I'm a slayer, ask me how.

Well, I gotta say thank you to jellibean - she did a retweet this afternoon of the NBC Universal Store's special Comic-Con giveaway where all you had to do to enter was retweet the message. Initially they just had one prize - Hiro's Sword from Heroes - but they felt generous and added a second prize at the last minute. AND I WON!!!!!!!!

*spazzes*

9 times out of 10 all the cool retweet contests happen while I'm at work and I miss out so I am totally thrilled abou this. PLUS it's actually a pretty cool prize - it's the Double Helix Heroes logo as a necklace. They only made 1,000!

Now I get to stare at my mailbox starting next week (they said they would mail it on Monday) and wait for my prize...

I am totally wearing it around Dragon*Con. :D

Yes yes, I'm a week behind due to our little Internet outage last week. I finally sat down today and watched 'Heroes'. Just some very quick thoughts:

( cut in case someone else is further behind than me! )

Heroes action figures.

Right now, I'm going to pass. I enjoy the show but I'm not in love with it. And the sculpts look okay but I'm not blown away by the likenessesl. (though if the line survives long enough to make an Elle figure that at all resembles KB, you know I'll buy one of those).

But I wanted to share - jellibean, don't you think the Sylar fig would make a cute gift for Joe? Or maybe he should buy one for you so you can have a mini-Joe to carry around hahaha. (oh goodness, lots of weird customization jokes just popped into my brain, I've been hanging out with toy collectors for too long!)

Oh, is that what all the fuss was about? ;-P

( spoilery spoilers )

I'm sure this has been done already, but I haven't been monitoring any Heroes icon comms so :P

jellibean introduced me to this wonderful blog done by one of the Heroes crew members, Greg Beeman. Last week's episode entry had many amusing photos, including an odd series of our favorite characters interacting with what appears to be some sort of iced beverage, "Slusho".

So I made icons because I was bored.



I might go back and add text to them later (Beeman provides some pretty funny caption on his blog) but this will do for now. :)

thank you jellibean for sending me a link about this -- rumor has it that my favorite kick-ass blonde chick, Kristen Bell, might be appearing on 'Heroes' this season for a few episodes! weeeeeee. And this, on top of the big "Lost" casting buzz!

qtbuglet told me that she heard Bell wanted to get back on Broadway and do a few musicals. I say, please please please! If she does a show in NYC, I am TOTALLY driving up there to stalk her see it!

I hope it is all true!

I cannot explain my love for Kristen. It just is! Don't judge me!

For those of you that have not gotten into Angel, now is your chance - Amazon is having a sale and season 1 is 55% off!! (that's $18!) I need to buy season 1 again because my first disc is scratched beyond repair. :(

In the "I think I just threw up a little" category, we have this link, provided by beckanon. For those of you that don't know, I was a total band-aid to Howie Day during his very early years. I have since become very bitter and jaded (I need a "Dead To Me" board like Stephen Colbert). And we all know the real question - who hasn't been seen leaving Britney's house in the morning? SLUT!

I'm sure by now you've all heard about the new Heroes spin-off series - Heroes: Origins I like the idea of running all 24 Heroes episodes without a break and then having this series start - better than suffering through those god awful long breaks! (I supposed I could just buy the season 1 dvd and rewatch it during that time too...)

In other news -- heiland_coo made her first LJ post ever! *applauds* welcome to the monkey house jungle FUN! Her first bit of rambling is about her love affair with the Sistine Chapel! And I am her only friend (so sad) so if you're into that sort of thing, go check her out. Erm, I mean, her entry - check her entry out!

You know...I didn't really notice Hiro saying "Yatta". I still associate the word with this video that simontrueheart showed us a while back. But when he yelled it in the "previously on" clip before today's episode, I heard it and realized that it was, in fact, an exclamation that he just says (according to some crappy free Japanese to English dictionary I just googled up it means "done"...anyone confirm or deny this?)

Anyway, to all those people who I assumed were obsessed with half naked men singing in Japanese but were in fact quoting Hiro, my apologies.

( and now, the spoilers )

Well, so far this has been a week of quality TV

( Heroes & VM - spoilers ahoy )