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Monthly Archive for September, 2008
- Eoin Coller, author of the Artemis Foul series, has been asked to write the next chapter in the Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy. And Another Thing… will be published in October of next year.
- Anonymous may have broken into Sarah Palin’s yahoo mail account. The offending posts, screenshots, and unseen family photos and emails have all been deleted from Imageshack and 4Chan and the account itself has since been deleted.
- Stephanie Jacobsen, who played Kendra Shaw in the Battlestar Galactica TV movie “Razor,” is coming to Sarah Connor as another resistance fighter from the future to hunt down Terminators.
- David Tennant vetoed the idea of an episode with J.K. Rowling, where the author drags the Doctor into the Harry Potter universe.
- Paris Hilton will be making her horror musical debut in Repo! The Genetic Opera, as surgery-addicted Amber Sweet. Fortunately, her character isn’t in the movie a lot, but when she’s there, she looks great.
- Sony is in talks to bring back xXx with original director Rob Cohen, under the title xXx: The Return of Xander Cage.
- Ricky Gervais agreed to star in Ghost Town with three firm rules: no accent, no wigs, and no kissing. He plays a grumpy dentist in New York who can suddenly see and hear ghosts after a near-death experience.
- The Whedonopolis fansite will sponsor a Halloween night screening of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and Felicia Day’s web series The Guld, to benefit charity. The screening will take place in los angeles and proceeds will benefit Path Ventures, an affordable-housing community group.
- SCI Fi Channel has cast its upcoming Children of the Corn remake with David Anders, Kandyse McClure, Preston Bailey, and Daniel Newman.
- George Takei married his longtime boyfriend on September 14th in a Los Angeles ceremony that paid homage to the actor’s Japanese heritage.
- Kevin Smith’s QuickStop Entertainment site posted a teaser trailer for director Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which was the last movie that late actor Heath Ledger was working on. (The trailer has since been removed.)
- Evil Dead: The Musical in 3D may begin shooting as soon as next spring, hopefully with the cast that has performed more than 300 times in Toronto. The bloody comedy has songs such as, “What the F—K Was That?”, “I’m Not a Killer”, and “Look Who’s Evil Now.”
- The latest in the Dune series has been released.
- The BBC brought Torchwood to the radio as Captain Jack Harkness ran around trying to shut the Large Hadron Collider down, because it was really a portal to an evil dimension. In reality, the LHC was tested successfully with two proton beams fired the length of the $4 billion campus.
- Scientists have theorized that aliens could possibly send messages using Cepheid star pulses as an intergalactic Morse code.
- CBS has ended all Fox shows the production company, Benderspink, was working on, including Kyle XY and a tv spin-off of the Butterfly Effect.
- A live action Incredibles will be brought to TV by ABC; the Nelsons will air, but Craig T. Nelson may or may not reprise his role.
- Russel T. Davies wants Catherine Zeta Jones to play the Doctor’s companion in an upcoming Dr. Who feature film, but David Tennant must be available to be the Doctor.
- Scientists have concluded that a visible stream of gamma radiation from a collapsing star was almost exactly centered on Earth, almost as if it was aimed…
- Frank Miller’s All Star Batman and Robin have been ordered destroyed due to language. Miller had censored the language, but the bars were printed in a lighter black than the words, making them fairly easy to read.
- A real chemist named Louis Slotin was exposed to the same radiation as Watchmen’s Dr. Manhattan while improperly using a screwdriver to work on a fission reactor. The critical reaction caused a dose of radiation equal to being 1500 meters away from an atomic bomb. He died nine days later.
- Marvel is denying that Will Smith has ever been offered the role of Captain America.
- Aaron Eckhart has confirmed he is not signed on to do another Batman and Christopher Nolan will not be doing the next film. Frank Miller might be doing the next film, not as a sequel, but as a stand-alone, with Stallone as Batman.
- Harold Ramis has announced that there will be a Ghostbusters 3, perhaps to coincide with the release of the game. No word on if it is a reboot or a new generation yet.
- Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire have signed on for Spiderman 4 and 5.
- The Large Hadron Collider has been shut down till spring after a fault opened up and dumped one ton of liquid helium into the the tubes and caused 100 magnets to overheat.
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed has sold over 1.5 million copies in its first week making it the fastest-selling Star Wars game of all time. TFU is expected to go into a second printing early. (Good thing they didn’t make it Sith The Force Unleashed and have STFU)
- Russel T Davies of Dr Who renown has turned down George Lucas’s offer to work on the live action Star Wars Show. Which is good for everyone, probably.
- The 2 disc The Dark Knight dvd set will include special features “The World of Batman Seen Through Real Life Psychotherapy” “Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of the Dark Knight”
- Astro Boy starring Nicolas Cage and Donald Sutherland will be coming Oct 23, 2009. Yes, that Astro Boy, from 5 am on Adult Swim.
- The Heroes: premiere was down 25% from last years premiere with experts blaming the writers strike for weakening the already historically weak 2nd season, cutting it short followed by a 9 month hiatus.
- Billy Crystal will join Dwayne Johnson in the cast of Tooth Fairy, Michael Lembeck is directing the Fox fantasy comedy that begins shooting Monday in Vancouver, Canada.
- Walt Disney Co. is developing an action-adventure movie set in space, to star Dwayne Johnson, supposedly inspired by the Tomorrowland section of its Disneyland theme park.
- Brisingr, the third volume in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance cycle, sold 550,000 copies on its first day of release, making it the best-selling Random House Children’s Books title ever, the publisher announced. Proving once again that taste has “no more control over its powers than a spider does over spinning its web.”
- Columbia Pictures announced that Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle) will co-star in and helm The Green Hornet, a reboot of the crime-fighter franchise, starring Seth Rogen.
- Star Trek star William Shatner has posted a video on YouTube to J.J. Abrams, who is helming a reboot of the franchise. Shatner, as is well known, does not appear in the new movie. In the video, Shatner disputes why.
- ABC’s Pushing Daisies was the only science fiction/fantasy program that took home a prime-time Emmy Award The fantasy series won the award for outstanding directing for a comedy series, for the pilot, “Pie-Lette.” Battlestar Galactica won 2 Emmys, Tin Man took home 1, and Chuck, Lost and Smallville took home a technical Emmy each.
- Joan Winston, the New York Star Trek fan who was instrumental in organizing the first Trek convention, died on Sept. 11 of Alzheimer’s disease. She was 77. The first convention took place in January 1972 at the Statler Hilton in Manhattan. The organizers had expected a crowd of about 500. In the end, more than 3,000 fans turned up: “Winston earned the love of Star Trek fans everywhere by helping to orchestrate an afterlife for the series beyond the television set–initially by organizing conventions and persuading stars from the series to attend, and later by appearing at the conventions as a star in her own right, a superfan whose undying devotion inspired awe among Star Trek devotees, the newspaper reported.”
Date: September 17th, 2008
Meeting Start: 10:03: and seven seconds after a sneeze
Attendance: 25
Committees
Recruitment and Relations: Katherine is back, and Kurt and Andy are new. Kurt left before the end of the meeting.
Movie: The bad movie is Blood Freak.
Office Resource: The office is still there.
T-Shirt: Ideas for t-shirts include a bad movie style screaming woman with bloody letters.
Trivia: Katie has trivia: What is the author of the series that inspired HBO’s True Blood? Katie continues to have trivia. The answer was Charlaine Harris.
Party: Forrest is still looking for donations.
Discussion Group: The new topic: The website?
Constitution: Not active.
Fundraising: There has been discussion of fundraising, including a movie night. Ashley and Erich have discussed a Psi-Phi production of Shuggoth on the Roof.
No Report: Willy Wonka was pulled over in Bethlehem. He also has seen delicious cookie recipes.
Officers Reports
Constable: He was outside in a bathrobe and bare feet early in the morning. The bappable offense of the week is sitting on the inside of the tables.
Com Officer: She has been performing experiments.
Chief of Operations: He made an RSS feed of death and destruction.
Grand Nagus: His school sleep habits are back, and he’s been having about three papers due a week.
First Officer: Unfortunately, there have been no grenades during class. She has never mentioned PsiPhi to her parents, but is planning on putting PsiPhi on her resume.
Captain: Our titles are very strange for banks. There are also two types of orgasms: Sexual orgasms and sneezes.
Old Business: The usual.
New Business: We have letters. We have been invited to a game night in the library on September 26th, at 8:30pm.
Other Organizations
Anime: They are watching Heat Guy J and Denno Coil.
MCS: Fridays at 5pm in the Student Center Cafeteria.
Order of Xeen: Traveller has been going on at the usual place.
LAN: On Saturday nights.
Other:
- Pirates tickets are still on sale.
- We are not banned from Shackathon.
Meeting End: 10 and 52 minutes and seven seconds after the sneeze
Quotes
Anti-Mike: You counted normally, are you sure you’re right?
Anti-Mike: If you break the Braves room, the team will track you down and kill you.
Adam: The football team?
Forrest: Sex? Why would you pay for sex? On movie night?
Anti-Mike: The sex is free. The snacks are for money.
Forrest: Oh, that’s what they’re calling it these days.
Forrest: Give me money so I can buy your fucking pizza.
Anti-Mike: Can I have a non-fucking pizza?
Monica: You should have put pants on!
Eric: I’m not going to do that!
Adam: So, “if we sneeze with a cold, we better be smiling.”
Anti-Mike: You can fake a sneeze.
Jon: Furry pedophiles is not worth free food.
Eric: Everything is worth free food!
Eric: It’s better to be God’s worst enemy than a nobody.
Adam: Yay, David Tennant is my hero!
Eric: Triple X: This time, he’s Mexican.
Eric: The first movie wasn’t bad… in the sexual content way, not in a good movie way.
Adam: The office is still there.
Sarah: What about the TV cart?
Adam: It’s still there.
Someone: If you keep it [trivia] hard, you can have it every week.
Eric; That’s what she said.
Anti-Mike: It’s a love square.
Adam: It’s a love rhombus.
Eric: Except no one wants to have sex with each other.
Adam: Your lightsaber goes through anything.
Eric: Is that a steel bar? Raaaaaagh.
Ashley: The hymen would be no problem, then.
Alex: Where everyone is a Jedi no matter how hard you try to make them something else.
Eric: You want to own a cantina? Fuck yooooou.