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Ben Stein is EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed.
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hulu: Watch your favorites. Anytime. Anywhere.. Uh... wow! http://www.hulu.com/firefly
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Here's the GNAP GNAP! episode of the Smurfs on Youtube. It appears to be the whole episode... to watch when I get home.
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I haven't had this much fun with a TV show in a while. I'm so glad it's on NBC instead of Fox... if it was Fox they'd cancel it.
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Fraggle Rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Theme.
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Isaac Hayes quits "South Park":
NEW YORK (AP)-- Isaac Hayes is quitting "South Park."
The musician who voices Chef says he takes issue with the way show deals with religion.
Hayes acknowledges there's a place for satire, but says there's a time "when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs of others begins."
Hayes is a Scientologist. Last fall, the show poked fun at Scientology and its celebrity followers, including Tom Cruise and John Travolta.
South Park co-creator Matt Stone believes Hayes' quitting "is 100 percent" due to his being a member of Scientology. Stone tells The Associated Press in the past, Hayes has "cashed plenty of checks with our show making fun of Christians."
It's a sad day.
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United Airlines dragon ad is a beautiful work of art, and the making of video is interesting as well. Via Ned Batchelder.
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Watching Saved! instead of going to sleep. Way better movie so far than I had expected it'd be when it was out in the theaters.
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Criminal Minds on CBS (Wednesdays at 9 Eastern) has both Mandy Patinkin and AJ Cook, so I gotta at least give it a shot. Though I'm very anti-Shemar Moore (he's too pretty). Not a fan of "Greg" (Thomas Gibson) either, but I'll keep an open mind.
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So, I've been listening to music on Pandora a lot lately. I'd previously been using it wrong and had dumped everything into one station instead of making stations targeted towards a particular genre. That had some weird effects... it would drastically flip genres (say, from rock to Charles Mingus) but once it flipped it would stay with a particular sound for a bunch of songs, so if I didn't feel like hearing jazz right now I'd be stuck fast forwarding a bunch of times. The station also kept playing Dido for some reason.
So I recently deleted everything and started all over making targeted stations, and that's worked a lot better. I just created a country station and "seeded" it with Carrie Underwood, and somehow got to wondering about Carrie's first audition on American Idol (which I've been watching fairly regularly this season, since it comes on right before House). Anyway, this site has the video of Carrie's audition.
Update: By the way, Pandora is really excellent. It's playing Arturo Sandoval on my jazz/swing station right now (and I hadn't ever told it that Arturo rocks), and on my classic rock station, for which I told it I like the Allman Brothers, it actually played two songs by them (at least one live) that I'd never even heard before (and which rocked). Anyway... highly recommended.
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The Fishbowl: You Wouldn't Steal a Movie.
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Just saw a commercial for Final Destination 3. It doesn't have A.J. Cook, and therefore I'm not interested.
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CW network to replace WB, UPN (via WHEDONesque). Whoa.
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Guardian Unlimited | In praise of ... Hugh Laurie. Hugh Laurie just won the Golden Globe for best actor in a drama series. That's great. House rocks. Though, Laurie says he's unhappy  Hopefully the award will cheer him up.
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13 Sayings of Woody Allen. One of which was on tonight's House.
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Whedon on Firefly's cancellation by Fox (via WHEDONesque):
"You know, I've talked to other people who have created many more successful shows than I have and they've gone through the same thing," Whedon says. "I think in my case it was particularly egregious. I think I was basically a victim of what I like to call 'dumb people' -- people who are never going to trust anything except what they already know."
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Howard Gordon, the "showrunner" for season 5 of 24, on seasons 4 and 5 (via WHEDONesque):
But this year, when Surnow and Cochran stepped back to write a new pilot, Gordon took over the top role. And he did so with the show coming off a critically and commercially successful season, which ended with Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer faking his own death. Keeping the show's complex storyline moving forward will be a challenge.
“Perhaps had we been on the BBC, it would have ended, because it was a great ending for a series,” Gordon says. “But commerce often trumps creativity, so we're back.”
Wow.
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WHEDONesque: Email group supports Firefly/Serenity filk music.. Neat, gotta check out what's there. One thing they have is Fruity Oaty Bars!
And, if you think fan music will be bad, this says different (search for the mp3 down the thread).
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Here's an excellent review of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by Brian Tiemann (via Steven Den Beste):
I hate to sound like a shill for rampant CG animation taking over the domain of the now-evaporating 2D animation market, but it certainly seems as though it's made it possible for the first time for directors with real storytelling vision to bring to life classic fantasy stories that until now had been impossible to visualize anywhere except in the mind.
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My friend's girlfriend's brother runs a movie theater, so I get to see The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe tonight 
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Steven Den Beste responds to my question about anime. Thanks!
Generally, characters who are young, or beautiful, or sympathetic, are drawn with very generic facial features. Characters who are old, ugly, eccentric, or evil, are drawn with more distinctive facial features.
To me that immediately brings to mind Chihiro in comparison to Yu-Baaba in Spirited Away.
[McCloud's] theory was that when characters are drawn with minimal and generic facial features, then they are more accessible because we fill those characters with our own ideas of what they are. If characters are drawn with more specific details, then we do less of that, and as a result the character feels more different, more foreign. It's like being held at arm's length.
This is very helpful. I've been fascinated by how anime artists/cartoonists are able to capture certain things often which such simple art. As one example, I've always found Yuu in Samurai Champloo to be pretty. But she's pretty not because the artists drew every detail of her face, but because they were able to capture some essentials and leave the rest of the details out.
I do have to find my copy of Understanding Comics when I get back to Nashville.
Update: Steven has an update to his post that covers another thing I was thinking about:
I've long had a suspicion that one of the big reasons so many anime characters have unusual hair colors is that some character designers simply need more than are present in nature in order to differentiate the characters they're designing, due to the fact that they can't individualize them using the natural cues we actually rely on to recognize other humans.
That doesn't get done in every anime[, but it's] an extra degree of freedom to add along with differences in hair length and style, figure size, height, and presence of glasses.
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Firefly life lessons (via).
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The Hand Puppet Movie Theatre Presents Serenity (via WHEDONesque). Don't read if you haven't seen the movie! Incidentally, I didn't appreciate the personification of the spike.
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eBay: Firefly Costume - Mal's Original Browncoat. Wow! Sale ends Dec 11.
Update: Here's where you can buy replicas.
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SyFy: 'Spike' Movie Comes One Step Closer (via WHEDONesque, but they removed the post):
... Tim Minear has agreed to both write and direct the television movie for the beloved character. Minear, who has written and directed for “Buffy,” “Angel” and Joss Whedon’s short-lived “Firefly” series, said he is looking forward to continuing his work in the Buffyverse and agreed to work on the project the second Whedon approached him.
“I had lunch with Joss and he asked me [if] I wanted to write and direct some blond vampire movie thing,” said Minear. “Should I do it? I of course said yes right off. Still, anything under 13 hours scares me and anything over 13 hours … um, I got nothing.”
Bwa ha ha ha. Too funny. But sad
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Watched The Incredibles last night on DVD on my laptop. What a great movie!
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Man, after last night's House I want to carry a Geiger counter with me everywhere.
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WHEDONesque: Firefly soundtrack released on CD today in the States. Woo. Only question is whether they've been able to fit a good enough portion of the wonderful music from the show on this CD, or whether it'll be disappointingly incomplete.
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Variety.com - Will 'Guy' fly with FCC?:
"It'd be the greatest compliment of all if they actually watched us and fined us," he says, laughing. "We'd know we'd gotten their attention."
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I looked like a 12 yr old boys bodybefore I got mine and I cant behappier...
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