Dr. Who?

Haha psych! You thought this was going to be yet another post about Doctor Who! Wrong!! This is a post about Dr. Seuss -- feel like a dummy yet?

So apparently before he was an accomplished author (but after To Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street)Dr. Seuss (or Theodore Geisel) drew political cartoons for a magazine called PM. There is a book of his art from 1941 - 1943 called Dr. Seuss Goes to War (available on Amazon). The cartoons are instantly recognisable as Seussian -- but the subject is well -- not so Seussian. Here's a few examples. Surreal no?

What's in my purse? Volume 2

Cell Phone
iPod, headphones, iTrip
Compact
Pomade
Can of Diet Mug Rootbeer
32 loose pens (16 black, 16 blue)
Wallet
3 ticket stubs for Steel City Wheelers raffle
Peanuts Chapstick (Linus' Lemon and Lime)
I <3 Hamilton Lighter
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Hamilton Public Library Newsletter for November

Is there a horrible doctor in the house?!

Remember when you used to watch Doogie Howser and think to yourself "If only Doogie was less of an smarty pants little kid, more evil, in a musical, a lot funnier"? No? Yeah, me neither -- but watch Doctor Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog -- and you'll wonder why you didn't!

Made by Joss Whedon and his brothers -- this is what happens when writers and actors have some extra time on their hands. This was all written, produced, and filmed during last years WGA strike. All the financing came out of Joss Whedon's pocket (he can afford it anyway) and the actors worked for free -- with the idea that if it made any money they'd get a share of the royalties. You can currently download the show, and the music off of iTunes and Amazon -- and the soundtrack and DVD are being released this holiday season.

This is worth checking out for any fan of musicals, comic books, Neil Patrick Harris, or awesomeness.

Messages from the TV...

Ever have one of those moments when it appears the TV is speaking directly to you? I never realised I had so much in common with a 40 year old gay man played by Brian Posehn... ok so maybe I realised a little.



Oh Doctor Lazer Rage -- you're so worth $175

Geek Holiday Time pt 2

OK.. I seriously contemplated about making this one post -- but they're two different days!

Monday Nov 24th is "Talk like a Dalek Day"




All together now -- EXTERMINATE!!!

Geek Holiday Time! Pt 1

What better way to jazz up another crappy "Novempoopy" but to celebrate geekdom?

This Sunday marks the 45th anniversary of Doctor Who!

On Saturday Nov. 23rd 1963 at 5:15pm Doctor Who was broadcast for the first time on BBC. William Hartnell starred as the Doctor, and it received a 9% share -- which is respectable, even by todays standards. Although, if you think about it -- people only had 2 or 3 channels in the 60s didn't they? Does that mean 91% were watching ITV? (I just looked it up actually -- apparantly 8% of people tuned in to ITV at that time -- I guess the rest were just watching static).

Anyhoo -- to celebrate this landmark the BBC website has put up a few links to some of the Doctor Who Archives. There's some interesting stuff there, including some research BBC did on Sci Fi to see if such a show could do well. The best stuff is some of the original outlines for what the show was to be. Originally the Doctor had an invisible spaceship. That would look kind of like a bubble (not that invisible I guess) -- Sydney Newman noted that it might be better if the Doctor's ship was a familliar object that people would recognise from the street...like a Nightwatchmens booth. The rest is history! Also worth noting is the orignal concept for the "secret of Doctor Who" -- Click the images below to get a closer view.

All images are property of the BBC obviously. Check out the actual site here.

*Insert Time pun here*

Time Out New York has announced the winners of the 2nd annual "shadow Emmys" These awards recognise those actors and programs who didn't receive Emmy nominations in real life. I maintain that for the most part the winners here were better than the winners of the real Emmys. And thats not just my Doctor Who love talking -- but my Mad Men love talking too. Also Anne Dudek was great in House last season -- better than Elisabeth Moss? I don't know. I can't believe none of these people got nominated. I can't think of one of them who doesn't deserve an Emmy more than Jeremy Piven!

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
WINNER: David Tennant, Doctor Who
Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights
Bruce Greenwood, John from Cincinnati
Peter Krause, Dirty Sexy Money
Christopher Meloni, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

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Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
WINNER Anna Friel, Pushing Daisies
Melora Hardin, The Office
Kaitlin Olson, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Jordana Spiro, My Boys
Yvonne Strahovski, Chuck

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Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
WINNER: James Roday, Psych
Jeffrey Donovan, Burn Notice
Colin Ferguson, Eureka
Brett Harrison, Reaper
Zachary Levi, Chuck

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Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
WINNER: Lena Headey, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights
Leighton Meester, Gossip Girl
Kim Raver, Lipstick Jungle
Sonya Walger, Tell Me You Love Me

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Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
WINNER: Bruce Campbell, Burn Notice
Adam Baldwin, Chuck
Rick Gonzales, Reaper
Justin Kirk, Weeds
Ray Wise, Reaper

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Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
WINNER: Vincent Kartheiser, Mad Men
Tate Donovan, Damages
Aaron Douglas, Battlestar Galactica
Michael Hogan, Battlestar Galactica
Tom McCarthy, The Wire

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Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
WINNER: Judy Reyes, Scrubs
Jenna Fischer, The Office
Angela Kinsey, The Office
Melissa McCarthy, Samantha Who?
Elizabeth Perkins, Weeds

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Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
WINNER: Anne Dudek, House
January Jones, Mad Men
Elizabeth Mitchell, Lost
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Emily Rose, John from Cincinnati

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Outstanding Comedy Series
WINNER: Pushing Daisies
Burn Notice
Chuck
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Reaper

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Outstanding Drama Series
WINNER: Battlestar Galactica
Friday Night Lights
John from Cincinnati
Tell Me You Love Me
The Wire

Look what I can do!! (for Melinda!)

Ok so here’s how the game works:
*Link to the person that tagged you
*Post the rules on your blog
*Share six interesting things/habits/quirks about yourself - anything that comes to mind.
*Tag six people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs … people you would like to know things about.
*Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.

OK Melinda, I'm not as popular as you -- or my friends aren't as tech savvy as yours. I don't have 6 friends with blogs -- I don't even think I have 2. Yes that's right it's all you man. I can't really pass on the game -- so I'll post 6 random things just for you!!

1. I learned how to write my sisters name (in handwriting) before I learned to write my own. One guess on who taught me.

2. I love classifying myself as a nerd. It's not that I hunt out ways to become more nerdy -- but when I do become interested in something nerdy -- I talk about it a lot, and tell people about it so I can make a comment about how nerdy I am.

3. An example of nerdiness? I've recently begun reading books on 'recreational mathematics' and 'theoretical physics'. Ask me about about the 5th dimension and I'll talk for hours.

4. While in highschool I was a compulsive liar. I lied about everything, and usually for no reason at all.

5. In 'English Writing' class in OAC we had to write an essay for Remembrance Day, the only parameters that we got were that it had to be at least 750 words, and had to have something to do with Remembrance Day. My original essay was about the German's use of Unicorns in WW1. I proposed that they were used as transportation and weapons, and that Kaiser Wilhelm III was a big fan, which is why he wore the helmet with the spike on it. I got kudos for my creativity, but had to write a new essay that wouldn't piss of the veterans so much. (Now scroll down and look at my Nov 11 post)

6. I HATE showering. I still do it, but I don't like it.

Who and the farmer?!

To Emilie.

Click me and turn on your speakers
Enjoy!!

oh yeah, and ANSWER YOUR DAMN PHONE!

-Linny

Take Twenty Five!

Never have I felt as old as I do now -- then again, I've never been as old as I am now -- whoa cosmic! Anyway -- there's this girl I work with who was born in 1991 (ack!!) and she referred to me as "motherly" MOTHERLY! The same day I noticed that Presidents Choice brand is also celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Here is a list of other things that are as old as me.

PC Products (Presidents Choice)
Cell phones - made available to the public by Motorola for the first time in 1983
Microsoft Word
Swatch brand watches
Linux 1-2-3
Cabbage Patch Kids
"Weird Al" Yancovic's career -- debut release of "Ricky" in February 1983.
J. Crew
Micheal Jackson's "Thriller" album
CD's introduced by Phillips and Sony
Britain's 1 pound coin
The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT
Lap Top Computers (made my Compaq -- ran about $3000 each)
Karaoke machines
HBO Films
Super Mario Bros (the arcade game -- the NES, and subsequent home game came out 2 years later)
Costco
AT&T
LensCrafters
Plinko!
CMT, TNN, and the Disney Channel
Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E to keep kids off drugs!
The Moonwalk
Blackadder
Entertainment Weekly magazine
Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy (in syndication)

and my personal favourite....
the internet!!

Lest We Forget