It's Wally Wednesday! Here's a photo of the boy taking full advantage of the Huntington Dog Beach from last Friday:


I noticed today in the IMDb that casting has finally been announced for the film version of The Time Traveler's Wife, one of my all-time favorite books. Many directors have been attached and then unattached over the past couple of years, but it appears the film might finally be in pre-production. I'm not sure how happy I am with the casting of the two leads - Eric Bana as Henry De Tamble and Rachel McAdams as Claire Abshire. I am even less impressed with the guy who finally drew the straw to direct - German Robert Schwentke, who aside from doing Flightplan, hasn't really done much of anything at all. Because of the amount of time travel and aging involved in the story, I knew this would be a very difficult movie to pull off. I hope Schwentke can manage it and make the movie worthwhile.

The song of the day is "London Calling" by The Clash off their 1980 album of the same name. While the band had two previous albums, this was the first to break wide open in the US and would become an influential album in the history of rock music. I love the sound of the British punk music from this era, and still think "London Calling" sounds as fresh today as it did back then.