Archive for August, 2007
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In the immortal words of Dwight K. Shrute, “Summer is over. It’s time to get back to work.” NBC has posted a clip on You Tube called “The Office Summer Vacation” where it touches base with all the cast members and asks them what they did for the summer. If you’re a fan of the show you KNOW you have to check it out (Thanks Pop Candy for pointing out the video). Also did you know that when the show returns on Sept 24th the first four episodes will all be an hour long!
In other news, I may* have a place to live in DC. I don’t want to say too much until I’ve actually signed a lease and its officially mine. Beside that there is some family drama going on, but hopefully I’ll be moving at the beginning of next week. Which means normal posting will start once I have internet hooked up (assuming I do actually move).
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Updated@2:01p.m. 8/24-2007: Lost the apartment to stupid technicalities and nothing I can do. Now I’m really frustrated and in a bad mood. So back to apartment hunting.
Today I drove to DC, handed in a security deposit and finished initial paperwork for an apartment. The apartment becomes available tomorrow and thats when my paperwork will be processed. Now here’s the catch… chances are I won’t pass a credit check and if so I need a co-signer (Last year at Sarah’s and my place she had to get her mom to be a co-signer. Since Sarah has like beyond perfect credit and finances I’m sure I’ll need a co-signer at my new place). So I’ll know by 10a.m. tomorrow about if I need a co-signer and then I’ll have all weekend to find one (my parents won’t be able to).
The apartment is perfect for me. It’s actually a studio-apartment, but the walk-in closet is JUST big enough to use as a small bedroom. I can fit a dresser, my bed, a night stand and still have some room. That way I can use the main living-room for just a living room/dinning room. The only thing I’m not sure about is WHERE I’ll put my massive library of novels and graphic novels.
The apartment is technically in Silver Spring but its right on right on the border with Bethesda and overlooks Rock Creek Park (I’ll post a view of my window once I move). I’m fairly confident its a nice and safe area. The “bad” parts of Silver Spring are more to the south, north, and east. The good news is that I’m about 2/3rds closer to school than I was last year and I’m on the other side of Georgia Avenue so traffic shouldn’t be anywhere near as horrible as it was last year.
So anyway… as long as I find a co-signer I’ll be packing this weekend and moving on Monday. My classes start Thursday and I’ll have internet whenever Comcast decides to hook it up so it may be a few days. But once they get it up and going I’ll be posting again on a daily basis.
Man I’m really excited about the place… just sucks I’m not getting it with Sarah.
Updated@6:14P.M. 8/13-07: Things are just starting to calm down here. The only problem is that I STILL don’t have a place in D.C. so I’m probably heading up there again for a few days to try and find something. I’m getting super-worried since classes start in like two weeks. Does anyone have any connections in the DC area?
Updated@11:50a.m. 8/6-07: MAJOR Family Emergency, Going to DC to look for a place to live, and Sarah’s last week! So I probably won’t post much this week. Sorry. Once things calm down and I get back to school I should be regular again.
It’s Friday, and you know what that means. Here is your weekly dose of Edit…
Errr correction… apparently this week we have Sarah standing in for Edit. This is Sarah at Fish Tales on Wednesday night, its where we took her New Zealand friends. I’m actually really really upset because Sarah leaves for Ohio (where she will start grad school) a week from today.
I just received word from the Sci-Fi Channel that “The Dresden Files” will not be returning for a second season. It is officially canceled.
People always love a Battlestar Galactica scoop, even when it’s a really small scoop. So here is my present to you: ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Grey’s Anatomy” is getting a fairly big revamp from what was originally planned for this up coming season. The two biggest changes are as follows:
Elizabeth Reaser, who played the Jane Doe, memory loss woman last season was supposed to be off the show, but Shonda Rhimes at the 11th hour decided to bring her back. Her new arc will last for several episodes but no word yet on how many exactly.
For those of you who love George with Izzie… well bad news. Shonda Rhimes, like most of America, hates having the two together. Rhimes says she had them hook up because the characters are flawed and now that they’ve made their mistake, she can end the relationship.
I’m hearing that Tennant will be leaving “Doctor Who” sometime during the fourth season and that he will be replaced by Irish actor James Nesbitt. The fourth season kicks off in Britain on September 9th so we’ll know soon if this is true or not.
Word on the street is that “Supernatural” wanted to bring back Jeffrey Dean Morgan, but that JDM’s schedule is so booked that they couldn’t. So don’t expect Daddy Winchester to show up during sweep months.
Stephen Lang (“A Few Good Men,” “Defiance”) and Michelle Rodriguez have joined the cast of James Cameron’s “Avatar” scheduled to hit theatres Memorial Day 2009 reports Variety.
Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, CCH Pounder and Wes Studi have already been cast, and in most cases shot many of their scenes for the performance-capture feature currently in production in Los Angeles.
Lang plays a Marine Corps colonel and Rodriguez an ex-Marine pilot. Production on the $190 million 3D feature, which combines live-action with photorealistic virtual characters and environments, moves to Wellington in New Zealand this October for a month of shooting.
“Avatar,” which will be filmed in a new digital 3-D format, is skedded to debut on May 22, 2009.
An ATM in Louisiana spit out $20’s instead of $5’s resulting in customers making $7,000. What’s lame is that the police are tracking down the people who were giving the cash.
DeSoto Parish sheriff’s Lt. Toni Morris said the automated teller machine has records identifying the 26 people who received the extra cash during five days in late June and early July.
Morris said charges could be brought against the people who got more money than was debited to their bank accounts.
That just seems wrong. Its like if you are at Wal-Mart and the clerk gives you back the wrong amount of change, you don’t arrested if you keep it. It’s Wal-Mart’s fault. So if an ATM give you money when its not supposed to that’s the bank’s fault. It would be different if it was hacked or something, but I’m betting some stupid bank clerk refilled the ATM wrong and put $20’s in the $5’s slot!
Going out with Sarah tonight! Should be a crazy crazy time. She has friends from New Zealand visiting so we are doing the cliché Ocean City tourist thing. So in honor of that I decided this old old photo of me and Sarah from seven years ago. Of course… depending on how late the night gets, posts tomorrow may be scattered or delayed. Though in my defense, most of the news this week is nothing but recapping SDCC stuff, which I refuse to do.
I went out to dinner with Sarah over the weekend and the restaurant had fried alligator on the menu. I’ve had snake, snails, octopus… but never alligator. So I couldn’t resist ordering it. It was lightly fried and served with a raspberry sauce.
It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t great either. It just kinda was. It tasted a lot like pork and the crispy pieces definitely tasted like bacon. I’m not sure if I’ll ever be willing to eat it again, but at least I can say I tried it once.
I made a rule that I’m only allowed to talk about one thing that happened at Comic-Con and I’ve decided I want to talk about Jeff Smith. I’ve been a fan of his since I was a little boy. “Bone” was the first comic I ever read. Then it and “Ultimate Spider-Man” were the comics that made me start reading comics again when I was in college. So needless to say I’m super excited about “RASL” (pronounced “rassle”) and if anyone bought one of the 6 page previews in San Diego, I’ll totally pay good money for it.
In an interview with Newsarama, Smith described the book as:
The story is about a thief — an art thief — who is known to the police as “RASL,” because that’s the tag he leaves whenever he steals a piece of art. He spray paints RASL on the wall in the spot where the art was. RASL has this … how do I describe it? … a full spectral immersion suit that he’s invented that really, basically, is made of these giant jet engines that he straps to his shoulders and his knees that have magnets in them, and he can create thermal-magnetic disturbances through space-time and step between dimensions. So if you were a really rich person who wants to collect, say, a Mona Lisa, you could pay RASL, and he’ll go to another dimension and steal the Mona Lisa for you!
Where as “Bone” lasted 60+ issues “RASL” will be put out five to six times a year for the next several years and will later be collected in a 200-250 page graphic novel. Even crazier is that Smith wants to publish it in an 11×17 format!
Man I’m so excited for this. Here is the six page preview (click to make larger):
Where you disappointed with how “Harry Potter” ended? Do you really want to know what happens with the characters? Then you may want to read this super-long interview with J.K. Rowling where she reveals tons and tons of info. It took me a good 30 minutes to comb through the whole thing.
Be careful though! ((one spoiler after the break so if you’ve not read the book then stop reading now)) ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve posted over and over again about the whole Isaiah Washington scandal on “Grey’s Anatomy” but it seems Shonda Rhimes (the shows creator) finally broke her silence. In an interview with TV Guide she really tears into Washington:
So the decision to fire Isaiah was not something that was imposed on you?
Rhimes: The great thing about [ABC Studios head] Mark Pedowitz and [ABC president] Steve McPherson is they never imposed anything on me.So you agreed with the decision?
Rhimes: Of course I did.When was the moment when you realized, ‘You know, we’re going to have to make a change here?’
Rhimes: Again, I feel like this is stuff that happened in our family, and I don’t want to give specifics on sort of how and what happened. But there was a moment when I was sure and felt good and comfortable about the decision and that it was the right decision to be made for everybody.
