33 hi-res photos, both from the pilot and promotional pics, from BSG creator Ronald D. Moore's new sci-fi drama airing tonight on Fox, Virtuality.

Reviews from across the country (they love it!)"
The first 12 minutes of Virtuality from i09.

The gallery. Go here now. Click through the pages to see all 33 images. clearly, THERE BE SPOILERS AHEAD!!

( Synopsis of Virtuality. )

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I hadn't seen more than a few minutes this season, but I thought Adam was a lock. That other guy (I don't even know his name) had no voice to compare.

Gee, you don't think he lost because he's gay, do you? Thanks, America. Glad to see talent isn't the most important criteria in a talent contest.

My 8 year old daughter, Zelda, started the series from the beginning in March. She just now finished Deathly Hallows. I'm such a proud father!

( Zelda and the Deathly Hallows )

Transiting the Sun

In this tightly cropped image, the NASA space shuttle Atlantis is seen in silhouette during solar transit, Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from Florida. This image was made before Atlantis and the crew of STS-125 had grappled the Hubble Space Telescope.

The photographer made this image using a solar-filtered Takahashi 5-inch refracting telescope and a Canon 5D Mark II digital camera.

Image Credit: NASA/Thierry Legault

Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'

Why is everyone so glad Phil Spector changed his party affiliation? Isn't he a convicted murderer?

Work as trained monkey
push buttons for management
nothing good enough

A few weeks back, Conan O'Brien made the rounds of NBC affiliate to promote his ascendancy to the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. We wrote a bunch of hilarious promo scripts which were duly cut back to a more manageable, less funny few.

I was really worried about the visit. I would be the producer and liaison with Conan and the folks from NBC. It turns out, my fears were unfounded and I was probably more uptight that anyone. That St. Patrick's Day (a good day for a visit from an O'Brien) was a crazy one.

My boss was on furlough and unreachable. That was also the day we announced our plans to make the DTV transition 2 months earlier than the June 12 deadline. I had to write carefully crafted and subsequently lawyered news releases all before Conan arrived. There were numerous DTV meetings with the GM. Promos were planned. Promises made. Careers hung in the balance.

Well, not really, but the whole DTV thing really harshed my Conan mellow. He was due to arrive at 1:30. As if. Those network suits are never on ti... holy shit! He's here on time!

Right off, yes, he is very tall. And incredibly skinny. Lithe, even. Some may say willowy. And very, very nice. Right away, he put us all at ease with his self-deprecating humor. He made us all feel comfortable to joke with him, talk with him, and as you can see, get pictures with him.

He performed for a packed room of local advertisers, promising to make the Tonight Show a continued success. He was great to work with and very complimentary of me, our team and our station. The GM even thanked me at the end of the day for a job well done.

Maybe I saved my job for a while?
( Pale Force )

This would clearly never play in the states. Click the image to go to the video. It is not embedded.

As I watch the first moments of what promises to be 24 hours of intensely heavy snowfall here in Denver, I feel conflicted. Foreboding. Bored?

-Another round of unpaid furloughs are coming for the 2nd quarter here at work.
-Tax-time. I always feel shitty around tax time. And my "record-keeping" for last year was unforgivably negligent. I'm supposed to meet with a new accountant today, but there's no way I'm going to be ready.
-Kids. I love 'em, but they are growing up way too fast. My 8 and 4 year olds will soon be 9 and 5 and the younger one starts kindergarten in the fall. No no nonononononono.
-Which brings me back to money again, and how am I going to pay for college?

And finally, LJ. I hardly ever post anymore; I'm just rarely moved to. I got on LJ for Harry Potter fandom, and kept it going when BSG supplanted that obsession, but there's really nothing in the wings to replace that stuff. I still read in on my friends list , but rare is the time when I even comment.

Have I moved past LJ, or just lack the introspective bug to participate any more? Do I even bother keeping a paid account?

What do you think? And I'll completely understand if no one answers the question. Now. Watch Calvin and Hobbes dance.

Um...


Yeah. No.

Ctsy info

Hilarious, but NSFW for strong language.

But didn't the Democrats just kick ass all over the last election? Aren't they in charge of everything now?

So why am I still seeing Sarah Palin on TV? And fuck Rush Limbaugh. Who gives a fat Rush's ass what that big, fat idiot has to say?

Just sayin.'

But did anyone else see Trust Me on TNT? It stars Eric McCormack (Will and Grace) and Tom Cavanagh (Ed) as advertising execs at the fictional Rothman Greene and Mohr agency in Chicago.

Sorkin-esque in its writing, (it's from the producers of Nip/Tuck and The Closer) the pilot ep did what it needed to do with fairly deft strokes: introduced characters, relationships, plot, location and dynamic. I liked both these guys in their earlier roles, and with the addition of Griffin Dunne as their boss, Tony Mink, there's much to like about the show.

As a marketer, I appreciated some of what they portrayed, though the reality of today's economy does not allow for learning-on-the-job, dead-weight, goof-off slackerism characteristic of some of the creative team in Trust Me. You can't just fuck off all day, updating your blog and be expected to remain on payroll...

Anyway, my boss just called me into his office for a mo,' but if you get the chance, check out Trust Me. I have high hopes.

It is stunning... STUNNING to see the criminal hypocrisy on the right regarding the $825 billion stimulus package.

"It's too much money!" they scream. "PORK!" they cry. "TAX CUTS!" they insist.

Um, guys? You. Lost. The. Election. I understand President Obama wants to bring you on board. He wants to hear you out and he wants to build consensus, however, the fact remains you are nearly irrelevant to this process and your constant whinging is serving to further marginalize whatever scant leverage you might have once had.

To my original point re: criminal hypocrisy... apparently, if you are Republican, what it is GREAT to spend money on, is billions of dollars each month to kill people in foreign countries. What is not so great is to spend billions here to help Americans live.

Money for foreign wars? Yes. Money for domestic recovery? No. Death? Yup. Life? Uh, not so much.

On behalf of the large majority of Americans who recently told you to go fuck yourselves, go fuck yourselves.

Poll #1334078 BSG Best Sexy Moments
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Best "Sexy Moment" from BSG?

That last one? Hands down and Skiffy didn't even put it on their poll!

What do you all think?

...announced mandatory, unpaid, week-long furloughs to be taken by end of 1st quarter. If only they had sold it as an award of an extra week of unpaid vacation time, it might have been more palatable. Crap.

To all my flist who had such a trying year, I wish you a prosperous 2009. Like so many of you, I feel overwhelmed at times by our economy, afraid of the prospects for my job in the coming year and even fearful of the uncertainty of it all.

As I lay awake this morning worrying about all of that, I could hear the rhythmic whispers of my wife, healthy and beautiful and whole, breathing beside me. I could hear the stirrings of my 16 year old dog, fluffing his pillow to get more comfortable. I could sense the contented sighs of my children, safe and asleep in their beds.

Then, I heard my youngest child exclaim from her dreams, "No! A Sleeping Beauty that flies..."

We are here. We are healthy. We want for nothing. What will come will come and we will deal.

I wish you all health, security and joy. And when you have the time, in some quiet moment all your own, stop. Listen to the world around you and rejoice in your part in it.