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CP: Rumshack 29
Thanks to everyone for fitting me in, was great to participate.
CP: Michael Feldman’s Whad’Ya Know? for February 21, 2009
Delighted to discover last week that the full show is up as a podcast now.
Morning Pan!
2 inches of snow fell over night and I had to go downtown.
cold toes.
Got caught up on past posts. Will have to wait until I get home to check out links, though.
Off to work. See you all in the evening.
If you all remember I had a huge issue with pipes bursting in my front yard and sewage everywhere etc.
While the entire fiasco did cost me a fortune to fix – I just received my water bill and looks like I’ll be saving about one hundred or so dollars a month now that I’m not dumping water unnecessarily out into my yard. So, that’s good news!
I guess that’s a good news, bad news type situation, CJ.
Then, this came in my e-mail this morning and made me laugh.
http://flickr.com/photos/lovelongandprosper/3306819416/
Will have to look at it this afternoon when I get home.
“Night Owl Coffee – Helps you bring on the end of the world!” (may cause some impotency)
So who will volunteer to shovel my sidewalk so it will be done for me when I get home?
… anybody?
How much hot chocolate you got?
And none of that white “chocolate” stuff. ;)
I’ve got tons of hot chocolate. I’ve even got some hazelnut flavoured. I’ve also got marshmallows, whip cream and cinnamon.
Well Pan.
I’m going home and, since I didn’t seem to have any real takers, then I’ll shovel my walk and drive way.
I hope you all feel bad when my little fingers freeze off and I have to type messages on the board using my nose.
Well, even if I knew how to use skype, I would have been out of the roundtable on the grounds that I had another massive pain attack and had to inject more burning meds into my thigh in an attempt to stay out of the ER…
Sad to have missed it, but I’m sure you all were brilliant without me. :)
And my brain wants to explode in disgust that any of you are saying glowing things about Dollhouse.
Not only am I not watching any more of it, Joss lost me *permanently* for any of his future work. Period.
Morning, Deadpan!
Sorry to hear about the pain, marlo!
Speaking of Dollhouse and Joss, there is a really interesting interview w/ him about it in the current Rolling Stone. There’s only a portion of the article online, mostly about Dr. Horrible:
http://tinyurl.com/dblrnl
I’d recommend any Whedon fans to check out the full-length article in the rag – it was interesting and Joss discussed what FOX did to Dollhouse. He says in the article that he’s done w/ TV. Unlike marlo, I’d watch or read anything Joss touches. I’m a huge fan.
I still think it would be really interesting for the original pilot to be posted on Hulu so that Fox’s version could be judged against Joss’s version.
But, I doubt Fox has enough confidence to let that happen.
I still consider Joss one of my favourite writers, EssBee, but I won’t support his future projects. I’m not interested. The theme of Dollhouse: let’s base a series on rape fantasy! Yea! was just too disgusting to tolerate.
I’m baffled and sickened, but it’s only worse that he self-describes as such a feminist. In any case, he’s become one of those writers for me that–for reasons unknown–has utterly lost his mind and / or talent.
Ouch. Time for more painkillers…:/
marlo, what you bring up is exactly what my circle of academic feminist buddies are discussing like mad re: the show. There is a – IMO – particularly good article about that here:
http://artattheauction.blogspot.com/2009/02/exploitive-show-vs-show-examining.html
Full disclosure: I personally trust Joss and am reading Dollhouse from a feminist perspective as a show examining exploitation versus an exploitative show. (After 2 episodes, at least.)
I agree with EssBee. I feel the show is about exploitation, not promoting it. The Dollhouse is using people as tools, which is an inherently evil thing to do–*ahem* Ozymandais. We shouldn’t like the people running the Dollhouse. So far, Joss is doing a decent job at conveying exactly that. If he was portraying the Dollhouse as an ideal, then I would have a problem. It would be promoting the ‘rape fantasy’ that MD mentions.
Fox’s *marketing* of the show, however, is extremely exploitative. It’s downright sleazy in some respects. I really don’t like watching any of their ads or promos for the show. I have the distinct impression that the Fox execs would be visiting the Dollhouse every chance they get. *shudders*
CP: Kingdom Come — Coldplay
“a show examining exploitation versus an exploitative show.” That’s my take as well, although full disclosure, I thought the first episode was meh and I slept through the second, Teresa said it was pretty good though.
But it’s not just the marketing. From the way it’s written to the way it’s shot, it’s ALL about the awesome of making this chick do anything you want her to, and she’ll like it. Because she doesn’t have a choice.
It couldn’t be more yuck.
It’s also horrifying that the found someone who wanted to play that. I do kind of hope that Fox made it something it completely wasn’t, but then I’d expect Joss et al to be shrieking everywhere that they disavowed it.
“It couldn’t be more yuck.”
I think that’s exactly the point. You *shouldn’t* like it. It’s supposed to be creepy. It’s supposed to make you think the Dollhouse is a vile entity.
CP: Funny How Time Slips Away — Willie Nelson
I agree that the premise is digusting for that exact reason, but my gut tells me it’s supposed be. As a viewer, the more I watch, the more I think how corrupt and immoral the heads of the Doll House are instead of how awesome it would be to have complete control over women. For anyone that thinks along those lines I’m sure there is a gut punch coming up soon. Either that or I totally misjudged Mr. Whedon.
“I’m sure there is a gut punch coming up soon. Either that or I totally misjudged Mr. Whedon.”
I agree. If Whedon does not follow through on illustrating how vile the Dollhouse is, I’ll be extremely disappointed.
Back from my office, shovelling the sidewalk and lunch.
Oh yeah, I also picked up a Roomba… now to tell my husband…
CP: Jason Mraz – I’m yours
Ugh. Work.
Work can be like a gut punch from Whedon.
A gut punch from Whedon is on level with Karaoke with Stevie Nicks in my book.
Whedon gut punch == Wash dies
;)
Jack – Did you get the file?
EssBee – Is that good???
ditto – ouch
Hmmm TEB snow bunny time!
VERY good, Wolf! You missed Jack’s . . . ahem . . . off-color comment about Stevie Nicks from last week, I take it?
A Whedon gut punch turns you into a Gold Dust Woman?
LOL, Jack
So, I guess it’s my turn for someone to post pictures of me from my past on Facebook.
Home for the day. Long day. Best part was the pancake dinner at IHOP. Bedtime soon.
Definitely, Cj.
It’s never going to be my turn to post old photos of my self.
Morning Pan, how I wish computer hardware would do what it says on the tin.
Morning, Vanamonde.
In regards to Dollhouse, if the main protagonist was a man would you still make the rape fantasy comments on the series?
CW: Chuck S2E14
On a more techy note, I have to say I’m impressed with the N+ router that my nephew just bought. My sister’s house has think walls and the old router didn’t perform very well.
Hump Day – use appropriately…..
A thought.
If you want to change a people’s way of thinking … standing in front of them telling them that their ideas are wrong and bad and awful, is mostly going to result in them “tuning you out”.
On the other hand, if you present them with something like “Dollhouse” with a premise that is meant to “seem” titillating and get them hooked – you can slowly and steadily show them just how awful that idea really is.
You can make a who lot more change from the inside as a “friend” then from the outside as a foe.
Asdemonstrated by the Neocons, who took away far much more of our freedoms and privacy away than the Soviets ever managed to.
A much lighter thought :
On March 26, 1895 British chemist Sir William Ramsay treated the mineral cleveite (a variety of uraninite) with mineral acids. Ramsay was looking for argon but, after separating nitrogen and oxygen from the gas liberated by sulfuric acid, he noticed a bright yellow line that matched the D3 line observed in the spectrum of the Sun.
This made him the first scientist to isolate HELIUM here on earth.
Morning, Deadpan!
JOe, I read your first comment and thought that you were talking about Obama’s speech last night at first!
Morning Pan.
-31 and snowfall warning today.
Essbee – perhaps I am ;)
Actually the conceipt is valid for most anything in life. It is far easier to change from within than from without … unless you have a much MUCH bigger gun than the group you want to change. (and even then you can’t be assured the change will “stick”)
Re: Speech
Have to admit I only watched about 5 or 10 minutes worth. I wasn’t hearing anything new. Since I agree with much he was saying I didn’t need the “pep” talk.
My sarcasm meter must be broken… EssBee
I have been so out of it lately…
damn.
So whilst flicking through the making of the Watchmen movie at Waterstones.
Turns out they cheat on Rorschach’s mask. The actor wears a mask with a slit so he can see as he does a scene. They then use CGI to make mask look complete in post production.
Rorschach is much to manly to cheat on his mask. What a Hollywood thing to do. ;)
Oh and even with horrible week I’ve been having, Dan and I still managed to get our own show recorded and posted:
http://www.lovelongandprosper.com/podcast/?p=182
CW: Spaced S2E2
CJ – I have the latest episode downloaded first thing this morning…(I leave itune on over night). SO LLaP is in the que.
WR- Poised to post on Saturday.
Okay, ignorant U.S. person question:
When writing contact info, I generally list city, state. E.g.:
New Orleans, LA
For Canadian towns, how would I do this? Brampton, ONT?
EssBee: Yes. Canadian addresses are written much like those in the US:
Name
Street Address
City, province
postal code
You can write out the province name or use a 2 char abbr.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/maps/using/maps-18.html
Thanks, ditto!
Admittedly, I’m not likely to even watch a Star Trek episode anymore if it comes on the TV, but now thanks to Dan and CJ, I can relive the memories as they rewatch them for me.
As awful as a lot of that early TNG was, I wonder if it would stand a chance had it been released in the present. In some ways, I think those early TNG episodes have held up less well than the original Trek.
ZP ain’t scared of a little girl as he reviews Fear 2:
http://tinyurl.com/cnfozx
I just can’t freaking believe it been over two hours and my nephew still hasn’t finished cleaning his room.
It’s like a jungle in there
It makes me wonder
how he keeps from going under
::crickets::
CP: Vessel — NIN
Crickets riding on tumbleweeds?
so CJ … what IS the e-mail address to send you bumpers ???
Inquiringly wrong minds want to know. ;)
An independent video friend of mine is looking for me to help him and his co-producers into the world of Vid Podcasting. Neither he nor I are particularly web-savvy, so looking at Libsyn complete with blog templates for starters…
And of course seeing Libsyn in detail has me once again asking myself why I haven’t jumped into the “Really Big Podcast” yet.
Of course the answer has to do with the incomplete nature of the revised “Really Big Things” which was to be the heart of said podcast.
Trying to live by the “finish it first” advice espoused by Sigler and Morris…
Libsyn I found to limiting…
WordPress is working better for me while I host my files on libsyn.
How is wordpress for someone who doesn’t have clue #1 as far as customizing?
I don’t have a clue… templates (free ones are easy to find) I find that it is easy to quickly pick up…
If you have questions I will do my best to help shoot me an email.
J0e, you can e-mail bumpers to llaptng@gmail.com – Thanks! :)
JB, I have tried to tweak WordPress and I don’t have a clue and I’ve been able to do a little, but not much. It probably depends how much customization you are planning. I’m fairly tech savvy and WordPress made me feel less savvy.
Hah, J0e. You rule! Awesome wav you sent me. Now I’ll have to sign up for the RSS to http://www.celebritydeathbeeper.com just so I have content.
… alternately, … you can have us go out and kill celebrities.
Hmmm. Maybe your way is better.
CP: Driving with the top down — Ramin Djawadi
Iron Man Soundtrack
“Killing celebrities is the Way” doesn’t have much of a pleasant ring to it. . .
A ha! There’s a trailer for “Tales of the Black Freighter”
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808406490/video/12137791
CW – Underworld (Blu-Ray)
Tonight’s I will mostly be displaying a nice set of scratches inflicted by my sisters cat.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Where’s Mr. Nugent when you need him?
I think he’s busy with his jerky.
Oooh all the trailers on that page! I’m totally excited for the movie.
It was tough to resist, but I didn’t watch any of the other trailers. I’ve still only seen the first one — and Tales of the Black Freighter.