Monthly Archive for November, 2008

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News for November 5, 2008

  • Grant Morrison, writer of Batman RIP and Final Crisis storylines, may be tapped to write the Flash movie.
  • Elder God for two? German game designer Reiner Knizia has published a new game, Cthulhu Rising, a mathematics based puzzle game published by Twilight Creations, who also published Zombies!!!
  • Social Conservative group, “Focus on the Family,” has begun spreading a short story called, “Letters from Obama’s America,” written y a person living in 2012 and suffering under the horrors of the Obama regime. Pronography is proudly displayed in gas stations, and private ownership of guns has been outlawed. Homosexuality will be legalized as a constitutional right, the Boy Scouts will disband when they refuse to let homosexual tent masters sleep in young boy’s tents, the far Left will control the Supreme Court, a few U.S. cities will be attacked by terrorists and Israel will be nuked, Russia will invade Europe, and the Bible will be classified as hate speech. “Letter” is more frightening in that Conservatives are turning to sci-fi as a weapon. Expect to see a lot of right-wing sci-fi protest literature in the future as the right remakes itself.
  • Despite internet rumors, Megan Fox will not be playing Wonder Woman.
  • CNN has holograms, kind of. Using 35 HD cameras in a special ring, they beamed images of the correspondents to the studio and choreographed the movements of the studio cameras with images from the rig. The anchors then talked to a hidden monitor, giving the appearance of a 3d image in the studio.
  • It’s dead, it’s not dead, it’s dead, it’s not dead. Preacher the movie has risen from the grave again. Columbia Pictures has picked up the rights to the 90′s series, for an adaptation to be directed by Sam Mendes.
  • Researchers said Tuesday that it is possible to protect spacecrafts with a portable system known as a magnetosphere that could keep space environmental threats, such as solar wind and flares, away.
  • Babylon 5 creator, J. Michael Straczynski, is writing an update of the classic Forbidden Planet for WB.
  • The current leader for the next Dr Who may be Billie Piper, however Steven Moffat says he should be 40-plus and weird looking.
  • Heroes execs Jeph Loeb and Jesse Alexander have been fired, because of Peacock exec’s frustration with the creative direction of the show. The show is also said to have been grappling with hefty budge overruns this season, going well beyond its already sizable 4million/seg pricetag.
  • Michael Crichton died at 66 of cancer.

Minutes for November 5, 2008

Attendance: 14
Meeting Start: 10:04 and there’s not nearly enough people here.

News

Committees
Recruitment and Relations: We need bounty hunters to round up members. Will be wearing black sheets?
Movie: The bad movie is Mongrel.
Office Resource: The office is still there.
Trivia: What is best in life, according to Conan. Xeen wins: Crush enemies, see them driven before you and hear lamentations of women.
Party: Gone.
Discussion Group: Anti-Mike’s not here. Going to Bacci’s. If you were an ascended being, what would you do?
No Report: Taia has been assigned to watch Teeth.

Officers Reports
Chief of Operations: Fail.
Constable: Fail.
Com Officer: Has been bonding with little sister, who thinks kissing is icky.
Grand Nagus: Needs more RAM for Fallout 3.
First Officer: Fail.
Captain: Teacher has chlamydia… in her notes.

Old Business: Robot-monster-zombie-alien-fest is on the way.
New Business: Jon and Anti-Mike need voice acting talent.

Other Organizations
Anime: Selecting evening show.
MCS: The items that were left behind were put in the office.
Theater: New production next week.

Meeting End: 10:32

Quotes
Jon: Or revisionist history… everyone was here.
Forrest: I love revisionist history!

Jack: Zombies have jazz hands.

Adam: That didn’t sound all bad. We got rid of Europe…
Jon: But now they’re all Russian.

Monica: Is this an official movie or porn?
Jack: Both! Transformers, rated PG. Come watch, kids!

Forrest: I don’t think he’s going to turn female.

Forrest: Now that Jon’s made it more awkward…

Collier: Laminate your women.
Jack: Our women must be shiny and waterproof.

Forrest: [in a Russian accent] We support Obama because he will turn it red and not in the stupid Republican way.