Archive for July, 2007
So I’m barely off the plane, just showed up at the hotel, find the person I’m looking for, and lo and behold, also discover I’m standing next to Joss Whedon. Introduced myself. He said he had beaten up some false b!Xes earlier.
While surfing around for various mentions of Ethan Haas Was Right, I stumbled onto an awesome idea for a website: Ficlets. “A ficlet is a short story that enables you to collaborate with the world,” it says. “Once you’ve written and shared your ficlet, any other user can pick up the narrative thread by adding a prequel or sequel. In this manner, you may know where the story begins, but you’ll never guess where (or even if!) it ends.”
It will require an arrival time just before midnight on Friday and a departure time Sunday afternoon, but next weekend I head to my first-ever Comic-Con, to park myself in one room for the Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, and Joss Whedon panels.
It would be nice, when Moriarity of AICN bitches about people stealing or not citing his work, if he didn’t in the process flatly state things in a way which makes it seem like he thought of them, when in reality I and others just spent the last week nailing down the evidence. If you want people to care about people stealing or not citing your work, don’t — in the very same post — steal or not cite the work of others.
So, maybe we’ll know more about what the film’s effects artist calls “Godzilla Meets Escape from New York” when the real title is revealed at Comic-Con next week. But in the meantime, I do know what I hope it turns out to be.
For those playing along, or those who aren’t: That whole “Ethan Haas Was Right” thing that got caught up in the Cloverfield hysteria? It’s a promotion for a forthcoming tabletop role-playing game. See the whys and wherefores as dug up by me and others over the past several days.
Well, this would explain why, when I was in the bathroom, on the toilet, just before 9:00 PM, I found myself wondering, “Why are all my doors rattling?”
Tomorrow’s the day. Or night. Firefly on the big screen at the Mission Theater. In theory, the McMenamins seasonal Firefly Kosch should be available.
Despite being the source of a number of things on The Simpsons, FOX has dissed Portland and not included us amongst the dozen cities with 7-Eleven stores turned into Kwik-E-Marts this weekend.