Just something I wrote up for review and critiquing, ignore if you don't want to read it. Short story idea I had while driving today, just threw together a hyper-rough-draft tonight. The parenthesis'd passages I'm going to go back over and expand on and just generally clean the whole thing up but here's what I have so far:

( short story idea #4187 )

Admission: Before anyone says anything, I know, very derivative of: Lovecraft, Supernatural, FMA and any number of other sources you can throw at me. Hopefully I can fix that too.

With Deadpool becoming more and more popular in mainstream Marvel comics, I've been looking at the character lately and considering his place in the Marvel Universe. With the similar powers and MO, one might be tempted to say he is most like Wolverine. He is utterly deadly with nearly any weapon, as far as we've seen pretty much indestructible (if he has a limit we have not witnessed it yet) and completely insane. He is at the very least a minor threat to every living being and at worst an unstoppable killing machine if he put his mind to it. However, it is that last point, his very instability, that lowers him from threat to annoyance to most of the players concerned.
He is vain, narcissistic and completely self-absorbed. As such, he takes that great power he wields and only uses it as it amuses or pleases him. To his favor, he fancies himself a hero, and is wont to stradle the line between neutral and good more often than not, swinging whichever way will make him look the best. The fact that death and destruction follow in his wake only speaks to his methodology and not his intentions. These aspects combined, he is less hero or villain and his blowing into town is more akin to a force of nature, a hurricane sweeping through or Galactus wandering through the cosmos. Granted, you'll probably have an easier time reasoning with the hurricane.
The ability to break the fourth wall and more recently the inner dialogue going on between voices in his head suggest an almost omnipotent presence in the comic-verse, or at least a higher awareness, on a meta level, though not a particularly useful one within the scope of the comic itself. This, coupled with the immense power and penchant for acting on a whim, leave Deadpool in the position to be a better example of a Trickster God than Loki has ever been used.

So Michael Kupperman spent most of the day on Twitter giving out various pieces of advice and trivia on ventriloquism and ventriloquist dummies. For fun and boredom's sake, I have compiled the insanity... here:

( Insanity )

Blah blah blah suicide blah blah blah full of rage blah blah blah I don't even feel like whining anymore. Just sick of the monotony.

1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random... Read More”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

So I spent the night pretending to be an audience member. I guess? Any way you look at it I'm going to be on TV.

Basically Michael and Michael Have Issues was doing a scene where Michael and Michael were doing stand-up in a college, and they brought a bunch of Stella fans in. So basically we were a NYC audience mass-acting as a college audience and they did a little stand up and the requisite acting for the scene and filmed our reactions. It was kind of a weird experience, to be honest, since I really didn't know what we were going into. In particular, one part was just Michael Showalter reading random punchlines for what will eventually be a montage, but just hearing them all fired off at once was pretty trippy.

Also seeing this done got me pumped again because I would love to write something like this. Ooh, I just need an idea. And a budget. And industry-insider friends. And a SOLID GOLD THRONE, from which I may issue my decrees. And... getting a little ahead of myself.

Now if you'll excuse me, Reilly is fighting a paper cup so I'm gonna go watch that.

This is important (read: bitchin') enough to cross-post. Nathan Fillion is... Hal Jordan:



via Nerdist

I've picked out most of the movies this was made from, but that makes the editing no less impressive. Appealing to my fandoms aside, the ability to create something like that out of mostly-pre-existing footage is staggering.



I feel extra geeky since I was already in my GL tee. >_>

This cold war with the Fisher Cats has gone on long enough. It's time to bring the fight to them!

I may be slightly crazy right now.

So I actually saw Twilight last night (Rifftrax'd, of course). To be honest, I have managed to pull my not-in-the-game thing and the extent of my exposure to this "phenomenon" has been the haters ON THIS VERY SITE. Never actually met, heard from or read anything of a fantard. So aside from some bare knowledge I went into this thing blind. The one thing that struck me was, despite the shortening attention span of American youth, this movie was very anti-ADD. Plot-points, if I can use the term, were stretched out unbearably long and aside from a fairly cool baseball game (I would totally watch a cross between Twilight and the Bad News Bears) I'm reasonably sure nothing actually happened. A lot of exposition leading up to nothing, the inherent problem with most origin stories but to an extreme, excruciating point. The difference between Twilight and a good movie, I think, is that a good movie could cover all the critical events of Twilight before their opening credits rolled with nothing lost in the compression. If the powers that be weren't interested in stretching this out to make the maximum amount of tween-money, I honestly think they could crank out at least 2 books per movie, and save us all a lot of time. And they'd probably be better. Getting back to the attention span point, all the books are out, right? Do they really think anyone but TEH HARDKORR fans will care about these movies 4 years down the line? Harry Potter Mania has been dying down since Hallows released and they still have 3 movies to go. I don't think the fickle-by-nature Twilight crowd will have half the fanatical following HP even now by the time Whatever It's Called The Last One comes out.

Oh, and the sparkling? Could have been the biggest let-down ever, except it fell from so low to begin with. That said, the Rifftrax was actually pretty funny. Still want to know how they won that Golden Onion.

PEE ESS As predicted, I ended the day in good company, a bit tipsy and watching a terrible vampire love story. As such, I had started my day alone, sober and watching a very good one. Let The Right One In (free on Netflix Instant if you have the service) was almost analogous to Twilight in terms of plot, except, again, it was done well. An oddly endearing film, contrasting itself with a stark, almost genuinely terrifying at times, depiction of a vampire (although not as gory as some reviews led me to believe). There are actually a lot of similarities to be drawn between Vampire Cedric Diggory (forgot the character's name) and Right One's Eli, in terms of powers and character, but just goes to show how an idea can be beautiful in one person's hands and idiotic in another's.

I've never actually seen the commercial in question, but I think I'm getting the gist of it.

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
The Colbert Coalition's Anti-Gay Marriage Ad
colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Gay Marriage Commercial

I think FoD's was the best, but I still crack up whenever I hear "the homo-storm got me".

Edit: Heh, right after posting this, there was a thunder-rumble. :3 I think there's a storm gathering.

Trying to come up with something to say about the tax-day protests and how retarded (and offensive and disheartening) it all is but thinking about it my mind becomes a boiling, churning sea overcast by writhing red-black clouds of rage and instead of wanting to write I just want to get up and start throwing bricks. So I'm just going to let Best Week Ever handle it.

Starting to feel like I'm missing out on things with people so I reactivated my Facebook account. x-posted

Well, that was way better than hiding eggs. Chocolate bunnies would be a nice addition though.

... Totally fighting the urge to throw up right now...