[  Mood: Silly ]
[  Currently: Listening to Jonathan Coulton ]
So I was watching On the Lot, the latest of the Mark Burnett reality TV juggernaught (will no one stop this man?), and I saw my babe Carrie. Then I wondered – what happened to her face? It looks like it was manufactured by Kenner.

Carrie was one of the women in Hollywood I admired. She and Penny Marshall were committed to actually growing old. They had parties to celebrate birthdays and actually told people their ages.

I hope it’s just bad TV make-up or a poor choice of haircut, cause if she is botoxing or has been have platic surgery playdates with Cher, I am going to have to hurt something.

Say it ain’t so Carrie! Don’t tell me that you too have been seduced by the dark side!

[  Mood: Sleepy ]
[  Currently: Watching Top Chef ]
So I did some more gardening this weekend. (Yes, I had a gardengasm.) And one of the things I planted was peas.

Not very SF, you say?

What if I was to tell you that the type of pea was the Green Arrow pea?

Now you know why I am trying this variation of pea. I will let you know how it tastes.

Tee hee!

[  Mood: Happy ]
[  Currently: Reading Stardust ]
Well the Sens have made it to round four – the finals. This is where we go for the cup.

I was not watching the game. Rather I was outside, gardening. I am banned from watching the game as everytime I get involved they lose. My students know about this, and religiously inforce the ban. Thirteen and fourteen year-olds fight dirty.

But even though I wasn’t watching, I knew the instant they won. How you ask? From the screaming eminating from the houses around me. And then the honking began. Oh, the honking. Cars whipping up and down the street, flags waving, drunken frat boy screaming. There was a group of young boys playing ball hockey in a driveway up the street, and the honking would become deafening as cars past them. The hockey playing boys themselves would becoming frantic, screaming, "Go Senators!" Clearly the frat boys were cheering on the next generation. Of what, I will let you decide.

As it was a holiday weekend, the city had closed off part of the downtown for an afterparty. It filled with more fans, yelling and cheering.

Need I remind you this is just for making it to the finals. Admitedly it is the first time in modern franchise history we have made it this far, (There was a Senators that won the cup 80 years ago, but then they folded and we waited years and years to get our very own team. We were good children, straightened up our rooms, walked the dog and ate our vegetables, and yet we waited.) but you would think that we had won the whole think after that broohaha.

God forbid if we win. The whole city may stay up past 11 pm.

Note – I posted this once before and it never showedup. Weird.

[  Mood: Sleepy ]
[  Currently: Listening to CBC Radio One ]
Joe is doing a whole series of previews on the main site, but I always have an opinion.

My, my, my how the networks have embraced Sci-Fi. Hoping to capitalize on the success of Heroes, Lost and Battlestar Gallactica, the big three (okay five) are rolling out the bait. Once they have ensnare us with these tasty morsels, they will then break our hearts by canceling them. Heck, given that some of these haven’t even been picked-up yet, they are breaking our hearts with rumours. I haven’t seen this kind of feeding frenzy since the X-Files and Xena were in their heyday.

ABC
Pushing Daisies
Described as “a quirky supernatural drama about a man whose touch brings people back to life” this may or may not be about the life of Jesus.

Geico Cavemen
Yes – there is a sitcom in the works based on the Geico Caveman ads. Hey, it worked for Max Headroom.

CBS

Moonlight
This one is about a vampire cop or maybe a PI. Hmmm. Where have I seen this one before? Oh wait. Forever Knight. Both the movie with Rick Springfield (Whose back on GH again – btw – like I need another soap in my life) and the TV show with Geraint Wynn Davies (whose a hunk in real life).

Babylon Fields
Apparently tells the story of a town where zombies go back to doing what they did before they died. No word on if the local McDonalds switched to the McBrain Sandwich. Note: This one was apparently not picked up. I wonder why?

NBC
Journeyman
As Joe has already explained this is a time-travel show, which I liked better as Doctor Who. Or Quantum Leap. Or the Time Tunnel. Or Voyagers.

Fox
The Sarah Connor Chronicles
As much as I want this to work, I predict it will be Terminated. (Insert rimshot here)

CW
Reaper
This one is about a bounty hunter that reclaims souls that have some how made it out of hell. Look behind the poster of Rita Hayworth, Satan. Behind the poster!

[  Mood: Happy ]
[  Currently: Watching America’s Next Top Model ]
So as I was playing City of Heroes tonight, I had the VCR running. This allowed me to catch up on Days. Cause what else is better than some vapid stuff that you only have to pay attention to every so often when you are gaming. Good for when you are traveling, ignore it when fighting. And when you are zoning, you can fast forward through the stories you really don’t care about. (Belle and Shawn, I am talking to you.)

So we start off tonight with Patch in a mental asylum. Kayla and Bo are trying to break him out, and have turned to Patch’s sister Adrienne to help. Adrienne is played by the same actress who played Mimi’s mother, so they died her hair to fool us. EJ comes to take Patch away and exposes (literally) Arienne.

I missed a few eps, but now we find Kayla and Patch holed up in a hotel room. There is a de-programmer (Mr. Aerosmith – tee hee)working on Patch. He goes out for a bite to eat. There is a small romantic interlude and we almost get a love scene, but then some evil dudes come to the door and fool Kayla into opening it. (The old room service trick – that’s the second last time she’ll fall for that one). They tie up Kayla and make off with Steve.

Steve is now with the evil EJ (who is even more evil since he sent the guys to get Steve, thereby depriving me of the love scene – bad EJ!)who wants Steve to kill Bo, which will apparently stop Shawn from signing a piece of paper about EJ. Meahwhile Kayla is climbing the walls.

Oh – and they have recast the role of Stephanie, Patch and Kayla’s daughter. You men will be sad to know that the tempestuous redhead has been replaced by a slutty brunette. Or maybe not.

And for those of you like me, who miss the love scence – their reunion sex. I love the internet!

[  Mood: Sleepy ]
[  Currently: Watching Coronation Street ]
Since I love the ego srufing, I present to you some top ten entries of mine from Zealot

Top Ten Ways to Tell The Blair Witch Project Was Fake
2.The best she’s ever had? Yeah, right. Oh, I thought you meant the Top 10 ways you could tell the Blair Witch was faking it.

Top FIFTEEN Changes in Dungeons & Dragons Version 3.0
15.Convenient places to hang the chip bags, drinks, catheters and colostomy bags to cut down on those pesky snack and bathroom breaks.

Top Ten Things Overheard on the Set of Universal Soldier 2
9."Mr. Van Dam, sir, Mr. White and Mr. Goldberg do not want to participate in a butt beauty contest."

Top Ten Complaints of the New Batgirl
10.DC revamps the universe: Robin gets a new costume and a pneumatically enhanced girlfriend; Batgirl gets a wheelchair.

The Top Ten Ways To Tell The Lord of the Rings Has Gone Over-Budget
1.Liv Tyler has been replaced by Judge Judy.

The Top TWENTY Reasons Buffy Will Not Go Out With You
6.Angel: Says nothing because he is brooding.
You: Say nothing because you are stuttering.

The Top 10 Naughty Escapades of Sci-Fi Characters
9.Do you really want to know what Kosh does inside that encounter suit?

Top Ten Reasons Not To Remake Classic Sci-Fi
5.[A 4-way tie!] Because CGI lacks the down-home charm of egg cartons spraypainted silver. … "Mars needs women!", while cute in the 50s, is not politically correct enough for the 90s… Does anyone really want to see Gil Gerard in spandex again? … Not even the Star Wars franchise can withstand another Christmas special.

Top 15 Things Sci-Fi Fans Have To Be Thankful For
11.That Star Trek has chosen to portray women as intelligent beings, valued for their brains over beauty. (You have no idea how hard it is to keep a straight face when I type that).

Top (Fif)Te(e)n Signs Your Network Hates Your T.V. Show
1.The only promotion they are willing to do for the show involves Internet chain letters.

Top Ten Ways Christmas Will Be Different 500 Years From Now!
4.Ever since the apocalypse, the complaints have been that Christmas isn’t commercial enough.

Top 15 Sci-Fi Christmas Songs
8."Do You Sense what I Sense?"

Top 10 Rejected X-Men Movie Costumes
7.The all metalllic body paint looked real cool, but given what happened to it in the underwaterfight scene . . .

[  Mood: Sleepy ]
[  Currently: Watching Project Catwalk – Season 2 Finale ]
Episodes 9 and 10 are up on the web.

Aparently there are going to be new episodes daily starting Monday, May 14th.

[  Mood: Angelic ]
[  Currently: Watching House ]
So the sens won the final game of round 2 and are on to round three. That is all you will hear from me until they win round three.

I have learned that if I get too involved with this team, they will lose. By staying away, they have a better chance.