McBeast

Jeez, all right, I'll do it!

Let me check my Planner...

I've only started reading Birds of Prey and like them a lot.

Really good. I know I'm a sucker for these things, but I thought it was well done and well written. They are a fairly dysfunctional family - bored dad, too-busy mom, boy-struck daughter, learning disabled son - who undergo a strange experience and start realizing they can do things they couldn't before. Some parts were moving, as they try to cope with the problems they would be having anyway. There were some really funny parts also. Not just slapstick, which is easy to do with people just learning how their powers work, but well-written comedy lines.

It was an hour long, which I'm not sure if all the episodes will be, or just this pilot episode. But it didn't feel like an hour. The story moved along.

They set up really well the kinds of things we'd expect to see in stories to come: keeping it secret, learning how the powers work, the down side of powers, to fight crime or not to fight crime. But there are apparently other supers already out there, and they're not all good.

Anyway, I enjoyed it a lot. I may not watch it live with y'all, as with Heroes. I can catch it online the next day. But I'll definitely follow it.

http://www.potterybarnkids.com/room/...boy/romboybtm/

Songs
Supermassive Black Hole - Muse - how could I not listen to a song like that? Luckily, it's great.
21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
For the Benefit of Mr. Kite - The Beatles
Careful with that Axe, Eugene - Pink Floyd

books
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - never read it, but great title
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Something Wicked This Way Comes

albums
More Songs about Buildings and Food - Talking Heads
Weasels Ripped My Flesh - Frank Zappa
Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic

movies
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?

plays
Six Characters in Search of an Author

The Dharma beer will definitely become a collector's item.

The least expensive item I saw was some of Sawyer's underwear, which I'll skip, thanks.

http://www.profilesinhistory.com/lost-the-auction.html

I'm sure BBM will want to complete his collection of Kate-ware

I have my eye on
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/7697669
and
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/7697685

“Don’t tell me what I can’t do!”

Busy week. never got to post about the finale.

Thanks to BafflingBeerMan for hosting all these discussions. It's been fun!

The end is just the beginning.

It was the best of posts, it was the worst of posts.

A lot of silver age comics had strange or surprising things on the cover -- like Superman dying or getting married or having octuplets -- along with a checklist of non-explanations, like:
* Not a dream!
* Not an alternate universe!
* Not a robot double!
and so forth, all to be careful not to stray from established canon. They shouldn't have bothered. As these examples show, they could make any story they wanted, then change what happened in a later issue. Problem solved!

http://www.accidentalsexiness.com/20...-visits-ellen/

Hayden talks about her Save the Whales work, dresses in a wetsuit in prep for the dunk tank, and shows video of swimming with sharks.

NBC has a new Heroes-related web site up. It's all about the Sullivan Bros. Carnival. It has really creepy music, some moody settings to explore, utterly impossible games to play, and offline story lines and comics:
http://www.nbc.com/heroes/sprint/

!!! SPOILERS!!! Greg Grunberg interview on Parkman and Sylar !!! SPOILERS !!!
http://televicious.blogs.eplay.com/h...-matt-parkman/

the Heroes cockroach!
http://www.buddytv.com/articles/hero...e-f-30752.aspx

soon: an all-Mr.-Muggles episode?

PK you are teh man!

NBC press release on new season of Heroes:
http://www.nextonheroes.com/2009/08/...press-release/

And the funny satire of that release:
http://preppiesoftheapocalypse.blogs...s-release.html

Heroes gets 2 nominations:
http://multipleverses.com/2009/07/16/her...for-the-series/

Heroes Season 4, volume 5 (yeah, that's confusing) info:

2-hour season premiere on September 21, 8 PM ET

!!!SPOILERS BELOW!!!











Titles of first 4 episodes:
Orientation
Jump, Push, Fall
Acceptance
Ink

more details here

Gratz!
You leveled up!
New powers? Or slots?

another reason Heroes is uncancellable:
http://construed.wordpress.com/2009/...heroes-afloat/

music from the show

!!!SPOILERS!!! James Kyson Lee talks about rest of season: sounds awesome !!!SPOILERS!!!
http://scifiwire.com/2009/03/heroes-...es-us-spoi.php

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Heroes will be back next season!

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More links about this:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukp...T3n1sNQQ1tEhPA
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009...er-season.html
http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/03/...-scoop-ea.html
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Heroes-K...r-1003687.aspx
http://www.canada.com/entertainment/...916/story.html
http://emeraldage.net/WordPress/2009...fourth-season/

Hayden not leaving
There have been rumors that either Hayden Panettiere or Ali Larter want to leave the show. Hayden says it's not her:
http://www.accesshollywood.com/hayde..._article_13425