I'm ready for Comic Con. Another 10 minutes and my cab should be here. What does that mean?

1. Sure computer withdrawal (I'm not taking my 17 inches laptop since we'll never be in the room)
2. No sleep for the next 6 days.
3. Lots of geeks making me feel a lot better about my own geek status
4. My flist will be at skip=203874308 when I come back, which means I'll miss everything from now till then. Thank god for newsletters.

All Comic Con updates will be on LIVEJOURNAL only. Crossposting from an iPhone isn't fun.

Bye

Trigger Street Productions and The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that the highly anticipated film “Fanboys” will have an exclusive screening of the film during this year’s Comic-Con International Convention.  Tickets will be given away to the first 300 people in line at the Lucasfilm’s 7th Annual Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge Awards, held on July 24th at 8:30pm in Ballroom 20 at the San Diego Convention Center. During the Awards Ceremony director Kyle Newman will introduce select footage from the film, providing fans a sneak peak of the full-length feature to be shown at 10:30pm that same evening.
That's the same night that the Lost Boys 2 screens.

Decisions, decisions.

So there are pictures of the Dark Knight European premier. Christian Bale is looking hot as usual, and the only thing I can notice is Tom Felton's package. You don't believe me? ( Look for yourself )

More pictures from there premiere here (including a few HP people).

Title: Dr. Horrible, The Epilogue
Author: ziasudra_fic
Pairing: Dr. Horrible/Captain Hammer
Rating: R-ish for implied naughtiness, nothing explicit
Word Count: ~780
Summary: This is the story of how Dr. Horrible and Captain Hammer got together.
Warning: Cheesy (and I mean cheesy!) pseudo-musical poetry that doesn't go with any music as of yet. Consider yourself warned *g*

You must go and read this fic. It's so perfec and IC, and it had me laugh the entire time.

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Showtime has passed on Pretty/Handsome, and the actors have committed to other projects, so it looks like this one is dead before even airing.

Life on Mars gets a completely new pilot. Jason O'Mara, star of ABC's time-travel series Life on Mars, told reporters that he feels lucky to be the sole survivor of the show's original pilot cast after producer David E. Kelley dropped out of the project. When Kelley (Boston Legal) left the show after an initial pilot was shot, the network fired most of the actors and ordered a new one. So everything I said about the original pilot goes out the window. We'll see what happens next.

Battlestar Galactica's Jamie Bamber (Apollo) to Star in Law & Order: UK.

- 2 to Comic Con

Tags: tv

johnrogers posted about Dr. Horrible:

I would argue that as soon as your web-only musical about a supervillain is referenced on a group blog of University professors discussing Disraeli, you have, indeed, won the Internets.

Also, to continue the discussion raised by my staff Friday -- has Felicia Day now officially ascended from being one of the Geek Princesses to Queen of the Geeks?

This guy is making me love Leverage more and more and it won't air until December.

Also, you might want to check it out before it's pulled off the website, requiring you to pay for it.

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I went to see Batman last night. ( Not really spoiler, but opinions and thought. )

Joss, you are HORRIBLE.

I don't know if I love you or hate you.

I guess, I still love you. See you in San Diego.

For those who haven't seen it, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.

If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

- My iPhone still rocks, so much so that I end up consuming the battery way too fast. I'll have to learn to pace myself

- Batman today, if we can get tickets. If not, I still have to watch Hellboy and Get Smart. I'll get around eventually

- ABC's Americanized version of the British time-travel series Life on Mars will alter the show's mythology. [Spoilers for both the UK and US version in the article] This might actually make me want to watch.

- SAG and AMPTP still can't find an agreement.

- Joss is still a god among gods. His Dr. Horrible is fantastic. If anyone needs the songs and/or video let me know.

- I watched the leaked pilot of the Mentalist. I might actually end up watching this because it combines a cop show with a man who uses observation to reach his conclusions. And did I mention it's a cop show? Yeah, I like those. I also like the female protagonist (Veronica from Prison Break - I don't remember her name)

- I love reading through my flist and see comments about Comic Con. You can always tell the people who've been to cons, and Comic Con especially, and those who haven't.

People who have gone: we'll get there early, grab the seats, and will miss a panel we wanted to do at 10 but it's the only way to see X at 12:15
People who haven't gone: we have a list of panels and we'll go to the park during breaks, and we can walk around, etc.

If you can manage to walk to the bathroom in between the morning session and the evening session, I admire you. Walking around San Diego is NOT on my list to do after a day that starts around 6:30 and ends around 1.

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Yesterday, we went to the FREE (yes, that would be free, thank you New York City) concert. We left my house around noon, and got in line around 1:30. It took about 2 hours to get inside even though doors opened at 2 pm.

We managed to get the spot about 200 yards from the stage, smack in the middle. We proceeded to spend the rest of the afternoon tanning. I must say that it was hot but not intolerably so. There was a nice breeze that made it more than bearable. It was all very calm and orderly. The NYPD did an amazing job, but NYers did an even better one. Everyone was on its best behavior.

When we got closer to the beginning of the concert people started moving forward, blankets and towels were being packed away. By the time the concert started, we were about 100 yards from the stage. We could see them without the need of the giant screens or even binoculars. They were right there.

For the non musical part, Richie was wearing button down black jeans so tight that you could see how he dressed and a black T-shirt saying careforkelly.com. I googled it at home and it's http://www.careforkelly.com/. David Bryan didn't have anything particular on. Tico Torres had a black t-shirt with a sparkly circle and the writing, still sparkly, Made In NY. Jon changed 3 times. He started with his jeans and a black vest, no shirt. The vest said Born A Hero in the back. Then he changed into his red shirt. Finally into a magnificent blue shirt that I spotted with little lights and no monitors on. It made his eyes look even bluer.

They did all of their old songs, plus Have a Nice Day, Who Says You Can't Go Home and Lost Highway (which I tend to forget that it exist). Richie sang I'll Be There for You. chainedinbeads, there was a violist too, and she was damn good.

For the encore they started with I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (Don't quote me on this, because it might have been earlier that night), Wanted (you can quote me on this one because I was waiting for it) and then he stopped thanked NYC, the NYPC and Park Dept. You could see just how thrilled he was to be playing in Central Park (not even the Beatles or the Stones managed to do that, he commented). He closed with I Love This Town.

The concert was great as usual. We've seen them for their Have a Nice Day Tour at Giant Stadium. I've also seen bits and pieces of concerts in other places, and I can say that nothing compares to Bon Jovi in the NY/NJ area. However the most obvious thing from their concerts is the Richie/Jon love. Seriously, every time I see them live I want to read slash about these two, so if anyone knows of any, please point me that way.

Tags: real life

- OMG, I HAVE A IPHONE!!!! All right so that's the only capslock of the night, but really, OMG, I have an iPhone. It's awesome, however I had to get a new number. If you had my old cell number, please leave a comment and I'll give you the new one. I figured a flocked post with close to 500 people is pretty useless.

Anyone going to Comic Con, please let me know and I'll more than happy to give you contact info, so we can meet.

Funny things that happened while on line:
1. A woman got into the car and asked to hold the place on line. She'd only take 10 minutes, 15 tops. She came back with smelling of sex and cash on her hands. Any guesses what she was doing?
2. AT&T bastards (where I didn't go) let the people stand in line only to tell them that they were sold out after the 3 hour wait.
3. The Apple store in Soho gave us designer water (which tastes like crap) and organic tea. At least they were nice.

- Comic Con has the schedule out.

- cluegirl drew a magnificent Draco Malfoy.

- RSVP post for terminus_hd is here.

- moosesal is hosting the Non-J2 CW Real Person Ficathon! Go have fun and write lots of fics.

Tags: hp recs, real life

Nothing good to report:

- Summit Entertainment is developing a reboot movie of 1986's SF cult hit Highlander, with Iron Man co-writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway on board to pen the reimagining, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Why? OMG, why? Hollywood, stop messing with old movies and get new ideas (possibly not Hannock).

- Senate Passes Telecom Immunity. Hillary (and Schumer) voted no. Obama voted yes. More proof that the man will do and say anything to get to the White House and fuck the rest.

I'm so bitter, and I've gotten to the point where I hate him more than Bush, because this is more personal. Obama is single-handedly doing to the Democratic party what the Bush family did to the Republican party. I keep talking to people who tell me that they won't vote in Nov because they won't vote Republican but refuse to vote for Obama, and it's just so disheartening, because that's what I'll probably end up doing unless I suck it up and vote for McCain.

- And because the boy's pretty:

- I can't believe it hasn't been posted yet on my flist, but

AFTRA Members Ratify AMPTP Contract; SAG Campaign To Deep-Six Pact Fails; Dueling Statements By Actor Presidents.

Now the ball is in the SAG's court. My prediction: they'll be locked out if they don't accept that final offer. The studios are itching for that and then they'll have more AFTRA shows.

- Also a very interesting article on free speech and the internet:

Rant all you want in a public park. A police officer generally won't eject you for your remarks alone, however unpopular or provocative.

Say it on the Internet, and you'll find that free speech and other constitutional rights are anything but guaranteed.

- Finally on Sunday, I went to see RENT with millieweasley. I've seen it before and I've loved it every single time. Of course when you see a musical who start comparing actors, but I found that I couldn't do it this time, because I know it'll be the last time I see it since it closes in September. It truly will be the end of an era.

My flist is filled with Dr. Who post and I feel like I need to make one, but I finished it over 1 hour ago and I still don't know if I can be coherent.

( Spoilers )

Tags: dr. who

I love my flist because you can find all sorts of wonderful stories, and here is the perfect example:

Fic: Epiphany by sullacat
Fandom: Live Free or Die Hard (Yes, you read that right)
Pairing: John/Matt
Rating: adult
Summary: John McClane isn't gay. Got it? (~7000 words)

There is nothing hotter than John McClane. There is nothing better than a great story how he realizes that he's not gay, you know? Except for fucking Matt. This is a great story, and John's characterization is so spot on. Have fun reading it and leave lots of feedback.

- Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt has been rescued, the country's defense minister, Juan Manuel Santos, said Wednesday. OMG, why isn't this all over my flist yet? I'm shocked and surprised that she's even alive considering her healthy, but OMG she's free.

- On a different level of OMG, I got free tickets to see Bon Jovi at Central Park. I saw them last year (or was it 2 years ago) at Giants Stadium (or whatever the fuck it's called now), and they were amazing. I can't wait.

- Drug Arrests Were Real; the Badge Was Fake. He might be a con man, but he was cleaning up towns at least *laughs*

Finally I've been tagged by caarirose

A) People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs & replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves.

B) Tag 8 people to do this quiz & those who are tagged cannot refuse. These people must state who they were tagged by & cannot tag the person whom they were tagged by. Continue this game by sending it to other people.

C) ENJOY
( Questions and Answers )

I'm not tagging anyone, but have fun if you like