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The Smashing Pumpkins have officially made their return. The comeback (yeah, we're gonna call it a comeback) appears to be met with little fanfare. The new album, Zeitgeist, came out Tuesday - and was met with a lack of good reviews. The cover art is what we're concerned about here though.

Earlier this year, I Am Legend, the latest Will Smith extravaganza took over the Brooklyn Bridge. Warner Bros. spent around $5,000,000 for a 6 night shoot in New York, after getting approval from 14 government agencies, with hundreds of extras, including 160 members of the National Guard in full combat gear.

Sorry for the delay today, Gothamist has been enjoying the warm weather. It is currently 78 degrees in Central Park. The weather will half-repeat itself tomorrow. It will be sunny, but temperatures should only reach the low 70s. Still, that's pretty good for mid-October. Conditions will deteriorate starting late tomorrow night. Wednesday should be drizzly. Thursday may live up to its name and bring us a thunderstorm. Friday is looking rainy and chilly. According to the Weather Service, Friday's high will be in the upper-50s. The Weather Channel is calling for low-50s. And, judging from their graphic, AccuWeather believes a "Day After Tomorrow" scenario is in store for later in the week.

Gothamist enjoys a good game of "Duck...Duck...Goose!" every now and then, but we only really like Canada geese when they are flying in the air - because that means they are not on the ground, producing that really gross greenish grey poop. Central Park has a huge goose poop headache, as its goose population has grown from 30 to 300 over the past couple of years - and each goose can produce 1 to 3 pounds of poo a day. A day! Parks officials are worried that the goose waster will pollute lakes with their nitrogen-high poops - not to mention the usual worries of poop on walks. There are more geese staying in the mid-Atlantic region, instead of continuing South, because of global warming trends. Why didn't The Day After Tomorrow show the ill effects of big geese populations for scares?

Ask MeFi got a fun question yesterday: How would you escape from Manhattan if disaster struck? What sort of 'go bag' would you go with? And so on. The answers are pretty interesting though, and we learned a fair amount including, but not limited to:

Best Action Sequence: In what seems like audiences expressing a subtle distaste for the west coast, The Day After Tomorrow’s "Destruction of Los Angeles" won, beating Spiderman's New York "Subway Battle."

In a bit of PR for Con Ed, the Post reports that the cold weather we've been having this week has meant higher than ever electricity demand during the winter months. On Monday, the electricity use peaked at 8,962 watts; to put this into perspective, about 12,000 watts is demanded on a hot summer night. So, in this instance, Con Ed was able to say they were able to meet demand, but this has spurred our overactive imagination: Will we be expecting brownouts in the winter? Should we have makeshift bonfires when our space heaters go out? Will it be like The Day After Tomorrow? You may scoff now, but if a tree falls and then people in Ohio and NY are asleep at the wheel again, it might be August 14, 2003 all over again, but with more clothes and more frostbite, which means less sexy.

More about freeganism at Freecycle. This also reminds us of the part from The Day After Tomorrow, where Jake Gyllenhaal gets tips from the homeless man about insulating themselves with pages torn from a book. That might have been the most useful thing from the movie, that and remembering to always listen to the upstart kid if there's an apocalyptic event.

After posting about SETI@home, we ran across another distributed computing project that is more up our alley. Enter ClimatePrediction.net.

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- Everything you need to know about tornadoes

And the week in full.

- Gothamist Weather on tornadoes in the NYC area (there have only been 4 NYC-area tornados since 1960, but given what Day After Tomorrow tells us, maybe we should worry!)

Rotten Tomatoes on The Day After Tomorrow. And someone on RT's boards has a great list of disaster movie cliches.

First things first: you could still probably brunch today without getting wet. Weather.com says the showers won't start until around 1PM. Plus, there don't seem to be any thunderstorms headed our way; "few showers" will become "showers" that give way to "rain." So if you've been following the wild Midwest severe storm outbreak with pangs of excitement, today will probably disappoint.

Like a lot of people, I'm conflicted about the war in Iraq. I marched against it, but now that we're there I feel we have to do what it takes to fix the situation before leaving. In the meantime, I feel terrible about servicepeople who are on extended tours, risking life and limb for what I feel is is an unnecessary war. Is there anything I can do for our troops?

Scott's review of The Day After Tomorrow begins with "The Day After Tomorrow, a two-hour $125 million disaster — excuse me, I mean disaster — that opens nationwide on Friday..."

Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Kelly "downplayed" the warnings, stressing that NYC is on a heightened state of alert (High, compared with rest of the nation's Elevated). This is one of Gothamist's favorite facts: New York has been legally High for almost three years. Anyway, Comissioner Kelly said, "We're at a higher state of readiness than the rest of the country; we're doing a variety of things and we're going to continue to do those. You'll see some different variations of different tactics we're using. But in essence we're using the same resources that we have in the past." Mayor Bloomberg added that New Yorkers should just go about their business and that the police and government will worry and take care of things, his attitude being, if some want to worry, it's up to you.

So much of what goes on around us weather wise is taken for granted. But sometimes people find a way to capture things in unbelievable ways. Gothamist's eye was recently drawn to paintings by Emma Tapley. Born in New York City, Tapley received her BFA from SVA and went on to attend Pratt, New York Academy of Art, Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, and the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY. While her paintings aren't all weather-related, they focus on elements of nature including fog, frost, and especially dreamy realistic clouds and sky-skapes.

Instead of ‘recapping’ this great programming, we wanted to remind you that The Weather Channel is NOW presenting “Extreme Weather Week” (May 23-29 at 8 p.m. ET). This special themed week of ‘Storm Stores” is hosted by meteorologist and storm tracker Jim Cantore.

Recent production sightings here in Gotham (reg required for full size pics) have drummed up a renewed buzz about the upcoming film, The Weather Man. Directed by Gore Verbinski, the film stars Nicolas Cage and Michael Caine. Cage plays a divorced Chicago weatherman who is offered a job on a network morning show in New York. Before leaving he attempts to make peace with his ex-wife and kids. The movie is described as being in the vein of "American Beauty" and "About Schmidt". Having recently wrapped up filming in Chicago, the production has moved to the right, into Manhattan.

And so you can get your disaster freak on, see where you lie in the city's hurricane zones [via our know-it-alls at Gothamist Weather; also see this post and that post]

Zap2It talks with Beau Bridges about the movie: "It is about a quake. But it's also about human relationships and what's important to you at the end of the day." Yeah, that and being nutty enough for some hot 18-49 ratings for NBC. Other famous disaster movies: The Towering Inferno, Dr. Strangelove, The Poseidon Adventure, Twister.

The curious Gothamist reader may have noticed a seeming contradiction in the recent entry about the forthcoming movie "The Day After Tomorrow". No, not allegations that NASA may have wanted to silence its scientists, but that one consequence of global warming will be a sudden deep freeze. The earth gets cold when it warms? WTF?

On May 28th, the new Roland Emmerich film "The Day After Tomorrow" hits theaters, and it's already got NASA and NOAA talking. The film is the story of the new Ice Age. A paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), tries to save the world from the effects of global warming... The plot focusses on New York, but the entire world is experiencing catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tidal waves, and floods while the temperature suddenly drops severely.