No More Frogs

Happy Slapsgiving, everyone! I'll be back Monday.

Alyson Hannigan in a MasterCard commercial...? With Peyton Manning?

Can I just say how very glad I am I gave up waiting for the padres and watched "Mr. Monk Goes Camping" by myself? My GOODness, with the squeeing and the cackling and the getting all soppy*.

( 'So, thanks to modern medicine, the Spider Lake Maniac now lives in a public housing project with his pet cat and never bothers anyone. The end.' (wik spoilers) )



* Not quite on the magnitude of "The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith," but that's a topic for another time.

So, here's my new thing.

And Mum and I are watching the Ghost Hunters episode about the lighthouse my parents lived in shortly before I was born. They always told me weird stuff happened there. It's not that I didn't believe them, but it's neat to see the equipment picking things up.

Oz's* batteries died this morning, by some quirk of fate, the day after I got a set of speakers, so I had an opportunity to check out the community music folder my office keeps on the server. Imagine my surprise when I discovered a folder marked "James Marsters" in amongst the fairly conventional collection (there is no ASH or Kane, but, luckily I have my own. When Oz is working). I wound up listening to Mozart and Tchaikovsky all day because I didn't figure most people wanted to hear me squeeing (and, of course, I would have had to have it CRANKED to get the full effect of a first-listen), but I am definitely looking forward to bringing in headphones for tomorrow.

Ironically enough, I ran across this Pattinson-rific quote while watching the My Name Is Earl episode guest starring Christian Slater:

"I don't really know [who my favorite vampire is]. I always think of the wrong people. I always think, 'Ethan Hawke in Interview with a Vampire,' and someone will say, 'He's not the vampire. He's the interviewer.'"


ETA: So, now Target has a series of ads with Maria Bamford. They made me enjoy _commercials_, too...!

And this.

The first book of After the Fall is, predictably, made of awesome. And perhaps even better than it being well written, beautifully illustrated, thoughtful, involving, and amusing, there were things in it that I didn't have spoiled for me! I mean, there were a couple of big things I did know about, but I didn't know when in the comics they happened, and most of it was completely unknown to me.

Man, I love these characters.

Chew on that, Jon Cryer.

AAAAAUGHAHD, Ianto, don't die!!

(Uh...that's Ianto the computer.)


ETA: Fixya FTW! [dances]

So, in addition to all of the other things that make Target my favourite non-book store ever, I found out today that you get a 5 cent discount if you bring your own shopping bag.  Target, you rock my socks.

I'm also very much in love with Borejigger.

Seriously, you, stop being charming.  

(::whimper::  I wish I hadn't had to send away Angel and Spike...)

Seems to me that the Antikythera machine is something that should have been addressed by The Doctor by now.

Love. Just...love.

(Five looks like me at work in that mood, except what I'm playing with most of the time is a Five action figure. That sounds like a fun recursive picture, to have Five playing with a mini-Five, who is playing with a mini-Five, who is playing...)


Happy thoughts to get me through tomorrow:

The Terminator franchise is up for auction. Joss Whedon has placed his bid.
(Read the link before you roll your eyes.)

Nathan Fillion speaks briefly about what else Whedon wants to be working on at the moment.

John Barrowman can always, always, always* make me smile.

I still want to be Bea Arthur when I grow up.

I'm going to G'ville for the (Former) Quasi-Roommate's birthday this coming weekend, where we are having a murder mystery party. From what I've gathered, I will basically be playing Sarah Jane Smith.

Dear sweet Tinkerbell Jebus, I have Wednesday off. I shall dedicate the next 32 hours of tinkering with JWS and not having anything to actually do to all those who have served.
(I miss you, Papa.)

I've got the last chapter of "Whispers of Terror" for my commute tomorrow morning. I am utterly, achingly, unabashedly in love with Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant.


* Except when Captain (not Cap'n) Jack is torturing someone.

Because I just found it while looking for something else and needed it and there may be others out there who do, too:




Thanks to all the awesome people in my life.  You're my favourites.



ETA: MSN is apparently now airing Classic Who serials for free (and, it seems, with a minimal amount of commercials) here.  I have three reactions to this:

1) THANK YOU, MSN, YOU ARE AWESOME.
2) "The Web Planet"?  Really?  You think that's going to get people watching?  [facepalm]
3) I skipped ahead in the first episode to a random spot to make sure it was actually going to work for me since I'm not in the UK, and it happened to be that adorable bit with Ian playfully jabbing Barbara with his elbow, and I'm completely in love with him all over again.  Because Ian Chesterton is made of love and awesome.


Update the following morning: It definitely worked last night, but I went back this morning because they also have The Day of the Triffids and The Quatermass Experiment on the website, and now apparently people outside the UK are no longer able to watch anything on the site.  Not cool.  All of this restricted region internet content is just crap.  ::sigh::

Mal: I had a good day.
Simon: You had the law on you, criminals and savages...half the people on the ship have been shot or wounded - including yourself - and you're harboring known fugitives.
Mal: We're still flying.
Simon: That's not much.
Mal: It's enough.

I checked Facebook a moment ago and saw that one of my friends, who has recently become quite fond of New Who, had gotten Rose in a "Which New Series Companion Are You?" quiz.  One of her friends replied to this news by saying, "At least you got the hot one."

...

Seriously?

Reviews from my 2009 October Moviefest

 

( Coraline (wik the merest of spoilers) )

( Repo! The Genetic Opera (wik spoilers) )

( I Am Legend (wik a bit of spoilerage, but not really) )

( Sleepy Hollow (no spoilers) )

( Ghostwatch (minor spoilers) )

( Dog Soldiers (some spoilers) )

( Ed Wood (no spoilers) )

( The Others (no unprotected spoilers, except in so much as I spoil that there is something to be spoiled) )

( The House That Dripped Blood (slight spoilers) )

( An American Werewolf in London (spoils only the name of the werewolf) )

Great God in Sunnydale* do I love "Fear Itself."

PS: This is somehow even more amusing, now that I've seen Repo!:





* This one:

I dressed up as a football fan; it was terrifying.

On my walk this afternoon, I listened to the Cadmium2 "Massacre" show, which began with a discussion about how April was Colin Baker's 25th anniversary as a Doctor.  It was definitely good to hear them talking about how great a Doctor he was/is, considering, and good to know that, when they get to the Baker C Era (perhaps before the time when "Resurrection of the Daleks" is set...), there will be some positive reviews.  I finished the second episode of "Time and the Rani" last night, and I'm coming around to both Seven and Mel, but that doesn't mean I feel like I've gotten any closure with Six or Peri.  So it was really nicely coincidental that I listened to that one today.

And, after I watch my last one tomorrow, I'll post my reviews of all the new-to-me movies I saw this month.  Tonight, I'll leave you with a teaser and watch "Fear Itself"


( IMDb plot keywords from all of the movies I will be reviewing )