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Category: WWdN in Exile
LA Daily: rebooting my positronic brain
This week’s LA Daily is a day late:
On my bio, it says that I’m an actor, writer, husband and father. I love being every one of these things, and somehow I’ve managed to strike a good balance among them in the ten years I’ve kept all these plates spinning in my life.
It’s been remarkable that I’ve managed to keep them all going without a catastrophic failure for so many years, and I guess it was not so much a question of if, but when, one of them would wobble and crash to the floor.
…and crash it did, in a spectacular display of EPIC FAIL.
another chance to watch my episode of Criminal Minds
I just found out that my episode of Criminal Minds, Paradise, is going to be rerun this Wednesday, March 4 at 9pm Eastern and Pacific on CBS.
I am tremendously proud of the work I did on this show, and I hope that, if you missed it the first time around, or you wanted to watch it again after reading my production diaries from Sunken Treasure, you'll tune in and watch me get my creepy-guy-you-really-don't-want-to-be-alone-with on.
new webseries from ed brubaker debuts today. you don’t want to miss this
My friend Ed wrote an insanely cool original web series called Angel of Death that debuts today on Crackle.
Angel of Death stars Zoe Bell (who you've seen double all kinds of people, but probably didn't know it. She also spent much of Death Proof riding around on the hood of a car being awesome) as an assassin who "gets stabbed through the skull; she survives, but the head injury leaves her with an awkward side effect: She
suddenly develops a conscience."
Ed talked to Hero Complex (one of the best comic/sci-fi/geek blogs on all of the 'tubes) about the show:
He said the plot was inspired by medical reports he saw about a Texas man who walked into an emergency room with a hunting knife jutting out of his skull.
"Then I had this image of this assassin standing, like, in a doorway
holding a gun with a knife sticking out of the top of her head and
blood trickling down her face," Brubaker said. "They green-lit it
before I even wrote it, and they started filming two weeks after the
final draft. I guess that's the world we're living in right now."
Ed is awesome. His Incognito and Criminal are two of my favorite comic series, ever, he made me want to read Captain America (then made me a fan), and his The Man Who Laughs is a must-read for Batman geeks.
[Video has been unembedded due to loud autoplay issues. You can still watch the video at Crackle.]
my awesome brother
A couple of years ago, my brother and his wife moved to a ranch in Montana, and while I miss them both every single day, my personal loss is blunted by how happy they are up there. Jeremy and I keep in touch with e-mail and phone calls and stuff, which I thought would make me miss him less, but actually makes me miss him more.
Anyway, this is probably the funniest exchange I’ve ever had with my brother:
Him: I just bought 10 baby chicks today, we’re going to be building a hen house and everything!
Me: That's awesome. I'm totally buying you overalls.
Him: I already have them, and they’re insulated so I can stay warm during winter, all 16 days worth.[1]
Me: Check one:
[_] I have a cap and pitchfork.
[_] I am totally fakin'
Him: [X] I live in Montana
Me: [::Spits genmaicha tea all over the desk::]
[1] Our mother, in an effort to convince the whole family to move up there, once made the outrageous claim that winter only lasts in Montana for three weeks. We joke about this almost every time we talk.