DreamCasting

I think I'd like to start DreamCasting again. Since errybody and their cousin does the DreamCasting Thing, let's play.

I wanna DreamCast a new Xanadu. We're going to take it seriously, not the ZannaDon't musical and its kind. The more seriously I take it, the better it gets.

Zendaya as Kira.

Chris Evans as Sonny Malone

Michael Ball as Danny McGuire

Nooooooooooooodammit.

Well, the List of my Imaginary Sooper Seekrit Fiances got shorter by one.
Again.
Stop Getting Married, Imaginary Sooper Seekrit Fiances.
Stop being in committed partnerships with an awesome person, stop having beautiful children with your hot Mexican SuperModel Girlfriends, stop getting married to your amazing, intelligent, beautiful film costars in South Carolina, and by all that is holy would you knock off having real lives that don't jibe with my rich and fulfilling fantasy life?
Because, you know, now I'm going to have to pick out a new ISSF, and that's a drag. They don't fall from the sky, fully formed into the Perfect Man, you know. Jeez. You gotta watch a LOT of movies and TV and listen to a LOT of Show Soundtracks before you can add Him to the.... OOOH who's that guy in Hell On Wheels?!?!
I'll tell you who he is.
He's on the List, that's who he is.

A rollicking good time was had by most!

So, last night was the Inaugural Meeting of The Bloggess' "Let's Pretend This Never Happened" Book Club. It started out on Goodreads, moved to Twitter, then some sort of chat room with noise and music, then back to Goodreads, where kindly people mentioned following each others' blogs. I dropped this one;s addy, then realized I HAVEN'T POSTED in like, forever. So. We'll try this again, shall we?

Lovingly lifted from Jenn because she inspires the bejeezus out of me. She, in turn, snagged it from DasMervin.

You can learn a lot about someone by the music they listen to. Hit shuffle on your iPod or mp3 player and write down the first 20 25 (because I felt like changing things up) songs. No cheating or skipping songs that are shameful. That is the fun!

1. Solo Por Ti- Josh Groban, Awake
2. Gamesmaster [Signum Remix]- Ibiza 99 the Year of Trance
3. Violence and Variations- Bear McCreary- Battlestar Galactica Season 3 Soundtrack
4. Pretending- Glee Cast, Glee, The Music, Volume 6
5. When We Dance- Sting, Field of Gold: The Best of Sting
6. Every Face Tells a Story- Olivia Newton John, Gold [Disc 1]
7. Sands of Time- Howard Keel, Ann , Kismet
8. Talk With Solan- Joseph LoDuca, Xena: Warrior Princess Volume 2
9. Innuendo- Queen, Queen- Platinum Collection
10. Crazy For You- Adele, 19
11. Kije’s Wedding from Lieutenant Kije Suite (Crossing Delancy)- Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Classics At The Movies
12. Never Enough- The Cure, Galore (The Singles)
13. The Saltwater Room- Owl City, Ocean Eyes
14. Baltar Panics- Bear McCreary, BSG S 1 Sndtrk
15. Hail To Our Glorious King- The Loonies, Raggedy Ann & Andy- A Musical Adventure
16. Because of You- Kelly Clarkson, Breakaway
17. THE REAL FOLK BLUES- Yoko Kanno & The Seatbelts, Cowboy Bebop VITAMINLESS
18. Mustang Sally- Band from TV- Hoggin’ All The Covers
19. The Time Of Our Lives- Toni Braxton, The Essential Toni Braxton
20. Rrarr- Joseph LoDuca, Xena: Warrior Princess Volume 2
21. 5:30- Robert Downey, Jr., The Futurist
22. Roussel: Segovia, Op. 29- Andres Segovia, The Art of Segovia
23. American Wake (The Nova Scotia Suite)- Bill Whelan, Riverdance
24. Planet, Schmanet, Janet- The Rocky Horror Picture Show, International
25. Give it Back- Toni Braxton, The Essential Toni Braxton
26. Bring On The Dancing Horses- Echo & The Bunnymen, Pretty In Pink Soundtrack

There are those of you who might notice that 26 is one more than 25. I like giving a little more than is asked for. This could also be interpreted as literal one-upsmanship.
I also realized that this is less than one percent of the total on myPod. 5944. 1%=59.44 songs.

Reading the Marvel Encyclopedia

... but there are a few missing characters. For an updated, revised and expanded "Most comprehensive" guide, there are a LOT of dropped people and short entries. I mean, I know that the website has all the power stats and thorough entries, but is it too much to ask for the printed version of the resource to even have PIXIE, for cryin out loud? Especially for $45.00 USD plus tax?
Glad I checked it out of the library before I invested in this reference book. Good for a casual reader, but if you're looking for a truly complete resource for any papers, fic, or GURPS/RPG, then keep hunting/hoping, or invest in an iPad and a subscription to the complete online collection.
Conclusion? Not truly an encyclopedia, but more of an encyclopedic dictionary.

Fan Video

OK. I'm inspired.
I seriously want to make a mashup (?) video with Starbuck & Apollo & Sam set to LoveTheWayYouLie. Seriously.

Starbuck is*so* the "that's all right because I love the way it hurts."

and Apollo is "And we fall back/ Into the same patterns /Same routine"

and Sam is "You meet/And neither one of you/Even know what hit 'em"

So how do I go about this? So far behind the tech.

Pastafarian Sighting at Parking Garage!

Skeptic Shout-Out of the DAY!

Today, we had a LOT of people at the office for appointments who are... less than mobile. (The patients, not the appointments.)
So I decided to park on the top of the Parking Garage. Yeah, so I had to take the stairs down to my floor, but No Big Deal. Happy to do it for the cause of not making patients walk so far.

So.
End of day comes, I hike up to my car... and I see it.
A Prius.
With a Flying Spaghetti Monster on the back bumper.
You know- like this one from the DarwinFish company.

I did a double take. I'll bet the security camera footage is HI-larious.
I grabbed a scrap of paper and a pen and wrote a little note to Prius Driver, and stick it under their windshield wiper.

So, Whoo-Hoo to the PriuSkeptic from the CiviChicken (I am afraid anything on my bumper will get stolen) and hope they get a kick out of their FSM being appreciated.

And, on a totally different note- PlayReading Committee tonight.

It's Wednesday- WHEN IS LOST COMING BACK?!?!?!

My self- intro to the Chlex fandom

This is the way we earn our fic, earn our fic, earn our fic;
This is the way we earn our fic so late a Thursday evenin'.

Hi, I'm Hequet, and as usual, I'm so late to the party that the man is waving goodbye and heading out the door as I'm signing in.

Background:
Superman fan since the Christopher Reeve films, Lex Luthor fan since L&C:TNAoS's John Shea showed us Lex was way deeper than Hackman managed to bring, Smallville fan since the first teasers came out, and a fan of Mr Rosenbaum since ZoeDuncanJackandJane. I watched the original first runs of that ill-fated show. Seriously. There's what? Like, eight of us? We're rare, but we're there.

I'd never been a hard-core Chlexer before I read "The Autumn People," which spoke eloquently to this particular Clex-HoYay! fan. I think Chloe and Lex bring out the
dig-your-heels-in-and-fight-for-your-principles sides of each other. If they didn't at least respect the innate passion in/of belief in each other, do you think they'd give each other the time of day? Neither wants to destroy the other- She wants to keep him honest, and he wants her to understand that you often have to fight dirty in the midst of "the good fight."

Oooh. Where'd this soapbox come from and why am I standing on it? Anyway. Even though I'm late, I'll try to be a tidy guest.

Now, go and read either The Autumn People or The Martinelli Affair. Go! Vite! Vite! Raus! And I'm not providing you links to either because if you really want to read them you'll bloody well hunt for them like I did.

Also, What the FRAK is happening to The History Channel?

Ok. So I've finished watching my two Episodes of BSG Series One ("Colonial Day" and "Kobol's Last Gleaming") yestereve and left the TV on to flip aimlessly around the channels, as is my wont.
History Channel! Modern Marvels! One full hour (well, minus the many commercial breaks- and didn't it used to be that you paid for cable so you wouldn't HAVE commercials?) of the history and myriad uses of LEAD. Our Friendly Neurotoxin! Killer of the Roman Empire (unless you believe all the empirical data to the contrary, that is.. and I DO!) and the thing that puts the OW in Hot Lead...
So I'm on an info high from watching a program on LEAD (and how it is mined, refined, and made into stuff).
The program immediately following it is....
Countdown to Armageddon. A 2004 History Channel documentary film that reviews the history of apocalyptic literature Armageddon.

On the HISTORY CHANNEL.
Not "The Freaky Ways to Mis-Interpret A Coded Message To His Contemporaries Channel," not even "The Completely Out of Context Channel," the Frakin' History Channel.

Pardon my rant, but I have to deal with enough of this Tim LaHaye crud at work; I'd like to be able to watch television without being subjected to the Christian equivalent of reading chicken entrails for portents of the future.
Humbug.
So we turned the channel and watched the LSU at Florida game instead. Much more fun.

SCIENCE!

Tee, hee, hee.

Those of you who know me will shrug and say, "meh."
Those who don't will raise an eyebrow and shrug.

And Jaclyn will cackle loudly ("BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!") post this on her blog, and promptly use the last panel for her December Greeting Card.

Because I know I would, if I were her.

ETA: Since this post was originally posted, WTTF.org has gone buh-bye. So I stole the image from the WayBackMachine and present it here, fair-use-like, cause I still think it's made of awesome.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles; Season 2 begins

Just some quick thoughts after watching the Season 2 starter-upper:

***I DRINK YOUR SPOILER MILKSHAKE. ***

No Sarah opening/closing narrations.
CHOPPY Editing
Choppy Storyline- should they have ignored the Ellison storyline in favor of smoother transitions?

This episode felt short compared to the last nine. A few scenes just got jumped into- like the final scene involving S.A. Ellison and Cromartie. (Or did my local commercials run over the scene?)

Cameron panicked! Showed "fear" of impending shut-down. Whether clever "Infiltrator"-style imitations or not, I got suckered into forgetting that she is, after all, just a Frakking Toaster.
And when, exactly, did she "run some tests" and over-ride the Terminate Mission first? Before or after she smooshed Sarah's spleen?

And another Clip from the Past: "Call to him."

And HEY! I thought we frakkin' established during the "SkyNet Is Watching" Panel that there was only one liquid-metal T-1000. Dangit! Now the Wikipedia article is saying that the Comic book is Canon and that's where #2 comes from.
Bah.

Jim Cantore- the Man, the Myth, the weather vane for the Gulf Coast

The major difference between those of us on the Gulf Coast and those people on the Atlantic Coast (and I’m looking right at you, Hilton Beach, North Carolina!) is this:

Jim Cantore shows up in your neighborhood.

If you’re from the Gulf Coast, you scream, “OH, GOD! The hurricane’s coming HERE! Run! RUN for your life!”

If you’re from the Atlantic Coast, you gather around him during his stand-ups and wave like dorks.

Don’t you people know anything!?!? Cantore shows up where it’s going to be the worst! That’s pretty much your last heads-up from the Weather Gods before all hell breaks loose! During Katrina, I watched the Weather Channel the day the storm was scheduled to hit and saw him in a city 20 minutes up I-12 from my hometown. I promptly burst into tears, figuring my hometown was pretty much screwed. The eye of Katrina passed over my hometown.

So, North Carolina, the next time Jim Cantore does a stand-up for The Weather Channel in your hometown or anywhere within a twenty-minute drive? Pack. No, don’t even pack; it’s too late to pack. Just get moving.

Going to DRAGON*CON

OK, y'all; I'm taking the Crescent away from the Cone of Uncertainty near the 3RD anniversary of "The Thing," as Chris Rose calls it, and am headed for Eastern Lands where Dragons and Fae and Dark Shadows pay court to Stars (Trek and Wars) and Skeptics (The Amazing RANDI will be there, kids!) and most of us just spend a lot of time saying things like OOOH and Dude! That was Takei! and Which concourse am I on again? and -my favorite- WHY do I have to choose between seeing Haglund Improv and getting Anne to sign my Pern novel?!?!?

Saturday's going to be hinky, folks- I have seen the enemy and it is time.

Everybody on the Gulf take a deep breath and blow heavily out to sea- maybe we can stall Gustav a bit, neh?

See ya soon!

It's been/ One year since I looked at you

Or typed at you, or whatever.
I don't know what my damage is, Heather.

Just haven't been in productive mode since this time last year, blog-wise.
Got three shows under my belt for the season, though nary a nod Ginny-wise.

Read a lot of books, but forgot to keep track of titles for the checklist.
Re-read Red Mars, in honor of the Phoenix Mission.

Anyway.

Love to the Fiddleheads and the GunFen, too.

BARRAGE in LOUISIANA!

/me does the ever so happy dance and minds the mending foot as /me twirls around in dizzy satisfaction and sounds /me 's Barbaric YAWP due to the fact that ohgod they're here they're here well they're COMING HERE at any rate and I can't imagine how good it'll be to hearseelisten to the music again and feel it so deep in my heart again and I think I might weep at how much I've missed seeing them every year and though it'll never be the same like it was at the House of Mouse in the Garden Theatre of the America and the Club of Buzz and only three only three only three of them even ever met me and only one of them ever knew me at all but I don't CARE because OH god they're coming here, to my homeland.

Oh, yes, there will be sugar sugar sugar butter pecans and oh, yeah, what? Sugar.

Matt? I'm bringing Pralines.

he caught me looking then but soon his eyes forgot me

The album all the "true" fans love to hate is my only expose' to Moyet... Actually, I don't even own the whole album, I own a four-song single from My Radio Days at The Demon...

But the lyrics catch me by the gut and sometimes hurt and sometimes sting; they always catch me.

"What's so bad about being drunk?"
"Ask a glass of water..."

More-ose. Less-ose. Medium-ose. I think I'm medium-ose lately. I keep wondering where all the people I knew have gone- married/children/work.

Nice to have tagged a few at thatspace- faint pings of identification ... like a butterfly collection or pressed flower book; they can't abandon me, I've got them pinned down f'rever.

Hey- remember ten years ago?

The revolution will be podcast.
But from where will you download it?

Are You Out There
Dar Williams - End of the Summer [1997]

Perhaps I am a miscreation
No one knows the truth- there is no future here
And you're the DJ speaks to my insomnia
And laughs at all I have to fear
Laughs at all I have to fear
You always play the madmen poets
Vinyl vision ,grungy bands
You never know who's still awake
You never know who understands and

Are you out there, can you hear this?
Jimmy Olson, Johnny Memphis,
I was out here listening all the time
And though the static walls surround me
You were out there and you found me
I was out here listening all the time

Last night we drank in parking lots
And why do we drink?
I guess we do it cause
And when I turned your station on
You sounded more familiar than that party was
You more familiar than that party
It's the first time I stayed up all night
It's getting light I hear the birds
I'm driving home on empty streets
I think I put my shirt on backwards

Are you out there, can you hear this
Jimmy Olson, Johnny Memphis
I was out here listening all the time
And though the static walls surround me
You were out there and you found me
I was out here listening all the time

And what's the future, who will choose it?
Politics of love and music
Underdogs who turn the tables
Indie versus major labels
There's so much to see through
Like our parents do more drugs than we do
Oh....

Corporate parents, corporate towns
I know every TV set that has them lit
They preach that I should save the world
They pray that I won't do a better job of it
Pray that I won't do a better job
So tonight I turned your station on just so I'd be understood
Instead another voice said I was just too late
And just no good....

Calling Olson, Calling Memphis
I am calling, can you hear this?
I was out here listening all the time
And I will write this down and then
I will not be alone again yeah
I was out here listening
Oh yeah I was out here listening
Oh yeah I am out here listening all the time

Copyright © 1997, Burning Field Music

.."that's some bad hat, Harry."

And ye shall know them by the trail of the blogged...

Yowza! There are, indeed, some cool pics to be seen at this site. I advise any and all to visit, peruse, and behold the wonder.

Jenny Dolfen is our Queen

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/images/jdolf/tonks240-jd.jpg

http://www.goldseven.de/

Sam Feuer- the myth, the man, the website

Right. So we all know what's happening over there.
I don't purport to understand all sides, all ideas, all the problems.
But I do know someone who lived over there, and hell, for all I know, could be over there now.
All I can do is hope things calm down.

Love ya, Sam- I think of you every night when I watch NightLine from Haifa.