The first day of school

As a kid, there's nothing worse. The sense of impending doom as the sun starts to set. The ticking clock on 60 Minutes was the signal on that Sunday night that the final minutes of freedom were winding down. Somehow it doesn't seem right to start school before Labor Day, the traditional benchmark that the fun n games are over, summer is past and fall is setting in. We haven't even been menaced by a real hurricane yet, although it looks like that may change soon.

We worked the The U DVD release really hard last week. Billy did about two dozen radio and TV appearances and a few hundred fans turned out for the AllCanes release party. As of last night, The U was the bestselling sports DVD on Amazon, even surpassing the new Karate Kid.

The U Facebook fan page, which will hit 88,000 fans this week, has become the go-to source for Canes news. Evans will continue to update it daily throughout the season

We're in the stretch run on Limelight, our upcoming documentary chronicling the spectacular rise and fall of New York nightclub impresario Peter Gatien, set against Rudy Giuliani's transformation of New York City in the 1990s. Last Thursday we interviewed infamous club kid Michael Alig at Coxsackie Correctional Facility in upstate New York. Doing prison interviews is always dicey -- you never know until you arrive how strict the guards will be and what you'll be allowed to do. In this case, prison officials treated us well, the interview went smoothly and Sam Rega spent the weekend logging and cutting the interview into the documentary.

We're about ready to deliver Square Grouper. The sound mix will be finished in the next week or so and I'm starting to tackle deliverables. News is forthcoming about release date, but it's looking like November.

Oh, one more thing. We've been talking to ESPN for the past few months about doing a new feature documentary with them (no, not The U 2). It's looking like it will happen, we'll begin work just after Labor Day and it will premiere in late 2011. I can't say anything else about it, yet.