All Snakes Considered

From Friday's All Things Considered: [F]or Monte Coles, an amateur pilot in West Virginia, the title became a reality when a four-and-a-half-foot snake hitched a ride in his small plane." Click here to listen to the interview with Coles.

In other SoaP news, I have figured out what will happen. This August, after the rabid internet fans have filed in for the midnight showning, after the cheers for the "And now our feature presentation," the first frames are Ashton Kutcher pointing directly into the camera and yelling "Punk'd!" followed by the bittersweet moment when we realize that we are about to see the supersecret final Merchant-Ivory collaboration. In the film, written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Meryl Streep plays a woman trying to deal with the Zimbabwean government trying to take away the plantation that has belonged to her recently deceased husband's family for generations when a when an scientist played by Colin Firth shows up saying that a very rare species of snake has been found living in the plains of her estate. Soon however, Streep suspects Firth may be hiding something.