Hey, That’s My Name

He appears to be some kind of shoe fairy. But the important thing is, he’s singing again, and that should make everyone happy. Click the link. Check it out.

From John McCain’s appearance last night on Larry King Live, when asked about Barack Obama’s cancelled visit to Landstuhl:

KING: Why do you think he didn’t go?

MCCAIN: I have no idea except that I know that according to reports that he wanted to bring media people and cameras and his campaign staffers…

That’s not spin, that’s a blatant, outright lie, and John McCain knows it’s a lie. Here is what Andrea Mitchell had to say about the claim that Obama planned to bring cameras and the press:

That literally is not true…Now the point is, Obama had no intention of bringing any cameras with him. I was there, I can vouch for that…he wasn’t planning to bring an entourage…

[From Daily Kos: Who's Lying? John McCain or Andrea Mitchell?]

I’m ashamed to admit that I haven’t yet watched Mad Men, though it is currently sitting in my Netflix queue. Still, I’ve been keeping my eye on it, especially since it’s become home base for a lot of Whedon alum including Angel‘s Vincent Kartheiser and Firefly‘s Christina Hendricks. But now their adding a little Joss to their writing staff with the addition of Marti Noxon who was not only a member of the Buffy writing staff, she also served as an executive producer in the last two seasons of the show and sang about not wearing any underwear in the musical episode. Noxon’s forte on Buffy was writing those soul-crushing break-up scenes that always had you reaching for the tissues. Some of my favorites of hers include “Surprise,” “I Only Have Eyes for You,” “The Wish” and, as tearjerkers go, it’s a toss-up between Buffy and Angel’s break-up in “The Prom” and Willow and Oz’s in “Wild at Heart.” It will be interesting to see her bring her talents to Mad Men. Now, I just need to start watching.

As more episodes were written, Weiner said he employed an unusual number of women for a television show, including Lisa Albert, supervising producer; Robin Vieth, staff writer; Marti Noxon, consulting producer; and the husband and wife writing team Andre and Maria Jacquemetton, supervising producers.

[From The women of 'Mad Men' - Los Angeles Times]

Mary Ann Marie Beetle, a character from the “Muffin Buffalo” episode of “Wonderfalls,” will turn up in a season-two episode of ABC’s “Pushing Daisies,” series mastermind Bryan Fuller told the ComicCon crowd Saturday.

[From PUSHING DAISIES Plots WONDERFALLS Crossover!! -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.]

This makes me happy. I loved me some Wonderfalls (available on DVD, go Netflix it now, GO!). It was quirky, it was fun, it was slightly surreal…a lot like creator Bryan Fuller’s newest show, Pushing Daisies. Fuller has revealed plans to send a character from an episode of Wonderfalls, who was played by the wonderful character actress Beth Grant, for a visit to Ned’s Pie Hole. But while Ms. Beetle’s arrival is something for any Wonderfalls fan to be happy about, an even more giddy-inducing tidbit is that Fuller stated he would love to have the show’s snarky main character Jaye Tyler pop up on Daisies, as well. Of course it would be an interesting crossover of TV universes considering that Daisies lead Ned is played by Lee Pace, the same actor that played her brother.

But we can jump off that bridge when we come to it.

Other news from the ComicCon panel is that David Arquette has been cast in a new role. Between him on Daisies and his wife and Scrubs that Hollywood couple is certainly making some good post-Dirt choices.