{"id":1599,"date":"2009-09-02T16:44:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T22:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2009-09-02T16:44:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T22:44:29","slug":"the-disassociated-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2009\/09\/02\/the-disassociated-association\/","title":{"rendered":"The disassociated association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Random rants and ramblings from the rumbling runt (that&#8217;d be me):<\/p>\n<p>Some really interesting concept art and pitch material from <a href=\"https:\/\/zeroroom.squarespace.com\/\">a proposed post-Enterprise Star Trek animated series that didn&#8217;t make it<\/a>.  This was actually being pitched as something for startrek.com, so it would&#8217;ve been at least borderline official.  The fact that it didn&#8217;t fly is pretty telling: I&#8217;ll be surprised if Paramount ever bothers with the post-TOS universe (I&#8217;m tempted to call it the Bermanverse) again outside of ancillary media such as novels, comics, gaming, etc.; the studio was clearly already focused on going back to basics, the same year that they canned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/logbook\/series\/star-trek\/enterprise\/\">Enterprise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, we&#8217;re gearing up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pressoffice\/pressreleases\/stories\/2009\/08_august\/21\/dreamland.shtml\">a new animated Doctor Who before the end of the year<\/a> (supposedly); it&#8217;s called <em>Dreamland<\/em>.  From the stills that are floating around out there, I have to say that I have a better &#8220;vibe&#8221; for the artwork style this time around than I did for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/logbook\/doctor-who\/infinite-quest\/\">Infinite Quest<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The other night I went through a local Braum&#8217;s drive-thru at about 10pm (long story); the guy who was taking my order asked me &#8220;Is this for here or to go?&#8221;  Well, yeah, dude, let&#8217;s go for &#8220;here.&#8221;  I can just pull up to the window, give you my money, get my food, and I&#8217;ll put in park and you can keep me company while I eat.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, scratch that, I know that there are people who would pay for that service&#8230;and knowing that, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d wanna be the guy in the window.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve applied for a web content producer gig in NWA at one of the newspapers; this is pretty much exactly what I used to do at the TV station (well, part of what I used to do &#8211; it&#8217;s what I did when I had my &#8220;web producer&#8221; hat on instead of my &#8220;promo guy&#8221; hat), and it&#8217;s not at a TV station, so there&#8217;d be none of this &#8220;Hey, there&#8217;s a hostage crisis across town, guess what?  Everyone&#8217;s staying five hours longer than they were planning to tonight!&#8221; stuff.  The funny thing is, the way the days and hours are laid out for that job, it&#8217;d certainly remove me from Sunday morning horse-feeding consideration.  That would amuse me greatly: what do we want to do, gripe about the fact that Earl doesn&#8217;t have a job, or gripe because he has a job that lands on Sunday mornings?  I&#8217;m convinced that whatever I wind up with work-wise, soemone, somewhere will be honked off about it.  Meh.  Par for the course.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, we still have a kitten factory named Taxi waddling around the house.  No idea what the estimated arrival date on the babies is &#8211; what the heck, did she pick super saver shipping or something?  In the meantime, Evan is adamant that I not only read him stories, but read to the kittens as well (whose mama can be seen here standing up to look out Evan&#8217;s window since we&#8217;re having lovely open-window weather of late).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q3-09\/evantaxi.jpg\" alt=\"Evan and Taxi\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let everyone know as soon as Taxi deploys her troops and begins the invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random rants and ramblings from the rumbling runt (that&#8217;d be me): Some really interesting concept art and pitch material from a proposed post-Enterprise Star Trek animated series that didn&#8217;t make it. This was actually being pitched as something for startrek.com, so it would&#8217;ve been at least borderline official. The fact that it didn&#8217;t fly is pretty telling: I&#8217;ll be surprised if Paramount ever bothers with the post-TOS universe (I&#8217;m tempted to call it the Bermanverse) again outside of ancillary media such as novels, comics, gaming, etc.; the studio was clearly already focused on going back to basics, the same year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3,4],"tags":[64,71],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-funny-stuff","category-television-movies","tag-little-e","tag-taxi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}