Tom Smith

At least until Saturday. Anne and I think it rocks -- good voice acting, fast-moving tight script, good animation, Black Widow's cheekbones -- what else do you want?

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Horrible. Please, please, if you live or were traveling anywhere in the area, sound off so we know you're all right.

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Live video feed from News 9, thanks to CJ Cherryh on FB. Get your asses down, stay safe.

ETA: Holy crap. Lots and lots of damage, houses smashed, at least one school devastated. Lots of debris in the roads, lots of cars tossed all over the damn place, many with people still in them. And it's still going on. Please please please stay safe and check in when you can.

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Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Star Trek: Into Darkness -- whatever's floating your boat.

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It's looking like eastern Oklahoma, southwest Missouri, and northwest Arkansas will be taking the brunt today. But the system stretches from Mexico up into Canada, and it'll likely get a boost when it reaches the Gulf, so watch out for "regular" storms as well.

As usual, weatherdude from dKos has the 411.

Stay alert, stay safe, check in after it's past.

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Hilarious idea. They could use a little g... love.

Any others we should know about? Any of the main services -- IndieGoGo, GoFundMe, others I'm sure I've never heard of but are out there.

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A reiteration: There are more nasty storms generating in Oklahoma and Kansas, feeding off the stuff that's been whomping on north-central Texas. (Did Dallas-Ft. Worth piss off Aang and Katara, or what?) As usual, the amazing weatherdude at dKos has the 411. Stay alert, stay safe.

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Have at it. I'll catch up later today.

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Yes, Star Wars fans, once again it's that most magical time of the year: Time for the Disney's Hollywood Studios Star Wars Weekend Hyperspace Hoopla!

I'm showing you this:


so I can show you this:


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Game Of Thrones, Doctor Who, Once Upon A Time, Iron Man 3, The Great Gatsby, whatever -- have at it.

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I'm going to update the main web site next week, some new live shows and a few other things. In anticipation of that, you can go here to download a free live show, my MarCon concert for this year. (The file is about 170 MB.) This is good until I wake up on Monday Morning, so have at it.

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• TUG, a really fascinating RPG experiment. Seriously, watch the six-minute video on this one and see what you think.
• Lawless Jerky, small-batch hand-crafted beef jerky with some great-sounding flavors. I'm going for the Hawaiian Teriyaki. Or the American BBQ. Or maybe the Bacon, Salt & Pepper. Only a few hours left on this one.
• Adventure Maximus, an RPG that both kids and adults can play... and run!
• Gigabot 3D Printing, wherein you can get your own 3D printer for something near reasonable cost. Another one ending soon.
• Creating a RepRap 3D printer, so a guy with no prior experience in 3D printing can prove it's not that big or expensive a deal to make your own (and then he'll print you something with it). Ending in just two days.

Any other crowdfunding we should know about?

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Great sadness -- one of the legends has fallen. Filmmaker Ray Harryhausen has passed away at the age of 92.

I'm not even going to bother listing his technical accomplishments, or all the filmmakers he inspired; you can read 'em at the Wikipedia link above. What Ray really did was make our dreams visible, right up there on the movie screen. We saw moving skeleton warriors and a raging Cyclops and the horrific Medusa and a woman transformed into a snake and men transformed into birds and dinosaurs being herded by cowboys and flying horses and RELEASE THE KRAKEN and and and and and.

No one had really done that before. Certainly not on the scale that Harryhausen did. It was literally his life's work, and the result is... well, in one way or another, many of the films of the fantastic we've enjoyed for the past seventy years.

Rest well, sir, and thank you for making our dreams live.

So what's your favorite Harryhausen film, or animation sequence? Even though the skeleton fight in Jason and the Argonauts is considered better, I have an undying love for The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad.

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Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, Once Upon A Time, Iron Man 3, whatever. Read at your peril.

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• Star Wars Day (May the Fourth be with you*).
• Free Comic Book Day.
• Huge opening weekend for Iron Man 3.
• Fantastic image of the Horsehead Nebula that's gone semi-viral this week.
• The Kickstarter for the Dr. Demento documentary went nuts the last two days, and funded easily.
• And I got a book I did not know existed last week: the Nexus Omnibus Volume 1 by Mike Baron and Steve Rude.

All in all, definitely a Week In Geek. And this weekend especially.

I'm going to get a few comics, come home and clean a bit, and then work on music. All while enjoying a gorgeous Southeast Michigan spring day. You?

* I accept that this has become popular, and I really don't mind going with it, but I'm old school: In my heart of hearts, Star Wars Day will always be May 25.

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Let fly. Those who haven't seen it yet, read this thread at your peril.

One non-spoilery thing: The acting is, top-to-bottom, great, especially RDJ and Ben Kingsley.

Another: Stay through the (very long) credits. Of course.

Another: The IMAX 3D was really cool. But you don't need it.

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Ninety-four years young. Teacherken at dKos has a great selection of videos. Feel free to link us to more.

What's your favorite anti-war folk song? Mine, without question, is "The Band Played 'Waltzing Matilda'" by Eric Bogle. And Tom Paxton's "What Did You Learn In School Today?" is right behind, followed by Phil Ochs' "I Ain't A-Marchin' Anymore".

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Forty-two hours to go. Holy crap, we just might make it.

ETA: Holy frijoles. Somethin' just happened -- in the past hour, they've gone up over $10,000, to a current total of $95,938. I think we're gonna do it!

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I've noticed that I do a lot more posting directly to my personal Facebook page lately.

Part of this is simple convenience of technology: The FB App turns out to be pretty darn good. Not perfect for posting, necessarily -- it's much tougher to edit a post from a mobile device after the fact -- but brilliant for checking my news feed, which I never really did much before but now do all the time. And I comment more, and share more, and and and.

I suppose since many of the posts I make directly to FB are in fact shares, it's not something I have to worry about much. But I can't help but notice that, the more I do on FB, the less I do on LJ. (And the irony of this being cross-posted to both services and Twitter after I originally wrote it on DreamWidth is not lost to me.)

I guess what I'm saying is, I'll keep using LJ/DW for in-depth stuff, video links, web pages I want to share... it's not like I'm using my iThingie for everything, or even a lot of things. But I am using it to be more active directly on FB, and so you might want to check my feed there now and again.

What are your current social media sites of choice? I've pretty much abandoned MySpace, LinkedIn is trying so hard to be a one-stop shop that they've obscured what made them important in the first place, and I simply haven't had the inclination to explore Google+. But I like Pinterest.

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Toontrack has released EZdrummer Lite and EZmix 2 Lite for free. (You do have to sign up for a Toontrack account if you don't already have one.) The authorization process is a bit of a pain. Available for both PC and Mac.

And, if you have an iDevice, especially an iPad, you should try Zap Guitar, a free app that lets you "strum" a "guitar". It's pretty cool. (Although not quite as cool as its big brother, Songful, that comes with a huge database of songs. But that app costs $2.99.)

Any other cool software we should know about?

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Right here. All I'll say is, it's about a minute of character work. By RDJ and Gwyneth. Don't want spoilers, don't watch.

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A reminder: PenguiCon is going on right now at the Marriott Centerpoint in Pontiac, MI, and I have a performance Saturday at 1:00 p.m. in the Fairway Lounge. Should be about an hour and a half. There are also a gang of musical performers in the evening, including devospice, Wax Chaotic, and Inverse Phase. Should be a great weekend.

Who's planning to be at the con, or what are you doing if you're not there?

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Breaking news this morning: Five dead in Illinois shooting.

ENOUGH!

Enough with the goddamn guns.

Enough enough enough.

I haven't even had my fucking Egg McMuffin yet, and a half-dozen people have been shot.

Y'know what, gun-rights-über-alles folks? You're correct. Guns don't kill people. PEOPLE WITH GUNS KILL PEOPLE. A lot more easily than they do with pretty much any other method short of WMD.

When I can't get through my freakin' morning web pages without a bunch of people being shot, that's fuckin' it.

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Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Haven't even got past IRON MAN 3 yet, and I'm already jacked to the max for this. And they got Rene Russo back!

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Great sadness. Folk music legend Richie Havens has passed away at the age of 72.

Havens first came to real prominence by performing at Woodstock. As in, opening the show. With a nearly two-hour set. After that, well, he only stopped touring last year.

If, by chance you haven't heard his work, here's a YouTube mix of 41 Havens songs. Bluntly, start anywhere.

Rest well, sir, and thanks for all the music.

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In spite of my gut feeling on this one, I have to admit the trailers make me want to see it.



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Many congratulations to the newest members of the Filk Hall of Fame: Volker Tanger, Roberta Rogow, and Cecilia Eng.

(h/t hms42)

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After a bit of confusion (as opposed to ConFusion), I have indeed been confirmed for both PenguiCon (next weekend in Pontiac, MI) and Up In The Aether Con (Memorial Day weekend in Dearborn, MI).

The PenguiCon concert should be interesting. I'm not getting a ballroom -- I'm getting a lounge. As Tim, head of programming, describes it, it's "a very comfy lounge adjacent to the Hotel restaurant... a very intimate setting for a performance". Sounds great, actually. We'll have us a Silly Like Sardines ol' time!

Other musical guests include our buddy Devo Spice, Wax Chaotic, Nikola Lazar Whallon, and GOHs Inverse Phase. They all have concerts in the evening, so it should be a hell of a good loud night.

And the other guests aren't slouches either, including well-deserving Author GOH and most excellent buddy Jim C. Hines!

And as to Up In The Aether Con...? Just go to their web site and mouse over Programming. They've got an astonishing bunch of stuff, including Voltaire. (I'm not on the web site yet, but I promise I'll be singing at the con.)

So. Who's interested in going, or already planning to go, or what else are you doing those weekends...?

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Overnight, things apparently went completely berserk in the Boston area. Information is obviously sketchy (here's a good aggregate at dKos), but two men suspected of being the Boston Marathon bombers killed an MIT police officer, robbed a 7-11, hijacked a Mercedes SUV, and then got started.

One of the suspects is dead, the other is considered armed and dangerous, and a number of communities around Boston (as well as Boston itself) are on no-fucking-around lockdown.

If you are anywhere in the area, keep your doors locked and your heads down. This is serious.

ETA: Liveblog from the Boston Globe.

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Long, narrow band of intense storms along a front slicing diagonally from Missouri toward Canada. Under the gun: Indiana, southern Michigan, surrounding areas (esp. the Ohio Valley). Weatherdude at dKos has the 411. Stay alert, stay safe, check in when you can. I'm likely to bail out of here myself in an hour or three.

Worst Week Evar.

ETA: I'm fine so far. The storms were loud but brief. On the other hand, all I saw this afternoon was the southern edge of the front. There's still a whole lot of wet coming up from Indiana, and while it may not be severe weather it certainly is soggy.

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Definitely intriguing. Thoughts?

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Sadness. Actor Richard LeParmentier has passed away at the age of 66.

For those of you who don't recognize him, here's a little reminder:



Yep, good ol' loudmouth Admiral Motti was the first guy we ever saw get Force-choked.

LeParmentier worked in a number of other movies and TV shows (most notably Who Framed Roger Rabbit?), but without doubt that scene will always be his most famous, and most iconic. Rest well, sir, and may the Force be with you.

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Okay, so here's an attempt to lighten the mood. Isn't this gorgeous?

There are actually three Oz comics coming out at about the same time (here's a look at the other two), but the one is a straight-up adaptation of Book 6, while the other is, to be charitable, just a touch slutty. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Said the guy who has Alan Moore's Lost Girls in the big-ass slipcase edition.

What's your favorite song from The Wizard of Oz? Okay, fine, the whole soundtrack, not a clinker in the bunch (thank goodness the "Jitterbug" scene was cut). But if we ever do an In Concert version at OVFF or somethin', I'd love to play the Cowardly Lion, so I could sing "If I Were King Of The Forest".

And "... Da NOIVE."

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About a block-and-a-half and ten or so seconds apart, right near the finish line. Two dead, two dozen injured, lots of emergency vehicles. Aggregated info and lots of links here and here, with the newest info here. And you can watch live streaming video from WBZ-TV here.

If you were down there, please sound off so we know you're all right. If you know someone there, you can check on their last checkpoint here. You can also check for people here (h/t jannyblue).

This is less than two hours old; there will be a lot of confusion and potentially some misinformation. Hold tight and stay calm.

Horrible. Simply horrible.

ETA: WBZ-TV is reporting that, besides the two explosions and one controlled explosion, there are two more devices that have been found and are being dismantled. There was apparently no buzz through the intelligence services of any terrorist activity of this nature, which leads one in the direction of a home-grown terrorist or group.

ETA2: Okay, in case you somehow think you should be down there for any reason at all, the police and the Federal officials are bluntly saying STAY THE HELL OUT OF THE AREA. Boylston Street in particular. Just don't go down there.

ETA3: Third explosion at JFK Library at around 3:00. Again, DON'T GO TO DOWNTOWN BOSTON, especially the Copley Square area. Cell phone service has been cut off, to prevent remote detonations. Logan Airport is still open, but the Bruins game tonight has been cancelled. And there is supposedly surveillance footage of a man with "backpacks" who looked suspicious. On top of all that, when the first explosions went off, everybody bolted -- many leaving their belongings, backpacks, etc. Every one of which has to be checked.

Son of a bitch.

ETA4: Logan Airport is still open, but emergency protocols are gearing up, so expect lots of delays.

ETA5: As we figured, lots of speculation, very little certain. Unknown whether the JFK Library explosion is related; here's their Twitter feed (h/t scifantasy). A couple of the hospitals have been sealed off; dunno why. At least one report mentions a "Saudi" man in custody, but that is completely unconfirmed.

ETA6: JFK Library spokesperson Rachel Flor told WBZ-TV that there was some type of fire, no one was injured, everyone got out okay, and the investigation is continuing. No clear connection to the explosions.

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• One I wanted to do well was the First Annual All-Girl Chess and Science Festival in Tucson, AZ. It happened yesterday. Take a gander at these totes adorbz pix. SCIENCE! CHESS!
• For the rasslin' fans: The funding for Scott Hall's hip replacement surgery was completely successful. So was the surgery (which took place Tuesday morning). Still waiting for more updates besides Scott's Twitter feed.
• Under the Smogberry Trees, the Dr. Demento documentary, is still pluggin' along.
• I have the feeling that the eJay Pure project isn't gonna make its funding, which would be a damn shame. It was a good product, and an iOS reboot would serve it very well.
• Just started last night, and already almost 1/3 of the way there: Marc Gunn's new album.
• And today's the last day for the live-action kids' show Adventure Sandwich.

Any other crowdfunding we need to know about?

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Incredible sadness -- we have lost a member of the fannish Family. Writer Nick Pollotta has succumbed to the cancer he's been fighting for some time now. Condolences and hugs and gentle songs and strength to his lovely wife Melissa.

Nick and I didn't see each other much, but we counted each other as friends. We were silly at each other, we talked about books and comics and Just Stuff, and he was a sharp and funny guy with a lot of stories in him.

Rest well, my friend, and thanks.

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Congressman Steve Stockman (R-TX) has a new Official campaign bumper sticker:

If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted.

I don't even know what to say to that. I just don't.

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Damn, damn, damn.

Great sadness -- one of the funniest men alive has passed. Comic actor Jonathan Winters has passed away at the age of 87.

If you don't know of Winters and his work, I'm not sure where to start. Comedy movies, variety shows, dramatic roles... but he was best known for his stand-up, and especially his improv. The only performer I can think of who came close to him is Tim Conway. Robin Williams and Jim Carrey were inspired to comedy by Winters, and you can see it in almost everything they do. (My idle fantasy of the ultimate Whose Line Is It Anyway? pay-per-view with Winters, Conway, Williams, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, and Mike McShane is now ashes. Sigh.) Winters hammered out funny lines, odd voices, and various sound effects faster than anybody. He was a hero of mine, and I hope a little of that shows in my stage work.

For longer than many of us have been alive, Jonathan Winters made us laugh. That's a pretty damn good legacy.

Rest well, sir, and thanks.

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Can't wait can't wait can't wait....

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Disney Legend Annette Funicello has passed away at the age of 70.

Why? Because we love you.

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Who's your favorite Disney cartoon character from the 1950s or earlier? Mine's Professor Ludwig Von Drake, voiced by Paul Frees.

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The follow-up project to Divine Intervention has gone live! (Click on the album cover to go to a page with three free MP3s.) And Prometheus Music has extended their pre-order sale -- just scroll down the page for the deals. Clicky clicky, you know you want to!

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Great sadness. One of the all-time legends of comic art, Carmine Infantino, has passed away at the age of 87.

Infantino was an amazing artist. Where Kirby made things almost unnaturally epic, and Gil Kane brought fierce power, Infantino's forte was movement. He did his best work on The Flash, where he brought to life the sheer speed of a man who could outrun light. Not incidentally, he also co-created many of the villains who became Flash's Rogues' Gallery, including Captain Cold, Captain Boomerang, the Mirror Master, and Grodd.

As an editor, as a mentor, and especially as an artist, Carmine Infantino was one of the icons of the Silver Age, and his impact is still felt throughout comics. Rest well, sir, and thanks.

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Great sadness. Writer and movie critic Roger Ebert has passed away at the age of 70.

I suppose we could all say a lot about Ebert, but I think the best thing to say is: we trusted him. His movie reviews were always fair (and he loved a lot of genre movies other reviewers didn't); his writing was always skilled and passionate; and he just seemed to care about what he did and about the people he wrote for. He transcended a lot of borders and boundaries, becoming (much as has George Takei) a sort of elder statesman for American popular culture. Straight-up, Ebert liked what he did, and he liked to share it with us, and he never seemed to be mean about it.

Thumbs up on a well-spent life, Mr. Ebert. Rest well, and thanks.

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This very morning, in about an hour or so, I'll be live on a special edition of Mad World Radio. If'n ya wants ta listen to me be silly live and online.

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Great sadness. Jane Henson, widow of Jim Henson, has passed away at the age of 78. She helped Jim create the Muppets. What more need be said?

Rest well, Ms. Henson, and thanks.

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You may remember a couple of months ago when I linked to this superb animated short:



Well, the guys behind it are doing a Kickstarter, to turn it into an animated adventure series called Tales of Alethrion. They've got three days left, and they're within $20K. If you like The Reward, and if you can, won't you help?

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