I saw this on Warren Ellis's website. It seems to be a new television show, but it may be a movie. Or a pilot? I haven't been able to figure out what channel it could be on, if it's been picked up.

Check this out if you like:
British accents
Mad Men
Ocean's Eleven
Space pirates
Guns that talk
Robots that talk
Smoking
Shooting
Things that are made of awesome.

Gaze upon the teaser for "Slingers"


For Christmas, all I want is this show.

ETA: I found this: http://www.sizemore.co.uk/category/slingers/

Dollhouse gets yanked.

Is Joss at the end of his Fox contract yet?  Seriously.  He needs to get a show on HBO.  Or anywhere else that's not Fox.

What I thought would be cool a few years ago, if I had Warren Buffet money, was I'd bankroll a series on pay cable based on the idea of the "Tales of the Slayer" comics.  Twelve episodes, Joss writes them and each episode is directed by a different amazing director.  There's at least one episode from the vampire's point of view and it's directed by David Lynch.

So this means that the new Dr. Horrible will happen faster, right?  Right???

This better actually happen.

Primeval returns after cancellation.

If they resurrect a certain Hot Scottish Doctor, I'll return to watching this amazing mess.

I still want a Rex doll.

My weekend:

• Maryland Ren Faire.
• Got moderately soggy.
• Hung out with bleukittie
• Saw Albannach.
• Made it home alive driving in the rain on the Beltway.
• Read a book.
• Did laundry.
• Saved life of box turtle who decided to cross a four lane road.

 

I’m debating getting a flu shot. I’ve never gotten one before and I’ve contracted the real, honest to goodness flu, like, twice in the last ten years.
 I get crappy colds, but usually no fevers.

 

I’ve also been pricing these in order to avoid germs this winter:
 

 

 

Stylish, but I’d have a hard time typing with those Cylon hands. 
But the built-in waste reprosessing feature would be a real time saver.

 

Things that happened today:

• My hair wouldn't do anything close to good.
• I spilled dill pickle juice all over my shirt while making my lunch
• I had about one million phone calls from people who can't read directions.
• I had about one million emails from people who can't read directions.
• I send an an email with an attachment to about 300 people.
• The internet slows to a crawl all afternoon.
• I am informed that my email somehow messed up the system.
• I have sent these emails before with no detrimental effects.
• My vice president doesn't seem to believe that I've sent this email before.
• The documents needed for a huge mailing that needs to go out, like, yesterday don't show up until 4pm.
• I'm now worried that there will be repercussions from the email, because I'm a paranoid freak.

The only remedy is to read copious amounts of the Dan Simmons horror novel Summer of Night.  Reading about 12 year old kids fighting some kind of soul-sucking vampire things in a bucolic mid-western town in 1960 makes my troubles seem not so bad.  I'm not certain about the soul-sucking vampire part.  I'm only a third into the book.  And since Dan Simmons is my new imaginary author boyfriend, I fully trust that however this turns out it will rock.

I conceed that Sci Fi Wire did something funny.

Jim Parsons of The Big Bang Theory did not win an Emmy last night, and I'm all right with that. Winning an Emmy brings scrutiny and hype and a whole lot of people being in your face.  It's just....I have no real data upon which to base this feeling, but I feel that Jim is better off right now.

On the flip side, Chenowith winning is awesome and I hope she does get a part on Mad Men.  She'd be amazing as, like, a housewife whose sold the most Tupperware or something in one year and she gets flown to NY to feature in an ad campaign.   And Joan takes her out for a night on the town with the girls and Chenowith's character totally hits on her.   That shit would rock.

Speaking of rocking, the Dr. Horrible bit was very nice to see.

But my two favorite parts of the evening: The supporing actresses wearing eye gear and John Hodgman.

A snake was found in China with an arm and claws.

If dolphins start growing thumbs, we're fucked.

I had a dream that I met Tom Brokaw but he was a younger, hotter version of our favorite newsman with a slight speech impediment.  And I was trying to find the right cloth to make him a sport coat.  I was very concerned that I not get a fabric with a difficult pattern so I could make it match up correctly at the seams.  Then the scene shifted and I don't even know if I made him the coat.

I don't sew, I don't have any particular affinity for Tom Brokaw and I hadn't even watched Project Runway recently.  But that's the best my brain could do in the way of dreams; random fashion creation.  My brain is boring.

How did I not realize Supernatural started tonight??!!

Well, at least I'm in beeej 's basement. 

Three hours of acutal flying time. 

That's how I spent my Sunday.  But now I'm in Michigan, full of Mom-made egg breakfast and it's only 62 degrees.

I have no idea what we're doing today, but since we didn't actually get to the house until midnight, I think napping will happen.

I've brought Black Books with.  The folks may appreciate Bernard.

That's MR. Wingfield, if you're nasty.

Damn.  Tahmoh, Peter and Alan Cumming.  I really hope this doesn't suck.

Does anyone know of any comprehensive sites that sum up Comic Con news and panels?  I'm looking for some journal/blog/site that will allow me to graze the news in general without having to seach fandom-specific sites.  Like, I'd like to know what Welling said at the Smallvile panel, but I don't want to wade through a thousand pages of posts extolling his hotness to find out about the Lex Luthor rumor. I'm looking for sites that might have recaps of tv show  and movie panels.

I saw the Barrowman/Tennent kissing vid, which, *sigh* and the Boreanaz vid.  I saw photos of the Whedon clan at Felicia Day's Guild panel and wondered how that went. 

I watched some of the G4 coverage and it seemed a little limited this year.

Four days.  That's how long that Jefferson Starship song has been in my head, on and off.  I welcome your pity.

Went to see Half Blood Prince at midnight.  beeej  totally twisted my arm to go.  Got home at 3:30am this morning.  Was at work by 9:10 am.   I don't recommend that.  Right now I'm on my first cup of coffee.  I don't drink coffee much, or any caffine really, and that helps on days like this.  I don't have a tolerance built up so this coffee has some punch.

The movie?  Beautifully shot, some really lovely moments, Quidditch, LUNA!!!  I was sad some of my favorite bits of dialog from the book did not make it into the film, but Broadbent was very good as Slughorn and all the main plot points are in there.  Rupert was hilarious! 

I really don't want to do any work, not only because of the tired but because I'd rather be reading Endymion by Dan Simmons.  The Hyperion Cantos are as yummy as the Iain M. Banks Culture series.  Endymion is the third in a series of four.   I just started Endymion and I also have Rise of Endymion  calling to me from home.  It's a grand space opera and all a huge allusion to John Keats and there's big, bloody battles and quite a bit of commentary on religion.  What's not to love?  Did I mention the blue-skinned androids?  There are totally blue-skinned androids!  And the "bad guy" is a killing machine made of indestructable metal and razors.  God, I love these books.

I didn't mention Shore Leave in Baltimore and it was very good this year.  Attendance was down a bit but it was nice to vist the ladies room and not have to wait in a long line.  All the guests were very good.  I especially want to tell everyone to keep an eye on Miracle Laurie.  She's got that something that can make someone a huge star.  She's crazy beautiful, so poised, very personable and, just, real.  Also, she's so tiny in person!  According to Miracle, Tahmoh is even more beautiful in person.  jhava  was a lovely travelling companion, but beeej , well, there was that whole urinating off the balcony incident, but she did let me drive her almost-new Jeep, so, I suppose it all evens out.

( Torchwood! Now 20% kinkier than most fanfic! )