Kind of TOTALLY pales in comparison to Dr. Horrible.


Sorry, kids.

I was so excited for it, too. But the songs bite. ha ha.
seriously though.

I know lame-o-superboy once I called young man used to sing Spikes part and was proud but not only could he not hold a candle to the actual character, the song are LAME.

I would do Penny's part in a millisecond, let me know when that's happening.

So usually, I guess, when there's season of a show that comes out on DVD, they don't usually talk about the stuff coming up in the next season as if it were the past. And when I finish that season I like to go through and explore the special features....

But I guess maybe they did commentary for this box set of Buffy specifically or maybe they weren't doing commentary tracks when the 4th season first aired and first available on DVD. But I just got a HUGE SPOILER for season 5 listening to Joss' commentary on the last episode of season 4.

I stopped it right then but shit.

I mean I knew about some things already like the lesbian thing...that Angel has his own series so I knew there was more to his story, although a couple of times I thought it was going to be all about his history(and yes now I have to get those discs too.)

There are a lot of things I still didn't know and now this one big thing I do..
I mean I could have guessed it, I kind of figured it would happen but dammit. If you want to know what I'm talking about, click and maybe highlight (depending on the background color) below this sentence.

( Read more... )

poop. I guess I'll just have to go through the whole box set again after I've completed the season and not give in to the special features until then. They could at least give you a spoiler warning like "if you haven't seen the next season yet" or something. I know it's an old show, and there's a time limit to how long you need to warn about spoilers. I just. It caught me by surprise.  
Well...on to season 5.

Obviously made before today's decision. I wonder which way it will play out.

I feel like I'm actually watching the real interview only now I can laugh and assuage my earlier disgust and terror.

S.E.C. Chief Says Deregulation Fueled Crisis

Christopher Cox, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and a longtime proponent of deregulation, acknowledged on Friday that the voluntary supervisory program of Wall Street’s largest investment banks had contributed to the global financial crisis and abruptly shut the program down....

“The last six months have made it abundantly clear that voluntary regulation does not work,” Mr. Cox said in a statement. The program “was fundamentally flawed from the beginning, because investment banks could opt in or out of supervision voluntarily,” he added. “The fact that investment bank holding companies could withdraw from this voluntary supervision at their discretion diminished the perceived mandate” of the program, and “weakened its effectiveness.”

As always ,thanks to fightingwords for introducing this to me in the first place.

OK here's Evie Lilly and John Krasinski being interviewed with someone flaunting giant pink hair in the background...
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1767981825/bclid1764764835/bctid1809488452

( Here's one moment of it that I captured, though you can't see the face )
Now I should be the one with big pink hair there but that almost looks like it's some kind of practical joke it's so bad. And it's not even a style. is it a wig? Mine's not a fucking wig. Fuck that.
OK I mean maybe there's some stuffing when I want it full on, but still. I couldn't even concentrate on what they were saying, I was so offended.


OK now I'm totally fascinated by the girl with the Paris Hilton Jackie-O glasses and her dude with the faux hawk talking about money and blow around 1:28 they start (by their hand gestures...I have no idea what they were actually communicating.)

AND How To Get It.

I gotta tell my ma, since she's the one who introduced me to it.....

The film, I mean!
Spawned a common phrase and a musical group at least.

Someone just left a message on the house phone for cater, from texas. They left their number and I sat there wondering if I should pick it up but didn't have the guts to spill the news right there.

Now I am looking at the number and trying to screw my courage to the sticking place (as shakespeare would say) and call her back.

Sigh.

edit:
Called, broke news, talked for a while, of course this person was sorry that they had waited on calling him, they had been meaning to call for a while now, and now it's too late. But they were glad to know that we were still keeping on with the house, and all that. They were sorry, I was sorry, we were sorry together.



Death is stupid and fucked up.

Been watching Doogie Howser on Hulu.com all I remember from it was the kid that climbed in the window and his NY accent. Possibly because I was growing up in NY at the time.

Anyway, NPH rules.
Even as a little kid and it just goes to show that not all child stars lose their shit and become hoodlums and addicts. and vice versa...or something.

If you haven't for some ridiculous reason seen dr horrible's sing along blog go there NOW

SEA and eighteen other science organizations have come together to ask the 2008 presidential candidates fourteen questions on science and technology policy.
See what Barack said


There's also a versus comparing McCain and Obama in terms of science policy.

Probably a lot.
the latest about memory loss and degeneration and the possibilities of recovery is pretty damn awesome.
go watch it. I guess we kind of know that stimulating environments are helpful but the studies involved in this piece really show exactly how important that can be.


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0301/02.html

though I used to think such a thing was anathema, here I am posting from black rock city. Don't worry all you folks who gave me snail mail addresses will still get a letter from me. But I guess now others who want a card from out here can still leave an address. Sunday and Monday were hellish weather wise but it is now a bit better or I've stopped caring. No it's definitely better. Last night during the wind storm I just went to sleep with my mask and goggles on and woke up covered in a layer of dust. Not the most fun I've ever had, by heaps.
Now I'm going to go stargazing. I think Jupiter is up.

The Latest NovaScienceNOW video is a mindblowing exploration of the technology one man is developing to detect forgeries in photography. We all know that model's legs are lengthened and shit like that but it's not just entertainment media photographs that are manipulated.

I found this absolutely fascinating. I'm so glad they presented at least a good chunk, usually their video podcasts are just teasers for the actual show.
Watch it!

I'm making special cards to send from Black Rock City with different pictures I have of Bmans past.
I got a bunch of stamps and am pre-stamping the envelopes...
They might make a good gift for other people too, I just thought.

After 20 minutes of my ankle on ice and elevated I will go back prepping food.


It's really frustrating to have to keep doing this, but at least I still feel like I am getting stuff done.

My friends in their van are almost ready to go and they'll be over to pick up my bike, but last night I realized that I'm just not going to be ready today, what with my ankle and my toe and all the other big things going on and I was stressing out about that.

And then I realized I don't HAVE to go with them....I can meet them there. We have an idea of where we're going to be. We're early arrivals so it's not like it's the middle of the week or something and I'm going to be missing out on too much.
They knew I am grieving, that things have been overwhelming but it doesn't affect their schedule to get there and start setting up.

In fact I LOVE driving alone, the open road, the long stretches of highway blasting music....I was clinging to this whole "caravan" thing because that's always how we've done it. But I'm ok by myself.

I'll still be an early arrival, still have time to get acclimated.

I don't know there is just something so funny about that kind of eureka moment, it's like DUH and YAY at the same time.

If you're going to be there, please let me know your camp name....
I'm with PLAYAble somewhere on 7:00 and D or E---we'll see.

Send me your snail mail addresses if you want a missive from Black Rock City. Complete with a little dust.
comments will be screened.

I need spare lenses for the playa, and they just decided my scrip expired and I have to go for a whole new exam! Like I have time for that right now!
maybe you wear acuvue2 lenses, yeah? Or know some place online that will bypass the whole scrip thing? This is what I need....

Left Eye
Power: -5.25
Base Curve: 8.3
Diameter: 14.0



Right Eye
Power: -4.75
Base Curve: 8.3
Diameter: 14.0

It's worth a shot asking around...

stupid visiondirect. The vision is NOT direct!