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You may have been aware that there's a new take on Alice this Sunday night on SyFy. You may not have been aware that there's The Hero of Time, a new fan movie based on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, that will be available for online viewing or free download on Dec. 14.

There's also a very cool teaser making the rounds for Buck Rogers.

There's a silent film of The Call of Cthulhu (trailer here).

And leave us not forget the other two recent fan film opi, Horrible Turn and The Hunt For Gollum.

Any cool fan vid we should know about? Really good AMVs (anime music videos) count.

ETA: And, not too long after I posted this we got RtRNRi30S(aR-EbB).

ETA2: Re: release of The Hero of Time -- I cannot brain, I have the dumb. It's Dec. 14. Fixed.

First of several posts today. Yesterday, M. Spaff Sumsion of The Funny Music Project e-mailed around with some new lyrics which he hoped we could take advantage of with all possible speed. Steve Goodie and I signed up. I contributed a few jokes and one vocal line (you'll probably be able to figure out which one), and Steve's wife Barbara Dorris contributed excellent lead vocals, and we've got a new FuMP.

Like everyone else, I'm looking for a room. These are my preferences, but I can be somewhat flexible. For example, stay at another hotel for 1 night.

I'd prefer:
Marriott
Check-in: 2010-09-02 (Thursday)
Check-out: 2010-09-07 (Tuesday)
King or Double or whatever.

Order of preference for other hotels would be Hilton, Hyatt, Sheraton.

Comment or email me at jo2y@midnightlinux.com

LiveJournal: The First Decade

Just in time for holiday shopping, we're thrilled to announce the release of our ten-year anniversary anthology. Published by Blurb.com, the book showcases a decade of extraordinary talent drawn from LiveJournal users around the world. This must-read compilation features stories, memes, photos, comics, editorials, graphic content, and more, including:

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Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay safe and snug out there!

Yeah, the state senate of New York voted down the gay marriage bill yesterday. Delaying the inevitable, perpetuating discrimination and inflicting religious beliefs on people by law. But at least one good thing came out of it.

I found about State Senator Diane Savino, who gave an amazing speech when she voted for the bill:

Hi, I called the main 4 hotels on Oct 10th and they were ALL booked up by then! I couldn't believe it! I really really need to get a room or rooms because quite a few of my out of state friends I haven't seen in years are going to be coming and we all need a place to party and crash :)

I'm looking for the room between the 3rd and the 5th or anything really. I'd *really* perfer to be in the big 4 as I really don't want to miss out on all the parties and fun like I have the last few years.

I PROMISE that if someone gives me their reservation or would share a room(s) with us, you are cordially invited to party with us and we will pay for your drinks/provide you with them all weekend long!

I giveth not the slightest defecation regarding L'Affaire de Tiger. (Several l'affaires, apparently. Or lays affaire. Or somethin'.) However, I am amused and annoyed at a news item today.

Before I tell you, understand that, around the corner from my place, there is a gas station which has a sticker on every pump, asking you to "Please Prepay In Advance".

huskiebear has noted the sign that says "Fresh Jerky".

Well, today we are informed that Tiger Woods' wife Elin is renegotiating her prenup.

[pinches bridge of nose]

Look, lady (and her spokesperson, and the various lawyers, and Jay Busbee, the guy who wrote the article). It's a prenuptial agreement. That means it's nailed down before the wedding, which was five years ago. Changing the terms now may be called any of several things, but I seriously don't think "prenuptial" is among them.

I dunno, though. Maybe I'm so isolated from these things that people renegotiate prenups all the time. I'm not a lawyer... just a relatively literate person.

Of course, the biggest crime is that this shit is all over the news media rather than the escalation in Afghanistan (there's a bumper sticker you may have seen, which says, "It is impossible to simultaneously prevent and prepare for war"), the continued gutting of the health care bill, the still-hideous unemployment numbers, the impending running-out of unemployment benefits, the lack of H1N1 vaccine... noooooo, the breaking news is Tiger fuckin' Woods. (The FuMP will have something to say about that tomorrow, by the way.)

Thoughts?

Irish & Celtic Music Podcast featured in the Celtic Gift Giving Guide of the Irish Fireside. is.gd/5asvN #

Oh! My Irish Drinking Songs CD is also featured in the Celtic Holiday Gift Giving Guide is.gd/5asvN #

The Elders have a new Christmas single "Christmas Day". Will post in my Christmas ed. of Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. is.gd/5asE1 #

I love looking at my new CD. It's to pretty. Except... I'm not used to the cover not being textured like the one I painted. Still way cool. #

Packing pre-orders of "The Bridge" to mail. marcgunn.com #

Marc Weeklies: Give "The Bridge" for Christmas: It's here! It's here! "The Bridge" has arrived!Every time I rel.. bit.ly/77ipuT #

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• My newest CD "The Bridge" arrived today! Now you can order it on my homepage. Or give it for Christmas. www.marcgunn.com/ #
• Added a wee Christmas theme to my website. www.marcgunn.com/ #

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A big thank-you to everyone who Asked DCTV in advance of the convention this year. As usual we had scads of great questions, more than we could ever use. In fact, this year I ended up smushing multiple questions together into one bumper! Your question-asking makes my job of creating bumpers much easier.

buffyphreak had a question about sparkling vampires, while glasscannon wanted to know why Buffy fans are so bitter. We answered both questions!
stigmund wondered when we'll get out of Comic-Con's smug shadow.
captains_folly wanted to know how to teach muggles in the ER about geekdom.
dianne_the_geek wondered how to make sure to get a room for Dragon*Con next year.
gypsychilde asked why we haven't made a show called "Keeping Up with the Cardassians".
pyro_ike wanted to know if, at the Mad Scientists Ball, the mad scientists stand on the wall opposite the cute lab assistants.
lanofaylin wondered if it's best to dress as an Enterprise crew member or an X-Man when meeting Patrick Stewart.
dementia was worreid about what childhood toy Hollywood would next steal for a movie.
jellibean asked for a written excuse for missing class on Thursday.
amelia_80 asked what all Edward James Olmos has invented other than SF.
alexdelarge78, greyloch, crazeyal, heartfully_cai, and dementia had so many questions about Twilight.
radegund_lj needed to know what other books like Pride & Prejudice & Zombies we'll soon see.
lomer wanted help on how to explain to a celebrity that she and her sister weren't interested in a threesome with him.
colbane was curious about why all of the TV show characters are getting younger than him.

Thanks again. You guys are the best.

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Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

On this date in 1914. Or on November 2. Or February 12. Sources differ. (Thanks for noticing the discrepancy, skunktaur.)

Who are some of your favorite supporting actors? The people who lift a film to the next level -- people who certainly can star, and sometimes do, but more often have the roles that actually make the film interesting. (My purest example is the animated movie, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, which was chugging along pretty well until, halfway through, the Joker [voiced by Mark Hamill] showed up, and the movie just rocketed into the stratosphere.) I love Walston, Burgess Meredith, Patrick Warburton, Peter Jurasik, Maggie Smith, Minnie Driver, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd, Kathy Bates, Lily Tomlin....

ETA: Just when is Ray Walston's birthday, anyhow...?

• Celtic Invasion of Scotland dates change to May 17-24, 2010. Early bird discount extended til Dec15. Just 4 seats avail. is.gd/598zd #

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Turns out that humans are genetically inclined to help one another. Which certainly works for me. If our freakin' government isn't gonna do it, it's up to us.

• This weekend is the eighth Acorn Music & Verse filk in Ann Arbor, run by shadowriderhope. It's not gonna go as long as usual, I suspect, because Christine Lavin is performing a charity concert for MCREST. (She'll be joined by the Mistletones.) Even if you can't make it out there, MCREST can always use help.
• One of my own local food banks is Food Gatherers.
• National food bank finder sites include Feeding America and strength.org.
• kshandra informs us that britgeekgrrl and her husband dancingshaman could really use some help. See, dancingshaman has opted not to continue chemo, and he hasn't got long left, and they need $1400 for his cremation. Her PayPal addy is johanna_mead at yahoo dot com. If you can't donate financially, there's a group for those who can give time and energy.
• On a somewhat brighter note, there's a satirical effort to pass a law in California outlawing divorce. Because Prop 8 doesn't go far enough, y'see. Check out RescueMarriage.org.

Any other good causes we should know about? Link 'em up.

ETA: idancewithlife informs us in comments that Alex did pass away. Condolences and gentle songs to britgeekgrrl and their family. They did get sufficient donations to cover the cost of cremation, and thanks to everyone who kicked in.

Mr. President, we cannot afford this war. (Link to Daily Kos page with video and a link to a transcript.)

I am pleased and excited to be able to announce that Michael Swanwick has accepted our invitation to be the Author Guest of Honour at the inaugural SFContario. Our confirmed guests are:

Michael Swanwick-Author GoH
Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden-Editor GoHs
Geri Sullivan-Fan GoH
Karen Linsley-Filk GoH.

Newest Tom Tomorrow cartoon.

Was just wondering if anyone has heard anything about their reservations that was booked through that passport site online? I booked two rooms at the Marriott and two at the Hyatt and I haven't seen anything come across my email saying confirmed by the hotels other than the confirmation number I got when I placed the reservations. The reservations are still not showing up on my hotel frequent guest card accounts. If anyone has any news, I would like to hear.