Aeronautic Primates and Other Delights

Vid: Let's Hear It for the Boy (Project Runway)

2022-03-28T17:27:51Z

Title: Let's Hear It for the Boy
Song: Let's Hear It for the Boy by Deniece Williams
Source: Project Runway
Length: 1:23
Warnings: The dog is too cute.

Summary: Project Runway has one job and that is to show me the dog.

Vimeo password: swatchwatch

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Notes: I'm a huge Project Runway fan. I only picked up the show during the first Christian Siriano seasons, but I've spent an inordinate amount of time and money backfilling my PR experience. Everybody knows the best part of Project Runway is Swatch, the dog who shows up 2-4 times a season when they're at Mood. His appearances last about a second. Imagine making a vid out of that. I really plumbed the depths of what was available. You're seeing clips here from the mothership as well as All Stars and Junior, plus some supplementary videos from various sources. I had to resort to some truly janky video acquisition methods for some of this.

I'm still retired (lol), but I'm also apparently determined to make a vid every calendar year. So here you go.

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New Happy Place

2013-08-26T20:44:16Z

I've found a new happy place, guys, and it's called Gravity Falls. absolutedestiny recommended it to me specifically at Club Vivid this year, so I set-up the DVR (luckily, Disney Channel re-runs stuff a lot).

The first episode I caught (copy machine clones) was cute and clever and more than once, I found myself going, "Wow, I am really happy they did not go the way I expected with that."

The second episode (Boss Mabel) was okay -- still funny, but more routinely Saturday Morning Cartoon.

The third episode won me over completely when an old man in a fez started punching a pterodactyl in the face while quoting "Moby Dick." Said old man also had a pig strapped to him at the time. As you do.

Since then, every episode I've caught has been amazing and hilarious and sometimes I smile so much it aches.

Basically, it's like an unholy mix of Twin Peaks and Eureka, but for kids! Mabel and Dipper are twins who go to stay with their great-uncle (grunkle) Stan, who runs a tourist trap with a bunch of fake exhibits in the Pacific Northwest. However, the surrounding woods are filled with actual oddities from the mystical to the cryptozoological to the just plain weird. It's coursing with a bizarre sense of humor and doesn't mind tossing in a few jokes for the adults in the audience here and there.

It is really, truly amazing. I should totally vid this show. I just need a good song.

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VID: Va Va Voom (I Love Lucy)

2013-08-17T22:46:05Z

Title: Va Va Voom
Source: I Love Lucy
Song: Nicki Minaj - Va Va Voom
Warnings: None that I can think of.

Summary: She's the living room's main attraction.

Update (2013-11-26): Now available in both Youtube and Vimeo streaming varieties:

Vimeo Password: splainin

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Notes: This vid premiered at the Not Just for Laughs vidshow at Vividcon 2013. Thanks much to thirdblindmouse , sweetestdrain , echan , and anoel for cheerleading and beta-ing.

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WHY WHY WHY?

2012-10-09T01:42:23Z

Community premiere delayed, new date uncertain

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Community dream

2012-04-12T21:36:45Z

I had a dream last night that I was convinced, while I was having it, that it would make a fantastic Community spec script. I thought it was totally brilliant. I even had a follow-up dream where I pitched it to Dan Harmon and he thought it was great and told me to write it.

Unfortunately, after I woke up, I couldn't recall most of the funny bits, just the basic premise and some of the key dramatic moments. Sadly, those key dramatic moments hinged on the presence of Community characters that only existed in my dream -- me, Captain America, and franzeska . Although there was one funny exchange with Dean Pelton and Abed that I can still remember and like a lot.

The dream episode centered around a Greendale soccer and/or ice hockey game (it didn't switch back and forth in the dream -- rather, I had the dream once and went back and made a revision and had it again. It played very differently -- when I was forward playing soccer, we lost, but when I wasn't playing ice hockey and Captain America was forward (or whatever) we won, but disaster struck. Jeff Winger was goalie in both versions. Half the episode took place in the bleacher with various interpersonal subplots that I can't actually recall (just that at one point I realized that I'd totally neglected to put Pierce in and Andre was jealous because he thought Shirley was flirting with another man, but really she was just being friendly with a preacher because she was thinking of switching to his church).

Also I have no Community icons. This is sad.

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Once a Thief

2011-09-28T10:20:56Z

So I'm about 35 minutes into the Once a Thief pilot movie (oh John Woo, this is so VERY YOU) and I've already gleefully clapped my hands together three times.

This is a good sign.

(many thanks to fan_eunice for her many, many posts exhorting the benefits of watching Once a Thief)

(also mresundance -- he knows what he did)

ETA: ~~Four times!~~ ~~Five!~~ I've lost count!

Additional ETA: So every time Mac and Victor wrestle or punch each other, I'm supposed to interpret that as sex, right? The straddling at the very least.

MORE ETA: "We don't let go, they find us dead in each other's arms." I can't make this stuff up.

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Doctor Who Thinky Thoughts, re: Rory

2011-09-12T23:29:33Z

( Spoilers through The Girl Who Waited )

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