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Let’s say you could make a list of five people, living or dead, you’d like to have lunch with. Or dinner - if they’ll spring for the tip. That’s a hard list to think of making. But I’m sure of one person that would be on my list: Joss Whedon. Needless to say, when he does something, I’m interested.

This isn’t so say that I’m interested if he picks his nose or plays a good game of croquet. I’m interested in his projects. The Fox TV show Dollhouse is coming along (with Eliza Dushku and Amy Acker) and I’m already feeling like a diehard fan from what I’ve seen. Whedon always impresses me (with tiny, tiny exceptions), so I’m in a state of anticipatory excitement about Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. Seriously, I think I’m shaking! Is this vertigo? Hm. I’ll call a Dr. of my own, while you check out all of this info on Dr. Horrible!

The official Dr. Horrible site is a must-see. From there you can access the Dr. Horrible MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter. Pay special attention to THE PLAN. If you miss out, and start crying, it will only be your own sadface fault! You have been warned.

Digg away, my fiends, and friends, and friendly fiends! Here!!! Should I namedrop in the process? Joss Whedon (of course), Felicia Day (a former potential on Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Nathan Fillion (Firefly - also, I kept typing Nation Fillion, haha), Jed Whedon, Zack Whedon aaaaaaaaand Neil Patrick Harris (arguably the best character on How I Met Your Mother). Welcome Neil, to our Whedonverse / Jossverse! (Did Alyson Hannigan of Buffy fame introduce you guys? Did you shake hands? Were your hands sweaty? Are you typically a sweaty guy? Wait. Don’t tell me that! Let’s keep this serious. So…what were you wearing?)

Don’t miss THIS piece by Matt Roush of TVguide.com.

If you want to miss out on the witty Joss Banter and really just want the nitty gritty (you are totally lame, but here):

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Okay, Isaac and I both agree that people should watch the NBC show Chuck. There’s several reasons why I think you should watch it, but since Isaac decided to sway the masses with eye candy of the women of the show, I feel obligated to show the other side: the men! So, it’s time to do a little good ol’ fashioned oogling.

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Listen up - ’cause here’s an easy statement to apply to your roller coaster existence: when life sucks, you need some music. Sad music will let you wallow (Sarah McLachlan never lets me down - Felicity Porter (Felicity) and I have that in common), but if you’ve got any intentions of pulling yourself up out of the proverbial sludge - you need something with a fast, makes you dance, amps up your heart - beat. So, that’s what I’m gonna deliver here.

I listen to DVD commentary for my favorite shows, which - while sometimes time consuming, is always rewarding. I believe it was for commentary on the pilot of Alias where I heard J.J. Abrams say that for the infamous strut that Sydney does in her red-magenta hair in an airport, he had music going so that Jennifer Garner would really nail that strut. And if five seasons of a show (and a successful movie career) can say anything - I think it says she did.

I will add that my method here, with these vids, is Jessica-is-not-a-doctor-but-boy-does-she-look-pretty-in-a-white-jacket approved, and when I tested it, it worked. So save this page. Because we all know life can be a real bitch.

Oh - and this is also the next installment in the Sofachip Fanvid Appreciation Awards. So if you’re featured here, go on and claim your banner after the jump.

Let’s kick this off with my favorite TV Doctor, Dr. House. He may be cranky, but he inspired one of my favorite House M.D. fanvids. The Gorillaz - Feel Good inc. song is perfect for a video with fast pacing and as much glee as there is angst. It doesn’t matter WHO you ship with House - if you like him, if you like the show - you’re gonna like this video. No. I take it back. You’re gonna love it.

di0br - Windmill, Windmill:

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It seems that ever since Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been around - so have artistic interpretations of our heroic blonde Slay-gal. While you can now find comic books in stores of her, it’s nice to see how else she is being conceived and brought to life on paper. (Notice how I am not making a Once More With Feeling reference/joke to ‘hey, I died twice!’? That takes internal strength I did not know I was capable of!) I looked on DeviantArt.com and found some goodies to share with you. I want to thank both of the artists for letting me do so.

Here are sketches of Buffy Summers by 33 year old Francis Portela from Barcelona, Spain. Check his page out here: portela on deviantart.com. To see the below image larger, click here and then click on the image. He’s also done another group of sketches of Buffy (with Willow and Oz) that I really love.

This is undeniably Buffy - she is captured here looking like none other than Miss Summers. From these different renderings you can sense different aspects that were very true to her - from her powerful attitude, to her snarky-yet-contemplative moments. True to my own nature, I am drawn to the hair because it is done so well - all full and bouncy. ( I think half the reason I wanted to watch Disney’s Sleeping Beauty so many times as a child was because I was so enviable of the way her hair looked. ) I love what was done with these drawings.

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The next picture is of Buffy and Angel done with a ink and a brush by 26 year old Aaron Minier from Indiana, USA. Check his page out here: aaronminier on deviantart.com. To see the below image larger, click here and then click on the image. He’s also done an amazing drawing of Jayne from Firefly.

This is done in a totally different style, yet the image could be no one but Buffy (and Angel). This is not based on any whole picture anywhere - it was conceived within the artists’ brain. This time, I have to say that not only do I like the way Buffy’s hair looks, but Angel’s is equally remarkable. He had unusual hair on the show that seemed to always work and look damn good despite the laws of gravity and style. Buffy is in her power pose here, a force to be reckoned with - and though Angel is in the shadows (all dark and mysterious - mmm) he still has an aura of power of his own.

All of the artwork here is copyright © to the artists. We all acknowledge that none of us own Buffy, Angel, or their eternal love. Joss Whedon is the man to see about that!

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Bonjour! No, I’m not French, I can hardly speak it thanks to my oh-so brilliant idea to take Spanish language courses and then French language courses, giving me the unique talent of speaking a hybrid of both languages in a manner I suspect no one can understand - except me. I thought I’d do something a little fun here, and do a meme. If you are wondering ‘what the frak is a meme?‘ then check out this link from thedailymeme.com.

I found a fun meme by the livejournal user Austere_Flare. (I don’t know them, I just googled for ‘fandom meme’s. Oh, how I love the Interweb!)

Note: Please excuse that the paragraph breaks aren’t working properly for every question, we’re working with a new format that seems to have a few kinks.

Choose 10 characters (preferably from the same fandom) and answer the questions that follow. No peeking until your list is done!

My ten characters

1. Anya (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

2. Nikki Grant (Big Love)

3. Capt. Malcolm ‘Mal’ Reynolds (Firefly)

4. Veronica Mars (ditto!)

5. Winifred ‘Fred’ Burkle (Angel)

6. Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)

7. Emily Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)

8. Paris Geller (Gilmore Girls)

9. James ‘Sawyer’ Ford (Lost)

10. Charlie Pace (Lost)

1. Characters 4, 9 and 10 are at an arcade. What game do they choose to play, and who wins? Veronica, Sawyer and Charlie? Veronica and Charlie would be nice to each other but Sawyer would give Veronica sass and she’d have Charlie help her (not that she needs it) to cheat and beat Sawyer and win 50 bucks, which she’d then split with Charlie. I don’t know what they’d play - is Pac Man still around? 2. Make up an e-mail address for 6. Oh, I know! coffeecoffeecoffeecoffeenownownow@somethinglalala.com is the e-mail address Lorelai would make, but she’d never remember it and she’d get so frustrated that she’d just make “brakesfortacos’ her e-mail. This is aside from her professional e-mail for work. Which I think Michelle would have set to ‘LGilly’ - mwahaha. 3. If 8 had an iPod or some kind of music player, what kinds of songs would you find in it? Oh, I’m sure Paris has an iPod. She has podcasts from NPR or something saved on it. She also has records of herself repeating notes from class. She listens to them while she sleeps. Her brain will explode someday. 4. What would you do if 9 suddenly paid you a visit? I would ask where Jack Shepard was! Kiiidding. I don’t know. I don’t have a huge crush on Sawyer so it’s not like I’d attack him with my lips. 5. Do you think 6 and 4 are made for each other? Lorelai and Veronica? I can see there being some respect, but I don’t see a fall wedding in the future. Maybe a winter one, if they get really bored?

6. 1 challenges 3 to a no-holds-barred duel. Who will win and how? Oh no - why on earth would Anya challenge Mal? She’d lose. Hopefully Mal would only scare her a little. Unless Anya got back her powers, which would make it an unfair fight!

7. 7, 2 and 1 order a pizza. What toppings does each one request, and what do the others think of the choices? Emily, Nikki and Anya? Let’s see. Emily would say they should forgo Pizza if they’re not in Italy and get busy reserving a table at some fancy restaurant. Nikki and Anya would both agree that Emily has forfeit her topping choice. Nikki would want mushrooms cause they’re kind of healthy. Anya would want pineapple. Nikki would call her a heathen. Emily would come back in and ask if they’ll toast almonds for her topping. Um, this would be funny.

8. What subject would 1 teach if s/he were a teacher/professor? Would s/he be good at it? Anya would want to eat ‘how to get revenge/scorn men’ and she would be an expert. Watch out!

9. 5 and 10 go on their first date. Where would they go, and what would they do? Fred and Charlie? Oh my…I guess I could almost kinda see them together. I bet someone has written fanfiction where they pair them together!

10. 8 sings karaoke and dedicates a song to 7. What song would s/he dedicate and why? Paris singing to Emily? Hmm… uh, how about Heart and Shoulder by Heather Nova? Paris would be drunk and Emily would be upset so naturally Paris wants to sing to Emily so she feels better. I just hope Emily is drunk too, or she’s going to have a headache.

11. How would 8 court 6? Paris would just call Lorelai 15 times every day. And that’s not counting in the e-mails and visits.

12. Describe the relationship between 2 and 8 in the canon. Would you change it? Why? Not in the same canon, sorry. N/A

13. In your list, who do you think is the perfect match for 3 and why? Mal + Lorelai. He could respect her independence. Or maybe Veronica? Actually, yea. Mal + Veronica.

14. 2 has a dream where 10 tells him/her to save 1, who is facing certain doom. What would 2 do? Nikki dreams Charlie tells her to save Anya. Nikki might think it was like, a message from God. So who knows what she might do, she’d probably do nothing until the very end where she would tell Bill that Anya was in trouble and he would fix things. Why would Charlie be psychic? Did Desmond pass along his powers? Fun!

15. 9 and 6 are about to get married, until 3 crashes their wedding and abducts 9 against his/her will. 6 follows them, but must forge an uneasy alliance with his/her archrival, 1. They must then hijack some form of transportation from 8 in order to get to 3’s lair, where they must fight against 3’s evil zombified minions. What will happen next? Sawyer and Lorelai? Mal kidnaps Sawyer cause he stole his cows or something. Lorelai and Anya get something from Paris - probably money. Paris’ evil minions are Madeline and Louise so it would be a tough fight with hair-pulling. They would be defeated, though. Lorelai and Anya would save Sawyer but then they’d remember a sale going on at Barney’s and take off for a bit.

16. 8 receives a gift from 9. Does s/he open it or not? If so, what is inside? Paris gets a gift from Sawyer? She’d make someone else open it. Inside would be something mildly insulting (but not gross).

17. 4 is walking home when s/he sees a cute fluffy creature, which promptly begins rubbing itself against his/her legs. Will s/he kick it away, or take it home? Veronica loves animals so yes, she’d take it home and try to find where the creature belongs. She’d make signs and stuff. She’d discover something seedy going on with whoever owns the animals, and we’d have a plot for the episode!

18. 8 is dared by 4 to strip while pole-dancing in front of 7. Write a short dialogue about this.

Paris, Veronica, Emily? This just could never happen. I can see Veronica daring Paris, but I can’t see Paris doing it. Veronica: “Go on, give her something to live on for.” Paris: “She’s had a good life, she won’t mind going now. I have standards.” Veronica: (sarcastically) “Do you have a card with your rates?”
19. What smiley/emoticon would best describe 5? A cute and simple smiley

20. If you had the chance to rewrite 1’s life, how would you change it? She would live! And, find love. And win the lottery.

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