Things are coming along very nicely. I dropped in the first of our effects shots last night and it looks great. I also touched up the ending, adding a song by Grandma's Mini (which features Marisa Torrieri who plays Becky and Ann Brandstadter who plays Rosa the waitress in the film) and fixing the titles so they look good. Next up tonight is to put together the newscasts and get them all put into their appropriate places. I'm also expecting more of our effects shots to come throughout the week, including the much anticipated republican decapitation. Tomorrow is the Art-o-Matic deadline and I'll probably be taking a personal day from work to get it done in time. I'm also looking for a viable workaround for the firewire drive that keeps choking on the data and won't let me extract video. The plan is to just buy another one and return it in a few days. The Blair Witch Project folks did that with their high 8 camera. Maybe I should do that with a high end laptop so I can really crank this sucker out. Maybe that's a little too far.