Aeronautic Primates and Other Delights

Did anybody happen to get a photo of Jamie Bamber at Con this year? I totally neglected to take one for my interview with him.

ETA: And the Dexter panel. Our reporter-on-the-spot ran out of space on her recorder and we need a general run-down of the points discussed.

midnightfae and I have arrived home to Casa Geek safely.

Now we're going to collapse.

We iz ded of kon.

Just something shy of 40 hours before we're on the road to San Diego...

Just something shy of 35 minutes until I'm out of work for a week and a day.

I'm freakin' stoked.

ETA: And I'm out. G'bye, work, see you next week. San Diego, here I come...

I have been insufferably high-spirited and productive this week. midnightfae was about ready to kill me this morning around 8AM when I started coming up with all sorts of different wacky nicknames for Drew Goddard.

So now's as good a time as any to get out the ol' to-do list of to-doom.

( Stuff to get done before Comic-Con )

- Latest episode of Doctor Who is made of total win. I kind of want to read some Agatha Christie now. Maybe after I finish my Tour of Sci-Fi in 2010. Donna Noble may be surpassing Martha Jones as my favorite New!Who companion.

- Been watching classic Twilight Zone episodes to research an article for Classic-Horror. Watching Telly Savalas match wits with a creepy doll is kind of unnerving. Watching William Shatner actually act rather than rely on his own sense of self-satisfaction is REALLY unnerving.

- In the world of Harry Dresden, I have finished Summer Knight and have moved on to Death Masks. Summer Knight ended much better than it started. I'm kind of hoping that Death Masks will be the same, although comments from midnightfae don't give me a lot of hope.

- midnightfae warned me that Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation would be a painful experience. I didn't believe that it could approach Orgy of the Dead levels of suffering. I have suffered for my incredulity. The only bright spot is that Matthew McConaughey plays an surprisingly effective psychopath.

- Speaking of The Twilight Zone, I wrote a joke opening paragraph for the Japanese movie Jigoku (Hell) where I mock Sartre and high school students who get their interpretation of Sartre entirely from the last line of No Exit. I showed it to midnightfae because I thought she'd get a kick out of it and then tell me to write something serious. She told me to go with the joke opening because it totally worked. Weeeeeird.

- Indiana Jones cereal is like eating Chocolate Kix with Marshmallows.

- Went to one-half of an Indy marathon at desertwillow's place yesterday. Ending up reading the Gospel of 100 F**king Tacos in my very best Christopher Lee. And got smacked for a comment about "Snakes on a Flame".

- My kitty is getting a tooth out today, as well as getting a lion cut. There will be pictures.

- timjr wrote the definitive squee on Robert Fuest's The Abominable Dr. Phibes. Read it. Love it. It makes me want to wander off and review its immediate sequel, Dr. Phibes Rises Again, which contains an elaborate Henry James joke.

- midnightfae and I kept getting stuck in really painful gigglefits all weekend for no reason we can discern. One of us would start giggling and the other would continue and then we would keep fueling each other. People who were in the condo at Comic-Con last July will remember what this is like.

- Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is eating what remains of my free time. In a way, it's kind of lucky that my girlfriend is in China, because I think this would annoy the crap out of her. I blame hjcallipygian.

- Two months and one week until Comic-Con.

Geez macreeze, I am busy. In addition to getting back into the swing of things at work, I'm still working on getting all those interviews transcribed and those features written. I'm halfway through getting the interview with Hatchet director Adam Green typed up, then I'm doing Robert Englund, and then I'm still working out what to do with the other Hatchet interviews.

Then I have to:

* Write up the Sideshow Collectibles feature
* Figure out what to do with my ridiculously poor (on my part) interview with Tyler Mane.
* Work with Julia to get the Daniel Myrick coverage up, as well as the Return to House on Haunted Hill, The Strangers, Doomsday, "The Film Crew", and Monster Squad.

All while still working on editing (and maybe, if I'm a very good boy, writing) reviews.

*collapses*

It doesn't help that I've started a game of Kingdom Hearts on the new PS2 and I'm itching to get back to it.

I'm home. *collapses*

I need a new bookcase for all the McFarland books I picked up at 50% (or more) off cover.

I need more DVD shelves, too.

And some place to put my TARDIS.

And new legs. I would like some new legs.

I think I'm coming down with something (seriously). Might have to call in tomorrow.

ETA: ( The most disturbing thing ever )

To commemorate my anticipated arrival in San Diego in roughly 48 hours, I have created 10 Comic-Con geek icons, available over at jetpackvampire.

That is all. I should start my laundry now.