That's why she's the voice talent

Yesterday NPR re-ran an interview with CCH Pounder talking about her role as Detective Wyms on the FX channel's The Shield. I love Pounder's work on JLU as Amanda Waller - she's massively talented with voices, and I was impressed to learn how she tailors the inflections and speech patterns to the character.

Funny thing is, I was really surprised to learn her real accent. According to Wikipedia Pounder was born in Guyana and studied in England, before moving to the States for work. The result is a hybrid English-American accent that's similar to mine! WOW. Now I knew just how irritating and a little exotic my accent can sound sometimes, hee.

Here's one thing I do know about my accent: if I try real hard I can go for a full California girl like voice, but will fail at recreating the posh boarding school accent I once had. Eh, that's probably a good thing :P

Newsround Up: Election '08 and the world today

LA Weekly

Storm Over Palin Blows McCain on the Bridge to Nowhere - Another look at the 'reckless' pick of Sarah Palin.

Obama vs Goldilocks - Born weeks apart to Kenyan fathers who arrived in the US on the same plane, Barack Obama and Juliette Ochieng have much in common yet live intriguingly disparate lives.

New York Times

Palin's Start in Alaska: Not Business As Usual - Including an interest in banning certain books from the library.

The Times

Federal Takeover of Freddie Mac and Fannie May - The government has $200 billion to spend on failing banks and will use the first billion this week on the home-loan banks

Excerpt from an upcoming Clash book

The Guardian

An account of a married asexual couple

A Very Gallic View of Single Motherhood - The French Minister of Justice Rachida Dati is pregnant and unmarried, something that would have caused an uproar in the US or the UK.

Others

Truth And Distortion - The ways the McCain camp has sought to make lies into facts