Randomness & fandomness

Since this is the place that motivates me to make shiny little squares and such, I decided to make my announcement here.  Ok, it's not really much of an announcement, but what the heck.

Most of my user pics are made with Paint Shop Pro.  But ever since I tried to load a couple videos (of the steel rod through the windshield), it's been wonky.  Heck, not even wonky.  It just plain won't load.  I thought is was a problem with v. 12, so I decided to bite the  bullet and upgrade to v. X3 (13).  I still got the same problem.  And now it won't even let me uninstall the program.  Yep, even that stalls out.

So I guess it's time to dust off the ol' Photoshop and see what I can do.  Of course all those PSP icons (the ones before I converted to .png) are gone now.  While I could open PS files in PSP (with limited features), PS can't read PSP files at all.Well, that's as good and excuse as any.

Yeah, yeah.  I know I don't post here often ever, but here I am. 

I forget the name of the episode, but for some silly reason, I was hoping Ben Edlund wrote it.  Maybe because he's the most senior writer behind Sera Gamble.  AND Guy Bee directed!   (And I can barely type because I am drunk on my butt from a bottle of wine.  Hey!  It's Friday, and my job is fucking stressful!)

For the first time in at least one year (if not more) I have saved this week's Supernatural episode to watch later.  Last week I read a complaint on the TVoP boards about Dean not speaking of his time in hell.  Tonight he did!  And he know exactly which "button" to push to get Sam to know what was real.  And he spoke of the "flesh and blood" bond he and Sam have. 

I am warm and happy inside!

I don't feel bad at all that there wasn't much Castiel.  He's been a distraction from the real draw of the show for about 1 1/2 years.  And while I adore Bobby, I wouldn't be super sad to see him go (although I seriously doubt he's gone). After all, remember how good season 1 was?  And we didn't meet Bobby until the very end of the season.  And even then, he didn't make that big an impression on folks until season 2.

I only hope this episode cliff-hanger ending isn't the norm for this season.  I hate those!  It's the main reason I stopped watching Lost after 2-3 episodes. 

I'm actually posting here!  I realized I hadn't read zanne68 's journal in awhile so decided to pop by.  She is making me very nostalgic for small town life.

I have a new passion, as exemplified by my user pic.  I also created a banner and another user pic, but now my Paint Shop Pro has hung up on me.  I think I overloaded it when I pointed it to the folder with video's of my broken car.  I've now deleted the videos, but it's still not working. I could just go ahead and use Photoshop, but I'm so uncomfortable with it.  Plus, I wont have access to all the PSP files I've done.  Maybe Corel it just trying to get me to buy their newer version.  Nope, I think I'll wait for PSP X4 to come out.  (Not will to take a risk on a version called "13." )

Congratulations to "In My Time of Dying."  Eric Kripke's second season opener has once again won the Supernatural March Madness championship.

Thanks to everyone who participated! 

(If I do this again next year, I promise not to drag it out through May.)

In case you're wondering, I considered episodes up through 6.11, "Appointment in Samarra."  Yes, we've had some "top-64-worthy" episodes since then, but I needed to get started, and the winter break seemed like a good cut-off.

This year the episodes are divided into the regions where they took place.  I had to do a little shuffling to fill out some of the regions, but the NCAA does that, too.  I then picked my favorite 16 episodes from those regions.  Was it fair to pick my favorite 64 episodes?  No.  But that's the way life is sometimes.  (Next year will be better.)

And now for all the linkies:

• The Fancy Schmancy Brackets (© zanne68 )

The Good Stuff:

• The Sweet Sixteen
• The Elite Eight
• The Final Four
• The CHAMPIONSHIP!

Second Round:

• East and Midwest Divisions
• South and West Divisions
• Overtime!

First round:

• Eastern Division - no surprises here.  All top seeds won.  (*sniff* RIP "Bloody Mary")
• Midwest Division
• South Division
• Western Division

Results of the preliminaries:

• East Region Prelims
• Midwest Region Prelims
• South Region Prelims
• West Region Prelims

Here it is!  Vote!

The CHAMPIONSHIP!

Poll #1733760 Supernatural March Madness CHAMPIONSHIP!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 90

Pick your favoritest episode!

The good news:  We're nearing the end of the tournament and will soon find out which episode wins this year's contest.

The bad news:  There are only two games in this round.  :(

The FINAL FOUR

Poll #1730811 The FINAL FOUR
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 122

Vote for your favorite episode

Vote for your favoirte episode again

Holy cow!  Supernatural March Madness completely slipped my mind until last night!  I blame it on the fact that the NCAA March Madness ended on Monday.  Or possibly because my mind was consumed with either the looming federal government shutdown or anticipation of the season 3 finale of Merlin.   Probably the latter. :D

Anyway, let's get on with the voting!

The Elite Eight

Poll #1728426 Supernatural March Madness Elite Eight
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 94

Vote for your favorite episode

Again

And again

And one more time

The Sweet Sixteen

Poll #1726009 Sweet Sixteen
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 86

Pick your favorite episode

And again

And again

And again

And again

And again

And again

And one more time

Yes, it's April, but we will soldier on.

When I first looked at the 2nd round of the South and West Region, we had 2 close games, "Devil's Trap" vs."Jus in Bello" and "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1" vs "On the Head of a Pin."  After my plea for more votes, "Devil's Trap" pulled ahead.  However, the latter game was still neck and neck, with AHBL2 one point in the lead.  I decided to give the game one more day, and would then take the leader. Except that now they're even!

So, we have an overtime!  I will keep the poll open for 24 hours (from when it's posted at supernatural_tv  and whichever is in the lead at that time will be the winner.  If they're tied, I'll continue to check every hour until one leads the other.  Then we'll move onto the Sweet Sixteen.


Poll #1725512 OVERTIME!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 82

Which is your favorite episode?