Death Becomes Her

There are rumors that Neil Gaiman, author of the Sandman comics, not to mention a couple of other great books (Good Omens - my fave, American Gods, and Anansi Boys) is planning on making his Graphic novel Death: High Cost of Living into a movie.

High Cost is a story about...wait for it...Death. Not the act, but the character. With Neil, Death isn't the typical Grim Reaper type, she's a cute goth chick. She's the second eldest of the Endless, a family of various aspects of life in human form (Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair and Delirium). Once a year, Death must spend a day as a mortal, to better appreciate her place in the order of things.

It's an orginal and well written graphic novel, and I hope he does it justice on the big screen...

All hail...

...the execs at ABC. For those that don't watch Lost...let me "esplain" - without any spoilers.

During the season finale of Lost, our local weather was pretty crazy (rain, snow and such all across the Front Range). This blog entry has little to do with the actual episode, for that I'll refer you to my friend Drheimlich (Although I loved it and for many, many reasons - possibly to be discussed in a later blog).

Anyway, ABC cut in with weather reports and warnings, but NEVER interrupted the broadcast of the show. They relayed the information of the severe storm to us, WITHOUT interrupting the episode, and were very poignant about telling us that the episode would not be interrupted.

I know that this is probably an advertising stunt by the sponsors of the season finale of Lost, but it's impressive anyway. The fact that they acknowledged the viewers is quite admirable. If I could remember the sponsors of the season finale, I would rave about them, but I can't. (See this blog).

In any case;
I revere you, Oh Mighty Execs of ABC, and I request of thee, PUHLEEZE teach the other TV execs (FOX) to treat shows as thou dost...

Ding dong...

...the bitches are dead!!!

As of about 67 minutes ago, the RED WINGS LOST!!!!!

This means that they are officially out of the playoffs, and can finally go home the frakking whining losers that they have always been.

No longer do we have to watch the biased referees, no longer do we have to watch the Red Wings players' attitude of entitlement to win (wholly run-on Batman!), no longer do we have to worry about Thug-For-Hire Bertuzzi getting his name on the cup, no longer do we have to worry about the Red Wings undeservedly winning the series!!

If you can't tell, I'm EXTREMELY happy the Red Wings lost. After 6 games of unfair reffing (exactly how was that not an obvious high-sticking call in the 3rd period?), the Ducks pulled it out and refused to be intimidated by the Red Wings.





WOOT!!!!



Now that the Ducks did their job....GO SENATORS!!!

Actually, in the end I'll be happy either way. To quote a good friend, "Now I can just enjoy the Stanley Cup games."

Amen to that....

Hate them, SO...MUCH...

One good thing about having a team you HATE go farther in the play-offs?

You get more chances to yell at them.




GO DUCKS!!!!

Snooze this!

I need this, simply because the snooze button is my nemesis.

It's an alarm clock that not only beeps and chirps annoyingly, it jumps off the nightstand and rolls around your bedroom, making random turns.

So in order to snooze more, you have to chase the little bugger down, which could be under the bed, down the hall or down the stairs.

I bet my dog would LOVE it...

Terror everywhere

This morning I heard on the radio about this Amtrak Bomb Scare that happened last week. The suspect was released yesterday after being determined he wasn't a threat. And the reason all this happened? The suspect was having a conversation about his family and the stress he's under.

Theaudeaus said the suspect did not make a threat. He said the man was apparently stressed out about his family and said his "head was going to explode."

Apparently another passenger heard this, told some one else, they told someone and so forth. Next thing this poor guy knows, he's being pulled off the train and held for questioning for the weekend.

My problem with all of this is the overreaction to the authorities. How scared are we as a society that a simple off-hand comment is blown out of proportion to this extent? Do we really need to make sure we watch our own private conversations?

I would almost argue that those that wish our country harm are winning. As terrorists, they have done their job admirably, since we are terrified of our own shadows. Everything we own and do is suspect now. Our water bottles are suspect, as are our shoes, electronics and now language. Nothing like getting a society to turn on themselves and do your job for you.

Better watch yourself the next time you use the phrase "That's da' BOMB!"...

Frak Retract

Frakking Cylons and their mind games...

According to a statement released today, producer David Eick, BSG is not ending next season.

"For those of you who have been paying attention over the years, this is not the first time Eddie has made an announcement about the possibility of the show's end. I promise you that when [executive producer] Ron [Moore] and I make a decision about Galactica's future, we'll let you know." says Eick.

Bad Adama...That's a very BAD Admiral!

I take back everything I said about stupid SciFi Execs. For now.

And with that out of the way, I just have to wait 7 frakking months...

FRAK!

Unfortunately, Battlestar Galactica is almost done. According to Katie Sackhoff (Starbuck) & Edward James Olmos (Adama), this upcoming season starting in January is to be the last season for one of my favorite shows.

Apparently it's being canceled due to overly high production costs compared to the relatively low number of viewers. This could get me started on a very long rant about the viewing choices of America, but I won't let it.

Yet another great show canceled. Although I suppose in SciFi's defense, they gave it a fair shot. Three seasons for a show like BSG is admirable, considering the ratings have never been super high. Yet another example of great writing almost being a hindrance to the success of a show. Why watch a show that you have to actually pay attention to when the Bachelor, Dancing with the Stars and American Idol are...no I said I wouldn't do this...

But I digress, it will be missed and at least the show is getting a whole season to wrap things up.

Lords of Kobol be praised and hopefully Beyond the Red Line will be finished soon!

Washing Woes

Yesterday HDW blogged about her problems with a certain department store and their customer service. It made me think of our experience there the other day.

A couple of weeks ago our dryer died. We debated a while about spending a bit more on a dryer and leaving the washing machine be (because holy crikey are they expensive). However, we finally decided to go the distance and get both.

While we were shopping, we went to a ton of places looking for information and deals. At the store mentioned above we were looking at the washing machines and the salesperson came over. My first questions was, "What is the main difference between this $1600 washer and the $800 over there?"

His answer? "Well, this one is $1600..." (that's actually a direct quote). I was actually stunned for a second. I replied with "I could see that from the price tag." and awaited more information. After a few moments of looking at each other, he finally started listing differences.

My favorite reason it's twice the cost? The hinges, that's right apparently the hinges on this machine actually, dramatic pause, allow you to open the door!!! He literally spent 5 minutes talking about the frelling hinges.

Another amazing difference? "This one is high efficiency, you use a fraction of the water and power."

"Isn't the $800 washer over there high efficiency too?", I asked.

"Well, yes." This was followed by another long moment of us looking at each other.

At this point I was done with this mental giant, but he felt he needed to explain more differences. I can't really say what they were because I had stopped listening.

Come see the stupid side of Sears...

Still better than the remakes...

Coolest geek-ness EVER...

Yep, it's the Star Wars Movie in full on ASCII code! Well, not the whole movie, but they've got a little more than half of it done. For those wondering, Han does shoot first.

Bottom line, my inner geek bows down to the creators.

Side note: I wonder if it's the ASCII code stylings of J.T. Krazinsky? Should we call the Barenaked Ladies?

2010, The year we get answers.

According to this USA Today article, Lost has an ending date!

The good news? It's a set date that the creators can work with and fit the story to - no sudden cancellations (Firefly anyone?).

The bad? It's ending in 2010. Three more seasons of 16 episodes each.

The other bad? The episodes consecutively with an eight month break between seasons - ugh.

All things considered, I think this is great news. As I said above, it means that the show shouldn't suffer from any unfinished story threads. Hopefully they'll be able to tie everything up nice and neatly. It also, hopefully, prevent any shark jumping.

I also think the executives at ABC should have a "Take a dumbass to work day" and show the execs at FOX how great shows should be handled (it's OK to give non-reality TV a chance)...

Extreme Tree Hugging

Yet another nugget found while browsing (click here)...

It's a tree that needs no direct care from the owner. The tree is planted in a system that is connected to your house. The more efficient your power use is, the more the tree flourishes. If you have an inefficient house, the tree is poisoned!!!

Poor little tree.

Nothing like using guilt to control your family's energy use.

"Well, honey I could turn the heat up, but it would kill the tree. You OK with that?"

It's like a mini ecoterrorism kit...

Toast of Turin To Go

Speaking of useless inventions, I found this...


That's right. It's a toast printer. No longer will we be forced to eat plain, boring toast.

Now, you can decorate that dull toast with a picture of the person you'd like to eat most.

I think I just found their jingle...

For the dedicated couch potato

Found these these while browsing the net.



That's right, pillow remote controls. For those to lazy to lift their arm and click a button, now you can just roll your head to change the channel!

All I have to say is the hell? I suppose you'd never have to get off the couch to look for the remote...