Sonny and Emily Screencap Site Update

I’ve had a few people write to me asking how the gallery I setup for General Hospital’s Sonny and Emily is doing. I started it at the end of January (30th or 31st, I think), and boy has it grown!

People can joke all they want about how this couple has no fans, but the 4701 unique visitors to the site in just over 4 months obviously says otherwise. With 1265 members over at the Sonny & Emily “Unexpected” forum and hundreds of S&Em fans on both Natalia-Livingston.com’s board and Maurice Benard’s official forum, I’d say they’ve got plenty of followers!

So what is the gallery for? Well, it houses screencaptures from each episode that they are on General Hospital. To answer some other questions, I use VLC to take the screencaptures with its “snapshot” function and the ability to slow the movie down to half or even one-fourth of its speed. When I’m done, I toss them into iPhoto and weed out any that turned out badly (eyes closed, etc), upload them to the gallery via FTP, and add them through Coppermine’s “batch add” function.

We Emson fans are blessed to have two incredibly talented (and beautiful) actors pouring themselves into this pairing. Natalia Livingston and Maurice Benard amaze me more and more each day, especially with Sonny’s bi-polar storyline in motion.

Thanks to all who have visited… hopefully we have a lot more Sonny and Emily scenes to look forward to!

Visitor Stats for the screencap gallery:
(from Awstats)
Unique Visitors - 4,701
Number of Visits - 16,083
Pages - 202,970
Hits - 1,872,219

(from Coppermine Gallery)
Number of screencaptures - 7,925
Number of albums - 77
Viewed 100,448 times

Veronica Mars to make the CW Lineup

A+E Interactive: News notes on “Veronica Mars,” “Everwood,” “Invasion” and some CBS renewals

It looks as if “Veronica Mars” (with Kristen Bell, at right) is getting a reprieve and will be back for a third season. Word is, though, that the CW is committing to just 13 episodes, not a full 22-episode season.

13 episodes is certainly better than 0, so yay! The official announcement is on Friday, so maybe we will get more information on the number of episodes then. I am giddy with excitement… I love Veronica Mars and the season 2 finale was incredible! The Veronica/Logan (LoVe) fan in me anxiously awaits season 3.

Sonny and Emily Made Love … Finally!

Whew. It’s been several hours since General Hospital ended on ABC and my pulse is still racing!

Those of us that read spoilers have been looking forward to this day for over 3 weeks. It was worth it. It was perfect. It was the most sensuous, tender, slow, and loving experience that I have seen in years between a couple making love on television- especially on General Hospital.

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The Last Ricky Gervais Podcast

Ricky Gervais and his team were today awarded the Guinness World Record for the most downloaded podcast, gaining an average of 261,670 downloads per episode of ‘The Ricky Gervais Show’ during its first month.

Tomorrow will be the last Ricky Gervais Podcast. This will be number 12 in the series of 12, but hopefully there will be more soon. The Ricky Gervais Podcast is by far my favorite podcast and the only one I listen to religiously. There is nothing better than waking up on a Monday morning, firing up iTunes, and having the podcast ready for my enjoyment.

If you’ve never heard the podcast, I strongly suggest you download an episode and see what it’s like. It features three English gentlemen- Ricky Gervais, Steven Merchant, and Karl Pilkington, and the threesome discuss every topic under the sun. I have grown to love their “monkey news” segment, as well as the excerpts from Karl’s journal.

You can find out more about the podcast on Ricky’s website or head to Guardian Unlimited’s website to download archived episodes. Click here to add the podcast to iTunes.

We Love Seeing Kate Beckinsale

I’ve been a Kate Beckinsale fan for many many years now, and I love when a new movie of hers comes out because she will always accumulate new fans.

Promotion for Underworld: Evolution got into full swing towards the beginning of January with movie specials, interviews shown on some channels, TV and talk show appearances, etc. I have managed to gather about 95% of them and put them on my Kate Beckinsale Media Site.

Now Kate is obviously a beautiful and talented woman who is extremely funny when given the chance. Those of us that have been fans of hers for so long already know this, hence our enthusiasm to spread our enjoyment of the English beauty. As a Moderator on the largest Kate Beckinsale fan forum, I kept members up to date on what I would be recording, when I would be uploading it to the site, and what the links were. From Kate’s appearance on The View, Letterman, Leno, and Conan, to the BET Movie Special, appearance on TRL, and even her presentation at the Golden Globes, there is plenty for fans and future fans to enjoy.

The purpose of posting this was to point out the huge jump in traffic to the KB media site.

December 2005
Total 4153

January 2006
Total 32403

In case you are poor in math, or lazy, that is a 780% increase! I’m so proud! Underworld: Evolution was #1 at the box office its first weekend, so I like to pretend that I had a small hand in getting two or three people excited about seeing it.