by Eric
November 23, 2009 in Funny, Music by Eric
I am not sure why I love this video so much, but watching Kelly, Ryan and the other from The Office go after each other in this pop song is just funny.
I need to get a white tuxedo.
by Eric
November 18, 2009 in Music, tv/series by Eric
Drew Barrymore [... would ...]like to update the old TV show for ABC. A rep for Sony Pictures Television confirms that the network is close to ordering a pilot of the reboot, which Barrymore would develop with Leonard Goldberg, who produced the original series with Aaron Spelling, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles‘ Josh Friedman, who’s been tapped to write and exec produce (EW).
Felicia Day’s name has been brought up a lot, and I think she would be perfect. The better question is who should the other two be.
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Freema Agyeman and Dichen Lachman would make for the dream team.
The likelihood of these three staring in a new Charlie’s Angels is slim, but wouldn’t it be great?
Who would your dream angels be?
by Eric
November 18, 2009 in tv/series by Eric
John the Rogue Demon Hunter posed an interesting question on Project: Shadow.
On the show that is. I think he was initially taken with Kahlan when Giller was torturing Kahlan and she still wouldn’t back down. This may have been why he flinched during Giller’s ministrations. Also, the blood rage was powerful enough to make him run for his life. I think he was intrigued with her to start and this was why her wanted to voluntarily become his queen. I think becoming the mother of his child solidified his feelings. I would like to seen a episode arch in the show where we saw over time Kahlan’s effect on Darken Rahl and maybe seen him starting to change his ways. That is until Kahlan tries to kill his son. At least for episodes should have have been dedicated to the future storyline.
It is an interesting idea. I said on The Confessed, I didn’t feel Darken Rahl was truly evil, just extremely off the mark on how to best achieve his goals.
Granted, it looks like they have proven me wrong with the season premier for season 2, but I drew heavily on the Darken Rahl’s reaction to Kahlan’s torture as proof of his character.
I don’t want to bring the books in here. The show has forked significantly from the novels, and I think we need to take Legend of the Seeker as a show inspired by the novels, rather than based on it.
Darken Rahl respects and admires strength. Rahl saw these qualities in Kahlan, and I think he saw something else: A means to escape the Keeper.
Darken’s infatuation with Kahlan showed him the say to gain the power he wanted. The Keeper did not rise in the future, why? Because Darken lost the boxes on Orden an gained something he ever had before. A life of his own.
Kahlan offered Darken a world at peace and security. All of the threats to him had been removed with Richard’s death. He didn’t need the Keeper anymore.
Kahlan was Darken’s salvation.
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by Eric
November 13, 2009 in Music by Eric
Wow! I have not been all that excited about the Clash of the Titans remake, but this trailer changed my mind. It looks great, but I didn’t see anyone I recognized as Caliban. I am really curious what he looks like.
by Eric
November 13, 2009 in Music, tv/series by Eric
OMG! With news of the Doctor’s death, Captain Jack has gone crazy! Why, o, why didn’t the Doctor marry him!
by Eric
November 12, 2009 in Personal, dashPunk by Eric
The only live worth living is the one you are truly passionate about!
I hope by now you have discovered your passions and dreams, but I need to start practicing what I preach:
I suppose the easiest way for me to explain my dream is to say that I want to be a cross between George Lucas, Stan Lee, and Gene Roddenberry. That entails:
I have a lot of ideas, stories, and settings that I want to share with the world. I have already started with my books, but there is so much more I want to do.
So much of the community I love is maligned by the mainstream. I want to help people feel comfortable with who they are and what they do. To do that, I need to promote:
I have some ideas about how to do this, and I have set some goals for myself.
For starters, I want to write at least 2,400 words a day. Eventually, I want to push that higher, but it is a good starting goal. I am going to divide my writing between dashPunk and my fiction. Hopefully, I will be able to become disciplined enough to write 2,400 words s day for dashPunk and 2,600 a day for my fiction. I have written 5,000 words a day before, but it is something to build up to.
I am reading feeds on the topics I want to talk about, and reaching out to others in those fields to hopefully get people to help out.
I am going to spend more time participating in Project: Shadow and Podcasting.
I am also building several table top role playing games just for fun.
Hopefully, by now you have figured out some plans to achieve your dreams. What are they? Is there anything we can do to help?
by Eric
November 11, 2009 in Fandom, Fanfilm, Filk, Music by Eric
ALL NEW! Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles
I think the Leia and Jabba parts are my favorites. I am not sure this is as good as the original Star Wars Gangsta Rap, but it is funny.
(via Think Hero)
by Eric
November 11, 2009 in Tribes by Eric
Every group goes through 5 stages of group formation:
These stages do not always occur in the same order, and they often loop back on themselves, but the first 4 have to be completed for the community to enter the final stage: Interdependence.
The first stage is the most difficult. Starting from nothing, we have to find enough people who share a common interest in the project to make it possible. When starting something new, there are few places to go to gather these people from.
This is why the first and the second stages form a symbiotic circle.
As we discussed earlier, nothing brings people together like a shared dream. The group leader needs to start defining tasks for the group to accomplish. These tasks should be simple and doable.
The group cannot wait for members to rise up to accomplish these tasks. The leader as well as the others who have already signed up for the task need to start work. Nothing gathers a group like success.
Unrest is natural. I have had many people sign on the Project: Shadow Manifesto, start working with us, only to either become disillusioned by the magnitude of the tasks before us or get frustrated by my focus on what’s best for the community.
There is only one way to handle unrest when it inevitably comes. Listen to the criticism, do your best to answer it and choose the best course of action moving forward. If schism is inevitable, allow it to happen, but try to make appropriate compromises.
The well being of the community is more important than the ego of the leadership or existing group. Be ready to apologize or stand your ground, which ever is the most necessary.
Cohesion is a worthy goal. When the community sees the goal, and begins accomplish its goals, it will begin to move as a unit. Individuals will start to see tasks that are not on the agenda, and working on their own to achieve the community’s goals.
This is the most dangerous stage of group development. As new leaders emerge within the community, they will be tempted to set out on their own. If the group does not understand that it is only through working together that their goals can be accomplished, it will fall apart.
If the group survives this stage, then they will begin to rely on one another, and success is within the communities grasp. All they have to do it keep their eyes on the goal and values the group has established for itself, and keep moving forward.
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by Eric
November 10, 2009 in Blogging, Tribes by Eric
I think a lot about how to find and follow our dreams. At times, I feel like a self-help writer, and I wonder if I am really saying anything that matters.
American society is rooted in the idea of picking ourselves up by our bootstraps and achieving impossible dreams. We are a frontier nation, young enough to remember the struggles of our founders and frontiers men and women, but finally old enough to start grappling with some of the realities of forging a new world out of one that existed long before we got here.
Our real problem is the stories we grew up with about people who set out on their own to create a life for themselves. It was all a lie. None of these people did anything alone. They only accomplished what they did with the help and support of their community.
Unfortunately, this self-made person myth infiltrated every part of our cultural psyche to the point where we have entire industries built on the lie that if you get your act together, then you will be able to do anything. The truth is, only when we build a community around ourselves will be we able to accomplish anything.
While many of us believe we are alone in our dreams or that we have to achieve our dreams on our own, we are never really alone.
Thousands of people want to write a book, or make a movie. The trick is to find other people who share your specific dream.
Blogs and podcasts have helped a many people, but the means is not important. What is important is the connections we make to keep our spirits up, share our knowledge, and support us through the lows and the highs.
Without a strong connection with like minded people, it is difficult to navigate the treacherous waters between us and our goal.
The path to our dream starts with us sharing:
When you start to share, you will find others willing to share with you their experiences.
Now, you need to make you steps know, continue to share your experience, and work with others to achieve your goals.
Start a Blog over at Project: Shadow, and let’s get the community together. As a group, nothing can stand in our way!
by Eric
November 9, 2009 in Tribes, Writing by Eric
Life is not easy. From time to time the question arises: “Is it time to move on?”
Out of energy, and the end of our rope, it feels to hard to keep going, and we ask ourselves:
Well, that depends on what you are thinking about giving up?
When we hit a low point, there is often something we do need to give up, but it isn’t any of those things.
Often, we are holding on to things so hard we are smothering them. Our emotional attachments blind us to opportunities before our very eyes. They allow us to feel slighted by the smallest circumstances.
I consider myself lucky that I never set out to be a “major writer.” I can’t imagine the pressure to sell books and make everyone like what I am doing.
I write stories for me. If anyone else likes them, that is a blessing. I want to tell a good story, not be the next Stephen King. I can control the quality of my stories, not the whims of the market. It is hard for me be disappointed by the reception any of my stories gets.
I have some friends who really want to be a top shelf writer, selling hundreds of thousands if not millions of copies. That is a difficult goal to achieve, and I see their disappointment.
What most people don’t understand is that a false hope is one what you have no power to accomplish.
I would love to sell millions of books, but all I can do is write the best I can, and promote them to the best of my ability.
Almost anything is achievable if we set our mind to it.
Can you think of any other false hope? What can we do to make our dreams more attainable?
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