GeekGasm

Who Sees the Seemen... or whatever.

speaker@geekgasm.net — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:45:07 GMT

Tonight a comedian died, and several people laughed... at very inappropriate times.

Actually, I'll get to that in a moment. First, a confession:

I didn't read "WATCHMEN" until yesterday.

I know, I know - blasphemy. I'm just not a big Alan Moore fan. I've tried to read several of his graphic novels and... I just couldn't get through them. They're so wordy. And I don't mean that there were too many words in general... just that too many were used to get something simple across. The type of language that was used made it seem like he was either trying to hard or that he KNEW he was writing something special and smiling the more he put down. And it seemed that the more people liked the book, the harder it was for me to get through.

So, frankly, I was afraid to read WATCHMEN. It's been SO hyped, so lauded, that I had a sinking feeling it would be the worst of the bunch for me. And not only did I not want to try to push through something I couldn't finish, but I didn't want to have to explain to people I hated their sacred book. It's much easier to say, "Oh, I haven't gotten around to it yet..." than to get into an argument over something that's damned near religious text.

But I was still excited about the movie, because despite my inability to get through Moore's writing style... I love his ideas. To me, and I know people will hate this comparison, but give me a chance to explain.... To me he's kind of like... George Lucas....

George Lucas of the mirror universe, anyway.

They're both idea men. They come up with these grand themes and stories using familiar archetypes that speak to a LOT of people. George created analogues of fantasy and Kurasawa characters. Alan Moore, in the case of WATCHMEN, created analogues of Captain Atom, Blue Beetle, The Question, Peacemaker, and other old Charlton Comic characters. George used his analogues to tell hopeful stories that tugged at people's hearts, while Alan used them to tell gritty stories to tug at their brains. And Lucas underwrote his stories while Moore overwrote them.

So, I was hoping that like with the original three Star Wars films where George had help from other writers and directors, that Zack Snyder would be able to give me Moore's story in a way that I could enjoy and still get all of the ideas and themes of the book.

But then, yesterday morning came. I was discussing this with friends on twitter and reviews were coming in about how certain things were changed while others were EXACTLY alike and I realized, I wouldn't have ANY point of reference for that inevitable discussion.

So, just before noon I decided I'd start it...

And just before 8 p.m., I finished it.

If you couldn't tell by my reading it in one sitting, I freaking loved it! Couldn't put it down!

For me, did it live up to the hype? Was it one of the 100 greatest novels of all time? The greatest comic of all time?

Hell no.

But it was really frakking good. I enjoyed the hell out of it.

My opinion about Moore hasn't changed. He was emulating and lampooning an entire genre so the characters spoke quicker than his usually do and their internal monologues weren't pages long. But, he still threw stuff in there that really slowed it down for me like the comic within the comic "The Black Freighter." Oh god did I gloss over at those parts. It was "typical Moore" to me - interesting, but my eyes glazed the more the internal monologue droned on. And though I understand why it was there, I still felt it was completely superfluous. I only made it through those parts because it was inter-cut with the superhero stuff.

Now, the movie... It was the comic on screen without the stuff that I didn't like much so I loved it. I loved the pacing, I loved the actors, I love the effects. I even, blasphemy of all blasphemes, loved the ending change - even though I was completely prepared to hate it.

After I read WATCHMEN yesterday, I checked the reviews and the one thing that people agreed on was they didn't really like that the mcguffin was changed from the squid to Doc Manhattan. They either loved the movie until the ending which RUINED it for them... or they hated that one part, but it wasn't enough to ruin the movie - they loved it DESPITE that change.

I misunderstood part of the reviews, though - I thought reviewers were saying that somehow Ozy convinced Doc Manhattan to destroy New York City - which made NO SENSE TO ME WHATSOEVER. So I was waiting for that moment and I wondered if the first two hours of the film would be awesome enough for me to overlook that obvious misstep.

Only, that's not what happened... In the end, even with the change the only thing that was really different were some visuals and a few words. So, I thought about it and I wasn't upset... I was just confused by the change. It didn't HURT the story so I it didn't hurt my love of the movie... but it still left me feeling a little off...

Until I thought about it on the way home and it suddenly clicked. Partly because of one review I read where the reviewer mentioned that someone asked him if WATCHMEN the movie was a satire of comic book MOVIES like WATCHMEN the comic was a satire of comic BOOKS. The reviewer's response was that they didn't know on first viewing, they'd have to watch it again.

I don't think that it fully does to comic book MOVIES what the original did to comic books and I don't think it could and still be as faithful an adaptation as it is. But it's still a PRODUCT of comic book movies... and the world we live in today.

The costumes in the book are typical superhero costumes made of spandex and cloth. The movie costumes are right out of comic book movies made of latex and rubber.

In the comic, Ozy's plan is to create an alien threat to unite the world. He teleports a giant squid into New York City that explodes and destroys half the population. This works perfectly for the comic. It's a huge crazy visual of a creature right out of comics that's so insane, it's awesome.

For the movie, Ozy recreates Doc Manhattan's power to destroy several cities in the US and Russia, making Doc the common enemy. This angers fans for several reasons. One, they understandably miss the squid and two, instead of Doc Manhattan leaving the galaxy because he lost his one connection to humanity, it's because he's now the "perceived" villain and his staying would ruin the plan.

But, I like this ending - not better than the comic - just for the movie. And there are a few reasons. Once again this is an adaptation of the comic book, but a product of comic movies. In a world where we make an X-Men movie where no one flies, this makes total sense. Our comic movies, though fantastical, still try to ground themselves in strange ways. There seems to always be a "too far" for them. They are willing to suspend disbelief only SO much. For the audience, we're already asking them to accept superheroes, to throw a fake giant exploding squid on that might be the too far for this movie. And I'm not arguing that having that line is GOOD - I'm just saying that it makes it fit in with the other movies in the way that WATCHMEN fit in with the other books.

But oddly enough, BECAUSE studios are only willing to ask their audience to suspend disbelief so far... I can toally buy Ozy doing the same thing. The people in the movie accept heroes, they accept Doc Manhattan, because they see them every day. Creating an unknown enemy - an alien creature - something totally new might be too hard for them to swallow. We live in an age of skepticism (excluding major religions). The War of the Worlds broadcast wouldn't accidentally scare people today. So the choice to unite the world against a common enemy they already know makes sense to me.

Plus, when I thought about it - as cool as the squid was... I don't think it would have succeeded as a plan. The point was to have everyone band together because of a threat - but there's a scene where a newscast explains they don't think the aliens will return. They compared the squid to a bee feeling threatened due to accidentally finding itself in our dimension and giving it's life with a final bee sting. Since America was the only country affected by the attack, and the feeling was that this might not happen again, there's no reason the comic Russians wouldn't use it as an opportunity for their gain.

By making Doc Manhattan, a very literal god-like character, the mcguffin and having it affect cities around the world.... Not only does it put everyone in equal danger, but in a danger that is always there. They KNOW what Doc is capable of and they know that he's out there watching, waiting for humanity to just give him a reason. So, it makes total sense to me that it would cow those who worshipped him and band together the governments. It's not enough to have peace, they would have to work together to be prepared for the "just in case" scenario of Doc Manhattan's possible return.

The movie wasn't perfect, of course. What movie is? But it was mostly small stuff for me. The only REAL big issue I had was with Doc Manhattan's perception of time. They explained HOW he perceived time, but not why he reacted linearly.

There's a moment in the graphic novel where someone asks why he was surprised when he found out his friends had cancer. Since he perceives all of time simultaneously, shouldn't he have already known they had cancer? He gives a quick explanation - I don't remember what he said exactly, but it was enough to give me an idea.

I think that Doc Manhattan exists out of time and our perception of him is like that of a two dimensional being perceiving a sphere. A sphere cannot completely exist in two dimensions. So, if you were to take a sphere and pass it through a two dimensional plane, what would it look like to a being that existed in that plane? Take a ball and pretend like you're pushing it through a piece of paper. It would start of as a single dot on the page. As you pushed it through the dot would look like a circle that got bigger and bigger until you got to the sphere's center, then it would get smaller and smaller. Even though the sphere exists in three dimensions, the two dimensional beings can only interact with the whatever part happens to be in their plane at a given time.

In the same way, Doc Manhattan may exist outside of time so that he experiences it all at once, that he reacts all at the same time... but we perceive it linearly. He may have access to the knowledge of his friends' fate, but we do not perceive his emotional response - his reaction - until WE get to that point. We're essentially pushing him through the piece of paper.

In the movie he never even addresses this, so you can't even begin to either theorize. Doc explains that about the tachyons blocking his view of a certain time period, but when he's surprised about his friends - there's no tachyons, and no explanation as to why it comes as a shock.

That's not a very big thing for some people, but I LOVE time travel and time perception rules. And to leave them out makes it seem like a deus ex machina, when it's really not. It makes a weird sort of sense to me in the graphic novel, but not in the movie.

The most interesting thing to me about this movie, though, was my audience. This was the first time I've seen a movie where the reaction of the crowd made me realize that I wasn't just watching a movie, but that I was watching a movie in Alabama. I don't know WHY this is the first time I've encountered this phenomenon, but it is. The first realization came during the opening credits when there was a lesbian kiss. Several people - not one, not two, not three, but quite a bit of people all said, "Ewwww!" or "Ugghhhh!!"

Really?

Seriously?

Come on, Bama. Get with the 21st century. *headdesk*

There were quite a few moments like that. Though some might be more universal, but because of the extra moments I got due of my region, it kinda made them more annoying. Like, every time someone had sex, people laughed. And not just when it was supposed to be funny and awkward. It was like, "Superheroes are having sex! OMFG HA HA HA!" And I'm like...

Really?

Seriously?

But the worst was every single time Doc Manhattan's schlong was onscreen, people giggled.

Really?

Seriously?

Grow up, people. It's a penis. Half the people on the planet have them. I've actually read lots of complaints about this. Most people didn't demand a change like making him wear pants, they just wanted strategically cropped shots, etc... Honestly, I'm GLAD they didn't crop the shots. I'm tired of seeing movies where they go out of their way to frame shots so that parts don't show - and not just men, women too. I'm sorry but if you just had sex with someone and you're married to them, you're not going to go out of your way to hold on to the covers to hide your breasts.

People have sex, they have penises and vaginas and boobies, get over it.

Yes, they can be titillating, and that's fine by me. And that's another reason I'm glad the penis was there - because I'm an equal opportunity exploitationist. I want to see boobies, but it's not fair that I get to see boobies while girls don't get to see penises. So if all I have to do to see more boobies is to watch a movie with a penis or two, that's FINE BY ME!

But seriously, it's an R rated movie where the nudity made total sense for the character and they didn't compromise any shots just because there was a blue dong in the frame, so I say HUZZAH to them.

I have a ton more thoughts about the movie and the book, but it's so freaking late and I'm tired and I think I need to digest it some more and maybe even see it again.

And again... and again... AND AGAIN!

(Can you tell I liked it?)

NIGHT!

OMFG YOU GUYS!

speaker@geekgasm.net — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:54:26 GMT

Just got this e-mail from Nicktoons:

"Thank you for your interest in the Nick Writing Fellowship.

Yes...noticing this and pointing it out does make a difference and we
will be sure to remove your spec from the binder.

Thank you,
Writing Fellowship Staff"

*dies*

"I Hate Flash Sites" Or "How I Failed a Writer Fellowship Before It Began"

speaker@geekgasm.net — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:54:42 GMT

I found out about the Nicktoons writer fellowship at the beginning of February. I had a month to get everything done, so I fully realize that this is mostly MY fault.

But due to stress and job hunting and general lack of motivation making me do everything last minute, I'm so going to blame this on the FLASH based website containing all the info.

You see, I have an aging computer. I've had it since August 2006 which IS technically only 2 and a half years, but that's a ripe old 142 in computer years.

The point is, FLASH doesn't work quite right for me anymore. It eats up my resources, locks up my computer, runs choppily, takes extra smoke breaks, eats on the job - I can barely watch a YouTube video without sacrificing a virgin dove to the Dark Lord Satan.

But it seemed to work well enough for the Nick Writing site. I got info from the FAQ and the guidelines. Nothing seemed to be missing, so I didn't worry about it.

So, I finished my spec, got to Kinkos, printed it out, tossed salt over my left shoulder, and shipped the material. But before I shipped it, I had to figure out HOW to package it. All it said on the application form was to "attach" the application, a resume, and bio to two copies of the script.

I had Kinkos hole punch the two copies of my script and asked if they had brass fasteners ("Brass Fasteners" would make an excellent name for a ska band). They did not. I really wanted to use brass fasteners, but I also didn't want to LEAVE Kinkos for fear of losing my place in line and having to wait another three hours while the only person in front of my chose between three different headshots to mass produce.

So, I grabbed a pretty looking cover with three rings and stuck everything in that. It wasn't a hard binder, it was soft and looked professional with a small footprint. I thought that might work better than mailing a hard plastic binder better suited to bomber manifestos and a hard copy backup of all my LiveJournal entries.

So, that's how it was sent.

Tracking showed that my script arrived today. I got excited and nervous all at the same time. And when I get nervous, I triple check everything I did. So I went back to the site...

Some pages were suddenly scrolling that weren't before.

WTF?

So I frantically read through everything I couldn't the other day and notice this on the submission guidelines:

Appropriate spec scripts must be:
~ Comedic
~ Live Action or Animation
~ Based on a half-hour television series
~ Currently being produced for primetime network or cable
~ Typed in standard script format
~ In black ink
~ In 12pt courier style font
~ On 8-1/2 x 11, 3-hole punched white paper
~ With only two brass fasteners (top & bottom)

All spec scripts must include a cover page listing the show name and show title, along with your name, address, and telephone number (please do not put your name on every page).

The following materials will NOT be considered: feature-length screenplays, hour-long dramas, pilots, treatments, outlines, plays, short stories, books, graphics, magazine/newspaper articles, poems, headshots, audio/video tapes, digital media, loose leaf pages or scripts bound in 3-ring binders.

Please note: Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines will not be considered.

Before, it ended at "~Based on a half-hour television series" and there was no scrolling. I'm sure that this was due to my computer's dislike of FLASH and not some late addition... but it doesn't help the fact that I sent it in a fecking three-ringed cover thing!

*headdesk*

Again, had I managed to start earlier, I may have looked at the site the one more time it would have taken me to get the scrollies working - but, also, had their site not been BUILT IN FLASH I would have noticed this as well.

Oh well. At least I have a completed spec script now. A couple more and I can just get a gorramed agent or something.

In other news - I got a "conditional" job offer from AT&T. It's call center stuff and I'm kind of excited. The condition was a pee test, which I just found out I passed. So now I just wait and stres just a little until I sign actual paperwork.

It's 2-3... you know what that means!

speaker@geekgasm.net — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:03:08 GMT

Go tell my wife happy birthday! :D

(But don't mention her age!!!! SHHH!!!)

Me on a LOST related webshow?

speaker@geekgasm.net — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:12:52 GMT

Whoda thunk?

http://sky1.sky.com/the-lost-initiative-episode-2

I know it's been awhile, but...

speaker@geekgasm.net — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:10:41 GMT

Where did my icons go? I see them on my profile page but not on my entries and when I edit them... I can't choose anymore...

Nevermind - found where to change it - must just be an LJ issue.

I had an interview today!

speaker@geekgasm.net — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:06:02 GMT

I just realized I hadn't really updated LJ in awhile. Been busy for long form blogs. 140 characters at a time is much easier to swallow and I can do it from my phone when my LAPTOP'S OUT OF COMMISSION! (Long story...)

Anyway, it's back now. The quick update is I did get laid off. I have been looking for work. And the most promising job out there is something I interviewed for today.

And it went pretty well... I think.

I say, "I Think" because it didn't end with, "YOU'RE HIRED!" But it also didn't end with a vague, "We'll be in touch..."

It ended with, "I'll call you back by Wednesday." I don't know what that means, but at least there's a DAY to look forward to.

The guy that was interviewing me seemed... reluctantly positive. But he was a Southern good-ole boy, and that type ALWAYS seems reluctantly positive to me. You know, like they think about it, seem unsure, but nod their head? That could be his most positive expression, or maybe he is unsure about me but they need workers?

Either way - I have some hopes!

As long as I didn't screw it up after I got home...

I thought about my interview on my drive home and realized I shouldn't have approached the interview like an INTERVIEW... but like how I would approach dealing with bidders - basically I should have treated the interview like the job. The employer basically told me that a lot of the job was phone work and building relationships so people will give you better prices, etc...

So, upon getting home I decided to show I could do the job while showing enthusiasm about it and selling myself. I decided to call him back, thank him for his time, and ask him if there's anything I can do to help prove to him that I can do the job and fit in.

So I did. And it went to voice mail. Which is fine, you leave messages in this job. So I started speaking, and it was going really well, and then I hit a snag and paused.... I paused for far too long. I needed to start over. I looked down at my phone to make my way to the menu to rerecord my message when.... the call ended.

I don't know if my phone hung up, or if the VM did. But he now has a VM of me being gung ho.... then a sudden long pause....and then the call ending.

*HEADDESK*

Phones screw up. It just happens. I'm sure it's happened to him. I just hope it's the beginning that matters.

*fingers crossed*

Test!

speaker@geekgasm.net — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:54:50 GMT

Testing PING.FM!

Ughness.

speaker@geekgasm.net — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:57:03 GMT

Had a fever all yesterday and found out today that I'm definitely getting laid off. (Work out the end of this week and then get two weeks paid vaca.)

I don't feel as stressed as I should, though. So, I'm hoping this is just leftover crap from 2008 (You know, how shoulderpads and big hair survied a LITTLE into the 90s?) and not a hint at what's to come for '09.

A Supernatural Epiphany

speaker@geekgasm.net — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:15:06 GMT

We got to the first episode with the Roadhouse last night when I realized something:

Supernatural is a Dukes of Hazzard remake done RIGHT. (Well, the first two seasons, anyway.)

~~Hank~~Sam and Dean are the Duke boys, of course.

The Impala is the General Lee, also of course.

Bobby is TOTALLY Cooter - the "god in a box" they call when they need info, to fix something.

John and Yellow Eyes have a dark twist on the Uncle Jesse/Boss Hogg relationship.

Jo is original Daisy (Not movie Daisy, ugh!).

And Meg is Rosco.

...Sorta.

"Breaker One, Breaker One, I might be crazy, but I ain't dumb! Craaazy Cooter comin' at ya! Ya'll out there on the Hazzard net?"

Supernatural

speaker@geekgasm.net — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:32:08 GMT

I've been wanting to watch this back through again for awhile, but I was waiting until I could convince Mel to watch it with me. I had a feeling it'd be up her alley (Muscle cars, 70's music, big guns that shoot supernatural beings). But she always claimed disinterest. She said that the bits she caught while I was watching never caught her attention.

Finally, over the holiday break, we were eating and there was nothing to watch. I suggested Supernatural and she reluctantly agreed.

For the first few eps she said nothing. It'd be dinner and we'd check to see if anything recorded, nothing had, so I'd play the next Supernatural episode. But then, it finally happened. Time to eat, I go to check the TiVO, and she says, "No Supernatural?"

I just smiled and played it.

We've only got one ep left in the first season now. We almost watched it last night, but I was only getting 3 hours of sleep as it was.

Anyway - now having gone through 99% of the first season a second time I have some observations/questions -

1. It amuses me that it took Jensen a few episodes to become "Dean." Not that he broke character, but the first couple of eps (and especially the pilot) his voice was higher. A couple eps in he started doing the low grunty voice that stuck.

2. I forgot how much they did NOT know about Demons. It sometimes feels like they've always known. But they literally knew NOTHING about them. How they work, how powerful they were, what their powers were. I'm interested to see if the rest of the series holds up to this on a second viewing or if they retcon this in some flashbacks. Because it really DOES seem like they've known longer than four years sometimes.

3. In the episode where they go back to their house in Lawrence and their mother saves Sammy - right before she does she says, "Sammy, I'm sorry." Was this because she destroyed herself to save him... or was this something that wasn't paid off until episode 3 of Season 4?

4. The Roadhouse and Bobby weren't in Season 1? Really? Boy did I remember THAT wrong! (I just realized that Bobby's in the LAST ep of the season - but, still.)

5. There's a difference between demons and the demon possessed? I thought all humanoid Demons were posessed humans and some just happened to be posessed by more powerful entities... I forgot that yellow eyes could poof away and reform and John Winchester, when discussing Meg, says, "she could be a Demon or posessed by one."

6. This show gets much better about scarring later on. I'm used to them having bandages the next ep. After the shadow creatures sliced them up good, next ep they were totally clean - and NO WAY Sam wouldn't have scars on his face lmao. Unless.... hmmmm....

7. Did Samuel Colt have magic powers? I can't remember if there's more backstory on the Colt in later seasons or not right now, but I'm hoping there is. The Colt is a limited enough mcguffin that it wouldn't taint the series if there was never more explanation, but still - it'd be nice.

Anyway - I heart this series even more on second viewing and I can't wait for it to return in a couple of weeks! YAY!

RIP Majel Roddenberry

speaker@geekgasm.net — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:57:47 GMT

http://digg.com/celebrity/Majel_Roddenberry_First_Lady_of_Star_Trek_has_died#

The Enterprise won't be the same without you.

They're remaking THE CROW!?

speaker@geekgasm.net — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:49:32 GMT

WHAT!?

I've been behind on LJ...

speaker@geekgasm.net — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:40:22 GMT

So I decided to go back a hundred entries and leave it at that.

Only... 100 entries only took me to YESTERDAY!

AHHH!!!

Lmao

Curious...

speaker@geekgasm.net — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:24:13 GMT

sidhedreams asked - "If you were casting me in a biographical movie, who would you pick to play the part of me? What about yourself?"

So I pose the same question to my f-list. I don't care if it's for looks or personality or other, but please explain if it's an odd choice. :)

Bonus points for casting mistressbanshee.

The Shyamalan twist is... they're all white! WHAT A TWEEST!

speaker@geekgasm.net — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:55:21 GMT

Last Airbender cast is decidedly... underwhelming.

I don't know much about the creative team, but...

speaker@geekgasm.net — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:16:24 GMT

I REALLY want this to happen!

Fables is <3!!!!!!

Can you imagine a Fables/Lost night?

OMFG!

I <3 Bigby & Snow so hard.

Cough Cough

speaker@geekgasm.net — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:07:27 GMT

Was home sick yesterday. Voice completely disappeared, so I spent most of it resting on the couch or twittering. While on the couch I used the HELL out of my 360's ability to stream Netflix. Streamed some Captain N ("BEHOLD! THE ULTIMATE WARP ZONE!") starring Lt. Gaeta as Kid Icarus (Seriously. Also... Kevin AKA Captain N kept saying "PAUSE!" but I swear he was totally pressing the select button.).

Also streamed Teeth, that movie about a vagina dentata. Actually enjoyed it. It was odd, but listed itself as a dark comedy.

Also streamed a lot o live action "The Tick."

But yesterday wasn't JUST about NetFlix. I also watched REGULAR TV. Finally caught up on this week's NCIS (Anyone else think that Ziva is STILL messing up English on purpose for attention from DiNozzo?) and also finally watched that "24: Redemption" TV movie.

Though, watching Robert Carlyle in it made me want the next one to be subtitled "days later" and be Jack Bauer vs. Zombies. (Anyone else notice split screen weirdness? Early on there were two guys talking on the phone but there were THREE screens up. One for each of the guys on the phone and one for a girl in bra primping in the mirror. She WAS in the same room as one of the callers but did she REALLY need the biggest pane?).

And lastly, Paul kingofbreakfast Dini's episode of Clone Wars aired last night. If they were all like that, the series woul be a LOT better.

And now, it's random link time.

Watch out for the Facebook virus.

2,700 year old stash of pot found. They had to hit some of it. No way they didn't. In the name of science, of course!

Bettie Page is hospitalized. Sucks so hard.

Trailer for Batman: Arkham Asylam is up. It's the game that reunites Paul Dini, Kevin Conroy, and Mark Hamil.

Home sick without a voice.

speaker@geekgasm.net — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:33:53 GMT

Funny. You don't realize how much you quote things while watching them until you can't.

Almost Live with Paul and Misty Episode 17!

speaker@geekgasm.net — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:59:45 GMT

It's that time again!

More interesting stories from Paul, melodic tones and humor from Misty, and awkward interruptions often involving flat jokes from me!

Also - Jingle Belle is out today! And Paul's episode of Clone Wars airs this Friday!

Enjoy!

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass ... and I'm all out of bubblegum."

speaker@geekgasm.net — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:15:11 GMT

A "They Live" remake?

Seriously?

I'm sorry, but I don't want to see anyone else do the Roddy Piper/Keith David fight.

Well, unless it's Timmy and Jimmy from South Park.

(Bonus funnier version)

Voice Post

speaker@geekgasm.net — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:32:01 GMT

I am the chosen one!

speaker@geekgasm.net — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:26:00 GMT

I just got the tile bid for Cyberdyne! (Remember?)

I alone canl stop SkyNet with botched tile orders and installation so cheap that the floor will crack causing minor disruptions to the programmers' work day!

HUZZAH!

It's that time again...

speaker@geekgasm.net — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:22:04 GMT

Time to see how fat our cat Tara has gotten!

First, as a point of comparison, this is our first cat, Chi:

She's very fit and healthy. She exercises a lot and self regulates her eating. She's also very polite and subtle.

You might remember that when we first found Tara outside our house, she looked like this:

She was malnourished, had a respiratory infection so she couldn't meow louder than a raspy cough, and she also had parasites. We took her to the vet, got her meds and spayed her. She graduated to solid food and started to look MUCH better as she gained weight:

Only, she didn't stop...

She's the complete opposite of Chi. Large, blunt, and clumsy. If she wants something she'll walk up to you and hit you with her paw. And if she wants in your lap she'll just barge in there and flop wherever she likes.

This is the first time we've had an animal like this. If there's no food in the bowl, she gets anxious. She does bug the crap out of us, but it's not just that. She'll find, of all things, a plastic bag and start trying to eat it. And if that's not available - she'll find something else random to eat. Even when she's not hungry! Sometimes I fill the bowl, she sniffs it, and then goes to find a place to nap without eating!

mistressbanshee and I feel bad, like we let her become unhealthy. I mean, she doesn't so much purr as she grunts. Seriously, she'll make little piggy noises when you pet her. But on the other hand, she does seem VERY happy.

And just in case you can't tell just how much bigger she is, illiara was kind enough to make this diagram for me:

Mission Weight Gain: SUCCESS

Andy made his cat better. <3

/squiiiish

Her title and caption. lmao.

So, yeah. That's our *ahem* healthier Tara.

More fatness here.

Wanna know what's NOT on my Christmas list?

speaker@geekgasm.net — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:15:20 GMT

I just saw this commercial while watching NCIS and... I didn't think anyone would believe it was real so I recorded it on my phone -

Yeah...

Just, yeah.