Master Plans and Invincibility
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As evidenced by your many emails, most of you probably know about this already. But in case you don’t: Joss Whedon and his many minions are currently posting free episodes of “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog,” a supervillain love story musical starring Neil Patrick Harris. It’s pretty great. I just read the manifesto over there and it turns out the motivation for doing such a thing was the writers strike. I always wondered why some folks didn’t take advantage of the Big Pause in Hollywood to just get together and create something for the internet, just make an end run around sleepy old media. Well someone did, and once you’ve seen it you’ll wonder how they ever could have convinced anyone to put it on television. Did I mention it’s a musical? And no, they didn’t contact me to see if maybe I had a good supervillain love song (hint: I do). Thanks for nothing Joss Whedon. Episodes are only free until July 20th, so get watching.
And speaking of supervillains and love, I was reminded recently of a book by Austin Grossman called “Soon I Will Be Invincible.” I met Austin in the car from the airport to Bumbershoot last year and he gave me the first couple of chapters in a little promotional pamphlet thingie. I read them and loved them and then forgot to read the rest of the book. This error has now been corrected, and I can confirm that it’s an extremely clever and darkly funny novel about superheroes and supervillains. Imagine the world of comic books is actually real, not real like a movie about comic books, but real like all the heroes and villains have to go to work every day. Plus, Austin rocks the chrome dome – respect.
A Talk with JoCo
Bry and Jinx from the forums (and also from the real world) did a little interview with me a while back, and have posted the audio and transcripts in the forums. This is more than you ever wanted to know about me, so feel free to stop reading when you’re satisfied.
Part 1 (Early Years)
Part 2 (Undocumented Songs)
Part 3 (Thing a Week)
Part 4 (The Present)
Part 5 (The Future)
Cleveland – Home
I am out of interesting ways to thank an audience for being great, so I will just say “Hello Cleveland!” and leave it at that. Oh also, Scrat says hi.
It’s the end of this three-day, three-city, two-country odyssey and I’m packing up and heading for the airport shuttle. I’ll be taking a little break from shows over the next month or so, but I will return rested and ready.
Thanks for another great trip everyone…
Pontiac – Cleveland
Apparently nobody actually lives in Pontiac. Paul and Storm said something like “Hello Pontiac!” and the audience was all, “We don’t live in Pontiac!” Regardless, thanks for a great show everyone, despite it being a little hot and kind of late on a school night.
Today we drive to Cleveland. Word is that the famous Len will be in attendance – see if you can spot him, and if you do, give him an enormous, terrifying bear hug without any warning (he loves that!). Which reminds me, I’ve been meaning to post a link to this for a long time: Len’s image for my Paul and Storm ripoff song, Big Dick Farts a Polka. (This is pretty much what Len looks like actually.)
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