RIP, Zelda Rubinstein

Zelda Rubinstein passed away yesterday, at the age of 76. She is likely best remembered as the psychic Tangina in the Poltergeist movies. As I have never seen those movies, I know her as Madame Serena in the cult classic Teen Witch. She was also the narrator of The Scariest Places On Earth—her voice set the mood perfectly. May she rest in peace. Io9 has a couple clips of her from Poltergeist. For anyone interested, you can watch the entirety of Teen Witch here, in nine parts.

According to IMDB trivia, she had a part in Casper where she was shot from a chimney, and screamed, “Don’t go into the light!”—but it was, sadly, cut.

RIP, Zelda Rubinstein

Zelda Rubinstein passed away yesterday, at the age of 76. She is likely best remembered as the psychic Tangina in the Poltergeist movies. As I have never seen those movies, I know her as Madame Serena in the cult classic Teen Witch. She was also the narrator of The Scariest Places On Earth—her voice set the mood perfectly. May she rest in peace. Io9 has a couple clips of her from Poltergeist. For anyone interested, you can watch the entirety of Teen Witch here, in nine parts.

According to IMDB trivia, she had a part in Casper where she was shot from a chimney, and screamed, “Don’t go into the light!”—but it was, sadly, cut.

Fannish Items of Interest, Plus A Weather Update

The 20 Nerd Commandments.

This one probably isn’t good—La Femme Nikita is being remade for The CW. I never watched the series (the Peta Wilson version) the first time around, but I did eventually download the first episode. It just didn’t seem interesting enough for me to stick with—part of that is because I don’t really care for Peta Wilson as an actress.

Weekend at Bernie’s is also likely to get a remake.

For anyone interested, The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theater has made a spoof of The End of Time Parts 1 and 2—which has been divided into three short chunks. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Very funny.

The second Lightning Round begins today for the help_haiti auction, and you can sign up here. As I’m currently working on a fanfic for the person who won me for the regular auction, I’ll either sit this round out, or offer to write a drabble in the Doctor Who fandom. I’ll decide on that later.

Here’s a detailed explanation on what’s currently going on with the status of Rex Is Not Your Lawyer. NBC has not passed on the pilot as of yet, despite all the rumors going around.

Jim Cantore—apparently that guy from The Weather Channel—will not be showing up in Paducah this year. He doesn’t believe it will be as bad as last year. He’s the one I’ve mentioned that if he shows up, you’re going to die or just barely survive a post-apocalyptic scenario. The front page of The Paducah Sun said in big letters “Santore Is NOT Coming--We’re Okay!” They also interviewed him, and he thinks the worst of this year’s ice storm will be in Tennessee. On WKYQ, they made up a song to the tune of The Brady Bunch, using the words “Jim Cantore, You Can’t Come Back.”

They’ve updated the snow prediction. It is now likely to be 4-7 inches of total snow accumulation for us. There is a chance of sleet, but only tonight. Once you hit Tennessee, they’ll get 7-10 inches. Dyersburg will get 4-7 inches of snow and sleet.

Fannish Items of Interest, Plus A Weather Update

The 20 Nerd Commandments.

This one probably isn’t good—La Femme Nikita is being remade for The CW. I never watched the series (the Peta Wilson version) the first time around, but I did eventually download the first episode. It just didn’t seem interesting enough for me to stick with—part of that is because I don’t really care for Peta Wilson as an actress.

Weekend at Bernie’s is also likely to get a remake.

For anyone interested, The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theater has made a spoof of The End of Time Parts 1 and 2—which has been divided into three short chunks. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Very funny.

The second Lightning Round begins today for the help_haiti auction, and you can sign up here. As I’m currently working on a fanfic for the person who won me for the regular auction, I’ll either sit this round out, or offer to write a drabble in the Doctor Who fandom. I’ll decide on that later.

Here’s a detailed explanation on what’s currently going on with the status of Rex Is Not Your Lawyer. NBC has not passed on the pilot as of yet, despite all the rumors going around.

Jim Cantore—apparently that guy from The Weather Channel—will not be showing up in Paducah this year. He doesn’t believe it will be as bad as last year. He’s the one I’ve mentioned that if he shows up, you’re going to die or just barely survive a post-apocalyptic scenario. The front page of The Paducah Sun said in big letters “Santore Is NOT Coming--We’re Okay!” They also interviewed him, and he thinks the worst of this year’s ice storm will be in Tennessee. On WKYQ, they made up a song to the tune of The Brady Bunch, using the words “Jim Cantore, You Can’t Come Back.”

They’ve updated the snow prediction. It is now likely to be 4-7 inches of total snow accumulation for us. There is a chance of sleet, but only tonight. Once you hit Tennessee, they’ll get 7-10 inches. Dyersburg will get 4-7 inches of snow and sleet.

Preparation

Heh. This might be one of the only icons I have involving heat or fire, but it works.

The snow storm (including half an inch of ice, which is better than last year, at least) is due to hit in this area around 4-6 AM tomorrow morning. We have food, freakish amounts (Dad also keeps filling old jugs that formerly held tea with tap water--whatever works) of bottled water, that heater that was installed, clothing, and numerous other supplies. Dad ran out and went to Captain D's to stock up on fish, rice, and other things. We made nuts and bolts, as well as those little oyster crackers with Ranch flavored powder on them.

We also have raw carrots and potatoes, as well as chicken--so as long as the power doesn't go out, we can fill the crock pot on Saturday. If it does, we can eat the potatoes raw--since that's how I love them.

I joked that we could always cook soup over the heater, and Dad finally mentioned that he had bought a small portable stove and put it in the garage--the kind you take camping, apparently--so if the power goes out, we can still cook. He also still has at least five or six of those little heater things we used during the ice storm, just in case the heater has any problems. So we have a back-up plan.

We'll also be keeping an eye on Nellie. Months ago, lightning struck her house and shorted out a lot of her appliances and destroyed her heater. She hired a guy to get her a new one installed. Months went by, he never showed, so she's without any heat. She has tiny ones, but they couldn't possibly heat the entire house.

In the middle of all this, I suddenly got a great idea for my help_haiti story, and I'll work on it more after this is over. It's expected to stay in the area with mostly snow from 4-6 AM tomorrow morning, until Saturday afternoon or so, I think.

ETA: Forgot to mention that in the case of an internet outage, but not a power outage? I'm downloading a few Rifftrax episodes to get me by.

Preparation

Heh. This might be one of the only icons I have involving heat or fire, but it works.

The snow storm (including half an inch of ice, which is better than last year, at least) is due to hit in this area around 4-6 AM tomorrow morning. We have food, freakish amounts (Dad also keeps filling old jugs that formerly held tea with tap water--whatever works) of bottled water, that heater that was installed, clothing, and numerous other supplies. Dad ran out and went to Captain D's to stock up on fish, rice, and other things. We made nuts and bolts, as well as those little oyster crackers with Ranch flavored powder on them.

We also have raw carrots and potatoes, as well as chicken--so as long as the power doesn't go out, we can fill the crock pot on Saturday. If it does, we can eat the potatoes raw--since that's how I love them.

I joked that we could always cook soup over the heater, and Dad finally mentioned that he had bought a small portable stove and put it in the garage--the kind you take camping, apparently--so if the power goes out, we can still cook. He also still has at least five or six of those little heater things we used during the ice storm, just in case the heater has any problems. So we have a back-up plan.

We'll also be keeping an eye on Nellie. Months ago, lightning struck her house and shorted out a lot of her appliances and destroyed her heater. She hired a guy to get her a new one installed. Months went by, he never showed, so she's without any heat. She has tiny ones, but they couldn't possibly heat the entire house.

In the middle of all this, I suddenly got a great idea for my help_haiti story, and I'll work on it more after this is over. It's expected to stay in the area with mostly snow from 4-6 AM tomorrow morning, until Saturday afternoon or so, I think.

ETA: Forgot to mention that in the case of an internet outage, but not a power outage? I'm downloading a few Rifftrax episodes to get me by.