Not that I won't probably be online later, but it's not a sure thing. And if for some reason you've missed this, it must be promptly rectified:

( The Muppets: Ringing of the Bells )

Because my January is getting pretty booked, and because taking the Blue Line to Gorilla Tango is a breeze in the summer but not so appealing just now. (Yes, I'm a winter wimp. I own it. Let's move on.)

However, I'm thinking a Jossverse mashup improv show is something I must go see.

Sunday nights in February. Who's with me?

Yet strangely familiar. (Via claudiagray.)

( Dangerous Wands )

Dead-on movie trailer parody on YouTube.

I've never before had occasion to mention Brittany Murphy (however briefly) in a blog post.

The day I do, she's reported dead at 32?

The world is a weird, weird place.

And all well-wishes to her loved ones who are now having a singularly terrible holiday. :-/

This is what it was for.

It, um, got a little long. I originally was going to post it before P&P opened, and then actually started writing it on October 29. And finished it this morning.

Just in case you're curious.

Did I mention, long?

Encountering massive slowness with all things Google this morning, that is.

Which wouldn't bother me except for the part where it's timing out and I cannot read my mail. *scowl*

And really, truly, honestly will read her book one of these days. Really.

In the meantime, it makes my life a happier place to read posts like this:

But what about fictional couples who get together and who we don't believe in? Who you look at together and go 'Nah... it'll never last.' I've got to say, for me Jane Eyre and Rochester, they are going to break up. (Well, probably not given the time they were in, but I don't think they're going to be happy. Because they have a lot of chemistry, but Rochester is a crazy liar, y'all.)

ROCHESTER: Gosh, I have a crazy wife hidden in the attic who occasionally breaks out and sets fires. And I'd like to bigamously marry my governess. You know what this situation needs?
AUDIENCE: ... what?
ROCHESTER: MORE COMPLICATIONS! I think I'll have a house party and have a fake engagement to a third lady. AS WELL as the secret crazy wife. And the bigamous marriage.
AUDIENCE: ... what?
ROCHESTER: You're RIGHT! I'm not giving this a hundred per cent! What if I dress up as a gypsy woman and tell fake fortunes?

I'm just saying, Jane will come home one day and Rochester will have sold the children to pirates.

Because I took one more peek at Twitter, and Felicia Day posted a link to this:

( For anyone who's ever screamed 'YOU CAN'T DO THAT' at someone fiddling with digital images on TV... )

On YouTube.

The random 80s pseudo-technobabble they've got poor MacGyver spouting is worth the price of admission all by itself.

Before I head off to Office of Doom holiday party. No blizzard conditions this year, for a change.

( Dolphins! )

On YouTube.

I...really wouldn't mind being on that deck right now. But without the vomiting.

In the name of trying to get the slideshow/video DVDs done for all the fam...

( Hawaiian Sunsets )

On YouTube.

Via padawansguide.

( Apparently the task assignments on Hoth left something to be desired. )

On YouTube.

I have meta-y thoughts bouncing around my head re: my two Friday night shows, but have yet to take the time to sit down and attempt to properly comment upon them. In lieu of that, for the moment, I link you to two yay-worthy results of other fans getting inspired.

The first is nel_ani's evocative Sanctuary vid to Poe's "Haunted," which among other things reminds me how much I... um, that's spoilery. As is the vid, up through 2x07.

The second is Not a Doll, an initiative by Dollhouse fans to educate about "the very real issues of human trafficking, poverty, oppression against women and children, the loss of self, and the negation of human rights." Whatever you think of the show -- and as much as I ended up loving it, yes, it's all kinds of problematic -- you must check out what these folks are doing.

I am, as I often say, not in the market for any new shows. However, when the episodes are nine minutes long, I can manage. The new webseries Riese came to my attention via Ben Cotton's Twitter, and the initial four eps have intrigued me enough to give it a plug here. We'll see if the substance of the plot holds up when more of the pieces come together, but the few elements we've seen thus far are promising, and the post-apocalyptic/sort-of-steampunky environment is nifty to watch. Christine Chatelain -- whom Sanctuary fans know as Clara, and BT fans as Sinéad in "Deadly Departed" -- is a more credible adventure heroine than I would have expected from what I've seen previously. (Probably more so than as the clingy witch, actually.) Even if all the fake grime in the world can't render her face convincing as that of someone who's spent any amount of time living rough.

There aren't as many Sanctuary folks involved as I initially had the impression of, but there are a few, and it's taking a very similar approach with short episodes adding up to "volumes" that approximate a traditional TV episode without being entirely bound by the format. I occasionally wonder how Sanctuary would have developed differently had it continued in that mode instead of being picked up as a regular series, and I'd love to see another interesting webseries get to play out entirely in that realm.

Via filkertom. Just what it says on the tin, in the sense that someone has done a frighteningly good job of matching the style of the miniseries animations.

( Cut to contain the awesome )