Hello, fellow nerdlingers.

According to a post on Phil Lamarr's Facebook page, 20th Century Fox is attempting to recast the voices of Futurama. This has been confirmed by several different online sources (like Forces of Geek and The Hollywood Reporter, to name a few). Auditions are currently being accepted for Fry, Leela, Bender, Zapp, the Professor, Zoidberg, MOM, and Kif.

The sources all seem to agree that this is being done in an attempt to scare the voice actors into signing contracts for less money. To put it another way, 20th Century Fox is bullying the voices of our favorite characters to work for less than they're worth.

As a fan of the series, I am outraged. And this isn't the hyperbolic, BS outrage I feel when some jive-talking sucker talks smack about my momma. I am literally, actually outraged.

As moderator of this community, I'm here to encourage all members to help fix this problem by supporting the cast however we can.

Let's use this post to discuss ways in which we can let 20th Century Fox know that what they're doing is unacceptable. Some ideas have already been proposed.

--Flood the Casting Director with emails expressing our rage. futurama@scottmullercasting.com

--The Casting Director can also be reached via snail mail:
King of the Hill
ATTN: Scott Muller
15821 Ventura Blvd.
Encino, CA
91436

--Spread the word! Use Twitter, Digg, Facebook, and other blogging services to inform the masses. Feel free to link back to this post, which will be kept public and updated periodically.

--Join Leave the Cast of Futurama Alone on Facebook, and tell your friends

--If you're going to Comic Con, attend any Futurama panels, visit any booths, and again, spread the word....

...Keep in mind that this was done a number of years ago with The Simpsons. Because of fan response, all of the original actors were resigned, and most were given substantial raises. So let's make those 20th Century bitches our bitches, those bastards!

Comedy Central has ordered 26 new Futurama episodes! I'm literally happy with joy!

http://www.comedycentral.com/press/press_releases/2009/061009_futurama_returns.jhtml

http://www.collider.com/2009/06/07/exclusive-comedy-central-goes-back-to-the-futurama/

I hope it's not just a rumor.

Watching The Twilight Zone. It's an episode with Morgan Freeman. Him and a bunch of his friends are playing poker and just realized that they are playing poker with the Devil.

Person One: Why the Hell would the Devil be here in New Jersey?

Person Two: Because he probably lives here.

::snerk::

ETA: I about the Jersey Devils, sillies! The characters said it in such a way that they inferred that no one BUT the devil would bother living in New Jersey. That's why it was so funny. ::snerk squared!::

Remember Taxi?? This was probably one of the funniest skits of all sitcoms in history. Starts at around 1:10.

OK. Not really. I sent my rainbow pictures to Ed Hanna (our weather guy on WFMZ) and he showed them on the news this evening mentioning me by name. He also mentioned that my friend in Philipsburg saw them as well. ;)

Maybe later if they post it I'll post the link to the video. Yeah. I taped it.

hehe

Oh, and a meme. This is just silly. Lose ten pirates...I don't lose pirates. I hire them.

Pushing Daisies has been cancelled.

It was funny, witty, and intelligent. It was well written and based on an amusing and original premise. The actors were talented and the costumes and sets were stylized and pleasing. It was not offensive in any way and truly a delight to watch.

Of course we can't have that crap on TV.

Let's serve up some more toilet humor. That's about all America is able to comprehend. hehehehehe He said "fart." heheheheh.

It is quite possible that I could O.D. on Chiller TV.

Nothing to do + Bored + Husband at a blot + kids in bed + Housework done + Horrible, cheesy horror movies/shows on = mind numbing addiction.

Who the hel doesn't love Christopher Walken!

October Saturday Quotes:

"I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots."

Isak Dinesen

This I believe in... I believe in death. I believe in disease. I believe in injustice and inhumanity, torture and anger and hate... I believe in murder. I believe in pain. I believe in cruelty and infidelity. I believe in slime and stink and every crawling, putrid thing... every possible ugliness and corruption, you son of a bitch. I believe... in you.

Dt. Kinderman

Just flippin' around the channels. Saw something playing on a channel that I like: Kindred: The Embraced. I have the whole series but usually put it on when they run it. Don't recognize the channel. Searched around and found out that we now get ChillerTV. http://www.chillertv.com/

Heaven...I'm in heaven...And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak...cause there's a zombie chasing me from street to street...

Why yes. I am planning on getting the Dexter Bobblehead. I like the Angel one as well.

Just for everyone's information...

Dexter Season Two is now available for purchase.

Dexter by Design has been verified and the release date will be February 5, 2009.

That is all.


yippee yippee yippee yippee!!

Yeah, I know I'm a week late with the DVD announcement but since no one has mentioned that they've bought it or watched it I wondered whether or not anyone remembered??

For all those Deadliest Catch, Man v. Nature, Dirty Jobs fans! This is a Discovery Channel classic.

Wow. Me want season two NOW. Not in August. NOW.

The following segment cut for Greg because he's watching slower than I did. He's only on episode five.

( Best Dexter Moment in Season One )

Muchas gracias to eretik and asarotte for making me choose Dexter first. OK, not making me per se. Just strongly suggesting it.

Pretty much for colmunson. This is the link to the 1966 adaptation of The Machine Stops by E.M. Forester. This is a 50 minutes black and white episode of the series Out of the Unknown...a British "twilight-y zone-y" thing. It is a really good adaptation...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2072180223855159236

This is going to be a very pathetic update if I do say so myself. With the exception of Meghan, the whole fambly is sick. Maddie started it. I think whatever she already had brewing was aggrevated by playing outside on Saturday at the blot. Her nose was a runny mess the next morning. Then Greg caught it. He's miserable and wishes he wasn't in the field so he could call off. Unfortunately he's on a survey and can't call off unless he passes out right there during entrance conference. And then they might just put smelling salts under his nose and tell him to get on with it. :( I feel like crap too but not as bad as they do. Got sleep in 15 minute increments last night. Between Greg's sickness and having to wipe Mads' nose all night I'm dragging today.

In totally unrelated news, I watched the new American Gladiators Sunday and Monday night. Still freakin' hokey! Still freakin' fun! Yes. I'm an AG junkie. The new gladiators are a mixed bunch. Some are awesome (like Crush and Venom...really HOT chicks) and some are downright ridiculous (Helga? Wolf and his ridiculous howling). I can't believe I wrote a whole paragraph on AG. Sorry for that.

Ordered next semester's books. They are on their way here. Thank the gods for Student Loans. $400 freakin' dollars for three subjects! I had to drop a class because after the fourth class was paid for that left a grand total of $125 for over $550 in books. It's alright. I don't need Philosophy to matriculate. I'll probably need it at some point, but I can just take it as a summer course once I'm in Cedar Crest. Besides, one of my two weaknesss is Philosophy. I just have a block with them. I'm not saying I can't overcome the block (the prof is one of the best in the area in regard to Philosophy and I managed an A in Beginner Algera) but I just don't want to deal with both right now. I'll have enough trouble with Intermediate Algebra. Let's just concentrate on one ball buster at a time, shall we?

Well, there it is. I'm going to clean the bedroom and try to remove some cat allergens so Greg can get a decent night's sleep. The bedroom is a wreck. Then laundry to fold. Mountains of laundry to fold. If I'm lucky I can get some reading done once the baby goes for nap.

Had to trim Chani's back nails. If they grew any longer her little paws wouldn't touch the ground when she walked. I have skill. I've never hit quick. Ever. Was doing fine. She was calm. One claw left. The quick was very deep and I just need to trim the tip. She FREAKED OUT! I don't know why. There wasn't any pain. Maybe she had just had enough. She sunk her teeth into my ring finger and held on. The chewing! For Chrissake the damned CHEWING. She broke skin and embedded her tooth on one side of my finger and bruised the other side so badly it's black and blue!

Damn. And this from the one who is dying!

You know, there is nothing but Jeebus crap on TV right now. All the normal programming is pre-empted.

EDIT: Life is now good. Monday Night Football. Finally something on worth watching. Well, it's only the Chargers and the Broncos. "Worth" is in the eye of the beholder, of course. hehe

I'm glad I have Patrick Stewart's A Christmas Carol to watch.

ZOMFG! I am IN LOVE with Pushing Daisies!!! I haven't watched a new TV show or even a new episode of any TV show since ER about 4 years ago. This show was WONDERFUL! It was funny, presented like a twisted forensics fairy tale and had a definite Tim Burton air about it. The narrator was the guy who read the Harry Potter audio books and does the narration for the Harry Potter DVDs (which explains the fairy tale feel).

My Wednesdays at 8PM are now set in stone.

I really hope this isn't the "kiss of death." The last time I fell in love with a TV show (Kindred: The Embraced) it got cancelled. :(

isadis would LOVE this. I hope she was watching.

It's been pretty hectic the last few weeks. I took immortallunaris to the mall yesterday right after school so she could shop for her friends. I expected it to be Helish, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The parking was insane, but the shops weren't packed. Everyone was sort of milling around. Finished shopping my own shopping except my dad. I'll probably just get him a Home Depot card. He has a home. It's a good fit. He's a strange duck, crazy as a shit house rat (no offense to the fine rats I know that are NOT crazy), and the hardest person in the world to buy for. That's the only thing I hate about this season; buying for people who are impossible to buy for in general.

immortallunaris had her holiday vocal concert at Allen on Monday night. It was great. I love holiday choir concerts. My friend Matt went with us with his boy who will be at the high school next year. Wanted him to see what a high school orchestra and choir was like. Sky (his son) is terribly frusterated with how miserable the middle school orchestra is and was considering bagging his violin. I think he was convinced otherwise.

At the end of the performance they sing O Holy Night (it has the senior solo in it) and all the alumni get to go on stage and sing along. It was the coolest part of the evening and my favorite thing to do all year. I got Matt to go up and sing to (he graduated two years before me). He thought it was a blast as well and I think he was glad I made him go up.

I'm finishing Sky's Star Wars patchwork quilt for Saturday's Yule. It's the last one I have to do before I have to do Maddie's friend Lizzy's for her birthday in February. I've got it down to a fine art so it should be done Friday night (providing I don't sew it together wrong like his brother's! http://friggasgirl.livejournal.com/2006/12/07/)

Tuesday night I watched the final episode of Everest: Beyond the Limit. I don't ususally get hooked in reality serials but this one was like a freakin' bad train wreck! I was nauseated yet intrigued. If you climb Everest and die up there, you are left where you drop. It's too dangerous to retrieve your body. There are like 129 corpses on the mountain and people have to climb over them. This episode included the David Sharp controversy. Some 40 climbers stepped over a dying yet alive person on their own quest to the summit. The members of the climb team outlined in this series were the only ones who tried to revive him by giving him oxygen and tried to get him to move. He froze to death in the end and there wasn't anything anyone could do. I am extremely bothered by the fact that before that team got to him, the other 40 could have helped him in time. I guess I just can't understand people who don't seem to have a shred of humanity in them. I am generally disturbed by mountain climbing like this and just can't understand why climbing to the top of a mountain is worth risking death (or in some cases as illustrated in the wrap up of the series) several fingers, toes, legs,and noses lost to frostbite. This of couse is all on the heals of the three climbers lost on Mt. Hood.

Well, back to work. I've got laundry and grocery shopping to do. I intend on staying only 387 feet above sea level where I don't need an external o2 supply to live.