Move over Catherine Zeta Jones! Daisy’s making repairs in “Let’s Call it an Array… Condensing… Modulator.”

Well, only one of my Top Evil League of Evil Applications made it on the DVD (and let’s face it, there just was no way in hell they could ignore Tur-mohel).  I have to admit a fair bit of confusion there. I really thought Vagabond had the stuff. I feel kinda bad for expressing that confidence to everyone involved. I think I’ll blame my conceit on Governo (way to play to my weaknesses, man!).

On the up side, I was in serious need of reminding that there are no free rides. Don’t get me wrong, the publishing and film industry is built on free rides and big breaks, but the hard and repeatedly forgotten lesson I’ve learned is that this won’t be the path for me.

There’s a ton of free rides out there, and I’ve come dangerously close to getting them.  The National Screen Institute in Manitoba provides a bunch of opportunities for filmmakers of all levels.  When I was first getting into all this, I entered their National Exposure Amateure film contest.  Seeing my short on the big screen was beyond compare, but sadly it was an audience voting thing and the big money went to a member of the UofM student council who’d stacked the deck.  I still got an award and $100 that paid for the gas and supper to get there.  However, we were also supposed to get a free movie rental a month for a year with snacks (I rented ALOT of movies those days).  When I e-mailed them asking what had happened to that six months later, they replied that it was in the mail. A couple days later I got a parcel with one nearly expired free movie coupon from Rogers, a singe pack of microwave popcorn, and a handful of individual Menthos mints. I kept that Rogers coupon on my Aquaman shrine as a reminder of my petty bitterness and how maybe the easy path wasn’t for me. I eventually got over it and threw the coupon out, but have considered replacing it with a Dr. Horrible DVD.

So, it’s a time consuming setback.  There’s certainly been others. Still, it’s up to me to find a way to make it all worthwhile, and I think I have the solution…

Why is anger such a powerful motivator? It can’t be healthy, but, man, does it ever get s#!t done.

With the wind chill, it’s -41° C here, which is pretty much the same thing in Fahrenheit.

What’s worse is that it’s supposed to be colder tomorrow.  That kind of cold leads to hate. And hate leads to… well, you know the rest.

Mosquito’s gonna be pretty sporadic around these parts over the holidays.  I’ve got lots of family stuff on the go, and a mighty serious desire to get the first episode of Magellan out before the New Year. I’m hoping my unfortunate and exceedingly time consuming habit of Whedonesque distractions will allow that to happen. 

Howdy all.

I’m a big jerk and should have mentioned this nearly a month ago.  Lynn Lefey, who was such a big help with the strip, is the featured author and artist  for the new Serenity RPG expansion Six-shooters & Spaceships (she wrote and did art for about half the book). Check it out! Buy it! Ships galore!

That is fantastically cool and I am crazy jealous of anyone who’s done work for Margaret Weis Productions as I am about the biggest Tanis Half-Elven fan there is.

Chloe and Tome square off “Like Two Samurai at a Bridge.”

I’m serious. Who the heck made it on the DVD?

Sorry, gang. It’s late, but here’s “Questionable Bargaining Skills.” I was experimenting with different styles on and off the computer this week, and got a little caught up in it all.

Hey, who the heck made it on the Dr.Horrible DVD?

Money starts becoming an issue in “Shaking the Cookie Jar.”

Every time I get a favourite show on TV that my week starts to form itself around (first Firefly, then Arrested Development), the World At Large reminds me that it would far rather fill the networks with the fine quality and fulfilling entertainment found in any of literally dozens of reality game shows. I hate that about the world. I really do.

So, I’m not sure why it was such a painful surprise when I read about the cancellation of Pushing Daisies on io9.com today. I KNOW it was a total rip off of Amélie , but I loved it anyway. It was a bright and funny and cute place to visit every week, and the world will be a dark and far more dreary place without it.

I know Fuller said he’d wrap it up in comic form, but, even being the comic nut I am, I think that’ll end up falling too far from the mark.

A follow up "Boo-urns" to you too, TV watching audiences. "Boo-urns."

I tried to watch the Colbert Report and the Daily Show last night for the first time in a long while. I used to be a big fan of both shows and their respective subversive and not so subversive humour, but, after years and years, it started to bring me down. While the jesters were funny and the Court was laughing, no one was doing a damn thing about it and the status quo remained King.

Well, I gave it another shot last night. Sadly, (while I still love Stewart and the whole crew) the Daily Show felt flat without an idiot ruling the free world or the power behind the throne shooting people in the face. Colbert just irritated me, and I think I know why. A while ago, at the Publick Nuisance blog of my much loved Venture Brothers, I read this:

Mr. Stephen Colbert has decided not to reprise his role as Professor Impossible this season, for reasons which probably have something to do with him being all super-famous, super-busy, and no longer in need of a few hundred bucks here and there. We figured this would happen eventually, considering his monumental success in the years since our first season, but we held out hope that the WGA strike would leave him with enough bored free time on his hands that he’d have a go at it. But after getting shuffled around from his assistant to his assistant’s assistant to his agent to his manager, one of them finally shot us an email saying: “Stephen has neither the time nor the interest in participating in your project.”

Was the “nor the interest” really necessary? I would have bought the “time” part without question, but man…you gotta kick a guy when he’s down like that? Well maybe I’m not interested in your ice cream, mister! Or your book. Unless someone buys it for me for Christmas.

I gotta say, that kind of… I dunno… stardom(?) really bugs me. I can’t imagine ever being in the mind frame that I would treat ANYONE I’d ever worked with that little respect. Even if, for whatever reason, I wasn’t interested in working with them again, I’d make sure they got an upfront, personal, and professional explanation. To so completely dismiss people you’ve worked with during your rise to stardom is pretty gosh darn uncool. It’s a long time after the fact, but I’m afraid you’re getting a “Boo-urns” on this one, Mr. Colbert.

The boys at A.T.H.U.G. are at it again! This time, Wally and Jason have done an interview for Pinkraygun.com.