Update Coming - Open Thread

[filkertom]

Hi, gang. Sorry I didn't have an update yesterday; I just got caught up with a bunch of other stuff, and this morning I was fighting off a headache while helping a friend with a personal errand, and, and, and.... I should have something no later than tomorrow, with some new/old audio files. I think you'll like.

Meantime, enjoy this beautiful day (at least out here in S.E. Michigan), have fun, play nice, and treat yourself to some ice cream or other favorite treat. You deserve it.

Comments

Holy White House, Batman!

[sdelmonte]

Here's link to something Glenn Hauman posted on Peter David's blog.

http://peterdavid.malibulist.com/archives/001713.html

Re: Holy White House, Batman!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Here's what I posted there:

That is frickin' brilliant. I nominate Tom Daschle for Commissioner Gordon, Ted Kennedy for Chief O'Hara, of course John Kerry for Batman, and John Edwards for Robin (I prefer Wesley Clark, but I'd rather not see his knees if it can at all be helped).

Can't stop myself -- gotta play this game. Howzabout Rush as King Tut, either Wolfowitz or Rove as Egghead, either Rove or Wolfowitz as Colonel Gumm (played by Roger C. Carmel in the Green Hornet crossover), and Ann Coulter as the Siren (originally Joan Collins). But the real coup de grace would be... Ralph Nader as the Bookworm! (I like [one guy's] suggestion of Ashcroft, but I'd cast him as Louis the Lilac [the one Milton Berle played].)

Re: Holy White House, Batman!

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Of course you'd have to have Jesse Helms as Rhas Al-Ghul... The sumbitch just WON'T DIE!!!

"A Salaam A’alaykum" from a Faithful America

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Click here (http://www.faithfulamerica.org/adclip.htm) to see an ad, intended for Arabic television, in which representatives of different faiths in the United States apologize for the terrible acts committed in our names by our government.

Bushido: The Way of the Armchair Warrior

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Really good article in The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?shouts/040607sh_shouts). Thanks to "Drew" commenting at Billmon's ever-essential Whiskey Bar (http://billmon.org) for pointing it out.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Just ran across this on Usenet: http://www.fjordstone.com/zongoftheweek/zongoftheweek_that_badger_song.mp3

I'm fairly certain it references the original, rather than your version, but it nevertheless has a certain charm.

Firefly filks

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Tom, have you ever had the urge to do a Firefly filk?

Re: Firefly filks

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Never saw an episode. Actually, there are several of the biggies I've never seen any of -- Farscape, Enterprise, Alias. I've only recently seen my first episodes of Red Dwarf and 24. And, not having TV right now (well, I've got it, I just don't turn it on, and I haven't had cable since March of last year), I basically have to plan to go to a friend's house to let them show off a favorite show. Which, actually, isn't the worst way to do it. :)

Re: Firefly filks

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Well, since it isn't on TV any more, that isn't an issue. :-)

You might not want to watch it with female friends, though: the drooling over Capt. Reynolds can be unsettling. :-)

Re: Firefly filks

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but neither is it a problem. One song on the upcoming album, Dark Country, is straight-up Gary Cole as Lucas Buck in American Gothic.

And, with several female friends as charter members of the Tuna Sandwich Club, I deal with the drool. Exult in taking advantage of it, even.

Stoke me a kipper...

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Which Red Dwarf episodes have you seen? I could recommend a few of my favorites.

Latest From JMS, Copied from ISN News

[(Anonymous)]

June 15, 2004:
Okay, let's try this again. Best to break the ice by just sort of doing a round-up of what's going on and what's coming and suchlike.
I'll try to address some of the questions that have come up about what's coming up.

On the movies DVDs, and what's inside: the main thing is that we've got commentaries on literally every one of them. Mike Vejar and I did a commentary on In the Beginning, I did one with John Iacovelli on The Gathering, and another with Janet Greek and Tracy Scoggins on River of Souls. I can't remember now if I solo'd on A Call to Arms or if Mike was there as well (it all blurs after a while...I've done something like fifteen of these things by now).

There's a separate cast commentary on Thirdspace with, I think, Pat, Jeff, Jesus Trevino, and one or two others.

On the Crusade DVDs, there's one commentary I did on the original pilot (once WB and I came to a meeting of minds, to wit, "I'm gonna say what happened to the show, what *really* happened...you got a problem with that?"). There's a second commentary track with Fiona, Janet, Peter Woodward and Carrie Dobro.

(We interrupt this message with a coded message for our friends in England and Australia: keep your eyes on the horizon.)

One oddity...constant readers will remember a while back when I was asked what TMoS was, and I provided a list of things it *wasn't*. The aforementioned oddity is...one of those things has come up as an adjunct to TMoS.

Also, expect word fairly soon-ish about a new series of B5 novels.

Elsewhere on the prose front...Straczynski Unplugged is out now, and Tribulations will be coming out in December.

I've turned in all three final Rising Stars scripts, and the first issue of the last arc comes out in October, I hear.

Next week a new arc and a new artist starts on Amazing Spider-Man, and it's a stinking cool issue. You can read a preview of the whole issue for free at:

http://www.milehighcomics.com/firstlook/marvel/spidey509/

On other projects...I'm making sudden progress with the medieval play I've been twiddling with for the last few years, and may have it done in the next couple of months. Once that happens, my plan is to do a limited, small production for two weeks or so here in LA, just to see how the text works with an audience, then take it away for another few months, twiddle with it some more, then go for a larger venue. I may do something similar in London, since I may be spending a bit amount of time there fairly soon.

And for those who've asked, I won't be in attendence at San Diego Comic Con this year due to a variety of commitments.

Oh...and I've been offered an EP position on a network series, and while I don't usually do that on shows I don't create or develop, when I heard what this project was, I had to get on board. We still have to negotiate a deal, and work out how that will interface with the stuff that'll be going on later in the year, but fortunately the start date for the series should work out, at least at this point.

Blood or Ketchup?

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

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