Wow, I started out looking at this photographer’s website because there were gorgeous photos of monkeys that made them look like beautiful alien celebrities. Then I went and browsed under her actors link. And then I found 2 beautiful portraits of people from Firefly. One is of Mal and Inara, and the other is a group shot of the crew of the good ship Firefly. Captain Tightpants is in very good form, too. And there’s Zoe, who could kick ass if she ever faced Teyla of Atlantis in a fair or unfair fight. All of the photos are interesting –…
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It’s my pleasure to introduce you to the best book you’ve never read. It was published, posthumously and after great difficulty, in 1981. It won the Pulitzer Prize. It has the distinction of being the one book everyone in Hollywood would like to turn into a movie, but no one can do it, because it can’t be done. In fact, the project may be cursed, because 3 actors once considered for the lead role died shortly after their names were associated with it. What is it? A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole. I stumbled upon a reference to…
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Heh! PVP’s got a good gag going about LARP – live action roleplay. Come to think of it, in the gag commercial for Atlantis with the people “auditioning,” the one guy in the homemade Jaffa armor has a “realistic foam latex” staff weapon. Must remember to point that out to David next time.
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Whoa! I’ve been busy in the evenings and haven’t been listening as much to Air America Radio lately, but visited the website just now to check in and listen to Majority Report. Whoa! Big redesign! Lot’s of interesting content to browse! News items and interesting looking links, too. Very impressive, it looks like they’ve got someone on staff now who does a lot of background items for guests on the shows.
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The mini-recap is up at TWOP for last night’s episode: Television Without Pity » It’s another week in Egypt as the teams climb down into a pyramid, get to know the local wildlife, and dig that crazy thingamajig that none of them has ever heard of. Mirna experiments with a theory that she can take your taxi even if your stuff is still in it, and when it doesn’t work the way she hopes it will, you will not be surprised to hear that she concludes that people who want to continue occupying their own taxis are “maniacs.” Even goats…
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Man, what a week – Miss Alli’s recap for last week’s TAR episode went up a couple of days ago : Television Without Pity » The Amazing Race » Recaps & Extras » Season 5 Episode 5 And then there was tonight’s leg! Holy crap, another great, exciting, funny, sharply edited episode. Plus, the shots in Egypt at Karnak and the Great Pyramid and the other temple were really beautiful, especially the early morning sunrise shots. So many satisfying little moments watched, so many snarky cackles to make. Also, a few bombshells: after weeks of listening to Mirna’s Desperanto (which…
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I found a new AAR affiliate that uses Windows Media – WKIZ Radio The direct link is http://www.contactmeo.com/56k.asx This is huge. The sound quality isn’t that good, but this means that I’m no longer dependent on the KPOJ stream, and also it means that I can listen to Randi Rhodes in the afternoon, whose show KPOJ doesn’t carry. With the link set to “classic Windows media” and minimized to play in the task bar, I can now flip back and forth between talky-talk radio and KUNC’ss eclectic music. Yay!
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Saving Miss Alli’s recaplet for posterity: After universally unfortunate use of the word “choo-choo” on the way to The Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the teams learn that it’s time to go to Egypt, yet another interesting new country that it seems like they would have gotten to before now, but haven’t. Colin and Christie kick the crap out of the airport strategy and stake themselves to a multiple-hour lead getting into Cairo. Once there, they decide to take the Fast Forward while it’s there for the taking, and they wind up getting to the pit stop while everyone else is…
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Yep, let the screaming and note-taking begin: it’s TARsday today. In the previews last week, it’s obvious that everyone will scurry way down in Egypt land, because the pyramids and Sphinx shots are kind of hard to miss. I don’t know if they’ll stop off somewhere first, as in pick up a route clue at some intermediate point like Frankfurt, but I decided to copy from schedules from a few typical dates in late January or February to try to make sense of the inevitable airport scramble. I’ve stashed them in the extended entry for easier readablity. I have no…
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Kaufman leads a crew of misfits, some lovable some downright annoying, who work on CITIZEN TOXIE. The standout is “Stunt Master” T.J.. Glenn, a big guy with a salt-and-pepper mullet and handlebar mustache who, in one of APOCALYPSE SOON’s funniest sequences, performs a extremely unconvincing “full body burn” where one’s entire flame retardant gel covered body is set ablaze and the fire extinguished after a period of writhing and screaming. Hey, I’ve seen T.J. Glenn in person! Jeebs, that takes me back. He did a martial arts demo at the first Highlander convention in Denver 10 years ago. I think…