This Week, 9/22-9/28

Carmen Sandiego
Where In The World Is Caramelldansen? (art, worksafe)

Fake News/Doctor Who
How Many Time Lords Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb? Eight, deleted scenes (fic, PG)

Fake News
My Precious Emmy (art, worksafe)
Seriously? Prunes? (comic, PG)

The Powerpuff Girls
Bubbles and Princess (art, worksafe)

Victorian Romance Emma
Emma sketches (art, worksafe)

Next Week in Shine:
Walter gets to stay with Jeeves (but only temporarily!), and Bertie ends up in mortal danger (even if Walter doesn’t think so).

Original
Sketch – Teresa

Don’t dream it, B it

1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ blog.

Mogget gave me B:

1. Bilbo Baggins; The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings. Bravest little hobbit of ‘em all. (Okay, so Frodo and the gang are also contenders for the title.) Starts off a bit helpless, but once he gets used to adventuring he proves himself to be the kind of sensible fellow you want in any party.

2. Bree Hodge; Desperate Housewives. After a cheating husband and a crazy stalker boyfriend, she held back with Orson (her then-boyfriend, now-husband) until this time when he started earnestly describing how he dealt with tough wine stains, and she cut him off by jumping him then and there. This is why I love Bree. Plus, she’s incredibly hot.

3. Blossom Utonium; The Powerpuff Girls. Could’ve used all the ‘Puffs for this meme, but that felt like cheating. Growing up, I loved them all, but Blossom is the smart and somewhat bossy one, so guess which one I identified with?

4. Buster Brown; Buster Brown. One of the earliest American comic strip characters. Don’t let the girly outfit fool you: he and Tige (possibly the first talking pet in the comics) are distant ancestors of Calvin and Hobbes.

5. Betsy Bobbin; The Wizard of Oz series. One of the somewhat interchangeable Oz girls. Since the source books are in the public domain, hundreds (thousands?) of people have published what is essentially Oz fanfiction, but most of it attempts to imitate Baum’s style, as did the officially-designated sequel-writers. (Wicked is a notable exception.) I kind of want to write Oz fic that gives Betsy and the others more sophisticated characterization.

Never gonna give you up

Just got back from an iftar, the traditional fast-breaking meal to celebrate the end of Ramadan. (And if you don’t know what Ramadan is, get to Wikipedia, stat.) Not everyone there was Muslim (obviously, as I was there), and not all of us fasted, but it was a nice cultural experience. And the food was good.

But the reason I bring this up is not to extol the falafels and the baklava. (If you don’t know what baklava is, get to a place that sells it and eat some, stat. Your tongue will thank you.)

It’s because the room next door was holding ’70s Night. Complete with loud music, period costume, and people doing the Electric Slide.

So the people in our room are setting up an iTunes playlist with some nice contemporary sitar music, and it’s humming bravely along, and guess what starts pounding next door?

That’s right, folks. The iftar got Rickrolled.

Happy Bisexual Pride Day!

“The 10 Rules of Being a Lesbian.” Part 1 of 3; the whole thing is on YouTube. Funny and sweet and hot. I want friends like these.

The latest permutation of the “Nigerian banker” money scam.

Compare the candidates’ speeches, word-by-word. Obama has said “America” about twice as much as McCain. Neither has ever said “sailor,” but Obama has said “moon” much more often, as he has “hell” and “sing”.

And I think I’m in love with Strange Maps. Check out The World, Justified. Map-as-font.

Happy birthday, Bilbo and Frodo!

*raises a glass to hobbits everywhere*

The Emmys were lackluster, but the highlight of the evening was the Stephen Colbert’n'Jason Jones pictures from the afterparty:

Is can be moar macros tiem here.

In other news, the Muppets are poised for a comeback, and about time too, as some kids don’t know who Kermit is.

And Obama meets President Bartlet, courtesy of Aaron Sorkin:

BARTLET A huge number of Americans thought I thought I was superior to them.

OBAMA And?

BARTLET I was.

As always, Jeeves is superior.

It’s official: Anne Rice’s Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt is so boring that I can’t finish it.

And this is coming from someone who sat through twelve Left Behind books.

If you haven’t seen anything from the Jeeves & Wooster stories, check out chapter 1 of Please, Jeeves. It’s a manga adaptation (scanlated), as faithful to the script and the spirit of the originals as the TV series, and very funny.

This Week, 9/15-9/21

Fake News/Doctor Who
Truthiness And Relative Dimensions In Space: How Many Time Lords Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb? six, seven (fic, PG)

Fake News
Tosses and Cookies (comic, PG)

Hellsing
Vintage – Helena sketch, Rolling up sleeves, Reseda in green (art, worksafe)
Glove Bite – Integra ver. (ditto)

The Wizard of Oz
Oz Girls (art, worksafe)

Next Week in Shine:
Eight-year-old Walter faces down Bertie Wooster with his most powerful weapon: cuteness.

I’m in love.

Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining The Office and Dance Dance Revolution.
The story should use teen angst as a plot device!

Generated by the Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Idea Generator

Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining They Might Be Giants and Cats.
The story should use competing in a Rock Band tournament as a plot device!

Generated by the Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Idea Generator

Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Moulin Rouge and Slaughterhouse 5.
The story should use going away to college as a plot device!

Generated by the Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Idea Generator

Kill The Fuzzy

Best game ever? I think so.

The rules: The first person draws a fuzzy, then something to kill the fuzzy. The second person draws something that will negate whatever is killing the fuzzy, thereby saving the fuzzy. The next person draws a thing to negate whatever is saving the fuzzy, and so on.

Each new addition can only act on the thing directly preceding it. The crazier, the better.

Last Thursday’s game (click to open in new window):

Key:
(1) The fuzzy.
(2) The fuzzy is killed by a vicious dragon.
(3) The dragon is stopped by Harry Potter.
(4) Harry is distracted by a naked woman. Specifically, her breasts.
(5) The naked woman is disemboweled by Jack the Ripper.
(6) Jack is disabled when rubber padding covers his axe blade.
(7) Gandalf melts the rubber padding.
(8) Gandalf is stopped by a Balrog. Because a regular Balrog could not, in fact, defeat Gandalf, this is Super-Balrog. (Note the cape.)
(9) The Balrog’s elements are shadow and flame. This makes it weak to water, and thus disabled by Squirtle.
(10) Squirtle is taken out by a 10T weight.
(11) When he is on-screen, all 10T weights fall on Wile E. Coyote. It is a law of nature.
(12) The shield generator from Star Wars protects Wile E. Coyote.
(13) An army of Asians build a remote control to turn off the shield generator.
(14) An alligator eats the remote control. (“Nom nom nom.”)
(15) The alligator is distracted by Captain Hook, whom it will always drop everything to chase.
(16) Captain Hook is saved by a boat…
(17) …in which an electric chainsaw cuts a hole.
(18) Peter Pan cuts the chainsaw cord.
(19) A fairy sprinkles Disappearing Dust on Peter.
(20) A nonbelieving child is the fairy’s ultimate weakness. (“There’s no such thing as fairies!”)
(21) A certain horse can solve this problem: “Shun the nonbeliever! Shuuuuuuun!!”
(22) If Sarah Palin can field dress a moose, she can take out a horse.
(23) Of course, Palin gets her ass kicked by foreign policy.
(24) Which was pretty much killed by George W.
(25) Who cannot fight Dick Cheney.
(26) Of course, as we all know, Dick Cheney cannot stand sunlight.
(27) Which is why there is an eclipse.
(28) The eclipse can be stopped by a moon cannon…
(29) …which, in turn, can be blocked by Homer Simpson. (I’m told this makes sense.)
(30) Homer can’t get anything done when there’s a Dunkin Donuts in the vicinity.
(31) Unless, of course, there’s a closed sign out front.
(32) The sign gets eaten by termites.
(33) The termites, in turn, are exterminated by the Orkin man…
(34) …who is distracted by Mr. Clean, the shiniest muscular man in a tight white T-shirt in all of commercial-land. (Did I mention everyone playing this game is GLBT or an ally? Yeah.)
(35) Mr. Clean has to run when wine gets spilled on the carpet.
(36) Or does he? Not if Jesus turns the wine into water.
(37) Of course, Judas knows how to kill Jesus.
(38) But he can’t do it if God smites him first.
(39) There’s only one person who can stop God, and that’s Chuck Norris.
(40) Can anything stop Chuck Norris? Anything at all? Well, there’s always the Large Hadron Collider, which may or may not be destroying the universe soon.
(41) Unless it gets eaten by a black hole first.
(42) If you know anything about Doctor Who, you know that the Doctor comes from a society that knows how to control black holes.
(43) You also know that he’ll regenerate in the event of his death. “Even bazookadeath?” “Well, maybe not bazookadeath.”
(44) The soldier with the bazooka can be stopped by a hippie with magical peace powers.
(45) As we all know, hippies are easily distracted by drugs. “I don’t know what it is, but I like it!”
(46) But that’s no help if a Kool-Aid cult man drinks it first.
(47) This is, of course, a call for the Kool-Aid man himself to bust through the wall. “Ohhh No!”
(48) A crowd of kids with a giant straw are the end of the Kool-Aid man.
(49) Kids are always distracted by Barney.
(50) But Barney is taken away by that guy from To Catch a Predator…
(51) …or he would have been, if not for a Surprise Cancellation!

And thus, the fuzzy is saved!

Happy anniversary of the first game of softball!

Did you know Maurice Sendak was gay? (Where the Wild Things Are + Chicken Soup With Rice = my childhood!)

On top of that, Roald Dahl was James Bond. Or at least, an undercover agent who had lots of sex. (Matilda + The BFG + Charlie and the Chocolate Factory + etc. = even more of my childhood!)

An excellent article on childhood bipolar disorder. (Not my childhood, just interesting.)

Come Halloween, make your very own Dalek pumpkin. (Not my childhood, but I wish!)