Free for All Friday 10
Hey y’all. Sorry about that. My grandpa died, so there were days in Iowa, and memorial services, and many cousins of all varieties and both sides of my family. It was a good service, as these things go. And it was very much his time, so we were all pleased that he’s finally at peace and not suffering anymore.
So shall we free for all? I’m still not feeling as whiz-bang as I normally do, but stick with me. I’m also trying to go from zomg-family-travel-airport to getting myself ready to run The Mercedes Half Marathon on Sunday. I don’t know how I imagined I would feel coming up on race day, but I didn’t anticipate it being melancholy. I got a couple runs in while I was in Iowa and I’m confident I can cover the distance. So I’m concentrating on working myself back into a love of running mindset, trying to focus on the pleasure of it. I suspect I will do some serious singing of “I Love the Whole World” before the race is over.
Topics? Topics!
- A behind the scenes look at creating and filming Rorschach’s mask. Whimper. Whimperwhimperwhimper. And if that weren’t enough hyperventilating and biting down on the heel of my hand, look at this picture of Walter. They’re trapped in there with HIM!
- State Representative Mark Miloscia (D-Washington) wants to tax porn! To the tune of 18.5%. Now you may have just become very worried that some people you care about, Doc, for instance, might be caught in this odious piece of legislation. But just remember, the internet is for porn. And if you’re paying for it, you’re doing it wrong.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!) is a real book that is really coming out in April and that we will all have to really read. Holy shit, y’all:“It quickly became obvious that Jane [Austen] had laid down the blueprint for a zombie novel,” said Grahame-Smith, a television comedy writer. “Why else in the original should a regiment arrive on Lizzie Bennet’s doorstep when they should have been off fighting Napoleon? It was to protect the family from an invasion of brain-eaters, obviously.”
From then on it was easy to imagine Bennet and her four sisters as zombie slayers, trained since childhood in the deadly arts of Chinese kung fu, and Fitzwilliam Darcy as a promoter of the socially superior ninja skills of Japan. Together they stand bonnet to epaulette against a plague of cannibalis-tic interlopers from the accursed city of London.
Times OnlineWhat other books do you think could be rendered awesomer with the addition of zombies. I mean, I know, “all of them!” But which do you want to see?
- From Iowahawk: Scientist Discover Largest Number Ever. Scientists named the number “stimulus” and describe it like so:
“The number itself is incomprehensible by human minds, and can only be theoretically understood in a fractional parallel universe which we refer to as the DC dimension,” said Brossard. “The best way to understand a stimulus is to imagine a dollar sign followed by a packed string of hexidecimal nanodigits, wound into a triple helix, woven into a dodecahedron, and stacked on top of one another. Now imagine you were a black hole on the far edge of the universe, trying to escape the stimulus at 30 times the speed of light. The stimulus would still catch up to you and ram your black hole with such furious, repeated force that it would cause your entire reality itself to collapse.”
- And finally, fulfilling our Bacon and/or Booze requirements for a FfAF, have a Glow in the Dark Bacon Shirt. Just don’t wear it near the zombies. Zombies love bacon and things that glow! And maybe, like the rest of us, Mr. Darcy.
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And last, but not least, don’t forget to watch Dollhouse tonight. See Eliza Dushku, Faith the Vampire Slayer, as Echo the EveryGirl. See Amy Acker as
Fred BurkleDr. Claire Saunders. See Mark Shepherd as a guy called Tanaka, which more than any of these Whedon-verse-omnicasts messes with my head. “Tanaka raves about this guy!” And that guy! That Hoban Washburne is played by Alan Tudyk who, according to ComicCon press is set to have a recurring role on Dollhouse. So, when I said, “don’t forget to watch Dollhouse” what I meant was WATCH DOLLHOUSE OR I’LL AXE MURDER YOU BECAUSE I WANT ALAN TUDYK ON MY TV ALL THE TIME. Thank you!!!
The latest Star Wars movies would be good with zombies, but the guy who played Anakin came pretty close as was…
Comment by Gary on February 13, 2009 at 9:10 am
Mark Miloscia is either a raging asshole, a giant moron, or both. His porn tax wouldn’t solve the budget problem. At best, it would help pay for fighting off all of the lawsuits that are sure to result. Because, really, it’s right there in the second paragraph. “Magazines like Playboy”. Playboy is porn? Says who? And where is the line? SI Swimsuit issue? FHM? It falls into a free speech quagmire pretty quickly. Are you telling me you are going to find a judge that is going to define porn? And that bit about who cares if those businesses leave the state? He fucking should.
On a happier note, have a look at some pictures of Eliza Dushku, all nekkid promoting Dollhouse. It starts tonight, but will anyone fucking watch?
Comment by doc on February 13, 2009 at 9:24 am
Well said!
Comment by Sarah, etc. on February 13, 2009 at 9:26 am
You should write to him, even if he’s not the rep from your district, Doc. And maybe remind him that greater legal minds than his haven’t been able to define obscenity and that he might consider keeping right on fucking off.
As for Dollhouse, all I can say is THEY BETTER FUCKING WATCH BECAUSE OF ALAN TUDYK. I don’t want to have to go on a killing spree, but for him, I would.
Comment by Sarah, etc. on February 13, 2009 at 9:28 am
Alan… Tudyk? Wait, he was that pirate guy in Dodgeball, right? Seriously, though - That is cool that he’s going to be in Dollhouse, but why Friday? That is not a good night for a new show.
Oh! The whole of eps 1-3 could have had zombies instead of droid troops! I mean, the droid soldiers were already patterned after dead Neimoidians, so why not just make them lumbering masses of alien zombie flesh, with Grievous as their king, and Count Dookoo as the necromancer responsible for the uprising.
Already seeing some definite applications for a One-shot on game night… Oh yes…
Comment by Chris on February 13, 2009 at 9:45 am
Hijacking the comments in true Free For All Friday tradition, I just got back from a trip to Utah that was filled with celeb sightings. Wednesday night at dinner we saw ex-Giants QB Phil Simms, then yesterday at the airport I saw Dave (Gruber) Allen, better known as Mr. Rosso from Freaks and Geeks. But the highlight was meeting a guy who went to high school with Neal Patrick Harris, and during a game of flag football, this guy broke Doc Horrible’s leg!
In other news, 5K tomorrow!!!! If I don’t see you before then, good luck with the half.
Comment by skillzy on February 13, 2009 at 10:45 am
I’ll do about looking up his contact info this afternoon.
As for Dollhouse, I predicted between 7 and 8 million viewers in a post over at CC. But the big number to watch for in the ratings is the demo. I don’t think the show can take over the viewer lead from CBS, but it has a legit shot at taking the demo crown, which would be a very good thing. It’s enough to keep Heroes and Lost on the air, despite both of them having lost more than half their audience.
Comment by doc on February 13, 2009 at 10:47 am
Wow! You’re not only one degree from NPH which means the rest of us are only TWO DEGREES FROM DR HORRIBLE! Wow! Wow!
I’m running the 5k tomorrow. I’ll look for you. I mainly want to give you massive cheers and high fives.
Comment by Sarah, etc. on February 13, 2009 at 10:55 am
When I was at Disney World in December NPH was there participating in one of the Christmas programs. My mom ended up meeting him by surprise and has a picture to prove it. He was totally just blending into the crowd. She says he was a very nice guy. Too bad she didn’t know to address him as Dr. Horrible.
Comment by Shadowhelm on February 13, 2009 at 12:10 pm
There were a lot of zombies coming out of the threatres after those movies…
Comment by Gary on February 13, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Must remember to set my DVR to record Dollhouse. I’ve got a hot date tonight and Eliza Dushku and Alan Tudyk can wait until I return.
I would like to have seen zombies in American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Seeing disowned gods fight off the zombie hordes of the new American gods would have been awesome.
Also, hasn’t a judge tried to define pornography before? For the purpose of censorship?
Comment by Apollo on February 13, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I’m sorry to hear about your grandfather.
Comment by Apollo on February 13, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Wow I am kind of jealous of you all. I need to go somewhere so my mom can meet some famous people!
Comment by Sarah, etc. on February 13, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Dude. Any lady worth her salt will be all, “A homemade meal and scifi? BEST DATE EVER!” And then she will probably try to get to third base with you. So, what are you making?
Judges have tried to define pornography. And they can’t. So yeah, dude is out to lunch.
Also, remember, you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do, even if your date is all het up about genre programming. :D
Comment by Sarah, etc. on February 13, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Thanks.
Comment by Sarah, etc. on February 13, 2009 at 1:38 pm
The second time I saw it I cushioned my system with a whole pitcher of margaritas. But I still had a movie hangover.
Comment by Sarah, etc. on February 13, 2009 at 1:39 pm
I’d totally cook her dinner and watch some Dollhouse if this date weren’t in Birmingham. Yeah, I’m driving to Birmingham for a date immediately contradicting all of my previous statements about the idiocy of long-distance relationships.
Comment by Apollo on February 13, 2009 at 2:14 pm
You think B’ham - Mobile (IIRC) is long distance? Anything under a full days drive is only a moderate distance relationship in my book.
Comment by marciepooh on February 13, 2009 at 2:42 pm
I am so going to read that book. YOU HAVE NO IDEA. (Also, PLEASE find it in you to read World War Z before you read that one; I really think it will make it a better overall experience.)
What would be better with Zombies? X-Men. Oh, wait, they did that AND IT WAS AWESOME. Um, Batman. Imagine the chaos a zombie!Joker could cause! Also I think I’m going to vote Imagine Me & You, which is a cute little lesbian flick out of Britain. It COULD have been a cute little lesbian flick out of Britain with ZOMBIES attacking everyone so that the girls would need to be in the SHOWER together to hide from them. (Yeah, Doc, that’s for you!)
I really think America needs to get on top of legalizing and taxing currently illegal drugs. Much better source of income than porn. And might piss fewer people off, actually. *ponders*
I am hijacking a friend’s TV tonight for Dollhouse. I’ll also be watching it on the interwebs, so FOX gets a good idea of how many of us are watching it.
Comment by Poptart on February 13, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Let me just say that World War Z is “teh awesome”. Highly recommended.
Comment by Shadowhelm on February 13, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Oh, right, also: Why do people insist on naming things they can’t understand? I don’t get the fascination with numbers so huge nobody could comprehend them. Okay, cool, I can’t comprehend it, but I’ve got a name for it?
Comment by Poptart on February 13, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Thank you Poptart. You’re the best!
Comment by doc on February 14, 2009 at 7:56 pm