Really Big Unshow
Unshow #44.
Special Guest Paul Maki aka JohnBoze
Lately Paul has been busy:
He has contributed to the Quirky Nomads (http://quirkynomads.com/wp/)
Between the Lines Studios as both writer and voice actor (http://betweenthelinesstudios.com/)
Jack’s announcements
The Orc Skit in the latest Requiem of the Outcast was co-written by Jack and is in this episode: (http://www.requiemoftheoutcast.com/wordpress/2009/11/03/roto-s07e02-boo-did-we-scare-you/)
Jack will be doing live performance at Podcamp AZ on Saturday, November 14 (http://podcampaz.org/)
A webstream of this perfomance will be available. Watch the deadpan website for times and further info.
Greasy Nipples by:
Vanamonde (first comment of the week)
Ed from Texas
Cj
JOhnBoze
The Energizer Bunny
reaper
Johnny Null
JohnBoze
Johnny Null
Jack annouces the Duel of the Fates III contestants – with a twist. Send in “intangibles” in 12 seconds or less.
Paul Maki starts a semi-recurrent segment (please help name). Paul said fragments of lyrics, can you guess what they are?
Paul is also looking for intro music for this segment.
Don’t forget to send in your Deadpan slogan from episode 142 boards
And Episode 144 will expose Huey Lewis’ lies
Send in content: 206-350-Tomi (8664) or e-mail: sphericaljackmatgmaildotcom
cat stole my hand. my good hand at that.
I spent a good half hour last night railing at one of my little brothers on facebook about why i hate yahoo mail, myspace, facebook, etc.
i was pretty devoted to yahoo mail until they decided, incorrectly, that they could and should use ajax.
and as much as i enjoy twitter, it worries me to see then starting to go down the same path. sure it looks pretty. but does it work? wordpress, facebook, and twitter all work ( and look ) different when i go from win opera to linux firefox to win firefox.
forgot what my point was. i did mention the tired part, right?
JØ: The mass of one Pip Ballantine traveling at relativistic speeds through Macedonia at the correct angle and vector, will penetrate the Earth’s crust and intersect with the LHC test zone, possibly being effected by the magnetic resonance coils (depending on the fourth-dimensional factor).
All you need to do is work out that whole Space-Time-propulsion thing.
I’ll have to check out Rasputina and the Gobbler some other time. Though Rasputina sounds way less potentially terrifying. The mom has returned, so I can now go to sleep. I would do the happy dance, but I am too damn tired for that.
I’m procrastinating getting up and actually walking to the bed because that sounds like too much work now.
Goodnight pan.
huh huh you said penetrate.
I made pumpkin cobbler – apparently I made it out of WIN!
happy happy happy yummmmmm
Downloading some Rasputina MP3′s right now. If you like metal swing music, I recommend the Diablo Swing Orchestra.
Cj: Anything made out of pumpkin is made of win!!!! as long as I don’t make it I can’t bake. My wife just order Pumpkin flavored coffee and I already have pumpkin creamer and pumpkin bread. or maybe I should say:
My wife just order Win flavored coffee and I already have win creamer and win bread.
Ah, yes there’s the Gobbler….
http://www.lileks.com/institute/motel/
Might sound familiar???
Also, I downloaded Nevermore’s “Love Bites” cover. What a treat to hear Warrel Dane go for those Halford high notes and totally nail them. :)
JohnBoze, Wow did Wisconsin invent uncool. Maybe Fonzie syfened it all of when he jumped the shark.
The blue room… Yeah, swear that seems familiar somehow…
reaper: I like pretty much anything pumpkin except for pumpkin pie. I only liked that once and it was while I was very very pregnant.. Just that one time.
Nomad Scry: Can’t go wrong with 1812.
Lejon: I need to learn to think fourth-dimensionally. Thanks, doc. That was heavy.
I, for one, constantly reconsider dropping identi.ca and twitter.
Hell. Lo.
Cj: I love win (pumpkin) pie. well depending on who made it. from the store most of it isn’t very good.
My mother-in-law shared this site with me and at first glance I wasn’t that impressed…. but keep scrolling.. it’s not fascinating, but “note”worthy.. pun intended.
http://www.webofentertainment.com/2009/10/25-hilarious-defaced-bills.html
Hey Pan! Sitting on the couch, sewing on my lap, falling asleep. Kitty made a cave out of my sewing and is laying against me. It’s very cute but my leg is falling asleep.
I’m thinking of being evil and playing hooky from MA tonight. Decisions, decisions.
Funny, Cj!
Re: pie
Pumpkwin pie (sic) is probably my favorite, and I’ve never been pregnant.
I will Never look at Thomas Jefferson again…
…in the same way anyway…
Hubby called. We’re going to order in Chinese when he gets home. Now I know I’m evil :evil:
Mental Note: Call in the lyrics to Mars: The Bringer of War to Deadpan.
What?
Is there a song called, “Venus: The Bringer of Estrogen”?
And on that strange note, I’m off. Doing an Evo@11 tonight (I think).
Thanks, Jack. Sly B rocked out on the Mariachi show.
Cj, we grow spaghetti squash. I also love it.
Wow.
I just toured “The Gobbler”.
How strange. At the start of the tour I was filled with such a sense of horror and by the end … a sense of loss.
This link is worth the click (if for nothing else) for the worksafe picture.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/cat_congress_mired_in_sunbeam
justa J0e: I dub that the pic of the week.
Aha, Desk is cleaned-ish. Assorted nonsense still abound, but most of the drabble is gone.
Damn that drabble. Almost as bad as cruft.
CW: Last night’s Lopez Show.
Jack: I know you’re a fan of this guy:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/09/sometimes-twitter-accounts-about-sht-your-dad-says-get-you-tv-deals/
Okay, so the strange room where the gang holes up after the explosion at Ed’s Museum, before going to ChattyBelle to gain entrance to Ivo’s pocket universe is meant to be a decrepit but not destroyed Blue Room at the Gobbler.
I knew at the time the Gobbler was destroyed, but figured in the RBT universe, at least, the Gobbler could hobble along to the present day.
So, sorry to those of you who follow my tweets and have already seen this, but I love love love this picture I took of my kids watching Up in a friend’s backyard tonight.
The weather was perfect and there were about 12 kids, their parents, one baby, 2 dogs.. and EVERYONE was well-behaved.
It was perfection: http://twitpic.com/p2rev
“and the discovery of a large cardboard box in the Capitol Rotunda Thursday that prompted minority whip Sen. Tiddles (R-TN) to call a recess so that he could sit inside of it.” Damn, that’s funny.
Thanks for the link, Johnny. That show will either be hilarious, or it will wreck the humor.
nulloperations, I saw you earlier!
Cj, that is very cool.
Morning Pan, work in progress, normal service will resume soon.
Morning, Van. *hugs*
Hang in there, Vanamonde.
I need to be asleep.
One last nudge for voicemails of your favorite “New Deadpan Slogans from the episode 142 comments”.
Goodnight, nudge.
Insomnia!!
Thanks to all.
One step at a time…..then a coffee break (or smoke ‘em if you got ‘em).
Jack: Yup, trying to be more virtual and real life social.
It’s actually kinda nice. Who knew?
Found out my Neighborhood has a forum. Joined it but it is so very empty. Still, such a strange but neat concept. Used to people on forums I talk to being across the country or on the other side of the world, not down the street.
Morning’s done. Now for work.
I accepted the nudging.
Production night last night, accomplished some top-notch podcast product.
I’m afraid the TV deal for the “SMDS” site will = fail.
IMHO – What makes that site HI-larious is that it is unscripted comments from someone who isn’t trying to entertain. He’s just saying it. It’s funny because he is like a TV character but in real life.
When you sitcomize it … he becomes just another grumpy dad character who wonders through the room and throws out abrasive one-liners. TV’s wasteland is filled with the dried up husks of that character and it’s many incarnations.
… I do see it doing well as a book.
Justa J0e: I have agree 100%
I assume it will be another reality TV show. Reread J0e’s comment.
Are we going to have a quiet morning while Bunny is off cuddling?
Thanks for the inbox of voicemail messages, by the way. You guys make me teary-eyed.
Good Morning, Pan!
Look what you did!
Oh, wait… That was me…
SMDS – I know I should follow the guy, but when I want to get abusive comments, I’d just talk to my friends…
Lejon often makes me teary-eyed when critiquing my writing.
(catch-up post with comments for 4 different people ahead!)
nulloperations: Go for it! I just hit 10,000 words yesterday afternoon, and I’m planning to do another long writing session this afternoon.
Oh, how I would like to clean out my stuff from the garage, and some of the stuff in my bedroom. Maybe after I’m done with this year’s NaNovel.
TEB: Both my school and my dad’s are giving us the day off today, too.
reaper said:
I’m a very strong Christian and I wield it like a soft pillow, an open door and a showing of love.
*high-five!*
JB: Awesome! I was familiar with the Gobbler before RBT, but didn’t catch that reference in RBT. I wish I had.
[doppler compression]aaaAAAHHHHHHH
[doppler stretching]HHHHHHhhhhhhh…..[/doppler]
Wow, not sure if that was a drive-by or plummet-by nipple from JfS…
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/coffee
interesting info about coffee and a little funny
I like plummet-by. paints a much funner picture.
As long as he had a parachute.
Or a bungee. Maybe it was a bungee and he’ll come screaming back…
Well then we should thank him for dropping by.
(I wonder if he passed the Coyote on the way down?)
jack, that paints an even better picture
BTW reaper, that coffee link has now been FWDed in emails.
I’m there: http://evoat11.com/2009/11/evo-11-show-60-the-double-entendre-show/
^I was in the chat room through most of the second half of that show. :-)
Amy, I spotted your recent tweet to Spellwight – - that was how I knew it was already released!
LOL, cool! :-D
The Number of the Beastie Boys…
Hi daylighters!
NaNo is going to turn the rest of my hair white.
So I’m going to have to keep doing it.
Hi, Nomad! Mom is typing away on her NaNo across the table from me, while I rush to finish the last chapter of Cisco Semester 1. I won’t get back to my NaNovel until I’m done with that
And has anyone been listening?
http://www.themeandvariationsanthology.com/
Yes – IMO Some writers right better than they read…
And music by some hack named Jack Mangan…
ZP savages Uncharted 2:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1078-Uncharted-2-Among-Thieves
I have yet to check out Lon Prater’s, but Rick Novy and Caroline Rhodes are both good writers.
That Mangan poseur will have a T&V story of his own in a few weeks.
Enjoying a day of friends and rockband and lots of little children too!
Hey, you guys, anyone wanna send my mom an email wishing her a happy birthday? That would crack her up!
She’s twinklersmom AT cableone dot Net
You know you want to! :)
Dollhouse has been cancelled.
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni1181256/
Nobody tell Ed.
…
Happy birthday, Cj’s mom!
This is in the back of my pickup truck.
I am not going to sleep for days.
http://www.twitpic.com/p4yb1
Cj: Wait, seriously? That’s a whole lotta cans.
Jack Mangan: Wow… a Whedon series made it two whole seasons on Fox… That’s something like a record, right?
Yep, JN, seriously.
They were donated for Podcamp AZ.
FOX is ….
I have a low opinion of them. Hopefully Bravo will pick up the show.
Looks like WP didn’t like my string of os in response to Cj.
I have a NaNoWriMo buddy that just wrote me to make me commit to 2400 words a day for the rest of the month. I just made 574. Total. I think she’s out of her mind. It’s good to push your buddy, but I think I just want her to go away.
Well, I can’t say I’m surprised. While it is a fascinating show with interesting characters and themes that challenge the viewer…..well, actually, all of that is pretty much why it was doomed.
I’m glad we’re at least getting all the episodes for season 2. Sadly, this one has just not been able to make a dent in the ratings.
Whatever will happen to my Beloved Dolls? Where will Echo go? What will happen to Victor? And Sierra…. Rrrrowrrr… what will she do? They don’t have the skills to survive in our society… Will they get wedged with their own imprints again?
Fox is dumb… I hate them…
LOL
Something about the simplicity and directness of point makes me want that quote on a t-shirt.
“Fox is dumb… I hate them…”
The art of Liu Bolin.
Work safe and often aw filled.
http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/meet-the-real-life-invisible-man.html
Speaking of art … here is one of the few books I found time to read this year.
Sort of a misleading title that makes sense in the end. I recommend it.
The Art of Racing in the Rain
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Racing-Rain-Garth-Stein/dp/0061537934
“Fox is dumb… I hate them…”
he he he
Boo, Fox.
Boo hoo this day.
*hugs for EssBee*
*no hugs for FOX*
*hugs for everyone except fox.*
I noticed that my DVR recorded “V” – too bad Dan probably won’t have time to watch it.
Look at me.. I got all my work done early and I’m free to do whatever I want tonight… hmmmm play online? I think – YES!
Google Reader has 600 thingies for me to scan through. I’m excited.
Well, that’s odd… I’m apparently now a moderator on a forum for my town. Kind of a weird concept for me at least, talking to people online who live within driving distance.
Come to find out, my town has a local, cozy, website. I think the last time anyone actually USED it was 1999. But it still loads.
Amy – You got your mom doing NaNo? That is bloody awesome!
Cj – speaking of Mums, I sent a birthday greeting. And I tried not to be creepy.
Cj: I too sent a birthday e-mail. But I tried to be creepy.
She told me. She called and was all giggles.. like mother like daughter.
She’s very appreciative of the e-mails :)
NS: Yep, I sure did! She’s known about it since I started doing it in 2004, but this is the first year she’s had time to do it, since she’s retired now. She is kicking word-count butt! :-D
Darcy & I watched the “V” pilot on DVR tonight. We kind of agreed it was pretty “meh.”
Amy – 2004? Wow. I first heard of NaNo in 2007 in the midst of November. That’s … *counting* … 250,000 words of speed writing. Nice!
I can’t say that I’m surprised at Fox. I’d pretty much given up on Dollhouse (again).
They needed to either tell the big story, the one that made Epitaph One amazing. Tell it, tell it all, tell it till it’s done, and then… be done.
Or they needed to back off of Ballard and Echo. They are the main characters, the heroes of the story, and when they progress the story ends. So they must stagnate in order to drag out the story. So stop focusing on them, show us the awesome nifty cool little characters for 90% of the show. Do more episodes where Whiskey is the awesome, but don’t mix that up with more boring Echo doesn’t progress nonsense. Minor character all the way through and then have Echo do her trademark highly symbolical minor action at the end of the episode that makes your hair stand on end.
Then again, I’m one of the idiots who loved Sarah Connor and am digging on SGU. So what do I know. =)
Null – Congrats on the 574. Now, let go of the steering wheel and close your eyes and just let the words flow out of you. If you fall asleep doing this, all the better.
I wish this wasn’t useless advice. I wish this wasn’t useful advice.
Hey, Amy, are you public about your NaNo id? I can’t seem to find you and wasn’t sure if I’m just being a ditz or if that is on purpose.
“This is batshit insane,” Mauris yelled. He was wearing a blue tie over his eyes and his face was red to match the safety muffs covering his ears.
“You will understand,” Don yelled back, also with the red muffs. “Now, just believe me and shoot the gun.”
Tania watched with shining eyes and licked a corner of her mouth. That looks like fun.
The loud retort made everyone’s ears rings, even through the safety gear.
“If I got a bullseye it is even more insane, just so you know.”
Rodger took his muffs off and started poking about in the ear cup.
He dug a finger around and came off with a big chunk of grey foam.
He put it back in and repeated the process on the other side.
The target came back and sure enough Mauris appeared to have completely missed it altogether.
Tania laughed at him.
Because his eyes were covered he had no idea what she was laughing, so he laughed in sympathy.
…
That’s my four characters. Not the most interesting scene, but pretty much where I am right now.
And I want to get the count from 700 to 800 before Jack posts.
Silly, I know.
Well…… fuck.
Farpoint has changed the FTP passwords and my new one doesn’t work. There may not be a new show uploaded tomorrow.
I’m a dry well, so let’s hit the standard… and I almost wish it was “Never gonna let you.”
Yo, Vanilla, kick it one time Boy
Yo, VIP, Let’s kick it!
Ice Ice Baby, Ice Ice Baby
All right stop, Collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention
(I have always misheard this as:
Ice is back with a brand new addition.)
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
(again, I mishear this as:
Flow like a hawk through daily and nightly)
Will it ever stop? Yo! I don’t know
Turn off the lights and I’ll glow
(That’s my favorite part, cuz he says “glow.” I like glowing things.)
To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
Light up a stage and watch me jump like a candle.
(I never could figure out what he said here, so I just sorta mummbled it.)
NS: It would be 250,000 words if I had won every year. It was actually:
2004: 34,000-some (have lost the original final total – didn’t keep a spreadsheet that year)
2005: 50,443
2006: 25,325
2007: 50,292
2008: 50,210
…for a grand total of 210,270.
My NaNo ID is Emiko. Yes, I’m public about it, I just joined that site before I started using my real name on most websites.
We’ve been saved from a full rendition of Ice by an early posting of an Unshow. Praise Cthulhu.
That’s a lotta words Amy… Wow.
Added you to my writing buddies Amy.
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/8526/screenshot2009111122362.jpg
Seriously, I love the character maker in Champions Online, but sometimes a friend of mine I think takes something before he jumps into making a new one.
Nullop: You made me laugh.
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