I know that regardless of celebrity status, people are just people. They get sick, they get depressed, they go to the grocery store and they get their hair cut just like you and me. Despite understanding that, it’s still weird for me to see Wil Wheaton and Greg Grunberg from Heroes chatting live on the internet. There’s a voyeuristic quality to celebrity blogging/tweeting etc that I find simultaneously creepy and intriguing. I do think it helps to humanize celebrities when they share the phone pics they took of their coffee at Denny’s on TwitPic and such. Maybe if more celebs were open about the mundane details of their “day to days” we would stop obsessing over them. Or maybe it would encourage a dangerous new degree of stalkerism.

I read a few geek-celebrity blogs (JoCo, WWDN, Jackson Public) and follow plenty of marginally famous people on Twitter. I guess I like to see that we are going through the same stuff despite the gap in our social statuses, incomes, and legions of followers. Do any famous people read HE? I only know of 2 or 3 other well known cartoonists that do. No one else has ever come right out and said it. I wonder.

What celebrity Tweeters, Bloggers, etc do you follow and why?

Bonus Links:

• @WilW on Twitter
• @GregGrunber on Twitter
• @BreaGrant (Daphne from Heroes) on Twitter
• Greg Grunberg’s Pics on Twitpic (some cool Heroes cast shots in there)
• Other Fancy Bastards on Twitter

Speaking of Twitter, thanks to @SkawtNYC for unwittingly naming this comic.

Episode #37 - “That Was The Best Night of My Life Black Dynamite”

Cast: Joel, Eli, Josh & Denise
Rating: Explicit, NSFW, Not for kids

Show Notes:

• Daisies gets canned
• X-Men gets a reboot?
• Twilight Sucks but Vampires Sparkle
• Casual gamers will inherit the earth
• Reasons to love/hate Texas
• Eli Reviews True Blood
• The Gang reviews Zack and Miri
• PLUS YOUR QUESTIONS AND MORE STUFF!!!

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I wrote this comic based primarily on the developments of last week’s installment of Heroes, but I’m sure it will apply to tonight’s as well (is it new tonight?). There’s no reason to beat a dead show (or steal it’s powers, as it were), so here’s some links about how Heroes sucks and Tim Kring is a douche mellon:

• Despite firing Loeb and Alexander, Heroes is still boned.
• Tim Kring thinks we are “saps” and “dipshits”
• Turns out Tim Kring is a dipshit and apologized for forgetting there was an internet.

Just between you and me, I know this comic isn’t actually going up on Friday. One could say it was closer to the subsequent Sunday and one would be totally correct. One could also say that I’ve spent the last 3 days in a gravy and stuffing induced hybernation which would also be intensely accurate.

I had a comic planned for Black Friday some weeks ago that involved a zombie movie-esque scene where retail workers were baracaded in their store, then the deal-frenzied horde would break in and devour the savings. You can’t spell BaRgAINS without… you get the idea. Any who, I thought I was doing pretty good for planning ahead. One less comic I would have to write minutes before I started drawing. I took Thursday off for FAMILYGRAVYSPLODE! and planned to draw the comic on Black Friday. That was until the ridiculous events I had conjured up ACTUALLY OCCURED.

That fact that someone lost their life so a bunch of fuckwastes could “get their savings on” is beyond disgusting. What a pointless death. I really hope the individuals that actually stomped out that persons life, clawing and climbing over each other to save $25 on a George Foreman grill are charged with manslaughter. As soon as the doors came off the hinges, someone should have said, “whoah guys, maybe we should calm the F down.” I guess BluRay players are the new blood diamonds.

Add to that the shooting deaths at a Toys R’ Us the same day and it’s pretty easy to see that we’re doomed. If you really “don’t wanna’ grow up” shoot yourself BEFORE going to a sale at a childrens’ toy store. Ya’ know, cuz their might be CHILDREN there.

That said… WHO GOT A REALLY AWESOME BF DEAL?!

Panel 4:”I got’s gravy-gills, bitch!”

For us it’s punishment. For him, it’s a paradise. HAPPY THANKSGRAVY!

Here we go again.

I don’t even have an Xbox 360 but I just thought this was really amusing. It seems like you can’t exhale near one without causing a Red Ring of Death. The Netflix HD streaming on the new Xbox dashboard sounds great, but I assume you actually need your Xbox to function before you can take advantage of that feature.

We’ll be broadcasting live via Ustream.TV FRIDAY (11-21) starting at 8pm central.

SCHEDULE CONFLICTS AROSE AND THIS PODCAST IS ON HOLD…

!!!RESCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT, 8PM Central (with or without Josh)!!!

No Podcast the weekend of Thanksgravy.

I think we’ll be talking a bit about Quantum of Something and Zack and Miri Make a Kevin Smith Movie.

See you there for the live chat.

Future historians debate whether the T in James T. Kirk stood for Tiberius or Tap Dat Ass. I like to think that in a future utopia the latter would be true.

The trailer has me setting phasers to enthusiastic. I hope this movie accomplishes only two things. 1) It revitalizes a failing franchise that has been dissapointing long time fans for years and 2) Brings new Trekkies into the fold and ensures that generations to come will identify with the series and its characters.

• 25 min of Star Trek were screened. Here’s a review.
• Here’s a blow by blow of the trailer. You can see the crazy tentacle sex space beast.
• Another review of 4 scenes from a screening.

So what do you think? Please identify yourself as a Trekkie or non-Trekkie if you choose to weigh in.

Episode #36 - The Donkey Whisperer

Cast: Joel, Eli, Josh & Denise
Rating: Explicit, NSFW, Not for kids

Show Notes:

• Denise read most of Twilight. Joel read a synopsis and hates it
• The HE Crew recommends new stuff for you to check out
• Gay Superheroes on TV
• Arrested Development Movie is Go? Again?
• And we Answer your Questions

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