Shaggy Existentialist Show Notes.
Jack Mangans Deadpan #177: Dark Star Datapalooza 1
LLAP visits the Deadpan (http://www.lovelongandprosper.com/podcast/)
Promo – Theme and Variations (http://www.themeandvariationsanthology.com/)
Welcome to the Darkstar Palooza. Contributions by:
Kurt in St. George
Mr. and Mrs. Energizer Bunny
Lo Pan
Rhettro
Greasy transmissions from greasy Dark Star in greasy space
Vanamonde (first of the week)
Johnny Null
The Energizer Bunny
Usedhair
Justa J0e
Ess Bee
Housekeeping:
Really, Sixty Lines Part 3 coming soon
Jack’s Story The Lighthouse Keeper written for PG Holyfields Murder at Avadon Hill (http://www.pgholyfield.com/maah/) should be dropping in October
Also has upcoming story in 20/20 visions anthology (http://www.ricknovy.com/frothing-at-the-mouth/)
as well as a story in Theme and Variations opus 2 (see eariler promo)
Next week we continue our discussion Dark Star.
Send in content: 206-350-Tomi (8664) or e-mail: sphericaljackmatgmaildotcom
Closing music
I wish it would stop raining. The sound on the roof is making me sleepy.
Can’t help it, I’m going to tweet this too, but I have to say it more than once..
I just had to explain to a co-worker who Flock of Seagulls is…
hangs old head
After the explanation did they run, run so far away?
No, I brought the video up on my phone and he was like… “that sounds familiar…”
I’m like “well, of course because it’s awesome and they still play it all the time”
and he says, “I’m more of a Journey guy.”
um.
JB – You got the awesome showroom model! That’s … awesome!
There, kitty litter changed and garbage taken out.
It needs a name, I’m leaning toward a pumpkin motif.
The Killer Pumpkin?
FrankenPumpkin?
Car O’ Lantern?
Top of the mornin’, DP.
CP: Lipstick — The Buzzcocks
And, we’re back.
Went to one of our offices for a video conference with the India office (offices, offices, offices…)
Afterword, I drove across town to my regular office to get on my tasks. Well, come to find that the A/C has gone haywire in the building. Being on the first floor, it was only 90°F (32.2C for the non-domestic folk). The third floor was running closer to 100°F (38C).
So, I’ve packed up some stuff and brought it home to work on this afternoon. Working from home is not terribly effective for me, but likely more so that sweating my ass off. Most were leaving or heading to another building.
Hopefully order will be restored tomorrow.
“whipping it out”
Boy did I step in here at the wrong time. . . .
I am really starting to enjoy Haven. The characters have character & chemistry and I can put up with Vanamonde’s favorite part.
justa J0e: Happy to help.
Vanamonde: And if he heard of the brane theory, he’d beat his head against a desktop for a few minutes.
Congrats on the car purchase, JB – especially with the fancy paintjob.
You’ve blinded me with Scions.
Wow. How long have you waited to whip that one out? ;-)
Jack’s a musician. They don’t usually -wait- to whip it out. :cough:
You mean like Devo or R. Kelly?
*cough cough*
“Focus says gay groups pushing agenda in schools”
Just so you know.
CP: Let It Ride — BTO
Cool photo due to iPhone’s camera design:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sorenragsdale/3192314056/
Boing Boing likes my coffee maker. :)
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/30/aeropress-fast-porta.html
Nomad, I’m with ya on Haven. Really like it.
The show that was losing me that I now really like is Eureka.
EssBee, I knew there was something up with all of those female gym teachers.
Some nice Mass Effect 2 cosplay:
http://kotaku.com/5619340/miranda-from-mass-effect-2-cosplay-done-right/gallery/
http://kotaku.com/5625154/hey-its-jack-from-mass-effect-2/gallery/
Oooh, ditto, I NEED one of those for the office!
Jack? Miranda? Or the Coffee Maker? ;)
That is The Agenda, Jack.
YES, ditto!
I thought so! :)
A thought provoking article on Twilight, comics for girls, and female fans.
http://www.tcj.com/hoodedutilitarian/2010/08/twilight-the-plight-of-the-female-fan/
But the coffee maker looks awesome!
I have been pretty busy these past 5 days and I have a feeling I came in to read some comments at a bad time with all this “whipping it out” talk
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j126/rhettro1/MirandaYvonne.jpg
Awesome cosplay of the Mass Effect’s Jack! Although, I would have a hard time accepting anyone else in the role of Miranda except for Yvonne Strahovski. She did the voice acting for Miranda, but it is quite obvious that the modelers took her likeness. I changed her to a brunette in the above example to illustrate this point. :)
reaper: Could be whipping out boobs
Rhettro: lol
Johnny Null: Touché
Or maybe Cassy McKinnon. LOL
Could be whip creaming boobs?
but that involves covering them
A nice surprise when you lick it off though..
cough
Van, if you are coughing you might need to slow down a little
CP: Royal Station 4/16 — Melissa Etheridge
Carnitas for dinner tonight.
CW: The Nazis’s: A Lesson from History
You know, if someone handed me the power of life and death over somebody with no consequences on my actions..I’m not sure I would choose wisely.
I mean I hope I would, but I couldn’t be 100% sure.
Mmm, Carnitas!
Evil Van? Hmmm. I like it.
On FB I’m talking to this Spanish woman, while her English is a million times better than my Spanish (which consists of Senor and Ole), she sometimes comes out with some strange comments like:
“This question corrodes my curiosity”
I suspect she maybe using google to translate her Spanish into English.
Hello, Pan. I just sent in some content for the next part of the Dark Star Palooza via the voice mail line. I watched it this afternoon.
There was a lass who looked like Ramona from SP on the trAin today, I resisted ogling.
+on the train
“This question corrodes my curiosity”
You know, Van. I like that. I’m going to have to use that one. :)
wOOt! Amy sighting!
That idea corrodes my patience, ditto.
CW: Top Chef
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Just finished The Girl Who Played With Fire and started The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. Really digging these novels.
The Mastodon video for “Oblivion” is very Dark Star-esque.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6WGNd8QR-U&ob=av2e
Indeed it is! That band is a bunch of sci-fi geeks.
Speaking of geekery, this is kinda cool:
http://blastr.com/assets_c/2010/08/hobbit2-45800.php
First 31 60L3 Lines sent out. I hope to get to the rest tomorrow.
Goodnight
Well after enjoying the first two graphic novels in the SP series..I’ve ordered the rest…woot!
Morning Pan, off to see ‘The Girl Who Played With Fire’ today, looking forward to it.
Alright, let’s see if the office is less than 90°F this morning…
Jack wrote:
Speaking of geekery, this is kinda cool:
http://blastr.com/assets_c/2010/08/hobbit2-45800.php
As long as we’re going to be geeky here. This comic misspelled Silmarillian. Shame on them.
Just realized that I had an old, seldom used, email address listed for posting comments here. Jack, please use my gmail address to send 60 lines stuff. My apologies if they have already gone out and I missed them.
Ack !!!
My lower back is KILLING me.
make . it . stop
We watched Treasures of the Twilight Zone last night. The episodes (three of them) were hit-and-miss. However, the interview with Serling was really good. Usually we don’t bother with these, but I’m glad we gave it a watch. Very smart guy, very well spoken. It was nice to watch someone that really wanted to raise television to a high standard. It was also very interesting to listen to Serling and Wallace discuss censorship and pre-censoring. A letter-writing campaign was actually raised (and successful) against an episode of Lassie, the one where Lassie gave birth to puppies. The letters (basically all sent the same day, from the same area (the south), with the same handwriting) compared the episode with taking kids to a burlesque show. [I know how to spell "burlesque"? How'd that happen?] I was shocked that you could essentially cut-and-paste the discussion and drop it into current-day television, and it would fit perfectly.
Van, looking forward to a review.
Hey Pan.
Watched a movie yesterday. It took place on another planet. The scary creature was… space bears!
It was a terrible movie
Best movie evar! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790746/
That looks . . . um . . . “good.”
Yes… “good” is how I’d describe this movie
I know a number of Panites listen to Decoder Ring Theatre podcast. What do you think of the original unreleased episodes?
Hubby and I are really digging them. All countries should have a dog shadow leader
CP: Wah Wah Blues — Earl Hooker
My iPod must be in tune with my life. It seems to pick appropriate songs for the moment.
Well I would have to agree that ‘The Girl who played with Fire’ felt it was just setting things up for the third movie, still good though.
Apart from the fights..but that maybe because they were realistic..( darn that Scott Pilgrim movie..)
Well there is a sex scene between two women Essbee..so that may be all you need.
Cough
WhaHUH what!!!!!
Good
Morning
!
This may be my last comment this week… I’m busy.
OK… It may NOT be my last comment this week.
…still busy, though…
I knew there would be, Van. I’ve read the book!
I watched the first episode of Ultraviolet through Hulu+ yesterday. Besides the bewildering car chase (I have no idea what was supposed to be happening), it was nearly as good as I was expecting.
CP: One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer — George Thorogood & The Destroyers
I haven’t read the books, so don’t know how faithful the films are.
Also Lisabeth’s girlfriend being a kick boxer..was that in the first book? It wasn’t in the first film.
So the new Apocalyptica album is pretty good, if you can forgive the occasional crappy pop-metal tune. I’ll have a review up at Metalasylum.net eventually.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/7970619/Obama-could-kill-fossil-fuels-overnight-with-a-nuclear-dash-for-thorium.html
Maybe a little over optimistic, but very interesting.
I have to give the ne Apocalyptica a listen. :) I wanted to follow up on your Mastodon – Dark Star comment. In addition to them being geeks, check out the beards! Must be a band made up of Linux programmers. :)
Back from shopping!
Rhett, hubby and I commented on the DarkStar beards in our recording. You’re right, they’re silly.
Got some good news this morning. I’ve been on a waiting list for a specialist for several months. Finally have a date in early October. For me, this is really good news.
TEB: yea!
TEB: Good luck!
yay, Bunny!!
Good news TEB, way to go.
In regards to the beards in DS, the ship and the crew were breaking down, so could be argued that either couldn’t shave (no spare water or equipment) or couldn’t be bothered to shave..Boiler did attempt to use scissors to keep his moutache in trim.
SFX reviews the latest TP book:
http://www.sfx.co.uk/2010/08/27/book-review-i-shall-wear-midnight-terry-pratchett/
Well that explains the beards of Dark Star, but what of Mastodon?
Have you ever heard of a hairless Mastodon?
Those Woolly Mammoths can be inscrutable.
Rhettro:
Hopefully I’m back for good now. You’ll hear from me in the next episode (I hope) talking about Dark Star a bit, and you’ll definitely hear me in 60 Lines Part 3. I got my lines today.
TEB: Original unreleased episodes? Is this a monthly supporter perk?
LOL
Just saw a Daily Show from last week where he was talking about Fox’s coverage of the controversial community center in New York.
Apparently the Fox and friend people were going on and on about how it was being funded by this Saudi Sheik who had know ties to terrorist baddies and funded their activities. They always called the dude by his title but never his name … turns out that this EVIL SHEIK … is one of Ruport Murdock’s business partners and PART OWNER OF FOX !!!
hahahahahahahaha
So, if you watch Fox news you are increasing their viewer-ship thus increasing what they can charge for Advertisement which makes this EVIL SHEIK richer and their fore, by Fox’s own reasoning … … you are clearly supporting TERRORISTS!!!
“Follow the money” INDEED ! LOL
On more DS type topical stuff …
Re: the beards.
I never took it as reflection of the fashion of the times. Like the “target practice” in the hallway I figured that the lack of grooming was just another sign of how they had given up caring about “social convention”.
Haha, justa. I would totally marry Jon Stewart.
Amy: That’s great news. :)
JOe: It seems reasonable that Fox would take funding from the very people that create the controversies they want to cover. The evil sheiks get a kick back from their nefarious schemes, and Fox news gets more fearmongering stories to cover that advertisers love. Win win?
Amy, while I’m a monthly supporter, my hubby is not and he got them. Actually he got them and I didn’t. Go to decoder ring theatre on I-tunes. I found them there when he told me. They’re called Red Panda (Original Universe). There should be six of them.
Wait, I didn’t get any 60 lines yet.
In other news: Frak yeah, I got my copy of The Starter today!
TEB: Oh, yes, I see them now. They’re showing up back at the beginning of the Decoder Ring Theatre feed.
Amy, also, for whatever reason, they’re dated 2005 on i-tunes
Ok, you caught that yourself
It’s beginning to sound like The World is not Enough for Fox… or a bad plot to a mediocre Bond film…
Lejon, would that mean Glenn Beck was Octopussy?
No, I’d make him Nick Nack
Or at the very least, remove the “octo”
Hey Jack, on a side note, show notes are going to be late Thursday. I have to go downtown first thing in the morning. They may not be done until closer to lunch time.
Cool:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/aug/31/not-the-booker-prize-nominations-open
Glenn Beck would be more like “Odd Job” or maybe Max Zorin.
Bill O’Reilly would be Blofeld.
At first I thought S. Palin might be “Plenty O’Toole” but she was mistakenly killed by the baddies … and really much to big a part for Caribou Barbie.
Really, she’d be more like Maybelle (the wife of Sheriff J.W. Pepper) from The Man with the Golden Gun”.
Hmmm. I’m deciding that maybe I like Bond films a little too much.
On a much less interesting note, the transfer off all files over to the new HD for my 360 went smoothly..almost astounding for an MS product.
Just in case anyone is thinking of reading “Total Oblivion, More or Less”… don’t.
Well, I’ve had to abandon my office for the next week and a half. A/C is only partially working in the building, so I’ve had to camp in an empty office in our adjacent building.
Yee ha?
I wish I could do that Ed. I could stand to get away from the majority of the people in my current office. LOL
You aren’t alone TEB, haven’t got my lines either.
-Congrats on the data transfer, Van. It’s relevant to today’s conversation if you hummed the James Bond theme.
-Justa J0e is apparently a Bond expert.
-Sorry to hear about your heat woes. Keep cool, Ed.
-The 60 Lines emails are going out in alpha order, so Ryah, UsedHair, and Vanamonde will be closer to the end.
I have my lines. I’m ready for my close up….ok, maybe not.
A Bond film was the first R rated film I can recall really wanting to see. With every fibre of my being I wanted to see that film.
My parents wouldn’t take me.
i won’t say which one as it would seriously date me. Not that I couldn’t use a serious date.
I also remember the first PG film I ever went to see. It was a science fiction (now) classic.
Some one make sure the close hangers are kept away from Ed.
http://creative.ak.fbcdn.net/v41818/flyers/6/3/6002607096429_1_d5c3234f.jpg
Uh…
NS – FTW!!!
Good. It’s not just me.
Was Alien for me, it had an 18 certificate in the UK so I couldn’t see on it’s release, and the buzz about the film made that very frustrating.
I can’t say for sure what my first film I saw at the cinema..but probably was Where Eagles Dare (take THAT Father Time!).
Murderess Lane from the latest Hub was pretty good.
http://www.hubfiction.com/2010/08/issue-127/
First film in a theater was True Lies (1994).
…
Sorry if you’ve all heard this before, but my oldest memory is of seeing the Star Wars opening crawl in the theater.
Considering how many people get killed in that film it surprises me they would let little kids see that movie….ah but it was Germans of course..
And my apologies Van for kinda dissing that movie a few months back.
I’d love to see a *good* remake.
The first movie that I remember going to see in a theater is The Rescuers Down Under. It’s also the only movie I’ve ever walked out of, but that was because the villain in it was really scary.
That’s adorable.
Anyway, all of the 60 Lines emails are away! Contact me if you haven’t received them, or if you have any questions.
Goodnight :Fett:
http://bit.ly/93luuU
I cannot claim to have discovered this on my own. It was tweeted by Stephen Fry.
Yummy?
Ugh!
Although as somebody mentioned on the comments, if the filtering is doing it’s job, why not just add cane sugar.
Well, it may be obvious, but
“Then we add cane sugar”
Won’t get you tweeted by Stephen Fry.
/strokes stubble on chin
Quite JB.
Oi Pan!
It’s dark outside. What’s that about?
Under the category of “why?”.
I have this big dragon night light in my living room. Hubby gets up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, sees the night light has burned out and decides, right then and there, to change the bulb. At 3:30 in the morning!
I woke up, noticed he wasn’t beside me and found him fiddling with it. I asked what he was doing he said “changing the light bulb” I asked him why it couldn’t wait until morning, shook my head and went back to bed.
Silly hubby
Month end. Ugh
Want to hear something amusing. I was grumping yesterday about not getting my sixty lines. Now that I have them, I can’t hand them in until tomorrow – stupid month end ugh
ok, so I find the little things amusing
I may actually hold off until the weekend and see if I can get hubby involved. Although I won’t hold my breath.
You could always threaten to huff and puff and blow his guitar down..
Are you insinuating I’m full of air – hot or otherwise?
No, with school back in, it’s harder to pin him down for other stuff. Especially if he’s playing with his friends this weekend, which I won’t know he’s doing until Friday.
A good review of one of my fav Asimov novels:
http://m.io9.com/5626793/were-already-living-in-the-world-of-isaac-asimovs-the-end-of-eternity
Contain pictures of covers for editions of the book released over the years.