So – check out Dexter, worth watching for reasons too numerous to mention here; Martindale’s performances are in Seasons One through Three.

Joe Baltake of The Passionate Moviegoer describes Martindale this way:

Now is the time to praise Margo Martindale, an actress who goes down easy, like a soft, soothing bourbon.

facade: Margo Martindale

We’re not sure that any of the reference sources we’ve checked so far provide a complete filmography – but we’ll stand by our recommendation of Dexter - and we suspect that, despite Ms. Martindale’s departure from the cast, viewers are likely to want to continue past Season Three. Here are some other ways to see and read about Ms. M’s work:

Fandando Filmography: Margo Martindale

The Margot Martindale Wikipedia entry is helpful, but doesn’t meet the internal Wikipedia criteria for biographical entries for living people.Wikipedia needs volunteers for matters of this sort, that’s what makes it good when it’s good. See Contributing to Wikipedia.

In Appreciation of Margo Martindale, by Eric D. Snider on the website Cinematical.

We’ve not provided an image because we haven’t yet located one clearly in the public domain; it’s our editorial view that actors – among other workers – often fail to get their due, not only with respect to their direct work, but also publicity materials. Not having sorted that out, we’ll hold out until we can locate an image we can use with her permission.

1. My wife, a woman flawed only by her questionable taste in men.

This crew  does this change every night during the festival, although -- to make it more difficult, this process  involves, not merely going from one show to the next, but the reverse, which isn’t the same process. Sometimes the changes can involve as many as four shows, each with its own sets and props.

However, we wouldn’t have known about it had it not been for Lisa Agustin’s post Nikon Announces Small World Winners at Information Design Watch, the blog of the very clever people at Dynamic Diagrams.

From Incredible Strange Words:

NEMEZES – little known play by Ibsen about fake Arthur Andersen employees writing obscene words on public toilets under the influence of illegal substances.

I’d always thought it would have worked better with real Arthur Anderson employees.

GameWorks Logo by Randy Dahlk

See his post GameWorks, what it should have been.

Michael was busy inspecting the foliage of the enormous Lithocarpus Densiflorus tree, also known as the Tanbark-Oak to non-Botany majors, while his classmates were just where they were supposed to be, Biological Revolutionary Science 302. Now in his third year of college sponsored by BioRev Industries, Michael spent the majority of his time outside of class doing field research on the growth habits of the various trees that covered the San Fransisco campus. Not a particularly interesting pastime to most, but for Michael it included his favorite hobby of collecting different colored leaves for his scrapbook collection.“Exquisite,” he looked delighted at the leaves in his hand. Michael picked up the spring bud and gave it a sniff. Heavenly, he thought feeling intoxicated by the beauty of the world.

Had he been in class instead of lovingly looking at his sensual green, amber orange, vibrating red, and tantalizing yellow leaves, he would have learned more about what life was like before the Biological Revolution changed the world. He should have learned in his required class, as his peers all attended every semester of every year of college, about the barbaric customs that men and women used to participate in together to procreate and enlarge the population, complete with diagrams of how the act was copulated. Silly 20th century humans and their wrong ideals about what God had intended for man to do. Heterosexual was a plague on the world and the cure was BioRev’s ingenious discovery of God’s word.

Michael would have also been able to participate in the discussion that enraged the class so dramatically that the professor had to end the lecture prematurely to prevent the student body from burning the class set of books with such nonsense inside.

The issues that sparked such controversy were these: in the year 2086 BioRev Industries had solved the world’s increasing military conflicts in over fifty different countries by changing the very foundation of human functionality. The company did this by saying God had never intended for man and woman to have interpersonal relations, but instead to live harmoniously side by side without ever having to become intimate. They made this possible by engineering genetic DNA codes that would live, breath, and grow in safe synthetic embryos for nine months, then come out into the harsh world untainted as tiny versions of their sponsors, or babies as we more appropriately know them. Government controversy specialists rallied together to put an end to BioRev Industries playing God, but the idea made so much sense with church doctrine that followers quickly amassed into a global community of women with women partners and men with men partners. Since the need for opposite sex joining, shall we say, was nil, BioRev Industries took the word of God to the next level and interpreted Genesis into their own manual which is still preached today, just about 100 years after the fact. Genesis talked about Adam, Eve, Steve (who was never mentioned in the original because there was no need for him until BioRev), and Emma (who was also left out of the original version of the Bible because she was off explaining how the world really worked to Steve on the other side of the Garden of Eden). All of these discoveries were made possible by one enthusiastic young man slightly off his rocker: Sean.

None of this is particularly interesting to anyone nowadays because it’s common knowledge that men and women no longer mate, but have same sex partners instead. To have a heterosexual relationship is not only against “The New and Better Bible: The Complete Unabridged Correct Original Word of God”, but it’s also quite disgusting when you think about all of the back and forth huffing and puffing that actually goes into creating a child “the old fashioned and wrong way” according to the Bible. It’s much easier, and a lot less messy, to have a child created in a safe environment where genetic deformities and abnormalities are prevented thanks to BioRev’s patented Perfect Gene Alteration choices. Women can still become pregnant with the assistance of BioRev’s sperm supply, conveniently located near you, but with weight gain, stretch marks, and the inevitable squeezing a watermelon through a quarter sized hole, many women choose to forgo the gift of life and leave it to the experts.

Michael looked around the grass to find more leaves. He cooed with delight seeing a yellow leaf ready to fall from the Lithocarpus Densiflorus tree. With delicate hands, he reached to the leaf and plucked it from its mother. Sadly this was the closest thing Michael had ever come to love. No one in the world seemed to see the beauty in flora and fauna like Michael did. Even more pathetic though was that it didn’t bother him one bit that he didn’t have a partner to share his find with and that plants were the closest thing to a meaningful relationship that he had ever had.

The issue that created such arguing in the Biological Revolutionary Science 302 class was whether or not heterosexual relationships were once the norm and homosexual relationships were once the disgrace of all humanity. It wasn’t so much a debate, as the professor would have liked to encourage, but a slaughter of all opposing ideas to the BioRev awe inspiring intelligence that made peace possible for all of these decades since Embryonic Stem Development first became available. Michael would have been able to agree with his classmates on this topic if he hadn’t been busy pressing leaves between book pages to preserve them correctly before they became too fragile to do anything with.

“What an exquisite cluster of pine needles,” Michael smiled as he inspected the Pinus Monticola needles after safely saving the yellow leaf. This is definitely one for the books, he ecstatically thought looking at the beautiful colors in early spring.

1. Intellectual Property: patent, trademark, copyright, etc.

Thanks to Bob Stein for sharing this with us.

Anthony Head in the BBC series "The Invisibles"

The Invisibles is now available on DVD, and the most recent episode (Episode 6 as of this writing) available for download – see preceding link. (We found Season 1 on Netflix.