I'm awake!

Holy frak, it's August already! Insert lame lazy/busy blogger apology here. Seriously, I have all kinds of excuses, you guys, but they're all painfully boring and/or too personal to share here.

Will you forgive me if I shower you with links? Because I have links. Boy, have I got links. First, though, a quick update: I'm feeling much, much better now (not counting a mild caffeine withdrawal headache, but my doctor, Dr. Pepper, is taking care of that). The answer to my grogginess turned out to be as simple as switching back from Zyrtec to Claritin. The Claritin's not quite as effective, but I'd rather be mildly sniffly and awake than a freely breathing zombie. Now I'm so wide awake I don't even need caffeine! ...which I decided to put to the test today. Which is why I now have a headache. So I won't be making that mistake again.

And now, in no particular order, links:

Tumbler: Autobot Edition - a Bat mobile/Transformers mashup. Somebody put a lot of thought into this, and it's pretty cool.

The State of the Web - Summer 2008 - some of these are lost on me (what's that two girls and a cup thing all about? Do I really want to know?), but still funny.

I Miss Buffy - Remember that "I Miss Buffy" song? Well, now there's a whole CD, featuring that song and others, including such hits as "Kinda Wish D'Hoffryn Was My Boyfriend", "Lipstick Wiccans", and "I Think My Roommate Is a Demon With a Soul".

Neil Patrick Harris as the Sesame Street Shoe Fairy - for those of us (isn't that pretty much everybody?) who didn't get enough Singing!NPH in Dr. Horrible. Plus, Muppets!

And speaking of Muppets: Groverfield. It's exactly what it sounds like. "Hellooo everybuddeeeeeee!"

The Evil League of Evil will soon begin accepting applications, so get to work perfecting that evil laughter.

If you're pining for some Buffyverse academia, here's an interesting (and kinda long) character study of Spike.

Bad Horse ringtone - "Bad horse! Bad horse! Bad horse! He's bad!" I want this desperately to be my ringtone, but I can't figure out how to get it on my phone. Guess I'm stuck with the Fruity Oaty Bar jingle.

Captain Hammer vs. Captain Tightpants - yup, that looks about right.

Cake Wrecks - Oh, dear. There just are no words...and yet this blogger finds some funny ones to apply anyway.

And finally...

DO NOT PRESS. Don't say I didn't warn you.

This week is full of awesome!

On a personal level, it's been not so awesome and hella stressful and exhausting, hence the not blogging. But thankfully the entertainment sector chose this week to dump a whole bunch of awesome sauce all over the internet and movie theaters.

First, The Dark Knight, because I'm still fairly fresh from the midnight showing. It's... I have so much to say about this movie, and yet I'm speechless. I think I need to see it five or six more times to fully process it. ;) But I think it's safe to call this the Empire Strikes Back of the new Batman movie franchise. Its hype is well deserved.

And as if that wasn't enough awesome packed into two and a half hours, this premiered before the movie started:



There is not enough squee in the world.

But that's partly because so much of the squee is reserved for Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog! Maybe it's because it's been so long since we've had any fresh live-action Whedony goodness, but just thinking about what I've seen of this so far fills me with indescribable glee. And I've had the chorus of "Stop the World" playing constantly in my brain for the last 48 hours. If, like me, you have a burning need to learn every song by heart, this person has been kind enough to transcribe the entire thing.

Go watch Act I!

Then go watch Act II!

You'll have to wait till Saturday to catch the third and final act, and then it will all be taken down Sunday night, which is where the awesomeness ends for me, what with not having good access on weekends. It will be released on DVD, so I'll get to see it eventually, but waiting till Saturday was going to be hard enough, and I'll likely be pouting all weekend over its being taken down so soon.

I guess I'll just have to go see The Dark Knight again to take my mind off of it. Damn!

Dr. McDoogie

Neil Patrick Harris, former (and future!) pretend doctor, prescribes Old Spice.



This is almost better than the Bruce Campbell ads.

Dr. Horrible has a schedule to keep.

Lots to do today. Phone calls to make, other blogs to blog, research to ...um, research. Meanwhile...

Master Whedon has a plan for Dr. Horrible, and that plan is this:

ONE WEEK ONLY! AN INTERNET MINISERIES EVENT!

"Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog" will be streamed, LIVE (that part’s not true), FREE (sadly, that part is) right on Drhorrible.com, in mid-July. Specifically:

ACT ONE (Wheee!) will go up Tuesday July 15th.

ACT TWO (OMG!) will go up Thursday July 17th.

ACT THREE (Denouement!) will go up Saturday July 19th.

All acts will stay up until midnight Sunday July 20th. Then they will vanish into the night, like a phantom (but not THE Phantom – that’s still playing. Like, everywhere.)

(It's still playing here in Tulsa, as a matter of fact.)

Amidst my anticipation I'm pouting a pout of protest over the final act being posted and taken down on a single weekend, leaving us poor dial-up stragglers out in the cold. I can't do iTunes from work, so I guess I'll have to wait for the DVD to see the entire thing. Not that I wouldn't be buying the DVD anyway. I just hate to wait that long. So, BOO! to the Sunday night take-down. But a big ol' Kermit The Frog YAAAAAAAY! to everything else.

Doctor Horrible Trailer!

Oh, and in case you just crawled out from under a rock:


Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.

Yippee!