... on entirely non-work topics: Whedon, The Cabin in the Woods, and rambling into steampunk!

(Beginning review: Wed Jul 9 10:37:57 2008 PDT)
# <- (10:38) From sj [awake (why?!)][WFH], to water, geektalk, Movies ( Read more... )

This weekend and next!

If any of you have any interest in...

1. seeing "Serenity" on the big screen,
   
2. helping out a really good charity,
   
3. having the opportunity to win some schwag

... then please check out:

http://www.silicongulchbrowncoats.org/csts/Read more... )

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So, we spent the weekend (except for attending a party at wendelina2's place on Saturday night) up in San Francisco, at WonderCon 2007.

We got to see the first public screening of "300" (as mentioned in my last post), attend some interesting panels, collected some pretty cool schwag (including "driver's licenses" of the main characters from Tim Minear's ( Read more... )

... then I could include a picture of us with Mr. Richard Hatch, but, well, I can't.

We won (or I should say urox won, but it was a 2-person pass [or, really, a pair of wrist bands]) the right to go and see "300" tonight on the IMAX screen at the Metreon. This was apparently the first ever public screening of the film (according to the director, who ( Read more... )

So, there's a new promo spot for Tim Minear's "Drive", with Nathan in it!



Wal*Mart has apparently just launched a video download service. In Firefox, it looks like this:


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Some time ago, there was a discussion of what happened with respect to The Operative at the end of Serenity (the movie) on one of the Browncoat mailing lists I'm on. Lots of people had interesting (and surprisingly varied) ideas on this. Some were dissatisfied with how it ended with respect to his character; others (including me) were not. I wrote ( Read more... )

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The following popped into my head when someone said "Joss to the world" (meaning to evoke the hymn/carol) in a post to SoCalBrowncoats:

Joss to the world,
All the boys and girls,
Joss to the Browncoats 'round the 'verse you see,
Joss to you and me.

(ref: Jeremiah was a Bullfrog)

I've been enjoying a number of fun, amusing and/or warm-fuzzy videos over the past few days while kicking back and relaxing in Ireland (not to say that we haven't been rushing around and busy some of the time, but we've had some relaxation time for once, which is certainly nice).

• The perfect Christmas present this year: Tickle Me Emo!
  
  
• An awesome ( Read more... )