Hey kiddles -
I'm off as official scorekeeper and stats dude to travel with the Treasure Valley Roller Girls as they take on the Midnight Terrors of Watsatch, UT (Salt Lake City, really). Should be a great bout!
I don't think it's streamed or anything, but if it is, it would be at the Watsatch site somewhere.
Later!
Y'know..
I know I'm really *really* late to this observation. And I know that I'm not breaching any new ground here.
And I know that I might be losing some comic geek cred by admitting that I've only seen it once. And not under the best of circumstances.
And I know I really should've scrutinized it far better and far earlier than I have. And with a better eye towards comics vs. cinema and the adaptation process that should connect them both. How both mediums are distinct and - when using each other - should take the best bits and work towards an end product that highlights the pinnacles of both.
But.. here, late tonight, while working on some homework.. I had Batman Begins on in the background. For the fist time since.. well, since I saw it in the theater!
Holy Crap! That's one fantastic movie!
Y'know... I've learned to appreciate my tendency of forgetting former life experiences and relearning the initial joy of the experience again.
But, maybe that's me.
Yep.. still here! And with a quickie post while I'm thinking about it!
Among the many, many things that have happened to me during the last few months (and, I hope to get a post to y'all about that once I get my bearings back), I ended up finishing a long-term, often procrastinated project whereby I set out to learn all about DVD burning by creating a TV compilation. Specifically, a Sci-Fi compilation.
My goal was to create a compilation of great Sci-Fi TV shows that could stand on their own merits - where you wouldn't have to know anything about the series to enjoy the episode. Some shows, like Twilight Zone and Futurama, were an easy fit. Others, like BSG, Babylon 5, and Farscape, were a bit troublesome for single episode understating. But - I tried to find that one episode - probably not the *best* episode, mind you - that would impress a virgin viewer. Stand alone stuff. It would serve as a great introduction to friends and family for shows they just might like to peruse further.
And it would make a great holiday gift. I'm cheap that way.
So - just to post it here ('cause, heck.. I should probably post *anything* at this point), here's the setlist. Please comment your disapproval. Teh internets are funnay that way.
(Edit: Huh.. Bolgger didn't take the cut'n'paste Word page. Strange.)
OK, fixed - here's the list:
Disc 1
Star Trek:TOS - Balance of Terror
X-Files - Jose Chung's From Outer Space
Futurama - Jurassic Bark
Firefly - Out of Gas
MST3K - Mr. B Natural
Dr. Who - Blink
Disc 2
The Outer Limits - The Architects Of Fear
MST3K - The Days of Our Years
Dollhouse - Unaired Pilot
Farscape - DNA Mad Scientist
Twilight Zone - It's a Good Life
Star Trek:TNG - The Inner Light
Disc 3
Torchwood - Random Shoes
Babylon 5 - The Coming Of Shadows
Cowboy Bebop - Toys in the Attic
BSG - 33
Star Trek:DS9 - The Visitor
MST3K - Once Upon a Honeymoon
See? Fun for everyone!
(Little note - the MST3K's are some of their shorts, used for filler space only. Not the best ones, by far. I really couldn't justify a typical, full length episode - as much as I'd like to spread the Torgo around.)
Back tomorrow... promise!
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So...
You're Superman and you happen to be flying past a costume party when your X-Ray vision notices that Robin Hood has accidentally mistaken a real arrow for the cardboard one he was supposed to be using for a party game. He's about to William Tell some kid, so you have to ACT FAST!
Just unbelievably busy. Some things have to be put on hold, I'm afraid.
You would not believe the year I'm having...
Anyhoo.. here's a funny from my favorite daily web comic, SMBC:
Still feeling a bit .. off.. and not really up to a full-fledged post, so here's a halfway finished 'shop that you.. yes YOU! .. can help out with by supplying Sluggo's punchline! Whee!
In a perfect world, this would happen.
...there was that time when the High Evolutionary visited Alf...
Tonight, the Treasure Valley Roller Girls are bouting in the biggest venue they've ever been in. See, the Idaho Stampede (NBA affiliate) has worked a deal with them to cross-promote and allow the girls to use the Idaho Qwest Arena for a one time, see-how-it-goes bout during a prime-time weekday. Needless to say, everyone's more than excited ... and more than a little nervous!
This is a huge venue (well, huge for Boise, anyway), and we're really not expecting to come close to filling it up - but any halfway decent showing will have massive ramifications on the future of Roller Derby in the area. I expect my Tivo to pick up all sorts of local broadcasts tonight with colorful news segments featuring the on-the-spot girly reporter trying to skate in a circle before jokingly being "hit" by an actual TVR girl, "*Ouch!* Well, it's really harder than it looks.. back to you, Bob!"
Anyway, as head scorekeeper, I'll be dealing with the jumbotron and the logistics of adapting it to roller derby scoring nomenclature. And on actually working it properly. I'm sure it'll be a mess. Derby scoring is more constant than even basketball, and it takes a lot of communication with the officials to make it work smoothly. There are often corrections, too.. something you never like to see on a live scoreboard.
Well, it's sure to be an experience, at any rate... Oh! And a bonus of having such a large media machine behind this bout... You get to watch it!
That's right.. tune in here at 7pm Mountain (9pm Eastern) and watch a live streaming broadcast of a Treasure Valley Roller Derby bout! You'll certainly see the Roller Girl at some point.. and, if you're lucky and I'm actually on the floor, maybe even me!
If, for some reason, my embedding doesn't stick, you can watch from the TVR girls main page: http://www.treasurevalleyrollergirls.net
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