Aeronautic Primates and Other Delights

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.

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.

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.

( Spoilers through The Girl Who Waited ) 

Ah, Cupid. Man, I love this show (and I thank diannelamerc profusely for hooking me up).

"Do you know what your problem is?"

"Athena says I snore too much."

"No..."

"I've never headbutted a mime?"

Following up on the suggestions received from my post about scary television, I received a metric ton of X-Files suggestions. Which eps are the scariest? I'll probably take the top 4-5 and watch them to research my article.

[Poll #1183726]

Also, I still need suggestions for scary Supernatural episodes. People seemed to be drawing a blank on 'em last time.

midnightfae and I are entering into Season 3 of Farscape as I introduce her to the awesomeness of the show. I should note that midnightfae does not like when shows kill off her favorite characters.

Perhaps I should warn her that the Season 3 premiere title, "Season of Death", is really an appropriate name for Season 3 as a whole.

Hm.

Emily Langton's brilliant write-up of her Comic-Con interviews with the cast and crew of Moonlight is here. Although, you may have already seen it because, dude, it was Whedonesqued. I have my suspicions as to who did that, but I don't want to jump to conclusions. If it was you, stand forward and be hugged.

This is turning out to be as big as the Supernatural article (if not bigger).

ETA: ...yeah, this is going to be bigger than Supernatural. Way bigger.

They're baaaaaaack. Sort of.

I'm totally stoked.

*uses only DLM icon*

I'm through the pilot and the first five episodes of Season 1 of "Twin Peaks". Damn that's good coffee!

How they make Agent Cooper so awesome without becoming annoying is beyond me. I credit Kyle MacLachlan, who I'd always pegged as a somewhat mediocre actor. My mistake.

I will be totally buying Season 2 when it comes out (although I accidentally got spoiled for the big reveal -- which actually isn't that hard for a show that's been off air for 16 years).