazon has followed suit today with its acquisition of Whole Foods and opening of small stores like Amaz...
Sears managed to grow even through the Great Depression as bargain prices were a big part of its brand, a likely influence on Sam Walton, who promised Everyday Low Prices, and when it came to apparel, Sears focused on basics like socks and underwear, leaving fashion items for competitors, much like Walmart and Amazon h...
Sears' store count doubled through the 1930s, and it had 700 stores by the 1950s, expanding to Mexico and Canada as it became a standard mall anchor and a staple of postwar prosperity.

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