Today my sad little blog had 6 hits, more than any previous day, for a grand total of 16 since I started. I am attributing this jump to my good buddy, the Sultan of Poultry, Patrick. If I may borrow a passage from my kindred spirit and fellow hair-enthusiast Truman, allow me to say this:
If you’re reading this and you’re a girl, that’s awesome! There are girls reading my blog besides my Mom*! Do any of you want to be my girlfriend? I’m über-sensitive.
* Note: Unlike Truman, my mom doesn’t read my blog. I’m that sad.
Jordan Keagle is a pathetic, lonely person who can’t even appear popular online despite what Brad Paisley tells him.
So, it would appear that my little experiment has now shown up to the blogosphere at large. I have received my first unsolicited comment and have been getting more hits, mainly due to the Firefly tag I put on one of my other entries. Since that was 4 hits worth of popular and because I am a bit of a Whedon evangelist, I figure I will discuss the show a little more in detail.
Firefly is set in 2517, humans have consolidated into the Anglo-Sino Alliance (or just the Alliance), which is dominated by American and Chinese culture, hence the Chinese language (mostly long and colorful swear words) which are incorporated into dialog. Centuries before, the humans were forced to leave a polluted and depleted Earth to settle on new planets in another solar system.
This brings us to Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds, captain of a Firefly-class ship named Serenity, and the show’s “anti-hero” if you will. He leads a renegade band on his little ship, taking work as it comes, mostly of a less than completely legal variety. Other crewmembers include Zoe, his first mate and partner from the failed war against the Alliance, her husband Wash, the pilot, Jayne the mercenary muscle and Kaylee the eternally happy engineer.
Another frequent flyer is Inara, a companion, basically a unionized and well respected whore, as Mal is quick to point out at any available opportunity.
In the first episode, Serenity picks up a preacher named Book, a young doctor, Simon and his mentally unstable sister River.
Anything beyond this delves deep into the realm of spoilers but I will say that the world of Firefly is rich and complex. It seems real even though it only has 14 episodes to develop. Maybe this is on account of all the dirt.
You can watch the whole series on Hulu.com (link to the right) so check it out!
In summary:
Watch if you like: Joss Whedon, Space operas, Cowboys, Amazingly funny stuff
Avoid if you don’t like: Awesomeness and a little country-sounding music (Check out the opening credits above. If you don’t like it, don’t worry it grows on you.)
Well, I missed an entry again. This isn’t going to be an everyday blog. I will try my best but it really isn’t going to happen.
So for those of you who are too uncivilized to know what the title means, it is German for “The Empire Strikes Back” as in Star Wars: Episode V. We are watching it in Deutsch II and it rocks. Seriously, take German just for the movies, you won’t be disappointed. We were sitting around watching the Battle of Hoth when we hear a strange alarm in the background. It takes a few seconds for anyone to notice as it blends in with the rest of the movie sounds and it would make sense that alarms would be going off at Echo Base, but it eventually dawned on us that it was the fire alarm. The freaking fire alarm! And with only about 4 minutes left in class. Ridiculous. Between that, advisory and leaving for choir districts at about 1:15 (Update on that later) I’m not doing anything today.
UPDATE: Choir got 92, 93 and 97 from the three judges and those scores are really good. You only need to get an average of 80 to qualify for state. Although it isn’t technically a competition we got more points than any of the other groups. W00T!
I can already see how well this is going to work. Two days in and I’ve already missed an entry. The hard thing about a blog is that by the time you are finished waiting for things to happen there is no time left to blog it. How irritating. I suppose I could just update two or three days a week, but then the entries would have to be über-awesome™ to make it worth it to me and the absolutely no people who read this thing. One blog that does a limited schedule and does it very well is Truman Capps’ http://hairguytruman.blogspot.com/ Truman graduated from Sprague last year and is something of a legend. I have been compared to him on multiple occasions due to my personality and our mutual possession of large hairdos, so I feel a kinship with him even though we have never actually met. Seriously, his blog is amazing. It updates on Sundays and Wednesdays. If you only read one blog for the rest of your life, leave this one right now and go read Truman’s. Okay? Okay.
I have an irritating habit of not getting into things at the right times. I was born too late for original Star Wars or Indiana Jones (Though Indy 4 comes out May 22!) and I am always late to even contemporary fandoms. For instance, when I jumped on the Firefly* wagon this summer, the show had been over for 4 years and the movie had been out for 2. I suppose there is an advantage to this as you don’t have to wait for more content but the downside (especially for Firefly) is that after you finish there is no more coming.
* For those of you who don’t know, Firefly is what can only be described as a space-western (Seriously, it has spaceships and revolvers) created by Joss Whedon, the same guy who made Buffy the Vampire Slayer and absolutely nothing else. The show is pure genius and funny as hell. Unfortunately, FOX did mean things to it and it only lasted for 14 episodes, 3 of which never aired. There is a link to the side to a site called Hulu, where you can watch certain TV shows for free with limited commercials. Watch Firefly. It rocks.
All of that to say, I have a new fandom to add to my list it would seem, Battlestar Galactica. Its fourth and final season started on Friday so I am 4 years behind. Yay. How I missed it to begin with, I dunno, I must have written it off as a remake of a lame 1978 Star Wars cash-in/rip-off (Which, technically it is). What sold me on it though, was the fact that Joss Whedon says it is his favorite show. If it is the favorite show of the guy who made your favorite show, it must be good. Also it is the favorite of Dwight Schrute. (And Mr. Curry, and Brad Paisley [I swear, look it up!], and that guy from The Soup, the list goes on…) So far I have only watched the mini-series that started the “re-imagining” as they call it but I have the episodes coming down the Internet tubes as I type and I’m off to watch the first actual episode now.
So, to recap: Firefly = Awesome, go watch it right now
BSG = Great so far, looking forward to the rest
Hello Internet! Your favorite midget genius has a blog now. No, not Stewie Griffin, you dummkopfs! Look up the page. Do you see the big Star Wars title? What does it say? Get it now? Good. I’ll be here talking about stuff that happens. Read it. It just might be worth your time. Link to it on your blogs or Myspaces or Facebooks or whatever. I don’t have one and refuse to make one. There are Chi-Mos out there, man!
Okay, so I just got back from Crossler, my old middle school, where I have been helping with the tech stuff on the musical they are putting on. I’m helping because Brandon Warren and I are the only ones in the last 4 years (since 6th grade) that know how to run any of the equipment. Seriously. In 6th grade I asked to help and they said, “Okay, you can run lights. Here is the stuff, figure it out.” 7 out of the 8 lights are working though, which is better than expected. The multitude of cords gets pretty annoying, however.
Also, drinking 44 ounces of Mountain Dew over the course of 2 hours will make you really sick. Trust me. Just say no.
This public service announcement has been brought to you by Jordan Keagle. Learn from his mistakes, kids.
