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This week, the TVZ crew discusses Mega Snake, James Marsters, Torchwood, Tina’s youthful devotion to Mandy Patinkin, and everyone’s favorite shows of all time. As a special bonus, the trio indulge in a tangent about how editing saved both Donnie Darko and the Coppola classic, The Conversation.
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I get totally called out this week for liking, ok, loving Mandy Patinkin when I was in my late teens. I was a little blind-sided by this because it totally blows my cover of cool. In reflection, I will not apologize for my then love for Mandy. The 19 year old me really did love him. And the 34 year old accepts that.
I just looked down and didn't recognize my own arms. They look only slightly thinner, but still, thinner arms are hard to come by. I have new lines on my upper arms, like an eroding landscape. July and August were hard because I have been dealing with swelling ankles and flucuating numbers on the scale. I did lots of experimenting and found that I had too much salt and caffeine in my diet and combined with the summer heat, things weren't good. I have detoxed from the salt and caffiene and have finally seen the scale at a steady number for over a week. So I am going to report it! Two pounds down from last time. Not bad.
You can check out my newest guest blogget spot at the Washington CityPaper site here:
Make Your Promos Rad
I have been a robot blogger lately. So much blogging for one girl.
Television Zombies, Episode 5: Mega Snake Meets [the] Bionic Woman
This week on Television Zombies, we discuss two more promising new shows for the Fall 2007 season — Bionic Woman and Reaper. We also talk about the latest television news, including Heroes and Mega Snake (!) casting updates, and respond to listener comments. Plus, Jake gets a new tattoo!
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Check out my blog post for the Television Zombies Blog about the new show, Yo Gabba Gabba!
This past Saturday, I was lucky enough to be invited to take part in the X in DC event at the Bebar. Check out their website, xindc.tv.
As soon as I see Sara (Pile of Craft), I start spilling my crafty guts out. It is rapid fire. I am telling her about the new designs that Scottbmotorbike and I are talking about. About this one new one that makes me laugh and about the holiday cards and how I want to make 1000 of them and sell them all before xmas. Then I am jumping into the new Yeti Loves Seamonster project and then talking about shirt pricing and then realize I haven't asked her how she is or anything.
I have been so inspired by the world lately and it makes me want to make and make and make some more and I have no one to talk to about it. I mean, I talk to Jeff, but he wants to hear about this as much as I want to hear about Halo 3, so it doesn't really count.
Erin, who works on the X in DC project has actually picked up our non-driving selves and taken us to the Bebar and this is amazing and fabulous and nice and did I mention rad? Sara and I set up in a little nook in the club and settle in with our pens and paper and start to conspire on all sorts of things that make me think and excited and wish I had another day in my day to do more of what I love.
I have come to realization that the craft of craft is not really the best part of the craft. Do you know what I mean? It is the people of craft and the reaching out and storytelling and the new ways that we are all living. Sara and I talk about this, in this strange place, with this awesome backdrop of sound and images and live painting. This is a very different world from mine and yet I have been made to feel at home in it and I don't care if I sell anything tonight, I just wanna talk to people and listen to people and live in the world. I do this. I practice my own advice. You never know who are you talking to. Everyone is someone amazing. So you better be rad yourself. I give out lots of free cards (not postcards, but stock). The very lovely Yoko, who is an X regular artist, talks to me for a long time about my ghost design. I am not used to this much talking about something that I have done. I am used to this much thinking, but not this much talking. I am slightly embarrassed by it at first. I always feel this way about my silly stuff. But she is fabulous and totally gets it and totally makes me tell the story about how I almost died when the girls were born. And in one moment, it hits me what this means. I knew it. I have known it, but it finally hits me. And I think of that taxi cab hitting months later. And I realize that I should have known that day. That hour, that moment on that January 30th when my girls were tiny babies. I should have figured this all out. The moment that the car and I connected and i was flying through the air and landing on the hood of that car and being thrown to the ground. But I couldn't. We can't really. We can't look our own mortality in the eyes and meet it and love it and be it and survive it. It takes time and this is how long it has taken. And I am talking to Yoko, who I don't know, and we are talking about ghosts and wham!, I am realizing that every day that we live is a day that we could also die. And that I passed it by twice and that I am a lucky seamonster.
The rest of the evening is rad and I talk to more people who have met me other places, long ago and this surprises me. I feel like a different me has been out in the world meeting bloggers and tribal dancers and painters and this me stays home and watches too much Dora the Explorer. Like I have this more interesting twin or something.
One of the X photographers, Graham Meyer (http://www.falsedigital.com), digs the new zombie underwear that I made for the event. Too bad, the underwear all seem too big for this skinny crowd! I make a note of this, that my adult Zombie Underoos need need need to me smaller. We go outside to the alley to get more light and he snaps some funny pictures of me holding them. Here is one:
It was a cool night. I had lots of fun, the people were rad. I left with more ideas and work to do. I dig this. Once again, I can't believe I wasted so much of my adult life doing nothing.
The air outside feels like a new school year. All September-y with its little breeze. Not much humidity on this early August 9am and I am surprised by this. I am nearing my 34th birthday, but suddenly feel 14 and bouncy. I breathe in deeply and it feels good. I had forgotten how much I could like fresh air. The Washington summer can do that to you. We have been inside for some days, the bad air quality holding us hostage against asthma attacks.
We head for the garden.
It is a wee slab of land attached to our city apartment building. It is behind a padlock and a tall fence and it is so shady that one of the girls says, "Too dark in here," as we enter. I explain that it is shady and better than sunny because the sun is bad for us and makes us look old.
The two girls of two years are wearing dresses. The kind of dresses I swore my children would never wear. One, a hand-me down from a cousin is red and white gingham with big pockets on the front. The other is the Samba Dora dress in hot pink and orange and looks like Charo wore it on a particularly bland episode of The Love Boat. I put shorts and Mary Janes under them and we look more punk than priss. But the truth is that my children are charming and cool no matter what they are wearing.
We busy ourselves with filling Halloween buckets with rocks and leaves and grass. It is a big task. I try to read "The Time Traveler’s Wife," but don't get far. Anya is at a point where she wants mommy to help her with all play activities, so I am on the ground, counting rocks. This feels so Victorian. Us, in the garden, playing with rocks. It is as if the modern world doesn't exist.
There are small pumpkin sized bushes in the garden. The girls have learned not to pick their leaves and instead sit with their legs around them, petting the little trees. "Hello, little trees. I love you, what you doing?"
Rachi is running from one end of the garden to the other. She stops at me on each pass to pick up and eat a green grape. She stands next to me, reaching her tiny hands into the bag and bites into a grape, saying, "delicious." I wonder how dirty her hands are and think of the nannies in the park that feed their charges rather than let them eat with dirty hands. I would make a bad nanny. "I hope you don't get worms," I say. "Or snakes," Rachi says. "Yes, I hope you don't get snakes," I say.
Another delicious grape and Rachi is hugging me. She likes to hold my face and neck close to hers and says, "I miss you mamma, so much." This is funny because she is rarely not with me.
Anya falls down and scrapes her knee. This is the bad thing about red and white gingham dresses, all the exposed knees. I have come to the garden with only these things: grapes, keys, cell phone, book for me and for them, sippy cups of water. I survey my inventory and think that perhaps just washing the cut will make her feel better. I open the Elmo cup and pour the cold water over Anya's bloody knee. She digs this and instantly thinks it is getting better. "More water on knee, mama." So we sit there and pour water on all the knees. Hers and her sister's. This is fun and seems to be a perfectly good remedy for all the knees.
Television Zombies, Episode 4: Come With Us if You Want to Live
Episode 4 is now available — it should appear on iTunes shortly. This week’s episode features previews of impressive new fall shows Pushing Daisies and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Jake’s review of the entertaining reality series, Who Wants to Be a Super Hero?, and our discussion of Scifi’s underwhelming new spin on Flash Gordon. All that, plus Jake’s formal addition to the cast and the television news of the week! The episode sorta ends abruptly, but no worries.
Click here to download the episode.
As always check out http://www.televisionzombies.com.
ScottMotorbike and I have a new design. And Anya won't stand still to show it to you:
And Rachi was still drippy haired from a bath to try it on for us. You can see it on my etsy shop, though. This one is going to go on shirts for the whole family soon! Email me to put in a pre-order request!
Here's another picture:
And the description of this new design:
They both live in secret worlds. It is rare that they are seen together. But they really do love one another, the yeti and the sea monster. They like hugs and swing sets and movies by Wes Anderson.
This design was, of course, inspired by my new project with Beth LemonCadet: http://www.yetilovesseamonster.com.
Television Zombies Episode 3: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
An immortal detective (nearly) bites the dust! A Millennium vet runs a show about another immortal detective! And Tina and Jeff discuss Harry Potter’s last adventure, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. All this and more in this week’s show!
Unfortunately, we had some problems with the audio, so Jeff is a little distorted. It should be fixed next week for our discussion of two new fall shows, as well as Jake’s return to the podcast.
>> Click here to download.
I am really enjoying this new podcast and keeping it on schedule has been difficult, but fun. Oh and you can subscribe via iTunes now. Just search for "television zombies" under podcasts.
Rad event alert! I have been invited to participate in a very unique event on August 18th (one day before my birthday!). XinDC at the Bebar is a rad mix of music, art, fashion, performance, graphic design and live painting. It sounds a little too rad for DC, doesn't it? ;) Anyway, fellow Mutineer Sara and I will be selling our stuff and taking part in this unique event. I would totally love to see you there. You could bring me a birthday present! Actually, it would be present enough if you would come. And I mean you!
It is from 6-10, Saturday August 18th at the Bebar. Cover is $5. Check out their site, it looks really cool.
XinDC at the Bebar!
http://xindc.tv/
August 18:: Saturday 6-10pm
BeBar
1318 9th Street NW DC 20001
>> Come and see Tina and Sara at this unique event!
X = LIVE (PERFORMANCE + ART + PROJECTIONS + ELECTRONICA + FASHION) + YOU!
On second thought, if you have content for Yeti Loves Seamonster (see below), do send it to yetilovesseamonster@gmail.com
The site should launch on September 1. Send all earliest memories (including if you watn your name or website displayed with it) and coloring book pages by August 20th if you want to be part of the site launch!
Beth LemonCadet and I are working on a new project: a website to promote quirky/rad/cool handmade children's goods. It is called Yeti Loves Seamonster. I came up with the idea last week and we are running with it. In honor of it, she snagged an Etsy Treasury, take a look:
The site will not only feature cool/quirky handmade goods for kids, it will have an area with free downloadable coloring book pages for parents to print out. No more coloring Dora and Elmo! I am gathering black and white pages of art from all kinds of artists. If you would like to be a part of this project, use the contact link above to email me. I am accepting two types of art. First is your choice. Pick your own favorite piece, make it black and white (for coloring in!) and send it to me as a 8-1/2x11 PDF. The second option has you drawing something new on the theme, "Yeti Loves Seamonster." These should also be black and white 8-1/2x11 PDFs. These will be collected into a free downloadable coloring book with all of the other pieces in the series. All art will remain yours and you can add your URL or contact information to the page. Make sense? I am really interested in providing interesting content for parents to expose their kids to.
Another section of the site will be a blog that collects first memories. Anyone can send these to me. Again, click the contact link and email me your earliest memory, any length is fine. I did this a long time ago in a zine and really loved it. I think it is nice to remember that as parents we are helping create these memories for our little ones and revisiting our own is fun.
Yeti Loves Seamonster isn't up yet, but will be in the next month or so. Do feel free to send me content, ideas for content, whatever! Tell me about cool handmade kids stuff and I may feature it!
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