Angry Puppy

As Marc would say, we’ve “gone dark” this past week. He’s out of the country on, errr, vacation, yeah, that’s it, vacation with this guy:

Meanwhile, a little incident with my face has given me a chance to get back to my religious roots:

We’ll have a new episode up soon with a special guest from GayGamer.net and a quick run-down of our favorite sci-fi shows. In the meantime, here are a couple of things I meant to post recently:

The Hot Geek 10 voting is open for another couple of days. We’ll go over the results in our June 6 episode, so stay tuned. As our regular readers/viewers know, we got picked up by some fanboi sites and got lots of votes for people who are not at the top of our usual lists. Never fear! We’ll break down the numbers before and after the deluge. Most oblivious comment from (I assume) a non-regular:

“Why so few girls? I mean, I know there are usually fewer women than men on any given TV show/movie, but come on. That ratio up there is ridiculous.”

Indeed.

Remember that Murakami exhibit we talked about in Episode 25? I fear lawyers, so I couldn’t show any photos, but now that My Lonesome Cowboy has sold for $15.2 million at auction, it’s not hard to find online. The piece is NSFW, but I clipped a safe screenshot below. [Via NYMag.com]

I don’t generally post pictures of gratuitously naked chaps here. Sure, it would probably increase click-throughs, but do we really need to see a picture of Hugh Jackman shirtless on the beach to talk about the upcoming Wolverine movie?

In this case, though, the picture is the story.

I honestly don’t know if this Austrian ad is NSFW or not, as technically there’s no nudity. If you’re in a liberal sort of place, click through to see why I am glad I prefer Xbox today.

[Via copyranter]

Our NY Comic-Con spectacular-palooza-thon episode is now up at AfterElton.com. We recorded it last week, so adjust the temporal references accordingly!

In this episode:

• Headlines: Gay Metalheads Rejoice; Superheroes’ Domestic Partners, Whedon Alumni Update; Manazons
• NY Comic-Con: The Sexual Orientation Game; Tim Fish; Sticky Pages panel on gays in comics
• Stuff We Read: (Young Bottoms in Love; Justice Society of America)
• Stuff We Watch: (Battlestar Galactica: “The Ties That Bind”; Torchwood: “Exit Wounds”; Reaper: “Rebellion”)
• Review: Milo Ventimiglia plays gay in Cursed
• New addition to the Gallery of Gay Action Figure

Be sure to read Marc’s review on AfterElton. We also posted some of our photos on our Facebook page. If you were at Comic-Con, post your photos too!

They’ve been promising full album downloads for Rock Band for a while now.

Well, it was worth the wait. The first album available will be Judas Priest’s Screaming for Vengeance from 1982. What’s that got to do with us, you say?

Personally, I found all heavy metal pretty gay. The hair, the makeup, the clothes, the overt sexuality on a stage surrounded (in most cases) by only men. The whole genre was one big drag show for people who wouldn’t otherwise do drag.

However, Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford “shocked” the world in 1998 when he came out as a bona fide gay. (His band members already knew.) All I remember about it is that my then boyfriend, a huge Judas Priest fan, wouldn’t stop talking about it.

Bonus gay-metal-gaming news: Halford will voice General Lionwhyte, a character with such luscious hair that he can use it to fly, in the upcoming game Brütal Legend.

For you youngsters, here’s the biggest US hit from Screaming for Vengeance, “You Got Another Thing Comin’”:

That guitar solo looks like it’ll be fun. I’m just now starting to play on Hard. Anyone up to Expert?

Look for it on the Xbox Live Marketplace on Tuesday and in the Playstation store on Thursday next week. Each track will be available for $1.99 (160 MS Points on the Xbox) or $14.99 (1200 MS Points) for the whole album

Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

1. “The Hellion”
2. “Electric Eye”
3. “Riding on the Wind”
4. “Bloodstone”
5. “(Take These) Chains”
6. “Pain and Pleasure”
7. “Screaming for Vengeance”
8. “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’”
9. “Fever”
10. “Devil’s Child”

The Guild is a web sitcom about a group of gamers who make up The Knights of Good in a World-of-Warcraft-style MMORPG. The moments of character development that pop up here and there add a lot to the series, so I’ll hold back on describing the characters:

• Codex is a little like Willow without the witchcraft. Or the lesbianism. The episodes mostly revolve around her, and each one opens with a short and funny (to those of us who make our own fun) entry in her web-cam diary.
• ZABOO’s mis-interpretation an emoticon (and the ensuing crush) drive a lot of the plot. If I were 10 years younger and a foot shorter, I think I’d have a little crush on him myself. Well, at least up until episode 5 or so. Do you remember how Sarah, Saffy’s friend from Absolutely Fabulous, played by Torchwood’s Naoko Mori, went from sweet, shy girl to raving lunatic over the course of the show? It’s sort of like that. Here’s a sapphic Sarah clip if you haven’t seen it (you haven’t seen it?):

• BLADEZZ is the guild’s rogue and does his best to live up to his avatar.
• Vork is the leader of the guild. He’s older than the others and kind of creepy, IMHO.
• Clara is an absent-minded, pleasantly plump, mother of three who became my favorite character after about the fourth episode. You should see the way she treats those kids!
• TINKERBALLA, who always has a Nintendo DS in hand, is what you would call “fierce” or “bitchy”, depending on your social leanings. You should see the way she treats Clara’s kids!

At the beginning of the series, the guild members have still never met IRL, but in “Episode 3: The Macro Problem”, they have brunch face-to-face to discuss a guild problem: BLADEZZ had been banned for spamming a chat room with “fag”. He literally LOLs the whole situation, but I think the series itself stayed well on the funnier side of offensive. It upsets Vork because he wants to maintain The Knights of Good’s untarnished reputation for, well, good. Codex objects that it’s “not cool” and that her father had “turned gay”.

“And her ex-boyfriend too,” quips Clare.

Here’s “Episode 1: The Wake-Up Call”:

There are currently eight episodes available, but the official website says:

We’ve taken our Paypal donate button down for Season 1. Thank you so much to each and every donor! As soon as preparations are made for Season 2 we will replace it!

If Felicia Day, who plays Codex, looks familiar to you, it might be because she also played a slayerette named Vi in a little TV show called Buffy the Vampire Slayer. You can’t say Joss Whedon isn’t loyal to his actors: she’ll be starring in his upcoming musical web series Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog with Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion.

[Via Slate Cultural Gabfest]