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12 May 2008 @ 08:11 pm
3.15 Time Is On My Side: We’re Trying to Do the Same Thing Here  
 

3.15  Time Is On My Side:  We’re Trying to Do the Same Thing Here

 

Immortal doctor

Tempts Sam with deal-breaking hope.

Bela meets her fate.

 

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Current Mood: gloomy
Current Music: "One Last Ride" by Molly Hatchet
 
 
bardicvoice
07 May 2008 @ 08:25 am
Real Life post: Allow me to preen for a moment ...  
Some of you know that when I'm not being Bardicvoice and rhapsodizing over Supernatural, I'm a career civil servant working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (Well, truth be told, I rhapsodize over Supernatural at EPA, too ... my co-workers can attest to that! I've even turned some of them into fans ...) 

I learned yesterday that my team will be awarded an Agency gold medal for our risk management work on perfluorinated compounds, the project I worked on for the last eight years before transferring to my current assignment. We will get our medals at the awards ceremony on May 20, which will be my 19th anniversary of joining the Agency. Pretty cool, huh?
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Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: "We Are the Champions" by Queen
 
 
bardicvoice
04 May 2008 @ 10:11 pm
3.14 Long Distance Call: You’re All So Connected, But You’ve Never Been So Alone  

     3.14  Long Distance Call: You’re All So Connected, But You’ve Never Been So Alone

 

Desperate for hope,

Dean obeys his father’s voice:

Just crocotta lies.

 

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Current Music: "It's Not Over" by Daughtry
 
 
bardicvoice
02 May 2008 @ 08:59 pm
3.13 Ghostfacers!: Don’t Be ’Facer-Haters ...  
 

3.13  Ghostfacers!:  Don’t Be ’Facer-Haters ...

 

Foolish amateurs

Videotape leap year ghosts;

Reality sucks.

 

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I apologize to all for the extreme lateness of this blog. I had a great week taking care of my Mom, but didn’t even get to see Ghostfacers! until the weekend, and got drafted unexpectedly into a public meeting project the moment I walked back into work. I promise to get my commentary on Long Distance Call out on schedule this weekend, though!

 
 
Current Mood: determined
Current Music: "Roll on Down the Highway" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive
 
 
bardicvoice
25 April 2008 @ 07:24 pm
Placeholder Meme posting  
For everyone waiting on my commentary on Ghostfacers, well -- this isn't it. Sorry! I haven't even seen the episode yet, so it will be a little while before I can write about it. I doubt it will be up before Monday night, or maybe Tuesday night.  In the meantime, I thought I might jump on the meme bandwagon, because it's about the only thing I can do at the moment.


Time for evening meds. G'night.
 
 
 
Current Mood: moody
 
 
bardicvoice
08 April 2008 @ 11:07 pm
2008 LA Salute to Supernatural, Part 2  
 

2008 LA Salute to Supernatural, Part 2

 

Okay – on to the main event (well, the main post-Kripke event, anyway!). Sunday of course brought Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki for photos, autographs, and general fun and nonsense. I did not have a Gold ticket, so I missed the breakfast hijinks, but the news of Jared’s formal engagement to Sandra McCoy (a co-star of his on the film Cry Wolf, and the Crossroads Demon Sam summoned and killed in Bedtime Stories) circulated at lightspeed once the breakfast room doors had opened. I’m delighted to say that all of the reactions I saw were happiness for the happy couple. People with sufficient presence of mind were congratulating Jared during their photo ops.

 


 
 
Current Music: "Fell on Black Days" by Soundgarden
 
 
bardicvoice
06 April 2008 @ 07:08 pm
2008 LA Salute to Supernatural, Part One (Spoiler Warning!)  

2008 LA Salute to Supernatural, Part One (Spoiler Warning!)

 

My apologies to everyone who has been waiting for me to finally get on the stick and write up my view of the LA Supernatural Creation convention. Sorry to be late to the party! I plead an incredibly busy real life and the prior commitment to get an essay submitted in the Ben Bella Books Smart Pop contest. But I’m here now, and I’m not going to leave out any of the details I remember, even though I’m sure you’ve all been inundated with everyone’s accounts, photos, and video clips. I’ve interspersed a few photos in the account, and you’re welcome to visit the broader album. Panns already posted the best of my photos here, along with Schroan’s and Met’s.

 

Given the length of this, I’m splitting it into two pieces, one covering Friday and Saturday, and the second dealing with Sunday. Here comes Part One! Note there are spoilers in the Kripke section, although I don't think that most people would mind them too much ...

 

 
 
Current Music: "Crazy Love" by Jason Manns and Jensen Ackles
 
 
bardicvoice
25 February 2008 @ 10:52 pm
An Evening On The Set Of Angel  

An Evening On The Set Of Angel

Okay: this blog entry isn’t about Supernatural. Surprise! I’ve always enjoyed reading accounts written by others of watching shooting on films and TV shows, and I’ve sometimes mentioned the one and only night that I had the chance to spend several hours on the set of Angel back in November 2001. Enough people have expressed interest that I thought it was about time I wrote it up.

 


 

 
 
Current Music: "Live Fast, Die Never" - the soundtrack to "Angel"
 
 
bardicvoice
23 February 2008 @ 09:56 pm
3.12 Jus in Bello: If That’s How You Win Wars, Then I Don’t Wanna Win  

3.12 Jus in Bello: If That’s How You Win Wars, Then I Don’t Wanna Win

 

What price victory?

When demons target the boys,

Allies pay the price. 

 

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Current Mood: quixotic
Current Music: "Renegade" by Styx
 
 
bardicvoice
18 February 2008 @ 01:38 am
3.11 Mystery Spot: Dean’s Your Weakness. The Bad Guys Know It, Too.  

3.11  Mystery Spot: Dean’s Your Weakness. The Bad Guys Know It, Too.

Tuesday’s nightmare trick:

Over and over again,

Watch your brother die.

 

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Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: "Heat of the Moment" by Asia
 
 
bardicvoice
10 February 2008 @ 08:46 pm
3.10 Dream a Little Dream of Me: I Don’t Deserve to Go to Hell  

3.10 Dream a Little Dream of Me: I Don’t Deserve to Go to Hell

 

Deadly dreamer proves

Our ghosts, monsters, and demons

Are inside of us.

 

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Current Music: "Dream a Little Dream of Me," by the Mamas and the Papas
 
 
bardicvoice
04 February 2008 @ 12:13 am
3.09 Malleus Maleficarum: That’s What Hell Is  

3.09 Malleus Maleficarum:  That’s What Hell Is

 

Bombshell from fight with

Desperate housewitch “book club:”

Demons were human.

 

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bardicvoice
30 January 2008 @ 11:31 pm
Supernatural University: Making Choices; Being Good or Evil  
 

Supernatural University:  Making Choices; Being Good or Evil

 

What most truly defines who we are as human beings isn’t our race, our gender, our nationality, our family, or the religion in which we were raised. It isn’t where we live, where we go to school, or what things happen to us. Oh, all of those things play a part, and their influence is considerable, but what truly defines each of us are the choices we make in our lives, including how we choose to deal with circumstances and each other. I would submit that it is those choices and the reasons for which we make them that determine whether we are good or evil. With that in mind, who and what are the characters of Supernatural, and how did they get that way? Welcome to a philosophy and psychology class at Supernatural University!

 


 
 
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: "Crazy Circles" by Bad Company
 
 
bardicvoice
16 January 2008 @ 12:26 pm
"Supernatural: Rising Son" comics are coming!  
Thank you, TVGuide.com - I popped in for a little lunchtime diversion, and what did I find but a nice little article on the next set of Supernatural comic books coming in April!

Best parts? I like the new artist better than the one who did Origins (and don't judge just on the cover, because covers are usually done by different artists than the inside!); he actually can draw facial expression. Haven't seen his take on the boys, yet, but I'm hopeful. I like the story timing (looks like it will tie in with a certain flashback we saw recently ... yum), and the indication that the focus will be on the family dynamics.

And yay for Peter Johnson confirming that the collected graphic novel publication of Origins will include revisions from the comics to put the Impala squarely where we all knew she belonged: as a Winchester from the very beginning! I think he's also correcting some of the factual gaffes that fans pointed out ...

April is looking a little happier now, although true happiness requires a quick resolution to the writers' strike and the continuation of season three!!
 
 
bardicvoice
12 January 2008 @ 04:06 pm
I'm for sale ...  
Okay, folks:  I'm putting my word processor where my mouth is. I am officially pimping myself out as a Sweet Charity Ho in support of the Writers Guild Foundation Industry Support Fund.

For those of you not familiar with the concept, Sweet Charity is a fandom effort to support various charities in which people willing to sell their skills (affectionately known as "Ho's," for obvious reasons!) put themselves on the auction block. Buyers who want to take advantage of those skills bid on them, and the winning bidder gets what s/he wants from the Ho. The proceeds of the auction go not to the Ho, but to the charity designated as the beneficiary. This time around, that is the Writers Guild Foundation Industry Support Fund, which provides assistance to people in financial distress because of the writers' strike. That being a cause near and dear to my heart, I couldn't fail to pick my pencil up while certain other pencils have to remain down.

I've put myself on the block to do a 900+ word Supernatural  story. Winning bidder provides the prompt, I write to the length required to make the story happen. Angst, humor, hurt/comfort, mystery, terror, love, wee!chesters -- winning bidder calls the mood and the tune. I'm a canon writer and I can't write what I don't believe in, so I don't do character slash, but apart from that -- I'm a Ho!

Wanna be a Ho yourself? Wanna bid on me when the auction starts? Visit the Sweet Charity website and learn all about it. If you're here on LJ and want to be alerted when the auction starts (which will be 18 through 26 January 2008), you might want to watch the LJ community [info]sweetcharityhoThis isn't limited to Supernatural fandom, by the way: you can find Ho's doing other fandom fic, videos, graphics, and whatnot, or become a Ho yourself offering multiple fandoms, if you wish. I'm sticking with Supernatural even though I've written a little in others over the years simply because I write where my mind and heart are, and we all know where that is these days.

And if you're really interested and determined, start thinking about what you'd like to have me write ...
 
 
Current Mood: creative
Current Music: "I Shall Not Be Moved" by Mississippi John Hurt
 
 
bardicvoice
06 January 2008 @ 04:25 pm
My latest letter to the CW on "Supernatural" ...  

For those who are interested, here is the text of my latest letter to the CW, delivered to feedback@cwtv.com and via email to my local CW affiliate. The email subject line, by the way, read "Supporting Supernatural: A Silver Lining to the Writers' Strike." A version properly and formally addressed to Dawn Ostroff at the CW is going via snailmail.

I welcome anyone who so desires to utilize however much or little of this letter as you choose when composing your own. Please link this anywhere you think it might help the cause!

This was my response to the announced revised CW schedule, which takes Supernatural off the air after the last of the new original episodes airs on February 21, 2008, and represents my attempt to persuade the CW that they're missing out on opportunities to bring more viewers to the network through judicious promotion of selected feature episodes that could run during the strike season to attract viewers deprived of their customary Thursday night entertainment on other networks.

No one responds well to angry rants, so there's no anger here. I doubt this letter will do anything useful, but at least it can't hurt, and it keeps Supernatural (and this Supernatural fan) in a good and positive light. And it makes me feel that at least I've communicated my desires to the Powers-That-Be, whether they pay any attention to them or not.

And now I'm going to return to the contemplation of future Supernatural University classes and fanfic ideas ...




 
 
 
bardicvoice
25 December 2007 @ 09:00 pm
Supernatural University: Keeping Secrets  
 

Supernatural University:  Keeping Secrets

 

Secrets are a Winchester stock-in-trade. From the beginning of the first season, John Winchester was the master secret-keeper, but his two sons have also done their share. And in part one of the season two finale, we learned that Mary Winchester had kept some pretty whopping secrets of her own, ones we and her sons still have yet to learn and understand.

 

Like the Winchesters, we all keep secrets. But what do they – and we – keep secret, from whom, and why? Welcome to another psychology seminar at Supernatural University!

 


 
 
 
Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: "For My Brother" by Blue October
 
 
bardicvoice
16 December 2007 @ 03:14 pm
3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas: We’ll Have to Muddle Through Somehow  

3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas:  We’ll Have to Muddle Through Somehow

 

Pagan deities

Eat meadowsweet wreath buyers.

Sam gives Dean Christmas.

 

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Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" by Judy Garland
 
 
bardicvoice
11 December 2007 @ 08:21 pm
I got tagged: 10 weird things/habits/little known things about me  
 Okay: my buddy  [info]raputathebuta  tagged me with this one: Post a blog about 10 wierd things/habits/little known thing about yourself. Then tag 10 other people.

I'll bet Rap figured that I wouldn't respond, given that it's taken a few days, but here goes!


 
 
 
Current Mood: blank
Current Music: "Drive" by Incubus
 
 
bardicvoice
11 December 2007 @ 08:07 pm
Coming to Terms: The Strike Resolution Reality Game Show!!  
 

Coming to Terms:  The Strike Resolution Reality Game Show!!

 

Given the way that the talks to settle the writers’ strike cratered spectacularly again on Friday, it’s clear that secret negotiations aren’t getting the job done. All that’s come out of them has been a major case of “he said/she said” finger-pointing and blame and an assortment of epithets and insults reminiscent of an unmonitored playground full of rowdy five-year-olds. So here’s an idea: let’s turn the strike talks into the latest “reality” TV game show, with a twist – the object of the competition isn’t beating the other guy, but coming successfully to an agreement in which both sides, and all of us, win.



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Current Music: "Crazy Circles" by Bad Company