• Whew…That was scary. We thought the damage was a lot worse but, as you can see, we’re back in full force once again after about a day of downtime. Sorry about that. What happened, if you’re curious, was that the server that houses News Askew totally filled up with data (there are other sites here as well as ours) and boom went all of our interactive data. Unlike the old site, the new site is constantly changing due to new news posts, votes, and talkbacks, which means less control from the webmaster’s end. Still, looks like everything’s been restored except the last poll topic results were lost. We’ll revisit the poll at a later time so we’ve got it for the archives.

Anyone else been watching more TV than usual this summer? It’s a couch potato’s dream, especially if you’re a reality TV lover…Survivor and Big Brother are huge hits for CBS (By the way, the Big Brother website is pretty addictive, stay away if you’re a fan of the show, that’s a warning), not to mention MTV’s new Real World and Road Rules, new South Parks on Comedy Central (the current 2-parter makes anything in Dogma look like a G-rated flick)…And more. The fall TV season’s gonna roll around and it won’t ever seem like new TV even left. Of course, it’s still recommended that you get outside at least once in a while. Can’t let all the good weather go to waste.

On the film front, caught “What Lies Beneath” this week. It was okay, ya gotta hand it to Zemeckis for making a modern Hitchcock flick without falling back on tons of digital effects or supernatural elements to tell the story. Still, I dunno how much fun that one would be to watch again. Worth a watch, though. Not much else to look forward to theatrically until Hollow Man in 2 weeks — Ya gotta love Verhoeven‘s tenacity and the look of all his stuff, he hasn’t made a movie not worth watching since he came to the U.S. (Come on, admit it, you’re watched “Showgirls”, at least). And it’s got an R-rating now, too, which means a lot more of that over the edge stuff he does so well.

But enough about all that stuff…You’re here for View Askew news, aren’t ya? Sure ya are. Since we had some downtime yesterday, a day there’s usually an update, we’ve got quite a bit going on for ya today. Let’s take a look at the happenings from the San Diego con, Green Arrow news, and some other intersting tidbits. Here we go…