The new 'Lilo & Stitch' trailer from Disney is available. The style of classic film ripoffs continues in this preview with a movie many of you will be *quite* familiar with...

http://64.79.162.213/encodethis/bvim_lilo_stitch_trailer6_1500.mov

You think wearing a costume is hot for a few hours at a convention? Try running a 140 mile long desert marathon in one. Since they went to all this trouble, please consider helping Save the Rhino.

The National Network unveiled plans for an adult cartoon block to compete with Cartoon Network's 'Adult Swim' starting in 2003. Cartoons featured will include 'Gary The Rat' and new 'Ren and Stimpy' episodes.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020416/nytu132_1.html

As part of our programming for ConFurence 2002, we will be hosting a 'Tribute Room' for folks within and around Furry Fandom who have left us since last year's convention, and for that, we would like to make a request:

If folks who're coming to the convention (or live near it) have material of an interest to the folks we're remembering, we'd like to borrow it for our display.

Do you have books, pictures, tapes, or other materials relating to (in no particular order):

*Chuck Jones
*William Hanna
*Maurice Noble
*Poul Anderson
*Gordon R. Dickson
*Tove Jansson [Creator of the Moomin Trolls]
*Eve Titus [Creator of Basil of Baker Street]

If you do, could we make use of it?

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The assistance dog of a disabled man visiting the library was attacked by a cat who was the unofficial mascot of the library. Now the man is suing the library, calling the attack a "hate crmie".

Click here for story.

Damon Knight, SF Grand Master, died yesterday in a hospital in Eugene, Oregon. Among his many accomplishments, Knight wrote "To Serve Man" (the short story immortalized by the Twilight Zone episode), started the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Association, and wrote a book about writing that still sits on my shelf today, Creating Short Fiction.

Some European cable tv customers experienced a Scooby-hater's worst nightmare when Scooby-Doo appeared on every channel recently.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objectid=11784504&method=full&siteid=89488

C.A.R.E., a Florida refuge for large cats and a host of other animals, has suffered a serious setback. The owers of the land the center has been leasing has decided to sell, leaving C.A.R.E. until May 1st to relocate.

Please pass this along and help in any way. They need money and legal aid. Fast.

Click here for more information.

Just confirmed today, ConFurence 2002 is pleased to announce a surprise guest for this year's Convention:

Booth Colman, Movie and Television Actor

Booth Colman is best known as the antagonist orangutan Protector of the Faith, "Dr. Zaius," in the Planet of the Apes TV Series.

The 'blooper' clips of the flash-animated comedy "The God and Devil Show" feature short snippets from the episodes, and are available full-time (whereas the full episodes are posted on a limited basis).

Of interest to furries is the "Sigfried and Roy" blooper, which features a white, leather-clad "sabre-toothed uber tiger morph." Licking his leg/thigh/crotch, no less. Direct link here.

Of interest in regard to our current poll, two psychologists have been running a study on what sort of people own ferrets, anyways?
They cite the increase of young, single women in an increase in popularity of both ferrets and rabbits as pet animals in England. Women especially see this traditonal country working animal for the affectionate, playful animal it is.

phantos@visi.com ">David J. Rust has posted a basic study on furry sociology. While his data is up to four years old, it does provide an interesting snapshot of some fandom demographics.

On May 1 of this year, the same planetary "pile up" that was mentioned last week will also cause another unusual sight in the skies. Shortly after dark you will see a line form with M45 (the Pleiades cluster) on the bottom with Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Saturn all lining up close together! Planetary alignments are neat, and they rarely form up with other galaxies.

For those of you who are interested in where this is in the sky and what it will look like, you can see a preview on my page.

You shouldn't need a telescope to view this. It will be visible to the naked eye.

Senate Republicans are arguing that the recent spike in oil prices further justifies exploration for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. While the House has already passed an energy bill containing provisions for allowing this, the Senate has not. Contacting your Senator is always a good idea if you have a strong opinion on this matter.

Stars' Pyre (aka Kevin Hogue) at age 19, died from massive trama sustained in a fall from one of the UC Berkeley campus buildings on April 4, 2002. Police are so far ruling the death a suicide.