Found this article on Newsarama about ReBoot, the incredible all-CGI show from Mainframe Entertainment. Highlights of the article:

1) This book, The Art of ReBoot, which has just come out
2) The possibility that the series might be re-released on DVD
3) This:

Tags: fandom

I'm home this weekend for CostumeCon 25. Very busy doing this and that. Will never look at toasted ravioli again without shuddering. Clerked the Historical Masq this year and learned a great deal. Got floored when given one of four presidential awards presented this year.

Wore bunny ears all day because I got tired of being asked, "Where's your costume?" Shut everyone up right quick.

Shelby has come into her own at this con. I can't count the compliments I've gotten on her. She's soaking all this up like a sponge; it'll be interesting to see where it takes her.

JSM

Tags: fandom, life

Spent most of the weekend blowing my nose. Literally. Why can a cold take hours to really hit you and days to get rid of?

Work is...bitchcakes. That's a good word. They've pulled the guy who was supposed to be my backup to another area. So I'm back to square one. Not only that, but I have to brief the new systems architect on how all this works, just like I was doing with Mr. Backup. Deja vu. Nothing to report on the new job front.

Got everything together for the new car CD unit and headed over to Best Buy. "Uhhh...we can install this, sure, but you don't have the control units for your air and heat, so you're out of luck there." I don't know what's worse--the fact that I missed this nugget of info or that the insurance adjuster missed it. He's looking into that today. Bitchcakes again.

Venture Brothers really sucked. You could tell Publick and Hammer didn't write this one. Bitchcakes a third time.

But the Redhead flies in on Thursday for four days. THAT is something to look forward to.

*****

I made a promise to myself when I started this LJ: no politics, no personal attacks. So while I could say a great deal about the current state of affairs, I will decline. But I still vividly recall the fear on 9/11 when I realized that the Federal Reserve was in that area, and our dear friend Sharyn worked there. Phone lines were naturally jammed; I finally managed to leave a message on their home phone, and some time later her husband Michael let us know that she was safe.

I remember driving by the shopping mall and restaurants and almost shivering at how quiet and empty they were. I recall the long lines to get gas because everyone knew that price-gouging and shortages were in our futures.

The one thing I was sure of: nothing was ever going to be the same. Looking back, I'm saddened at how right and how wrong I was about that prediction.

JSM

Tags: fandom, life, work

Sigh.

Someone calling herself abundantlyqueer got upset that some people were criticizing and/or making fun of the fanfics of some newbies. She ranted and raged about how no one has the right to criticize someone's creative spark, etc.

I was going to comment on it (having already made fun of the whole thing over in Fandom Wank, but the more I got to thinking about it, the more I realized that I'm tired of the whole issue. I've said my piece probably far too many times on far too many message boards and APA's, and I don't see the point in doing so again.

Not when I can present this, a little ditty that's been sitting on my hard drive for some years now:

FANDOM BROTHERHOOD WEEK
(being a parody of “National Brotherhood Week” by Tom Lehrer)


Oh the lit fans hate the media fans
And the media fans hate the lit fans
To hate all but the right fans
Is an old First Fandom rule

But during Fandom Brotherhood Week
Fandom Brotherhood Week
Doctor Who and Louis Wu are dancing cheek-to-cheek
It’s fun to eulogize
A fanboy you despise
As long as you don’t let them in your con

Oh the comics fans hate the gamers
And the gamers hate the comic fans
All of my fen hate all of your fen
It’s the I.D.I.C. way!

But during Fandom Brotherhood Week
Fandom Brotherhood Week
Trekkies all read Heinlein ‘cause it’s very chic
Step up and shake the hand
Of some fanboy you can’t stand
You can tolerate him if he’s bathed

Oh the lit fans hate the costumers
And the Trekkies hate the furries
And the gamers hate otaku
And everybody hates Mundanes

But during Fandom Brotherhood Week
Fandom Brotherhood Week
‘We’re all fans here so let’s be nice’-hood Week
Be kind to morons who
Are inferior to you
It’s only for a week so have no fear
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!


JSM

Tags: fandom