Shadow Unit TPTB

Bear: down in your hotel room she lies waiting

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:07:04 -0800

By the way, if you have been meaning to start reading Shadow Unit and haven't gotten around to it, now is an outstanding opportunity to catch up before season three starts in February.

We have a very special holiday episode upcoming in December, and of course the past two seasons worth of narrative is available online. Very Soon Now we expect announcements regarding hard-copy collections of a lot of the content, and of course there is and will be swag. (Wait until you see the S3 limited edition shirt.)

There's a very handy fan page here, providing a suggested reading order (and recipes). And if you finish that, you can go to the character livejournals for interaction and backstory (and recipes), and the message board for community and speculation.

And recipes.

Monette: Sunday morning in my head

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:59:53 -0700

So between the insomnia and the anxiety dreams (all clothing related, for some bizarre reason I wot not of), I think we can conclude that I'm stressed about something. No, don't ask me what. I DON'T KNOW. But it means that my thought processes have gotten simultaneously weirder and slower, so I can sort of watch my brain work. Like the Glass Cat's.

So, as I have been for several years now, I am thinking about getting a tattoo. I almost got one at Fourth Street, but bailed on account of the tattoo artist not seeming to understand what I wanted. But I have a birthday coming up (my thirty-fifth, which seems sort of pseudo-significant), and I'm thinking about it again. (Parenthetically, if anyone in the Madison area has recommendations about tattoo artists, please please please comment or email or something.) One of the designs I have been considering, on and off, is Dyson Cieslewisc's rabbit (the left-hand rabbit), from "Dexterity," my episode of Shadow Unit. Different reasons than Dice, but, well. And the thought crossed my mind again this morning, for reasons I can no longer reconstruct. Which is where we join the stream of consciousness in progress:

Int.
GUILDENSTERN: It is a very cool rabbit.
ROSENCRANTZ: But it's wrong. Year of the Tiger, not Year of the Rabbit.
GUILDENSTERN: Tigers are cool, too. A tiger tattoo could be pretty awesome.
ROSENCRANTZ: Wait a second. That's the Chinese Zodiac. That's cultural appropriation.
GUILDENSTERN: Shit, that's right. We'll have to--
[crackle of static]
THE RADIO: "It's the eye of the tiger / It's the thrill of the fight"
ROSENCRANTZ: [moans] Oh no, no, no, no, no.
THE RADIO: "Standing up to the challenge of our rivals"

Ext.
[Truepenny comes into the study from the kitchen]
[Mirrorthaw takes off his headphones]
TRUEPENNY: My brain is cursed.
MIRRORTHAW: Cursed?
TRUEPENNY: I have the acoustic cover of "Eye of the Tiger"* stuck in my head, and if that isn't a curse, I don't know what is.
MIRRORTHAW: Can I change the station?
TRUEPENNY: I don't know how!
[Truepenny exits back to kitchen, singing "It's the eye of the tiger / it's the thrill of the fight"]
[Mirrorthaw resumes his headphones]

Int.
GUILDENSTERN: Turn it off!
ROSENCRANTZ: Where's the off-switch?
GUILDENSTERN: There is no fucking off-switch!
ROSENCRANTZ: [shouting at ceiling] STOP IT THIS INSTANT! STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!
THE RADIO: [triumphantly] "EYEEEEEEEEEE ... of the tiger"
[pause]
[Rosencrantz & Guildenstern look around warily]
THE RADIO: "Won't you ease on down, ease on down the road?"
ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN: [simultaneous facepalms]

Ext.
[enter Truepenny to the study again]
[Mirrorthaw takes off his headphones and waits]
TRUEPENNY: I have proof that I was IRRETRIEVABLY WARPED by junior high school chorus.
MIRRORTHAW: [looks alarmed]
TRUEPENNY: In my head, "Eye of the Tiger" segues immutably into "Ease On Down the Road." Because we did medleys. "Eye of the Tiger," "Ease On Down the Road."
MIRRORTHAW: Are you sure I can't change the channel? Where's the remote? Everything comes with a remote these days.
TRUEPENNY: Ah, but I was made before 1980.
MIRRORTHAW: Oh god that's right. There is no remote.
TRUEPENNY: Not even one with a cord.
MIRRORTHAW: Just push-buttons.
TRUEPENNY: Maybe some dials.
MIRRORTHAW: And I don't know where they are!

Int.
ROSENCRANTZ: [timidly] The rabbit's from a netsuke. Does that mean it's no good, either?
GUILDENSTERN: Dunno. There's always the labyrinth idea. Or the octopus. Or get somebody to design a sort of catfish-dragon thing.
ROSENCRANTZ: [ponders]
GUILDENSTERN: [ponders]
THE RADIO: "It's the eye of the tiger ..."

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*Mirrothaw found it somewhere, because The Internet Is Full Of Things.

Bull: Now it's time to say goodbye to all our family...

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:31:56 -0700

Yes, it's the season two finale of Shadow Unit, available very soon for your reading pleasure on the WTF network.

There may be spoilers in the comments. Just so's you know...

Edited to add: Eeeeeeeee! There it is!

Bull: What do we have for our guests?

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:56:15 -0700

Well, we'll have a new Shadow Unit extra tonight, over on the WTF Network.

And it comes with a teaser for next week's SEASON FINALE.

Muwah-hah-haaaahhhh.

Bull: Tonight, on Shadow Unit:

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:14:53 -0700

A little something bittersweet, like the best chocolate. You'll find it right here.

Bull: Warning:

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:33:30 -0700

After you watch this, you'll wish it rolled right into an episode of the show itself. It doesn't. Sorry about that.

So you can go read one instead.

Shadow Unit fans: Still so cool the writers have to run to keep up with 'em.

(Which reminds me, there'll be tasty new DVD extra content on the site tonight. Because we're like that.)

Later: So, did you remember to check for hidden links in tonight's new extra?

Bull: First! Sunday! of the Month!

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:42:26 -0700

Hi, September, I'm so glad you're here. Because that means tonight it's time for a new episode of Shadow Unit. And hoo boy, does it ever hit the fan* in this one.

Second season's nearly over. Can you believe it? Hey, we're really doing this!

*the air-moving kind, not the reader kind. Darned punsters.

[weirded out enough to add: I see my mood icon is not good at Einsteinian physics...]

Edited to add: The episode is up!

Bull: All my troubles in the rearview mirror

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:53:33 -0700

Tonight on Shadow Unit: Esther Falkner goes to the supermarket.

No, really.

You can find out a lot about a person by watching them in the supermarket.

Edited to add: It's not actually up yet. Sorry, gang--I was just activating the early warning system. Early. *g*

Edited again to add: But it's up now!

Bull: Oh, my.

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:12:53 -0700

Have we got a Shadow Unit DVD extra for you tonight...

Bull: Cuckoo!

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:13:27 -0700

The new Shadow Unit episode is up! So what did happen to former ACTF member Larry Peretti? And will karma run over Stephen Reyes's dogma?

To find out, read "Cuckoo", by Elizabeth Bear, Leah Bobet, and me!