Sorely tempted (and a friend of mine is going) but I guess I can't get to LA on a Wednesday.
Essear must have enough frequent flyer miles for this.
God, I really wonder if I could justify this.
Yup, someone send a note to essear. If he can make it happen, I'm guessing he will.
Also, I believe that Airedale has commented in the past. Unless I'm wrong.
Tickets are all running about $400 for me. That's...reasonable but not budget-wise.
I vote essear. And if he thinks he can't make it we should kidnap him and put him on a plane.
If we get more than one willing commenter, we clearly need some sort of dating game.
Hello, unfoggedatariat. Wednesday does seem like an inconvenient day for them to have chosen. I have decided to make a vacation of it (I already had plans to attend the BNP Paribas tennis tournament in Indian Wells the week before, so I'm just extending the stay in LA a few days - unfortunately none of the friends I am going to Indian Wells with can stay that much longer, although maybe fortunately for one of you). Anyway, I'm also happy to take recommendations for fun things to do in LA and good places to eat. Hopefully someone will be able to take me up on this!
Anyone who wants to come from out of town (and this person should clearly be Essear, he has the goddamn frequent flyer miles) is welcome to stay with me to save money. I may have another in I could try to play as well. I really should watch the show, but I haven't so I couldn't possibly ask for the ticket and would feel bad about doing so even if I had.
There is zero chance this is legitimate. Someone is going to get kidnapped and murdered.
As long as Airedale promises to liveblog, that's a feature not a bug, right?
I bet we can kickstart a liveblogged kidnapping and murder into a feature film.
I'm glad everyone thought of me, but I'm planning to be in Beijing that day, planning future giant experiments to destroy the planet, or something like that. So... it would be kind of difficult.
15: The Veronica Mars movie Veronica Mars movie, starring essear.
I'm not a VM fan but if essear can't make it I volunteer my services as a fellow Maroon of comparable age.
12: but then a sarcastic blonde 18-year-old from the wrong side of the tracks will figure out who did it!
16: I'm genuinely surprised at your priorities. Also maybe a bit disappointed.
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20: this means you should go, you realize.
22: no aisle. It did seem to help him leave quickly and silently, although it also got a bit of a laugh.
Er, no steps. I guess no aisle either.
23: I'll be in Beijing (with Mitch), stealing essear's research and selling it to the Reds.
VW Is Become Joe Morgan, Destroyer of Worlds.
Joe Morgan was a comsymp? I guess that makes sense.
essear needs to change his plans. Honestly, it's like I don't even know him anymore.
Oh wait, you mean he was a physicist. Yeah, I knew that.
maybe we can get somebody else a ticket with essear's FF miles!
With my travel plans I can probably buy a DVD of the movie from a stall on the street before it comes out, right?
Essear: no longer invited to my house.
15. Agamemnon cutting between Clytemnestra's LiveJournal, Agamemnon blogging for National Review and Cassandra's Facebook feed, with a chorus of commenters.
20 16: I'm genuinely surprised at your priorities. Also maybe a bit disappointed.
29 essear needs to change his plans. Honestly, it's like I don't even know him anymore.
I feel chastened.
Isn't Oudemia the #2 Veronica Mars fan here? Oudemia, come on over.
I can work with 35. I wonder if Halford will rep the project.
I have thrown my hat in the ring. I've never seen an episode of Veronica Mars.
omg me. i don't actually think i could make that work money/work-time-off-wise, but that would be amazing. click on my blog link, i've been rewatching vmars & vlogging it. huge fan.
Sadly I'll be in Australia.
Huh, I looked up text under his real name on FB and we have several friends in common. At any rate, I would be happy to go with text, although, other things being equal, I'd prefer to see the opportunity go to a VM fan. So I will hold off making a final decision for a bit.
O's bday is in a few days! No escape for me!
Heebie should totally do it. $400 is nothing to make the blog happy!
O's bday is in a few days! No escape for me!
Take him with you! Surprise him and Kristen Bell with a rented sloth!
I think you could probably get a rent-a-sloth for like $500 bucks. Do it.
I'd love to go! I am a fan and an evangelist (with an admitted dropoff in enthusiasm at Season 3). You could say I organized my honeymoon around VM, after a fashion.
But of course I would defer to anyone who was willing to fly in for the event.
A true fan has to lose enthusiasm with season 3; any less would imply that they failed to properly appreciate seasons 1 and 2.
My vote depends on whether or not 12 is right.
It's not that I don't want to see you kidnapped or murdered. It's just a matter of other priorities.
If you don't want to take an asshole to the premier I think your choices off this blog are going to be limited. As a person who enjoys socializing with assholes I'm uniquely situated to be an excellent date.
I saw a play once about Veronica Mars, or rather, inspired by the playwright's response to the character. Only because my friend got the lead role. It wasn't great.
I wish now that I had played my cards right and fawned over the stupid Hollywood movie I got to go on the junket for. They might still be flying me out there to stay at fancy hotels and stuff. All my journalistic integrity ever got me was a tiny brass plate with my name affixed to a wooden plaque.
Jammies and I are talking it over. The main problem is childcare - the kids are off from school that week. I was going to stay home with them T/Th, and Jammies was going to cover Wednesday, and we'd patch together Monday-Friday. But it's going to be tough to find someone who can sit all day T/Th.
My most VM obsessed friend (the one who is a attending the event) likes Season III but he has a penchant for good things in decline. And just very bad things, as he would admit. Bave and I watched Hudson Hawk with him.
Also, if I don't go, we'd leave for a road-trip that Thursday, so Friday childcare would also be satisfied. If I did go, we wouldn't leave until that Saturday.
Jammies' mom is a possibility, but her sister is very sick, and so she's (understandably) reluctant to commit.
So who will fly in and co-parent with Jammies?
The beauty of rewatching VM (which I did in the past month or so) is that you know to stop at the end of Season 2.
On the second time through I'd say that Season 2 was spottier than I'd remembered. There are some very memorable episodes, but also a lot of poor decisions. Season 1 totally held up though, although the last few episodes lose something when you're spoiled on the plot.
I started rewatching season 3 a few months ago and then sort of forgot about it. Which I guess sums up season 3.
Logan smashing up the police cars to get thrown in jail with the guy who . . . you know. That's season 3 right? I love that scene.
There should be a website with the definitive list of when to stop watching each show. I successfully watched only the first two seasons of Alias recently.
Anyone with advice on when to stop Homeland? I have a few episodes left in Season 1.
70: Before starting? (Never dug it, although I like the ginger dude, and Clare Danes, and that woman who was on Firefly, etc.)
70: Long before the point halfway through season three when I stopped, that's for sure.
I have some kind of totally irrational impulse toward completeness where I'll keep watching a TV show I hate or slog through a six-hundred page book that bores me just because I was kind of halfway interested for the first quarter of it.
I have some kind of totally irrational impulse toward completeness where I'll keep watching a TV show I hate or slog through a six-hundred page book that bores me just because I was kind of halfway interested for the first quarter of it.
One assumes this is a necessary condition for completing a PhD.
Necessary but by no means sufficient, I can assure you.
Or I'll, I don't know, read almost every fucking comment written on a blog for year after year after year.
I went back and finished the entire X-Files recently. I was surprised they still had the occasional good episode into season 7. Hard to believe I managed to slog through seasons 8 and 9.
73: So what's it like to still be watching The Simpsons, anyway?
74 I do that too. The worst slog I remember was through The Starlost, it's only 16 episodes and each about 50 minutes long and sounded like the kind of thing I'd normally love but I must have fallen sound asleep at least twice through each of them. Still forced myself to watch them though.
Wait, so who gets the ticket? Should we have a danceoff between K-Sky and Heebie?
If k-sky gets it can he stay at your house?
Sure! But only if he brings the baby. It will feel like an adventure for both of them because it's a different ghetto neighborhood.
Sweet. If heebie comes out, she can help Halford babysit.
(80, see 49.2. If heebie does make it out here, I hope she would not deny me a dance-off, but in the odd event I won, I would yield to her travel effort.)
re: 70
I enjoyed series 1 a fair bit. Got bored/irritated about halfway through season 2 and bailed.
I find it pretty easy to bail on TV series. There's only been a few that keep my interest over sustained periods of consecutive episodes. Others, I'm quite happy to dip in and out of, if I'm in the mood, and they are built in that episodic way that a lot of pre-HBO series were. But if I'm going to have to follow a sustained arc, it'd better be good or it'll get ditched by about episode 3 or 4.
66: The beauty of rewatching VM (which I did in the past month or so) is that you know to stop at the end of Season 2.
A television channel called pivot* has been reshowing such things as Farscape (yay! yay yay yay!) and has segued to Buffy as well as Veronica Mars in the last month or so. I confess I find the switch -- without showing the entirety of Farscape, all 88 episodes! -- disappointing, but I can rewatch old Buffy. VM I can't say I've ever gotten.
By now I've probably missed Season 1 altogether. I'll give an episode or two a try (maybe), but the bits and pieces I've seen in the past just seem ... eh. Vacuous. If the reshowing is already into Season 3, perhaps I'll never get it.
*pivot is a pretty interesting channel, showing, aside from these reruns, such things as Food, Inc.
69: The first two seasons of Alias are exactly the good part. The decline in season 3 is immediate and fearsome, as I recall. But of course the last scene of Season 2 is the endpoint of television as a medium. Francie doesn't like coffee ice cream.
(It's funny that I like Melissa George as an actor when she is almost always a character whose every entrance is cause for regret. Season 3 Alias love triangle plot device, borderline patient on In Treatment, Marilyn Fucking Garbanza...)
I want to sleep on it before I decide, but I'm leaning towards that K-sky should go. Between the flight and the three extra 9-hour days of babysitting, it's already a pricy venture.
I keep thinking "When on earth would I ever get to do something like this again?" though.
86: Is Pivot the one that's showing Little Mosque on the Prairie, which made me lose my shit since I've wanted to watch it forever and yet of course they play it at like 2 in the afternoon? I'm pretty sure yes.
Does Melissa George whisper every line when she's not being Marilyn Fucking Garbanza? (She makes me insane. I abominate her.)
90: Apparently so. I'd never heard of Little Mosque on the Prairie. 2 in the afternoon is a pretty bad time to show anything. They should put it on the evening if they think people should see it.
I admit that despite not having anything at stake, I am quite interested in seeing who gets to go. So c'mon people.
91: But didn't the Eli Gold spit-take make it all worthwhile?
My mother-in-law is trying to get me to take homeopathic coffee as a sleep aid. What I don't understand is, if there is such a vanishingly tiny amount of coffee in each pellet, why do I have to take six of them? Couldn't you just dilute it one-sixth as much, and then only have to take one pellet?
Why, I'm almost inclined to think its a scam!
Heebie, to help make your decision easier (or harder), the premiere is going to be at what I know as Grauman's or Mann's Chinese Theatre, although now evidently renamed the TCL Chinese Theatre. So I'm excited about that, because it seems like a famous Hollywood spot. I don't yet know where the after-party where will be (it's possible they announced it, but I only sent my RSVP today after getting a reminder e-mail to do so). I'm assuming there will be some sort of opportunity to meet/greet the cast, although there are quite a lot of kickstarter backers who got tickets, so I'm not sure how that will all work.
Grauman's is a blast. It's the one with the handprints in the front and the marvelous Chinoiserie. It's situated in the same complex where the Oscars are held (formerly the Kodak theater, recently redubbed Dolby, after the house-elf who improved sound quality).
Said complex was also a catalytic redevelopment project that included a landmark community benefits agreement with living wage clauses and union neutrality for the hotel and developer's employees. I can actually bore you with quite a bit of Hollywood infrastructure trivia, if you're so inclined.
I can actually bore you with quite a bit of Hollywood infrastructure trivia, if you're so inclined.
In that case Airedale would be a fool not to pick you.
Though I'm sure heebie has plenty of trivia of her own to share.
Oh, Oh!! I wanna go! Pick me! Pick me!
Caveat #1: I'm just a lurker, and a sporadic one at that.
Caveat #2: I'm a fan, but not a *huge* fan. I.e. I loved season 1, but I lost access to Netflix before I got to see season 2 (and have heard not to bother about season 3).
Caveat #3: I'd be flying flying in from PDX. Don't know if that helps or hurts my case.
Caveat #4: I use a wheelchair most of the time, so if the event(s) aren't accessible, then there wouldn't be much point. Related: my health is not terribly robust, so there is a decent chance I'd have to bow out last minute (or even mid-event) if my body doesn't cooperate with me.
So I'd happily defer to a regular commenter/bigger fan/more conveniently located person/more reliably healthy person. A trip like this is stretching the limits of what my body could handle, so I won't be all that disappointed if I don't get picked. But that being said, this seems like it'd be too much fun to pass up, even if it will be painful too.
94: maybe but the scene where [spoiler] turned out to be [famous spoiler] ruined that entire subplot.
There should be a website with the definitive list of when to stop watching each show.
What, you mean a site about when shows jumped the shark?
On the second time through I'd say that Season 2 was spottier than I'd remembered. There are some very memorable episodes, but also a lot of poor decisions. Season 1 totally held up though, although the last few episodes lose something when you're spoiled on the plot.
This is pretty much where I am. There's a clear and mostly steady decline from the end of season one, but since the starting point is so high, season two is still very good TV on the whole. Even season three is watchable in its own right, if by no means great, it's just painful to view it in comparison to what went before.
I assume that whoever goes will be required to liveblog, yes?
My vote is for Catherine, the most intense VM fan I know.
I'm trying to do a re-watch myself; I thought that forcing myself to only watch an episode while working out would help motivate me to exercise. This has failed in several respects.
Did you hear about the person who was taken to a free Veronica Mars concert and woke up the next morning in a bathtub fell of ice?
Oh, I forgot about Catherine. She should probably go over me as she's in the process of reblogging the whole show. Sigh. It'd be nice to go though. If Catherine can't do it for some reason, let me know!
I think I'm out. Our fridge just died. The cost of everything. The baby-sitting. Etc. Internally I'm still on the fence, but I think I should free it up for Wink ;) or K-Sky. Or Catherine, for that matter, should she be around.
I think I shall start a new post.
I talked someone who lives in the same house as me into watching the first two eps of Veronica Mars so maybe we'll have a convert. And just now I googled and it looks like a lot of the cast is back for the movie, which is grand. It would not be Veronica Mars without Dick Casablancas.
Other than Duncan Kane (who is no longer an actor) and dead characters, I think the most prominent character that they didn't get to return was Sheriff Lamb. I was particularly surprised that Deputy Leo is in the movie, given that he made it big.
Deputy Leo is whatsisname on The New Girl, right? Duncan is listed as "rumored" on IMDB. Don't know how they'd work that in, given [spoiler spoiler spoiler].
We're still supposed to avoid spoiling VM season 2?
I'm going to totally spoil the movie for everyone in the worst way.
First I'll need buckets of manure. No, menstrual blood.
I guess I should pretend to be surprised that Sheriff Lamb isn't coming back, then.
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A friend of a friend is an actress of minor renown, and when I've encountered her at our mutual friend's parties, I've always had these minor awkwardnesses with her, where I inevitably fail to have a normal conversation because I've seen her on TV.
I just ran into her at a party and we had a really nice conversation. I told her about my new baby, and how she came after three and a half years of infertility mishegas, and she opened up to me about her own experiences with infertility, and it turned out we had the same doctor, and she was really glad to connect with someone else who had been there.
Then as I was about to go, I was saying goodbye and jokingly insisted on showing her pictures of the baby. Like, pulled out my phone and said, "Since you asked," which she hadn't, ha-ha, "I'll show you pictures of the baby."
Which, in case it's not immediately obvious, is an incredibly dickish thing to do to someone who has just told you that they've spent two years struggling with infertility. (Now that I listen to it, it's totally passive-aggressive to do to anyone. God, parents are the worst.)
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God, that sort of social awkwardness is the worst. How did she react?
She didn't react. It was more delayed common sense/empathy. Thanks.
Enjoy reliving that a few times a year for the rest of your life.
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