VoicePost 589K 3:07

(no transcription available)

So, the voice post finally showed up about two hours after I called it in. Here's the text of the meme, as I mentioned in my previous entry:

Voice posts are fun, right? You get to hear funny accents if your friends are from far, far away. All we really want is to hear your voice, we don't care what you're saying. So here's a list of typical meme questions that would otherwise be boring, but when communicated aloud - well, it's entertaining. Answer these questions in your post,and encourage others with voice-posting abilities to do the same.

1) What's your name?
2) How old are you?
3) Where are you from? Are you living there right now?
4) Is it cold where you are?
5) What's the time?
6) What are you wearing?
7) What was the last thing you listened to?
8) What was the last thing you ate?
9) What was the last thing you watched on tv?
10) What's your favorite tv show? Why?
11) Quick! Find a book, or something with text on it! Flip to a random page and read some of it! GO!
12) What was the last movie you saw? How was it?
13) Do YOU think you have an accent? Talk about that.





Kristen Bell is awesome.

Was out of town to Tallahassee again this weekend, so I've got a few pages to scroll back through on the flist, as well as catching up with everything else online in my various fandoms.  

And I just haven't had any goof-off time at work at all any more, so my posting and commenting is showing serious neglect.  I'm actually sacrificing time here at work (okay, procrastinating) just to do this, but the job is driving me batshit, so I just needed a break.

Other flisters have already posted or linked this, but I also wanted a reference her for my own, after I read the O&A with Kristen Bell and Hayden Panettiere at TV Guide online this morning. It pertains to tonight's Heroes episode - 2.09 - "Cautionary Tales" - but also diverges into some cuteness too funny to pass up.  I never was ga-ga over the then-jailbait Hayden that so many fanboys seemed to be during season one. She just seemed to be a decent person, and was sweet enough when I met her - and I find her much cooler just by association with Kristen.  KBell's influence can only be a good thing. Link to the page is HERE, and a c/p of the text under the cut:


Also found another personal-info-related meme of minor interest, snagged from amaleka_crone, who got it from candlewaxdreams:


In addition, I guess it should be taken as good news that the studios and network honchos have agreed to come back to the negotiating table this weekend after the Thanksgiving holiday. It doesn't guarantee a damn thing, of course, as far as ending the WGA strike is concerned - nothing may actually be achieved yet - but at least it's a step in the right direction.  

And mainly because I wanted a singular grouping of links to Joss-talk (the man can be hilarious in his ranting and snarking), I wanted to highlight that Joss Whedon has been pretty active with his own commentary and blogging over at Whedonesque the last couple of weeks, with his own updates HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE, with commentary in a few others (may need to be registered to view - not sure). He's also linked the the United Hollywood page several times, and informed fans that the "Pencils 2 Media Moguls" campaign could be massive.  All the information on this is at the UH support page, HERE.  I went and donated a few boxes of #2s, just because this is something that really matters for the future of network television entertainment, and anything that can impress upon the studios and network executives that the fans actually do give a shit about the content being produced, I'm all for it.  

Lastly, I'll also include what has also been mentioned elsewhere that Ronald D. Moore has posted a blurb about Battlestar Galactica production being wrapped indefinitely, found HERE. Episode 13 of season four just completed filming, and that's all they've got scripts for.  Until the WGA gets a new deal, the planned-ending for the series in those final 7 episodes remains unshot.  NBC-Universal, which produces the show and owns Sci-Fi Channel, has already sent out suspension/termination letters to cast members now that production is in limbo - a scan of which is HERE.  Also, a c/p of the text from Moore's blog under the cut (formatting got a little wonky again - apologies):


God, talk about angst.  I want the writers to get their fair deal as much as anyone, but the mass devastation being wrought upon the TV landscape is slowly starting to mount and show in the production stoppages.  Fucking networks.  Greedy sonsabitches.





Kristen Bell is awesome.

Quick post.

This mention is probably pointless and a little redundant, since my flist just more than doubled yesterday because of this meme, but I figured I'd still do my part in pimping it, anyway.

candlewaxdreams was getting a little tired of all the apparent VM fandom hate toward Kristen Bell - hate that completely baffles me and piques my curiosity as to "why?".  So she created the friending meme found HERE. If you want to chime in, or see who else still thinks KBell is one of the greatest things since sliced bread, go on over.

And in an unrelated random shout-out (to a show that I've regretfully mentioned only in passing here before), Eureka continues to be a little more awesome each week, in a totally fun and easy-to-watch way.

The last three episodes kind of cemented my love of its humor and pop-culture references, because (a bit spoilery - so skip this part if you avoid that):

-- Two weeks ago, Carter, while investigating strange happenings to certain individuals in town, comes across Global Dynamic's lab of lunar rocks from the moon, with large green crystals growing from them, and stops mid-sentence in his denial of alien life: "There's no such thing as-- oooh, Kryptonite!"  Freakin' sweet.

-- Last week, when supposed supernatural/divine occurrences were popping up, a townsperson brought up the notion that Eureka could possibly be situated on a hellmouth.  That's just made of awesome.

-- And this week, the episode had heavy reminiscings on one of my favorite BtVS episodes ever, "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered". Carter gets to experience a little of the "love mojo" that Xander had to go through, as the entire female population was (inadvertantly) sexually in his thrall. I smiled through the whole thing.

So, sci-fi can be silly and not take itself too seriously, while still also totally entertaining.

That's all for now.





Kristen Bell is awesome.

Random '50 Questions' meme of sorts, snagged from nemo_gravis, who ganked it from mas90.  Just wanted to procrastinate from dealing with work.  It's long and pointless, so...


Like I said, random and a bit odd.  

I suppose I should try to work some.

Howdy! Since the Turkey Day holiday wiped out a lot of new TV, my commenting here is fairly brief.  I'll add a couple of links to W-I:

The Nine: 1.07 - "Outsiders"

Heroes: 1.10 - "Six Months Ago"

And a couple of real cuts here:

In addition to great TV, I also wanted to add another meme of sorts, one ganked from _cinjudes_, who got it from dodger_winslow.

I usually feel pretty apathetic about these types of things, that get passed around from journal to journal, but I figured on this one - what the hell.  I got it from

schrutefan, who got it from somewhere else, where I think it was snagged from yet somewhere else.  Anyway, on with it below the cuttage:

 

 

O-kay.  That was time consuming.

This really isn't a meme, even though I did come across it on a friend's LJ (thanks tonemo_gravis).  It's just sort of a random Q&A about fictional characters, and an individual's preferences therein.  The answers to these can draw upon pretty much any form of media - literature, TV, film, etc.  I just thought it was an interesting group of questions I hadn't seen before, so here's what I came up with:

Which fictional character frightens you the most?
 
Which fictional parents do you most wish you had?

Which fictional character has the most balls?

If you could invite 3 fictional couples to your home for dinner, who would they be?

Which fictional character could probably entice you into his/her bed?

Which fictional character would most likely have broken your heart?

In which fictional character's home would you most like to live?

That was kinda fun. And the potential possibilities are kinda limitless.