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• 07:01 Grr. Don't have to take Miranda to camp today but I'm STILL up way too early. GAR GAR GAR GAR GAR #
• 09:34 bleagh.... on the phone with HP support now to decrypt their heiroglyphical plotter error codes... #
• 10:31 HP support needs a serial number and warranty status just to tell me what an error code MEANS? Useless pricks... #
• 10:32 Meanwhile, I wonder if we'll get a crowd at the bar tonight. MLS All-Star Game isn't a draw in of itself but we do get regular West Ham fans #
• 12:26 @savagex Wow. Google. Never thought of that. Except I did, and it lead to HP forums, which then timed out and/or 404'd. #
• 15:35 @savagex I just blame HP, it makes things 100x easier. #
• 15:37 My Twitterfeed, awash with San Diego posts. Still, I have a plan for Chicago 2009 so it's all good all good... #
• 17:31 OH HAI THAR FAILWHALE. And FUCK YOU! #
• 17:37 @mrtonylee You're at a comiccon, what did you expect? #
• 23:13 Major LEague Soccer All-Stars beats West Ham 3-2. No hooliganism that I'm aware of. Still pissed those All-Stars beat CELTIC last year... #
• 23:14 @rossgram @runningfutility You know where I'll be tomorrow night... #
• 23:28 @runningfutility Yeah pretty much #
• 23:51 Fascinated by the San Diego tweets. Still kinda wish I was there, but at the same time I'd be overwhelmed, I reckon. #
• 23:51 I think I'll be better served focusing on what I'm going to do to prepare for Chicago. Would rather have something to present of myself... #
• 23:52 @BrianReed Yes, Red Bull is a good dinner drink. Have done it many, many times. #
• 23:54 @GregCarter The MLS All-Stars beat Chelsea in 2006 and Celtic last year. Just saying for accuracy's sake. #
• 00:06 @GregCarter Yeah, so for the Euro clubs it's preseason. So what? And I believe in 2005 they played and beat Chivas de Guadalajara so nyah #
• 00:07 @GregCarter Furthermore, West Ham beat Columbus Crew 3-1 last Saturday. #
• 00:08 @GregCarter And it's not like I'm defending MLS, but just saying for accuracy's sake. Personally I couldn't give a shit about MLS. #

• 22:32 Target has miniature globes for a dollar. Convince me I don't need twenty. #

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More new prints up at her Etsy store:

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So, Dr Horrible, then. Unless you were offline during the month of July 2008, you heard about DR HORRIBLE’S SING-ALONG BLOG: a musical comedy film produced for the internet by Joss Whedon, a man who has yet to be properly punished for once calling me his "youngling." Written by Joss, his brothers Zack (who co-wrote a pleasing episode of DEADWOOD) and Jed and Maurissa Tancharoen. A musical comedy, in fact, about a small-time mad scientist supervillain, the superhero he hates, and the Tess Trueheart drawn between them.

I only watched the end of it, because, as much as I love Joss, I hate musicals. Musical comedy makes my balls itch, frankly. And no-one wants that. It’s one of the things Joss and I will never agree on (like, you know, my being his youngling. Which I am not. At all). I think Gilbert & Sullivan are a cultural curiosity at best and I like ALL THAT JAZZ because Roy Scheider dies at the end. Joss believes that Gilbert & Sullivan are culturally relevant (and presumably still washes his clothes in a stream and goes on ether frolics) and is friendly with Stephen Sondheim.

But it was a lovely little production. Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion are always watchable, and some of the non-musical gags were inspired. (I actually later went back to the earlier episodes for the Bad Horse stunts.) And, clearly, it was forty-five minutes that delighted a great many people.

(Not interested in the fanwank about the ending, nor in Dr Steel losing his shit, so don’t even think about bringing me any of that. You’ll go right into the spam filter.)

Most interesting to me, though, are the guts of the idea. Joss Whedon blowing his savings account on staging a 45-minute serial for the internet (that will doubtless prove to be i2dvd — internet to dvd — apologies once again to Bill Cunningham for perverting his "d2dvd" coinage).

I was crapping away here the other day about the ratio of linkblogs to people actually
producing original content. And then Joss blows a couple hundred grand on not only producing a bit of original content with unusually high production values, but also an Internet Event. It was free to view if you attended within a stated time window. It was in fact Appointment Internet. That is not something that many people have ever managed.

And while there are elements of the project that only someone of Joss’ position could pull off — the money, the cast, the values, etc etc etc — I think there are still lessons to be taken from it that apply broadly. Not least of which are, Be Short, Be Bold, and Get It Done.

I can’t tell you how many new hopeful comics writers I meet who have never finished anything in their lives because their intended first project is a hundred-episode epic that creates a whole new universe or three. And I tell them all the same thing: you’re screwed. No-one will want it. Not until you’ve written something short, capable
of being produced on a budget, and finished. Your epic may be worldchanging, but no-one will ever know because no publisher will gamble that kind of money on an unknown. And that’s before you get to the vagaries of the attention economy.

Production values are nice, but not necessary to producing compelling work. People gave Dr Horrible 15 mins because it’s Joss, but five minutes is a great length for net video. 500 words, 5 pages, whatever. Be short. Be great.

And if you can get an evil horse in there, that’d be good, too.

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A work in progress. Please note: the lack of a face is not an artistic statement. It's just the last bit of detail that I put on a scuplture, as it's the easiest to muss up with other moments. Also, most o fthe white clay will get a coat of paint.

And as for it being a furry, it's for a good cause: The CBLDF.

So I'm sitting in the industry lounge and I have ten minutes, so here's a quick laydown of yesterday...

I woke up with no hangover which was a shock, and found a sleeping Bart Thompson, who'd slunk in during the night. We goit up to the beautiful sound of a construction site, and needless to say, we got ourselves moved pretty damned quick. Now in the new room, we sorted ourselves out and, after a healthy (yeah, right) breakfast in Coronado at a rather nice diner, we made our way down the sun swept streets, looking in surf shops and generally relaxing.



From there we sorted ourselves out and made our way, via water taxi to the convention center to gain our professional accreditation. Now usually this involves a very long queue and a lot of stress, but this year? We arrived fifteen minutes early, were put in the 'barcode printed out forms' line where a smiley girl took my details and boom! within  three minutes, we were sorted. I kid you not.

So from there we wandered down to the Bondi Australian bar for a drink and then down to the Hyatt Lobby bar where to my delight the Mets were on the plasma screens playing live. I was no good to anyone until they dragged me out at 6pm and I made my way to preview night.

The comic con on it's quietest day? Looks like this.



Yeah, scary, huh? But this was a more crowded area due to the unveiling of the Owlship from Watchmen...



I managed to get to see quite a few people including Chris Ryall of IDW who provided me with two pre-press copies of the Doctor Who comic - this was a surprise as we didn't think it was released yet, and it was a joy to finally hold in my hands, and there's like four total in the entire convention...



But tonight wasn't pitches or meetings, it was a chance to catch up and say hi to old friends. And after it was over I managed to get back to the Hyatt with Sean and Bart where we ended up drinking with Dan Taylor and Jacen Burrows to name but a couple.

Just as I was about to go back to the hotel room, I had a pleasant surprise. Jimmy Aquino turned up. I love the guy to death, but we recently made a challenge - a different vest / shirt / tie combo every day. And this was day one. And Jimmy? Well, he looked like this.



'Nuff said. I rock.

Anyway, by now it was 2am and Sean was falling asleep at the table, so we made our way back where I pretty much passed out.

And now I must run because I have a meeting and there are some very scary people in here. See you tomorrow, kiddies!

This is the stuff I’ve been waiting for from Xeni.

Hope it's been good so far!

Mina Murray's Journal

24 July. Whitby. – Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in which they have rooms. ( This is a lovely place... )

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All entries will be tagged. You can link to any and all entries by clicking on "blog-stoker's-dracula" or on "haunted-summer".

Thanks for joining me!

burge

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200 question "what have you done?" Meme.
Copy and paste into your LJ.
Bold the things you've done.
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