like I needed more dork points

So, I have my DVR set up to record the new season of Sesame Street that started this week. I watched the first episode already. Tina Fey was the guest star. She and some other pirates that loved books (Bookaneers) arrived on the Street. Pirates of the Care-to-be-readin'. Anyhoo, then Elmo wanted to be a Bookaneer too, so he had to pass the test, and in the end, he had a treasure map that took him to the library! And all the pirates had library cards. And I had this little geekspasm of joy haha.

Brian Williams also had a short bit where he talked about the animal of the day - squid. (wanna see the clip? Look in the comments to this post for a link)

Abby Cadabby had one song that she did about words that rhyme. She is still adorable. *points to icon*

I also finished watching LotR:RotK and teared up at the end. I've seen that movie however many times now, but I still tear up, right at the moment when Aragorn says "My friends, you bow to no one". Oh Viggo, please do a movie where you are cool again. 'Hidalgo' was okay, but could have been better. And 'History of Violence'? Um, let's just pretend that never happened. *shudder*

btw - can you all see my last post (Lobster Bake photos on Flickr) on your friend's list? bittertwee said it's not showing up on hers, and now I'm wondering if, when I post from Flickr with the "Blog This" button, if LJ is eating my entries on your flist.

but when will it be here!

The trailer for the film version of 'Persepolis' is online! I just convinced bittertwee to purchase a copy of the book when we were up in Boston. And then today a patron donated both Persepolis and Persepolis II, so I snagged them for myself.

So that reminded me a film was being made so I googled and found the placeholder website which has the trailer. The trailer takes forever to load and it's french with subtitles right now because it looks like it premiered at Cannes. But it looks awesome, they kept Satrapi's style in the animation and it just looks as captivating as the comic (which, if you have not read it, you should because it is very very good.)

More Indy!

In other fandom news - more information has surfaced about the Young Indiana Jones DVDs coming out later this year.

According to TV Shows on DVD.com:
First of all, this is a massive set of 12 discs. Considering the running time of the featured episodes is only 649 minutes (less than 11 hours), then you just know the rest of that DVD space is taken up with the extensive historical documents George Lucas and Rick McCallum have been promising us for years.

Rumored suggested retail price - $117.99 US - but it's not up for pre-order yet so no idea what the Amazon price will be.

Sean Patrick Flannery was one of my first poster boys. Though it might have been the Superman/Robin Hood syndrome - dress a guy up like Indiana Jones and his hotness level rises. Still, I rewatched a lot of the Young Indy episodes (because, even then, I was such a fangirl that I taped as many as I could) and they were enjoyable even years later. I can't wait to see the ones that I didn't get a chance to tape and didn't get to buy on VHS.

October 23rd is the release date. Which means I will probably wait and ask for Santa to bring them to me.