Monthly Archive for March, 2007

Semi-crossposted from a comment

Published on March 29, 2007 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment

(I left a version of this as a comment in ‘s journal about why I’m actively supporting Sanjaya to win American Idol.)

Heheheheheh. Our nefarious plan is working. Soon we shall utterly destroy American Idol!

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Seriously, AI was a cute idea at first, but then got WAY too full of itself — like halfway through the first season.

Then once they realized that people were tuning in to see Simon be cruel, they tried to entertain us with shit like showing William Hung’s audition which had no business being on the air.

Then they figured that if we liked the talentless people on the “auditions” shows, then we’d LOVE them on the actual show so Simon could be a bitchy queen towards them EVERY week, so they stopped killing off people like Sanjaya early in the process like they were supposed to do if it were a REAL talent competition.

The victory of Taylor Hicks, one of the worst contestants to tread upon the stage, in last season’s competition was not enough to kill the beast. This year, however, we have SANJAYA to play with, and we WILL bring the show down.

Why must we bring the show down?

  • It is NOT a true talent competition. As I stated before, if it was then the talentless freaks would be wiped out before even getting to the voting process.
  • The “careers” that come out of this are artificial and prefabricated just like with other carbonated sugar-sweetened no talent acts like the Spice Girls, the Pussycat Dolls, and the Backstreet Boys. None of these people deserve the kind of attention they’re getting, and none of them deserve the “fame” they’re getting from these 15 minutes.
  • and most importantly… IF WE KILL OFF AMERICAN IDOL THEN MAYBE FOX WILL STOP FUCKING WITH THE AIR SCHEDULE FOR HOUSE RINTYDAMMIT!

Thank you.

Still only half functional, but….

Published on March 27, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

The basic framework is there, enough to put up for the day.

http://www.newadventuresofqueenvictoria.com

E-Mail address down

Published on March 27, 2007 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment

My E-Mail is down, and I’m getting no help from my provider in getting it working, so I’m probably switching providers.

If you need to reach me over the next couple weeks, please replace my usual domain name with “spamcop.net” and it will get to me.

Thanks.

Starting with the most important page.

Published on March 25, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

I’m working on the new webpage for The New Adventures Of Queen Victoria. The forum software was installed tonight, and is up and running right now, but the difficult stuff is going to come in dribs and drabs.

However, I did get the most important page up right away:

http://www.newadventuresofqueenvictoria.com/404.html

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Published on March 20, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

The Challenge: Assemble a superteam from your various fandoms.

Your team must consist of the following:

(1) Team Leader
(1) Warrior
(1) Smartypants
(1) Hottie
(1) Comic Relief

All your superteam members must be from DIFFERENT fandoms.

Oh, very well.

TEAM LEADER: Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling)
WARRIOR: Archie Goodwin (Nero Wolfe series, Rex Stout & Robert Goldsborough)
SMARTYPANTS: Koko The Siamese (The Cat Who… series, Lillian Jackson Braun)
HOTTIE: Mam’selle Hepzibah (Pogo, Walt Kelly)
COMIC RELIEF: Marvin The Paranoid Android (The Hitchhiker’s Trilogy, Douglas Adams)

Getting down to business

Published on March 18, 2007 in Uncategorized. 4 Comments

With more time alone (with Bryan having a new job) and less to tend to (since we’re relatively done unpacking, except for the library where we need more shelves) I’m finally ready to get serious about things.

I have next week’s radio show in the can, finally getting a week ahead of the calendar. All of next week’s “Queen Victoria” is done, although I plan on working as fast as I can come up with ideas since I need more of a strips in the can than before. I also hope to sit down with Kris Leeds and get down to work on our next comic strip creation: “Lackluster Video,” coming to Comics Sherpa this summer.

After this week, which will be dedicated to getting more stuff in the can for radio and comic strip, I’m finally dedicating time each day to writing. The main two projects are my next play, “Liquor Is Quicker” (whose original plot has been spiralling out of control and needs to be tamed), and my next novel: “When Werewolves Collide,” the sequel to “Mall Bats.”

(By the way: if you haven’t read “Mall Bats,” or my previous effort “Rumpled Trenchcoats and Rubber Bullets,” and would like to read either of them please let me know. I’ll be happy to kick a PDF your way, or I still have a few bound printed copies of “Mall Bats” handy. All I ask is that you pull out your red pens and critique the hell out of them before I shop them around to agents again.

After all, if I’m shortly to be a professional writer finally, I’d better start writing more often.

(friends only)

Published on March 16, 2007 in Uncategorized. 9 Comments

Just feeling very depressed tonight.

I have an annoying tendency toward considering myself a failure, and my long history of mediocrity and less than stellar performance often fuel these feelings.

Rehashing all the movie theater bullshit with the newspaper this week, and the nasty comments on the Journal’s website about the resulting article have really taken their toll on me today. Not much good has been happening in my life the last month or so, and the one really good thing I’m still contractually prevented from discussing. (Those of you who know me personally, and don’t know yet, ask me in person, I just can’t announce it yet.)

Just needed to get all that off my chest. Thanks for listening. I’m gonna go lay down for a while and let this mood pass.

Attention song writers on my flist

Published on March 12, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Go to http://www.digphilly.com they’re looking for a new theme/jingle for their commercials, and are holding an open competition.

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Published on March 12, 2007 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment

I had just finished The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers (micro-review: Ewww. First LJB book it took me more than 3 days to read, and probably the last, full review coming later) and was looking for something in my library I felt like re-reading (too little cash right now to go buying new books for quite some time) when this came my way from :

Nice! A scheduled re-reading of all of the Harry Potter saga timed to end the day before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is released.

I might have to go for it. After all, if you’re going to re-read the saga, now is the time to do it. Of course, I might have to adjust the schedule a bit since I tend to read a lot faster than this schedule seems to account for.

American Panto?

Published on March 9, 2007 in Uncategorized. 4 Comments

The death of John Inman, who while known best here in the States as “Mr. Humphries” from Are You Being Served? had made a name for himself in Britain over the past several decades as a pantomime dame, got me reading and thinking again about the subject of British Pantomime.

For the uninitiated, Panto is roughly what would be considered in America to be “children’s theater” but highly formulized. There’s certain archetypes (like the dame, the clown, the fairy) who must appear, songs and dances are almost always required, and nearly all of the time, the story is taken from a fairy tale.

Note that I say “nearly” all the time because one of the most famous and popular Pantos is “Dick Whittington,” a tale of a young man and his cat who go on to become rich and powerful. It’s an extremely fictionalized version of the story of an actual man, Richard Whittington, who went on to be Lord Mayor of London three times in the late 14th and early 15th centuries.

I’ve often considered writing a Panto myself, but all the good fairy tales are taken (and why mess with versions written by the masters when I’m only an amateur). I AM writing a slightly-Panto adaptation of “The Nightingale,” but it’s more American and snarky in tone, and I don’t want to turn it into Panto.

“Dick Whittington,” however, makes me think. True, we here in America have a lot less history than most of the world, but the first plays of “Dick Whittington” appeared only 200 years after his death and we have at least that much. If I were to write an American Panto, I’d like to base it on American History or folklore.

Any suggestions? If you could go see any American historic or pseudo-historic character turned into Panto, which would you want to see?