Wonderfalls in December?

From http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/ today:

"At a special Wonderfalls screening, Bryan Fuller and Todd Holland spoke about the planed release of all 13 episodes on DVD. They said Fox is aiming for a December 7th release, although this hasn't been announced by the studio yet, and may change."

And so begins a new age

Whoo hoo! They did it!

This morning Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne carried pilot Mike Melvill more than 62 miles above the Earth's surface. Making it the first privately funded manned craft to fly in space!

Take that NASA!

A Rocky Horror era tidbit: The worst peanut butter and jelly sandwich ever

After reading all of the great stories from Rich's blog about our shared days in Tacoma's Rocky Horror Picture Show cast, I felt it was finally time I contribute something. So of course it's going to be something that makes Rich look like a tit.

One weekend my parents were out of town. A perfect opportunity for late night shenanigans in a better location than one of the local Denny's. So I had some of the core group of the cast over for the evening. As I remember, we played a few rounds of the theatersports game "party guest" which ended up giving Gannon some great comedy to perform and another entry for the dyslexicon when he drew the description "afraid of shoes". But I digress. This was supposed to be about Rich.

Let's see who all was there. Gannon, Rich & Katy (who were an item at the time), myself...and beyond that I can't seem to remember...but that's all the people who pop up in the important part of all this. The part where Rich looks like a great tit (He's my best friend, dontcha know. And wonderfully patient with my need to embarrass him. Don't worry he's got plenty other stuff he can slam me with on his blog). Wait a minute; was this during my brief period with Jeni (who would later be known as Gyeni)? Oh nevermind. Back to the important stuff.

The sleeping arrangements. I was upstairs in my bedroom, Gannon was downstairs in my parent’s bedroom, and Rich & Katy were on the hideabed in the living room. Why the couple ended up stuck with the least private place to sleep is beyond me. Probably me being worried about what sorts of things they would get up to in my parents bed that could end up leaving evidence and get me in trouble with the parental units.

I have no idea what went on in the evening. In fact, I wasn't present for most of the rest of the story. Rich relayed this whole thing to me of his own free will. I think he secretly likes looking like a tit. Anyways, he and Katy woke up the next morning and were getting quite amorous...probably on the way to scoring a home run, when Gannon poked his head out of the bedroom. He poked a little fun at them and then politely went back to the bedroom. But the mood had been sufficiently killed, so they decided that some food was in order. Rich took to the kitchen and proceeded to make Katy a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

He served this sandwich to Katy, who dove into it appreciatively. But something seemed a little odd. She took another bite. There was definitely something wrong. Her mouth was on fire. A three alarm tongue scorcher. Rich scrambled to get her water to extinguish the damage done by the sandwich. In all of the commotion, I finally come into the story to deliver the punchline. After getting all the details, I discovered that Rich had picked up an unlabeled jar of jelly from the fridge. My father's homemade jalapeño pepper jelly. I just about peed myself I laughed so hard. Rich didn't think it was so funny. He wanted to know why in the hell someone would keep a jar of mouth melting jelly in the fridge without having the common decency to label it. Knowing my Dad better now, I'd say it was on purpose...he's a mischievous old coot.

Oddly enough, it was shortly after this that Katy made the jump from big loveable loudmouthed geek #1 to big loveable loudmouthed geek #2. Rich insists that the peanut butter and jalapeño jelly sandwich directly contributed to the transition. Personally, I'd hate to think that such an innocent mistake was what led us to that fun little triangle. But I guess worse things have started over less.

The Clone Wars Micro-Series Continues!

Straight from the official site:

Star Wars: Clone Wars | The Clone Wars Micro-Series Continues!

The new series will continue where chapter 20 left off, but in a new format. This time around we get 5 new installments at 12 minutes each.

Can a regular half hour series be far behind?

Some cool TV stuff coming to DVD

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/ this week:

• Pee-wee's Playhouse - All 45 episodes (including 6 "lost" episodes never released to home video) will be split between two box set collections, and the "Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas special will all release this fall!

• The Greatest American Hero - Coming either late this year or early next year. No details yet. I wonder if "The Greatest American Heroine" pilot will be included. Hmm.

It's nice to see some stuff being released that isn't in constant rotation. Don't get me wrong, I love shows like MASH, The Cosby Show, Roseanne, etc...but they're showing multiple times a day on several networks. I can just Tivo those shows.

Here's hoping that stuff like Voyagers and Misfits of Science see the light of day. Yeah...I know it's unlikely. And I know that these shows probably won't be as good as they are in my memories. But what the hell. :)

My name on the big screen!

This weekend I attended the premiere of "Big City Dick: Richard Peterson's First Movie" at the Seattle International Film Festival. I went to show my support for the film (which sold out 3 days before the screening!) and because I wanted to see Richard in person. But I got a big suprise when the credits rolled.

The first screen was the director/producer credits for Ken, Todd and Scott. The second was for Richard. The third was about the artwork. Who designed the logo, who did the animated bits, the artwork Richard provided for the film...and Website design by Chris Mowrer. My name on the big screen! And not just scrolling by with dozens of other names. Right up there with the people who made the film! It made me feel rather special. :)

An interesting Star Wars story I heard today

My co-worker John used to work in Hollywood in the late 80s. He had a friend that was a model maker and told him about a particular gig he did at Lucasfilm. They were putting together a variety of creatures for George to pick from for the scene at Jabba's palace. They were running out of time and decided to slap some stuff together that George would never go for so they'd get a couple extra days to come up with something better. The day comes, they put out the full spread of options...and to their surprise George picks three of their substandard designs to be Jabba's house band. That's why Max Rebo is a blue elephant.

First attempt at private manned space flight set for June 21

The other night I was watching the new Disney Tomorrowland DVD at Christian's place. While a damn cool show, it made me a bit mad when I realized how far we should really be in space exploration at this point. But once we got to the moon, the public's enthusiam was lost and NASA has been limping along ever since. Hell, our current program is based around a reusable craft that was designed in the early 70s. The private sector getting into space is what's really going to make things happen. Space tourism here we come!