Sillybean

Short version: Joss Whedon has a musical web serial; go watch it.

Longer version: this is the video blog of Dr. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris), a hapless evil genius who’s trying to perfect a freeze ray that will stop time long enough for him to figure out what to say to the pretty girl at the [...]

Big screen first:

Definitely, Maybe — I like Ryan Reynolds quite a bit, but he fell a little flat for me in this, and I’m not sure if he was really bad or if he just didn’t have much to work with. All three of the women he’s involved with are wonderful, and of course Abigail [...]

The strike is over. Thank God. Because Conan came on while I was working on the new Paged Media design, and OMG it’s painful to watch.

I hear we’re getting a second season of Pushing Daisies but no new episodes in this season, and Battlestar Galactica will finish out its story but probably get split into [...]

Steven Brust has posted his Firefly novel online under a Creative Commons license.

ETA: A bit of backstory on how this came about, from a 2006 con report.

Striking writers propose episodes of other writers’ series, including the Daily Show writers finishing off Pushing Daisies:

Attempting to revive his strike-threatened show, Ned decides to “touch himself.� Unfortunately, he enjoys it so much he touches himself again, killing the series for good.

See also Friday Night Lights as completed by the writers of The Office.

I’ve just finished watching all nine existing episodes of Pushing Daisies. I’m going to expire from love of this show. Poor Ned will have to hop out of the TV to revive me so I can go around pressing other people into watching it.

New words: 981
Reason for stopping: quota, must go get some other things done today, because that took hours
Sustenance: Raspberry tea, yummy basil-tomato cheddar I picked up at Blue Baker the other day
Exercise: BodyFlow yesterday. Meant to go running today, but writing has taken too much time.
Mean things: Sweaters with little pink kittens.
Time wasters: Cassie Edwards. [...]

Good news: new Joss show.
Better news: it stars Eliza Dushku.
Even better news: the network has ordered 7 episodes, not just a pilot.

Bad news?

The network in question is Fux Fox.

ETA: Minear is in on it. Oh Lordy. The deathwatch has already begun.

Do the Heroes and Prison Break writers go drinking in the same bar after work or something?

Congress is pressuring the White House on several fronts. Flooding kills people in Texas. The Supreme Court hands down several controversial decisions.

Guess what the lead story was on MSNBC’s morning show.

Hmm. What to say about Charlie Jade? It’s a freaky little SF show you’ve probably never heard of. I hadn’t, until Preston mentioned it in his blog. I was intrigued enough to go looking for the episodes. They were surprisingly easy to come by, given that the show has never aired in the US and [...]

Man, it’s good to have Nathan Fillion back on my TV. Let’s hope Fox has grown a brain among at least one of its executives sometime in the last five years.

I’d been hearing for a while that John Doe was not a half-bad little show, and what with Dominic Purcell and all, I thought it would make a nice substitute for my weekly Prison Break fix. So I set the TiVo to record it, having noted that the Sci-Fi Channel was conveniently airing the pilot [...]

I like the new Buffy comic. The format is going to become annoying quickly, though. One comic feels like about ten minutes’ worth of TV-story, and there’s a long wait between each installment even if the production stays on schedule. (Not likely.)

In last night’s ni90 update, I wrote, “I’m at 80k. I hate my book and I want it to die.”

Which was true… but I think I’ve just figured out how to fix it. I’m totally cribbing from Sports Night here, but that’s OK, no one will notice when I’m done. There are other bits of [...]