- NASA bypassed all voting and chose Tranquility as the new Node name. They are instead naming a treadmill after Colbert.
- John Sotos, an inspiration and consultant for House, M.D., wants to test Lincoln’s DNA for a rare genetic cancer syndrome called Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia 2B.
- The new Star Trek movie’s release date has been sped up to Thursday, May 7th, at 7pm. Not a huge change, but nice.
- A funeral supply store is now selling Star Trek photon torpedo coffins and Star Trek urns. You can find them at eternalimage.net.
- Area 51 has been declassified. The unidentified flying objects have been identified as experimental planes under the codename OXCART.
- Dan Aykroyd has vowed to sign Sigourney Weaver to the upcoming Ghostbusters sequel.
- Director/Producer McG is trying, but so far failing, to get Ah-nold to cameo in Terminator Salvation.
- Disney is denying rumors that Tron 2′s budget is rising over 300 million.
- Writer Declan O’Brian has optioned Little Shop of Horrors and says, “I have a take on it you’re not going to expect.” If there’s no singing piranha plant or at least a Mario reference, I’m not interested.
- Universal Studios has confirmed a 5th installment of The Fast and the Furious.
- Joss Whedon evaded the pressing issue of who would win: Buffy vs. River Tam. All he would say that while Buffy is stronger, River is programmed to kill.
- IMDB has reported Matthew Perry is starring in the two-part finale of Lost. The actor had previously stated it was a dream of his to join the island.
- The blaster gun used by Harrison Ford in Blade Runner is set to be auctioned. This so-called holy grail of Sci-Fi weapons is expected to go for over $100,000.
- Joss Whedon still has a small glimmer of hope for a second season of Dollhouse, despite Fox not even airing episode 13 domestically. Episode 13 stars Felicia Day of Dr. Horrible infamy as a post-apocalyptic fighter girl.
- The crew for The Sarah Connor Chronicles also claims they’re not dead yet and point out that the people claiming so did the same thing last season.
Attendance: 14
Meeting Start: 10:02 and he can tell seconds
Committees
Recruitment and Relations: Erich is here. We lost the people who brought people.
Movie: Spacehunter: Adventure in the Forbidden Zone. Dragonball Evolution opens in theaters Friday.
Office Resource: If you’re killing time in the office, try to inventory pieces from the war games collections.
Trivia: Forrest has trivia. It involves a lot of screaming. Jon: What is Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce? The actual question is: What is one of the three Sci-Fi/Fantasy series that Piers Anthony has written? Erik flails at the actual question and wins.
Party: Forrest has started the party money collection committee. Has $8 out of $80.
Discussion Group: Anti-Mike is not here to talk about it.
Fundraising: Just walked in from watching Magnolia. No one has bought anything yet.
No Report: Erik went to his persuasion class today. He has to name 5 social movements that ever happened by next Wednesday. 2 page take home essay final about social movements. Can resubmit his first or second paper and he did 100% on his first paper, so he’s just going to get another 100 points easy.
Officers Reports
Chief of Operations: The BBQ was fun and delicious. His Travellers moved a planet… accidentally. Pisses off the OCD space cartographers. The movie was freaky.
Constable: Jon has bubbles! Continuing to make characters in the D&D Creator. Found a Level 1 item allows you to teleport 2 squares in Dragon Magazine. Barbarian has more AC than a Warlord with a heavy shield and platemail(?). Barbarian is wearing animal skins.
Com Officer: Discovered the joy of blowing bubbles in the house. Report has been shanghai’d by the discussion of starfish porn. Ate elk. Was good. Now feels more manly because of it.
Grand Nagus: Visited Monica over the weekend; she got a job with the highway department and got shocked by a groundwire for an electric fence. Saw the Haunting in Connecticut and it was good and creepy. RPing Gargoyles. (Today is a big day for report shanghai’ing.)
First Officer: Is not disclosing whether or not she threw a grenade. Hopefully will still be alive next week. Is depressed because her life revolves around school. Hopefully she will never have to carry a keg.
Captain: Got all his work done that’s due tomorrow. Thinks he’s being schizophrenic: Half of his brain wanted to put it off, the other half continues working while the first half is still confused.
Got candy from the nursing teacher to calm the female rage. Adam ate all the Peeps. Ate 20 peeps. Can only open the peeps 10 at a time. His tongue is bubble gum pink. The Williams cafeteria is much like Cheers: Everyone knows his name and when he complains, shit gets done.
Old Business: Zombie-fest is on the way. More logos have been stuck on the website.
New Business: None.
Other Organizations
Anime: Last Soul Eater.
MCS: Friday. 5pm.
Theater: 1984 is on Friday and Sat at 8:00pm; 2:30pm on Sat. $3.
Meeting End: 10:44 PM and he can still tell seconds
Quotes
Adam: Attendance is 6… 7… and Alex is fat.
Adam: There is something terribly wrong with the Enterprise crew watching over you while you sleep.
Erik: Oh no! Don’t change Crabbe!
Forrest: …good. I’m glad you feel so strongly about this.
Fluffy: And three people walked out with a seizure.
Many: …”walked out”?
Erik: *gets up and starts shaking violently, staggering out of the room*
Adam: RC had thunderthighs, she was hilarious.
Erik: It’s kinda creepy… watching Jon watch a movie.
Alex: This is worth $4!
Alex: What is he doing? Is he double retarded?
Alex: I have a pocket full of dreams, but dreams don’t pay…
Erik: If you can throw a frog at terminal velocity, you need to join the MLB.
A-Mike: No one’s put an order in yet.
Erik: I ordered a bunch of frogs…
Fluffy: What’s the name of that item?
Jon: [Deleted for security reasons].
Sarah: Leave a little mystery… that’s all I’ve got.
Many: [Discussion of people putting Sarah in a keg.]
Sarah: This is why I don’t come to your BBQs.
Jon: As long as you don’t start talking about Hobbitses, we’ll be fine.
A-Mike: I’m going to pair the time with the Vegeta crushing a scouter… Please tell me it’s after 9.
Erik: It’s after 5:30~!
Erik: This democracy tastes like a roofie.
Jon: The republicans would be like: “This chocolate could be poisonous. Find out at our next meeting.”
Jon: Dragon Magazine is like the annoying little brother that tries to one-up you.
- Michael Myers will be maskless for more than 70% of the new Rob Zombie Halloween film. Towards the end of the film, Myers wears a new mask which makeup artist Wayne Toth describes as “a lot different from any of [the masks] we’ve seen. People are going to be surprised when they see it. It’s going to thrown the Myers fans for a loop.”
- In the product tie in build up before the new movie releases, Urban Collector has released 3 new wall murals for Star Trek: The Original Series. Taken from the original show, you can make your room look like the bridge, have the crew watch over you, or watch the Enterprise flying through space.
- The man directing the theatrical reboot of Stephen King’s It, Dave Kajganich, has explained his desire to be faithful to King’s book as well as maintain its R-rated material. “I plan to be very protective of the book. The reality, though, is that WB wants to do this as a single film, so I will have to kill a few darlings to make that happen. You have my promise, though, that I will do this with the utmost humility and respect for King’s work.”
- A star of the Harry Potter films has been arrested after cops found a £2,000 cannabis farm in his bedroom. Drug squad officers swooped on 19-year-old Jamie Waylett, famed as bullying Hogwarts School pupil Vincent Crabbe in the wizard movies, after a tip-off.
- After spending the better part of the last six years directing the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy, Gore Verbinski has informed Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer that he will not helm a fourth installment that’s expected to set sail in 2010 with Johnny Depp back as Captain Jack Sparrow. Verbinski will instead focus on other projects that include “Bioshock,” a Universal Pictures adaptation of the bestselling video game that has a John Logan script.
- A theater full of Trek fans showed up in Austin, Texas, thinking they were going to see a new print of the classic Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and 10 minutes of Abrams’ reboot, but Leonard Nimoy shocked the house by announcing they would in fact see the entire new movie just hours before it made its international debut in Sydney. The early fan reviews on Twitter are running almost entirely positive so far.
- A 24-year-old man shot and killed himself at the Regal Cinemas in Eugene, Oregon during a late night screening of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen. The yet-to-be-named man was seated in the back corner of the theater. Police were called after patrons heard a loud “popping sound” behind them, and reported it to the theater managers. The screening was stopped and ticket purchases were refunded.
- Watchmen star Jackie Earle Haley has signed on to play Freddy Krueger in New Line’s forthcoming The Nightmare on Elm Street reboot. The actor, who received an Oscar nomination for his role as a sex offender in 2006′s Little Children, will take on the part famously originated by Robert Englund when cameras roll on the franchise’s ninth film, titled A Nightmare on Elm Street, on May 5 in Chicago.
- Michael Bay has claimed that its too soon to decide, but he thinks 3D movies might be a gimmick. He dismissed the latest trend when a fan asked him if he would be shooting future Transformers installments in 3d. Bay claimed his style was too aggressive for 3D cameras.
- Red Dwarf star Craig Charles has spoken out to say that the cast are feeling immense ‘pressure’ to pull off the TV comeback of the decade. The resurrection of the loved BBC sci-fi show has sparked massive worldwide interest and fever pitch anticipation.
- Michael Bay introduced RC, the pink female Transformer, just so he can kill her off.
Attendance: 17
Meeting Start: 10:01 and I don’t even know what seconds are.
Committees
Recruitment and Relations: Abby brought Lauren and Elly brought Erin. Elly is here.
Movie: Hawk the Slayer bad movie. Went to see Monsters vs. Aliens.
Office Resource: Office is still there.
Trivia: Erik has trivia. What color are the empire’s lasers? Forrest: Green! Erik: Ah! How did you know?
Party: Reinstated. Please donate to the party, but it’s not needed as badly. $80 for pizzas. Bring desserts and snacks and delicious goodies.
Discussion Group: Discussed backstories to villains and heroes. Topics? Invisible pandas. More of the archivist powers/librarian superpowers.
Fundraising: Gospel of the Living Dead: 0; Player’s Handbook 2: 0; The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: 8; Darker Than Black: 0; Fate Stay Night: 2. Ashley wins.
No Report: Forrest has been playing Grand Chase: fighting game–Erik: GUNBOUND! Has to play 70 minutes a day to achieve attendance–get seals over your head–A-Mike: Seals like… arf arf?. Playing a dancer who hits people with rings. PVP’d for 3 hours. Generated a panther that could only hit with its tail.
Officers Reports
Chief of Operations: Been following lots of April Fools stuff. Put viral videos up in the lobby of the GCC. Didn’t follow through on other prank ideas.
Constable: Playing Burn Zombie Burn–you can never survive, you can only live longer. 3.4mil points, increase modifier by setting them on fire. Building high level players with D&D Player’s Handbook 2. Character builder does math for him.
Com Officer: Hates the chemistry test. Loves Burn Zombie Burn. And Fargo. And Better off Ted.
Grand Nagus: Is fail.
First Officer: This last half of the semester is going to drag on. She’s gotten past the hard part. Watching a tennis match and her favorite person didn’t win.
Captain: Watched a House April fools. Cast of House was pranked–elevator opened up, circus walked out, then walked back in and disappeared. Having fun playing DoTA by teleporting people into trees. Adam needs to live through this next week.
Old Business: Zombie-fest is on the way. Jon is an officer.
New Business: Bosco sticks are back. This Friday is a cookout: 7pm in one of the St. James grilling areas. Bring your own meat. Brings drinks/chips/side dishes. We’ve had a couple logos in, from Elly and Taia.
Other Organizations
Anime: Watching Soul Eater and picking a new series for the evening slot.
MCS: A-Mike is bringing 1843, cheap miniatures games. Friday 5-whenever you want to leave.
Order of Xeen: Jon’s party–make your 11 character.
Other: Drive By Press is making neat t-shirts maybe still tomorrow.
Theater: Shakespeare Abridged: 4pm Fri, 1pm Sat, in the Olin quad; 8pm Sat in GCC.
Next week: 1984. Fri, 8pm; Sat, 2:30pm, 8pm.
Two weeks later: Death Trap
Meeting End: 10:42 and I still don’t know what a second is
Quotes
Forrest: So Edward Cullen’s sparkles…
Jon: It’s a sweat sheen.
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Adam: I hope we don’t scare you off.
Erik/Alex: Flash. Woooohaaaa. Savior of the universe!
Adam: And the next thing they do…
Jon: This is why we can’t have nice things.
Adam: You know what’s more fun? Watching Star Wars on a projection screen that can’t show red.
Adam: He actually brings pure liquid hate.
Jon: And it comes in different flavors–this is the DoTA hate and the theatre hate…
Ashley: They’ll have less sex!
A-Mike: No, they’ll have more sex because they don’t have to see each other.
Erik: I already spared your life after telling you about my secret lab, that would be a terrible waste.
Jon: As long as you don’t mind it being cooked next to murder.
A-Mike: And the other one I didn’t do because I was afraid Ed would steal my soul.
Erik: Legitimate!
- Earlier this week, a source who works with Robert Pattinson on the Vancouver set of “Twilight” revealed the actor’s dirty little secret to the world. He doesn’t bathe. “He stinks. I mean, it’s awful. He never showers, and it drives people on the set crazy,” the source said of Pattinson’s personal hygiene. Pattinson confirmed in an interview that he rarely washes his hair or cleans his apartment, not seeing the reason for either. No comment was given on the rest of his hygienic practices.
- A deal with Universal and Imagine Entertainment could bring Ron Howard to Image Comics’ The Adventures of H. P. Lovecraft. The upcoming comic being released April 9th shows the nightmares and creatures of H.P Lovecraft unleashed upon the world. If the movie does well, it could pave the way for Guillermo Del Toro’s “Mountain of Madness”.
- An early rough cut version of 20th Century Fox’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” which opens May 1, has leaked online, exactly one month before the opening.
- Andy Hallett, who starred as Lorne (“the Host”) on the TV series Angel, died of heart failure last night at age 33, according to his longtime agent and friend Pat Brady. The actor passed away at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles after a five-year battle with heart disease, with his father Dave Hallett by his side.
- As Paramount Pictures readies the May 8 release of its “Star Trek” franchise relaunch, the studio is moving forward with a sequel, and has hired Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof to pen the screenplay. J.J. Abrams, who directed and produced the latest chapter, is onboard to produce the follow-up alongside his Bad Robot partner Bryan Burk. No decision has been made yet on whether Abrams will return behind the camera for the sequel.
- Alyson Hannigan was given a special gift on her 35th birthday: Her first-born child. The actress and husband Alexis Denisof welcomed baby Satyana into the world on March 24, meaning mother and daughter will share the special anniversary.
- Jolt Online Gaming has launched their free-to-play browser-based adventure game, Legends of Zork. You’re an out of work salesperson for FrobozzCo International who ventures out into the wilds to earn fame and fortune hunting monsters, solving puzzles, or defeating your fellow players in the arena.
- The Donkey Kong monster truck is looking a little worse for wear these days after the Monster Jam World Finals. As a note to the novice drivers out there, it’s generally not a good idea to keep driving after one of your wheels falls off. It’s also not a good idea to try and get some air after one of your wheels falls off.