• Well, it’s Friday, and at presstime, our domain still is down and out. Here’s what happened: As most of you know, you gotta pay for a “.com” address on the web. The company that takes care of this stuff is called Network Solutions. They’re SUPPOSED to warn the domain owner about a site’s going down, but I guess due to the change of both mailing and e-mail address over the past year, they didn’t know where to find me. Anyway, once the domain disappeared we discovered that the .com domain was put on hold due to lack of payment, and immediately paid it up for the next 2 years. Precautions will be taken to ensure that this doesn’t happen again. Network Solutions will have the domain back up hopefully sometime today (if not already), but it will take it a few days to propogate around the internet to your server. So, if typing www.newsaskew.com into your browser doesn’t work yet, give it another day or two. It shouldn’t be long before it’s back to business as usual.

The biggest side-effect from this problem is the fact that e-mails sent to brad@newsaskew.com, chris@newsaskew.com, or scoops@newsaskew.com probably bounced right back to you over the past 2 or 3 days. If they bounced back to you, it’s safe to assume that they didn’t make it through, sorry to say. For that reason we may be a little bit behind on news, scoops, and stuff. We’ll be going through e-mail backlog and other stuff as soon as the site’s back to normal, and catch up ASAP. Sorry for the problems, and glad that you stuck with us through the confusion. Thanks to everyone who wrote in to alert us to the problem as well.

We’re not sure if things are just slow or we’re out of the loop due to the server problems, but we’ve got just a few stories for ya today…Rest assured if anything’s missed, we’ll catch back up with it all as soon as things get back to normal. Keep the scoops lined up, or mail them to bplevyak@earthlink.net (my temporary address while the News Askew domain is down). Here’s what we got for ya today:

• We’re all anxiously awaiting the DVD, but the A Better Place soundtrack, with music from the newly remastered soundtrack and dialogue excerpts selected by director Vincent Pereira, is available from several locations these days. The Stash has autographed copies on the way, available for mail order. A real good deal! Also, if you want to preview some of the tracks, it’s available for purchase via MP3 at Emusic.Com. We’re preparing a detailed review of the CD soundtrack for the site. Look for it next week, barring any extended domain problems!

• Issue #2 of Green Arrow hit the stands last Wednesday, and naturally, some online reviews at Fandom have followed. You can read them HERE and HERE. Those of you who just bought issue #1 for collectability’s sake will want to continue after reading these two!
• Those wacky Sod and Git cartoons are contuning on their View Askew path, with latest editions featuring Walt & Bry, followed by Kevin & Jay. Check out the strip HERE.
• And finally today, maybe Rufus was right?