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nova on "Zombie Halloween spectacular!"

nova — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:01:45 +0000

Visit zombieagogo.com and then come back and comment!

nova on "Planet of Dinosaurs"

nova — Sat, 23 May 2009 06:54:00 +0000

is awesome. By which I mean, a truly terrible movie done on a tiny budget with laughable stop-motion animation. (They clearly spent all their money on the animation, rather than real actors, or sets, or costumes, which are on the screen the other 99% of the movie. See <a href="http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/planet-dinosaurs" rel="nofollow">http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/planet-dinosaurs</a> ) My living room is a mess, and my car is unreliable, but sometime in the next 6 months we should get together and watch it! Or I guess if we ever get everyone together we should get Stacey to do another game.

Gypsy on "Doll House"

Gypsy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:31:53 +0000

I know that some people have had less-than enthusiastic responses to the show, but Sky and I began watching it recently and we are really liking it. It is disturbing to have a doll personality with my name, however, and every time someone says "Melly" I have to cringe a little.

Gypsy on "Jeeves and Wooster"

Gypsy — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:15:29 +0000

I can't express how happy this series is making me. The only drawback is that there aren't that many seasons and that the seasons are relatively short (at least, compared to American television seasons). It is especially amusing to see hints of Greg House peeking through the gregarious and well-meaning, if not particularly bright, Wooster. Stephen Fry returned as a guest star on Bones in an episode that we just watched and both Sky and I shouted, "Jeeves!" when he came on screen. : )

Gypsy on "Coraline"

Gypsy — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:52:33 +0000

Have you seen this movie yet? 'Cause you should. Stop-motion animation has never been so terrifying.

Gypsy on "Angel and Clem!"

Gypsy — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:06:43 +0000

I got an email today from MRR about a "rat experienced" person interested in Angel and Clem! This has made me very happy.

Gypsy on "Dialogue"

Gypsy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:15:54 +0000

WHY IS THIS LAST CONVERSATION I'M WRITING SO DAMN HARD? Honestly, I've been agonizing over it for some time now and it doesn't seem any more plausible than the first version that I wrote. Blah. It is 1:15. Back to work.

Gypsy on "Brothers Grimm"

Gypsy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:19:43 +0000

I just finished watching Brothers Grimm and I just wanted to say that it is fabulous.

Gypsy on "Procrastination Post"

Gypsy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:19:03 +0000

This is what I'm doing instead of working on the second draft of my book: watching every "literal" music video that I can find (at least, the good ones) over and over again. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lj-x9ygQEGA&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lj-x9ygQEGA&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Gypsy on "Hot Fuzz"

Gypsy — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:16:19 +0000

I have to say, I was a little dubious about this one. Yeah, yeah, it was done by the same people that did Sean of the Dead, I thought, but this is a police movie. I like zombie movies. Not so much with the police movies. I was wrong. Not about the police movie thing- I really don't like them. But this movie had me laughing out loud and our Sean of the Dead friends were as dead on as I could have hoped. This movie is absolutely worth watching.

Gypsy on "Bobbing for Peas"

Gypsy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:21:15 +0000

I just watched my five spend 30 minutes chasing frozen peas through a plate of shallow water. I'm feeling rather refreshed myself.

Gypsy on "July writing goal"

Gypsy — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:53:32 +0000

I reached my writing goal of 80,000 total words for my novel today! (This is a continuation of my NaNoWriMo novel, so I started with 50,000 words and my goal was another 30,000 this month.) I suppose it would have been even more exciting if the book was actually finished, but alas, that is not the case. I am terribly, terribly close, however. If I didn't have that silly work thing to do, finishing this book would be so much easier.

Gypsy on ""Like Neil Gaiman in his hotel room at Comic-Con""

Gypsy — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:38:30 +0000

I just wanted to say again how much I enjoyed Night of the Living Dead and the Rifftrax only made it even more fabulous. I'm still not quite sure why, but I can clearly recall my mother telling me the story-line of Night of the Living Dead (the original) when I was about twelve years old. Why on earth would that even have come up? I wasn't yet into zombies, just fantasy stuff at that point. Anyway, it was just as wonderful as my mother told me it would be.

Gypsy on "Take Me On- Literal Version"

Gypsy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:04:51 +0000

I can't seem to get this video to embed- although I'm not trying very hard- but you should absolutely take a look at this on youtube. It is the "Take On Me" video with a literal take on the lyrics. My favorite moment: "I'm gonna kick some ass with my own pipe wrench." Enjoy!

stacey on "Gamism and others"

stacey — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:00:35 +0000

Three terms from role playing game design: Gamist - refers to elements that are about winning, problem solving, and game play itself. When all you care about is the goal, that's gamism. Narrativist - refers to elements that serve a dramatic theme or story. When you are doing things that are interesting or meaningful, that's narrativism. Simulationist - refers to elements that are about modeling reality within the game. When you are trying to be realistic, that's Simulationism. Of course, a good role-playing game usually combines these approaches in some way.

nova on "Rifftrax Live, anyone?"

nova — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:16:26 +0000

It's Thursday 8/20 at 8pm... A live-riffed-simulcast of Plan 9 to theaters (with a mystery short). The blurb is below, with the local theaters that are participating. Join the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 for the comedy event of the year! Fathom Events presents RiffTrax LIVE: Plan 9 from Outer Space, an evening of LIVE riffing on the Worst Movie Ever Made beaming into movie theaters nationwide on Thursday, August 20th at 8PM ET/ 7PM CT/ 6PM MT/ Tape Delayed at 8PM PT. Join Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy (Tom Servo) and Bill Corbett (Crow T. Robot), now of RiffTrax.com, as they are reunited in HD for the first time ever on the big screen! This event will feature the world premiere of a brand new, never-before-seen short and non-stop hilarious riffing on a COLOR version of “Plan 9 from Outer Space”- a 1959 science fiction/horror film written, produced and directed by Edward D. Wood Jr. This event will be hosted by Veronica Belmont, the Host of Tekzilla on Revision3 and Qore on the PlayStation Network, with Musical Guest Jonathan Coulton and a special segment by Rich “Lowtax” Kyanka of Something Awful. Fenway 13 201 BROOKLINE AVENUE BOSTON, MA 02115 617-424-6111 6.36 miles from 02474 AMC Burlington 10 20 SOUTH AVE BURLINGTON, MA 01803 781-229-1931 6.45 miles from 02474 AMC Framingham 15 22 FLUTIE PASS FRAMINGHAM, MA 01701 508-875-6151 15.86 miles from 02474 AMC Braintree 10 121 GRANDVIEW RD BRAINTREE, MA 02184 781-356-0112 16.7 miles from 02474 Solomon Pond Mall 15 591 DONALD J LYNCH BLVD MARLBOROUGH, MA 01752 508-229-8871 20.44 miles from 02474

Gypsy on "Fry and Laurie"

Gypsy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:09:26 +0000

I don't really have much to say, except that I love Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie together. I just finished watching Blackadder: Back and Forth, which is the special episode done in 1999, and they are just hysterical. I, of course, watched all of the special features and there were all sorts of bits with just the bunch of them goofing around together. I think I'll bump one of the disks of A Bit of Fry and Laurie up to the top of the queue.

Gypsy on "Books everyone should read"

Gypsy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:53:14 +0000

I was thinking of our earlier thread about the HP books and other children's literature and then I was rereading a lovely novel and I thought, "Everyone should read this book." And then I was thinking about how much I wish I knew what other books people thought everyone should read. Anyway, my suggestion for today of books that everyone should read is: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold I first read this book for my high school AP English class in senior year and I like it just as much now as I did then. I was a little suspicious of it at first, because the year before I had read "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" and I didn't like the short story much, but Chronicle soon won me over. It is rather like reading about the Titanic- so many ways that the disaster should have been avoided and, yet, somehow it still comes to pass. The only odd thing is that I still have the same copy as I did in high school and it has all my notes for my paper in the margin and lots of underlining.

stacey on "Zombie game"

stacey — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:29:10 +0000

So, while trying to talk you all into a weekly superhero role playing game, you guys made the mistake of agreeing to a one-shot zombie game. So we should totally schedule that!

Gypsy on "Harry Potter"

Gypsy — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:58:28 +0000

I had the misfortune to stumble upon one of the Harry Potter debates recently. I'm sure you've heard them: there is the "witches are evil and so therefore is anything that even mentions the term magic" religious crazies, there is the "HP isn't real literature and therefore children should never be exposed to it," the "HP is the ultimate in storytelling," and the "...if it gets kids reading" parties. I have no intention of getting up on my soapbox and trying my hand at this debate. However, the very existence of this debate makes me want to go out and finish the series. I've read the first few and they are perfectly pleasant, though nothing that I can imagine getting so worked up about in any way. I also want to see the movie and, being the book geek that I am, I want to read the book first. You should always read the book first! Anyway, that's my $0.02.

stacey on "Alexander the Great (now with Shatner and Adam West!)"

stacey — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:38:00 +0000

Seriously. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR14SH5tby4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR14SH5tby4</a>

nova on "New foster rats!"

nova — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:20:30 +0000

Princess and I took our month off from fostering and now this week we are getting TWO foster rats, one of them hairless!

nova on "We're live!"

nova — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:52:17 +0000

Yay! All our urls are consolidated onto one host, and (I think) all logins are working. Rescue rodents & warpedcorps share one login/password, and Rocketship a Go-Go has a separate login. Let me know if you have login issues--posting here is good. Anonymous posting is on, at least for now.

nova on "sigh of relief"

nova — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:38:49 +0000

River's BNP was in the normal range. Dali's new methimazole dose is working out, all the sniffly rats are on meds. And the pigs live in one village. Yay!

nova on "First Post"

nova — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:42:49 +0000

First Post! w00t.

nova on "New forum!"

nova — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:45:59 +0000

Hey, I think it works now!