Meanwhile, in Serbia, Damir Dokic, the father of tennis player Jelena Dokic, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for threatening to kill the Australian ambassador to Serbia with a grenade launcher.

Item of note -- The Harimaya Bridge hits the theaters all over Japan tomorrow.

Here is the Japanese version of the trailer.

East, meet West. I am amazed that Sir Groovy (NYC) is holding a board meeting out here in LA next week. This should be interesting...

Haight Street, San Francisco, 2004

San Francisco elevator button, 2004

The Yokohama Inspires.

Running amok in Eastern Europe, 1997.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, just outside of Sinn Fein Headquarters. 1997.

Surreal Moment of the Day. An old friend of mine went to see Star Trek in Tokyo today. The preview they showed right before Star Trek was ... "The Harimaya Bridge."

Project Note. The press has begun for Lords of Chaos.

Enough Already.

North Korea just sentenced Current TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee to 12 years of hard labor. This is outrageous. I understand that North Korea is a hardline Stalinesque dictatorship whose actions border on insane half of the time ... but how many more ineffectual UN Resolutions need to be passed and how many more agreements need to be broken by North Korea before it dawns on us that the strategy of the last 16 years does not work. It's time for a policy change. I am not saying start a war on the Korean Peninsula, but the detention of these reporters amounts to little more than hostage taking. if North Korea wants to poke the rest of the world, maybe it's time to poke back a little bit, instead of spending thousands of hours trying to patronize and psychoanalyze the insane.