It’s brother vs. brother. Lick Poop battles it out against his 2 smarter and smoother siblings. Will Lick Poop finally reveal his true feelings to Kiko or does his denial know no bounds?
Author: ÜberSciFiGeek
Plush Zombie Eats ThinkGeek’s Brains
from ThinkGeek:
Fellow Prey of the Un-Dead,
We come to you today, in total fear for our lives and for the safety of the brains of our office canines. But mostly, we fear for the safety of the ThinkGeek logo. For some reason, our logo has attracted impossible legions of the Un-dead upon ThinkGeek HQ. Kind of like Wookie braids attracting Mandalorians — except with more mindless gnawing and less Jet Pack gymnastics. But we digress. Before it’s too late, please, Citizens of the Interwebs, purchase a ThinkGeek Plush Zombie today, taking it far away from our office. The future safety of the ThinkGeek logo (along with our office canine brains) depends on you and you alone…
Dismember-Me Plush Zombie — Cuddle-Up with the Un-Dead
What happens when you take old broken plush toys and bury them in the woods by the light of the full moon while whistling the theme song from Halloween? Unfortunately nothing… which is why the skillful design monkeys here at ThinkGeek were forced to come up with our own scary (but cute) zombie plush. The Dismember-Me Plush Zombie begs to be torn limb from limb. After all, he is a decaying re-animated corpse turned into irresistible cuddly plush. Rip off an arm… he doesn’t mind. Tear him in half… he’ll barely notice. Pull off his legs… ok now he’s getting a bit annoyed. Steal his brain… now you’ve really done it. Keep your teddy bears under close guard tonight because undead plush have come back from hell to walk the earth.
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Director Brian Kalin O’Connell, writer Steve Melching discuss all-new Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode this Friday, October 10 on Cartoon Network
from StarWars.com:
Star Wars: The Clone Wars puts a new shine on a very recognizable part of Star Wars lore as the Y-wing bombers make their debut in “Shadow of Malevolence,” an all-new episode of the hit animated series premiering at 9:00 PM, Friday, October 10, on Cartoon Network.
In the second of a three-episode arc, “Destroy Malevolence” finds Anakin Skywalker, his Padawan Ahsoka Tano and Jedi Master Plo Koon utilizing long-range Y-wing bombers to lead a bold strike on General Grievous’ warship, the Malevolence, and its destructive ion cannon.
The Y-wing bombers were first seen among the Rebel Alliance’s primary starfighters in 1977’s Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. “Shadow of Malevolence” director Brian Kalin O’Connell, writer Steve Melching and supervising director Dave Filoni were inspired by the concept of showing the Y-wings “fresh off the showroom floor.”
“We like to find ways to draw connections between The Clone Wars and the original trilogy,” Melching says. “In the original Star Wars, the X-wings and the Y-wings have truly been through the wars, and they’ve had the crap beaten out of them. We thought it would be fun to imagine that they were originally manufactured during the Clone Wars — so for us, they came off the assembly line and into battle.”
O’Connell says the artists behind The Clone Wars were excited about “introducing” the Y-wings — and putting the series’ lead characters into a full-fledged space battle for the first time.
“Guys like (design/concept artists) Russell Chong and Killian Plunkett, along with Dave (Filoni) come from a classic Star Wars background, so they understand that Ralph McQuarrie feel of the 1970s, and they do it right,” O’Connell says. “We don’t want to change the lore, we want to add to it. By introducing the Y-wings, we get to add a new dimension, a little history.” Some people, he realizes, might think that it’s “just a vehicle.” Nevertheless, O’Connell says, “We know it’s a huge deal for the fans. We don’t let it distract from the story, but we still get to add the geek shot — and when we do, we try to do it justice.”
Star Wars: The Clone Wars airs at 9:00 PM, Fridays on Cartoon Network. George Lucas is the series’ creator and serves as executive producer, and Catherine Winder is producer.
The Guild at Blizzcon
from The Guild:
The whole cast of The Guild will be attending Blizzcon Friday and Saturday! There will be a Guild panel from 1:30-2:30 PM on Saturday where we will preview Season 2 as well as answer questions about Season 1 and anything else the audience would like to hear!
Also, thanks to the kindness of Blizzard, we will have a booth set up where we will be selling DVDs and an Official Cast Photo, debuting at the con! All 6 main cast members will be hanging out, but will be specifically signing DVDs and Photos at the following times in the booth:
Friday 11 AM-1 PM
Saturday 3-5 PM
Please stop by and say hi, or catch us around Blizzcon!
The Legend of Neil on Twitter
from The Legend of Neil:
Hey all, we’re trying to be everywhere that you are, and you can now follow this feed [for The Legend of Neil] on Twitter if you like. Just click here to get to our Twitter page! Also click to follow Sandeep’s Twitter or Felicia’s Twitter. Happy tweeting!
[Web series The Guild and Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show also have feeds on Twitter.]
Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show, Episode 15: Retarded Policeman’s Ponce
Ponce from Retarded Policeman joins the fun at GTCMS. No time for fun time now. Unicow has an eating disorder? Carrot is battered? Even cancer has invaded the fun time of GTCMS. Can Kiko find the secret to bringing fun time back?
I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun
A search at Amazon.com a few months ago for a LOLcat book led to the amazing discovery that one didn’t exist. That oversight has now been corrected: I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun is a hilarious guide to LOLcats by Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami — the duo who started the Internet meme and launched the hugely popular icanhascheezburger.com in January 2007 — and co-author “Professor Happycat”.
Professor Happycat pops up throughout the book in cartoon form to explain things to the reader, such as how to mangle spelling and grammar in proper LOLspeak fashion (LOL Speak Poetry Magnets are available for practice), and who Ceiling Cat and other prominent LOLcats are. The book collects over 200 full-colour LOLcat pictures from the website, some classic and some new, and all extremely LOL-worthy. Professor Happycat says, “Mah new book iz teh best book evr”, and it’s hard to argue with that statement if you’re a LOLcat fan.
A note from the publisher states: “In case you’ve somehow missed the LOLcat sensation, here’s the lowdown. It all began in early 2007, when, after a bad day at work,” Eric Nakagawa asked his friend Kari Unebasami via chat to send something to cheer him up. Kari sent him a photo of a smiling fat cat with the caption “I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?” superimposed onto the picture. Soon, Nakagawa and Unebasami created a blog at icanhascheezburger.com (named after the most popular LOLcat of all) and the phenomenon known as the LOLcat was born.”
The book is small and square, the perfect size to tuck into a bag and carry everywhere, or to stuff into a holiday stocking. It’s a great conversation piece and the perfect gift for geeks and cat-lovers of all ages.
Teh cute kittehs, they needs sequel now. Srsly.
Pre-order at Amazon.com:
I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun
I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun is distributed by Gotham Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), and its international affiliates. For more information, visit the official book website at lulzftw.com.
The Twinkies Cookbook
Twinkies, long a staple in the geek food pyramid, have remained essentially unchanged by their makers since their creation, so Hostess thought it would be fun to officially showcase the people who have been getting creative and playing with their food, in The Twinkies Cookbook: An Inventive and Unexpected Recipe Collection:
“As part of Twinkies’ seventy-fifth anniversary celebration [in 2005], Hostess put out a call for recipes, asking people to share their ideas for cooking — yes, cooking — with Twinkies. Hundreds of people from across the country responded with an amazing bunch of inventive, homegrown, and sometimes wacky recipes. Nearly fifty of these unexpected creations — both sweet and savory! — are presented in this nostalgic and colorful collection. A delight for the whole family, The Twinkies Cookbook is the perfect snack for the Twinkie lover in all of us.”
The cookbook’s introduction, Twinkies: History of a Sweet Sensation, tells the story of the Twinkie’s origins, and includes interesting quotes, trivia, and archival pictures. There are nine chapters of recipes and full-color pictures that follow: Novelty Twinkies, Twinkies for Chocolate Lovers, Fruity Twinkies, Twinkies Take the Cake, Twinkies à la Mode, Twinkie Drinks, Twinkie Stack-Ups, Gourmet Twinkies, and Twinkies and Meat. The recipes range from those simple enough for children to make, to a few time-consuming productions requiring special equipment and considerable experience in the kitchen.
As a bonus for pop culture fans, this book also clears up the much-debated urban legend that Twinkies have an indefinite shelf life. (Spoiler: The golden snack cake’s real lifespan is 25 days.)
Order now at Amazon.com:
The Twinkies Cookbook: An Inventive and Unexpected Recipe Collection
The Twinkies Cookbook: An Inventive and Unexpected Recipe Collection is distributed by Ten Speed Press (US and Canada). For more recipes and information, visit twinkies.com.
Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show, Episode 14: Take Anything You Want
Nothing wrong with a little junk in your diet. When an Aerobics Guru visits fun time becomes health time. Kiko and Friends’ diets are put to the nutrition test. What is Panda eating?
ghostgirl
Charlotte Usher, the titular “ghostgirl” in the book ghostgirl, walks through life feeling like she’s invisible. She yearns to be one of the popular girls in high school and win the heart of the boy of her dreams, but she can’t even manage to get noticed.
Sound familiar? If you grew up a geek, it does. Being a ghost is the perfect metaphor for the status of those who cling to the fringe of society, looking in but not fitting in.
Charlotte, the poster girl for not fitting in, seems on the verge of finally attaining the popularity she obsesses over when she’s assigned to be the Physics tutor for the school’s star athlete, and her crush, Damen Dylan… but promptly chokes on a gummy bear and dies. Death doesn’t deter Charlotte from her quest, though, so with the help of Goth girl Scarlet, a fellow outcast and the only live person who can see Charlotte, she sets out to achieve in the afterlife what she couldn’t while still alive. Along the way, both girls learn to accept, and find acceptance for, who they really are and where they belong, popular or not.
The book itself is a work of art, its tall and narrow trim size reflecting the shape of a coffin and featuring a coffin die-cut with stamped acetate inlay on the black, silver, and pink hardcover. The cover’s colour scheme is continued throughout the book in the silhouette illustrations at the beginning of each chapter, the flowery designs in the margins, and the silver gilt applied to the page edges. Beneath each chapter illustration is a plot-relevant quote, usually in the form of song lyrics, that emphasizes the novel’s frequent use of music and pop culture references.
ghostgirl originated as a Web project in 2002, so fans can extend the book’s experience by visiting the beautifully designed ghostgirl.com. There’s lots to explore while waiting for the next book in the series, ghostgirl: Homecoming (July 2009), including a MySpace page for main character Charlotte Usher.
Recommended Reading Level: Young Adult (12+) for mild sexual content, Goth Chic-style violence, and occasional adult language.
Order now at Amazon.com:
ghostgirl
ghostgirl is distributed by Little, Brown and Company, an imprint of Hachette Book Group USA, and Headline Publishing (UK). For more information on the book and its author, visit ghostgirl.com and the website of Tonya Hurley.
Evil League of Evil Seeking New Evil
The Evil League of Evil from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog has posted an invitation on its revamped website:
Seeking New Evil
The rumblings you’ve been hearing in the criminal underground since July indeed are true: At long last, we are seeking new applicants to the League.1
Aspirants to new heights of Evil should submit a video application that meets the terms below.
- It should be no more than three minutes in length.
- There should be little to no swearing.2
- Dialogue, logos, and music must be original.3
- Songs are not required (singing is a bonus).
- You must be evil — it’s a plus to have a name.
- Your video application should be posted to YouTube or Vimeo.
- Email us a link to the video, with your contact information.4
- October 11 is the last day to submit.
The best applicants, as determined by the League or its designated agents, will be included on a special DVD commemorating our most recent member.
Make the bad horse gleeful, or he’ll make you his mare.
- Henchmen need not apply. Please contact your union.
- Evil can be something of a family affair.
- We’re evil, not stupid.
- Finalists may be contacted by the League or its agents.
Yes, this is the real site.
Atom.com Signs First Look Deal with Content Creator Sandeep Parikh
PRNewswire — Viacom (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) MTVN Entertainment Group’s Atom.com, a digital comedy network and Comedy Central’s exclusive partner and anchor brand for original digital comedy content, announced today that it has signed writer-director Sandeep Parikh to an exclusive first look production commitment. The deal follows the success of Parikh’s The Legend of Neil series (legendofneil.atom.com), which has generated 700,000 plays since debuting on Atom.com in August and reached over 400,000 more viewers when it made its television debut on Atom TV on Comedy Central on September 15.
The production deal gives Atom the first option on new digital content ideas from Parikh and it has committed in advance to developing two of them to pilot stage. In addition, Atom and Parikh are in discussions on future seasons of The Legend of Neil, building on the adventures of a guy who gets sucked into The Legend of Zelda after a night of heavy drinking and game playing and must fight his way out or risk perishing in the magical world. The series was a hit among gamers, who also know Parikh from his work as an actor in Felicia Day’s The Guild, a popular web series set in the world of massively multiplayer online games.
“Working with Megan and the Atom.com team has been an absolute blast,” said Parikh. “I couldn’t be more excited about the success of The Legend of Neil and the new deal we’ve struck.”
“Sandeep’s funny and inventive first season of The Legend of Neil has resonated with the Atom audience online, on Atom TV and on all of our platforms,” said Atom’s VP of Development and Acquisitions, Megan O’Neill. “He really understands the Web and we are thrilled to be creating more content with him.”
The Atom.com digital comedy network extends far beyond the Web site, reaching almost every screen that plays video. Elsewhere on the Internet, Atom channels are featured on iTunes (which is currently selling the complete first season of The Legend of Neil), AOL, AT&T, Bebo, Dailymotion, Veoh, xBox Live, and Parikh’s own Effinfunny.com site. On television, the weekly Atom TV series (TV-MA) features original Atom comedy videos and top user videos on Comedy Central every Monday night at 2:00 a.m. On mobile phones, Atom has prominent channels on Verizon Wireless’ V CAST as well as AT&T’s CV and AllTel.
Atom.com, a division of Viacom Inc.’s (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) MTV Networks, is a digital comedy network for young men that reaches millions of consumers each month on the Atom.com Web site and millions more through multiplatform distribution on television, mobile phones, and the Internet. Drawing on a strategic partnership with Comedy Central and its own 10-year history of online video innovation and leadership (formerly as AtomFilms), Atom.com delivers Web comedy like nobody else.
SOURCE MTVN Entertainment Group