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OMG Funny: “Wheelchair Cat” coming to Comedy Central

Posted by Tiffiny on August 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

If you like ballsy felines in wheelchairs who womanize, talk via a mechanical voice, and do lines of cocaine, then the skit, “Wheelchair Cat: Trust Fund Kitty” starring Mr. Stitches, from Nick Swardson’s upcoming Pretend Time (coming to Comedy Central this fall!), is going to make you reeeeally happy. Read more

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Pledge, help make “Redneck Ninjas” a reality

Posted by Tiffiny on August 2, 2010 · 3 Comments 

Out of all the interesting people I’ve met online, Drew Bates is one of my favorites. A quadriplegic (C5, injured on a road trip in 2007), I adore this mouthy Southern boy for multiple reasons: 1) He makes me laugh (hard), 2) He’s foine (vs. fine), AND 3) He’s creative, like professionally creative. He is a voice-over actor and writer, with a super exciting project in the works. But he needs your help!  
 
 
His creation, Redneck Ninjas (think Blue Collar Comedy Tour, animated, and featuring a wacky family instead of whiny men), is an idea he’d LOVE to make into a 60-second short.
 
 
To make it happen: Help Drew raise $10,000 by September 30th, 2010. If he meets his goal, he will use the money to pay Powerhouse Animation (animation studio) in Austin, Texas, who will – using traditional 2D animation and Adobe Flash animation – bring to life Drew’s already written and produced 60 second short for Redneck Ninjas.
 
And have no doubt, IT WILL BE AWESOME. I don’t know about you, but it would be fucking cool to know a quad is behind an Adult Swim program one day. Just sayin’. 
 
Pledge and see Drew’s intro video here! Good luck Drew! 

 

Read more about Redneck Ninjas and it’s awesome characters on Drew’s official site here.

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Musical show and tell

Posted by Tiffiny on June 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

I need to starting posting good music again! Here’s a funky song by definitive hip-hop group, Blackalicious, that I listen to whenever I feel the need for an infusion of swagger (and yes, it totes works).

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Vote for Defining Beauty to win 25k from Pepsi!

Posted by Tiffiny on May 5, 2010 · 2 Comments 

The talented Alexis Ostrander, as well as the Defining Beauty Team, have made an amazing documentary called Defining Beauty, a film that highlights all of the gorgeous and inspiring women in the Ms. Wheelchair America pageant. Vote for her film to win $25k as part of the Pepsi Refresh Project!

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Wheelchair using actress lands huge role on Brit soap opera

Posted by Tiffiny on April 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

Cherylee Houston will be playing a feisty woman who’s attracted to bad boys on one of the longest running soap operas in television history, Coronation Street. Read the blog

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Is the Cannes Film Festival so pretentious they ban wheelchairs from the red carpet?

Posted by Tiffiny on April 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

Montreal film director Sean Marckos was rejected twice from the red carpet, and has caught it all on tape. For more click here.
 

 

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Jake Sully wheelchair action figure gets razzed

Posted by Tiffiny on February 20, 2010 · 1 Comment 

Hey Mattel, your Jake Sully wheelchair action figure can stand, has shabby seams, and looks nothing like Sam Worthington. Is this the best you can do?
If this was an action figure of me I’d be pissed. Good thing Jake Sully is a fictional character, and has no access to lawyers.

- Tiff

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“Sympathy for Delicious” stars actual paraplegic, Mark Ruffalo directs

Posted by Tiffiny on January 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

This movie follows a jaded DJ paraplegic who mysteriously wakes up with the gift to heal others, but discovers he still can’t heal himself. “Sympathy for Delicious” also stars Orlando Bloom and Juliette Lewis, and was written by Christopher Thornton, the film’s star.
 
 It has a cool back story too. Thornton and Ruffalo are old acting school buddies from before Thornton’s injury (a rock climbing accident) in 1992. This script was a longtime coming too (an  idea Thornton had while wheeling to the liquor store).

The completed film is premiering at Sundance this week. If anyone out there has seen it yet, let us know what you thought (good or bad). Does it deserve to be picked up?

You can read more of my thoughts on the movie here.

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It’s the last season of Lost, and Sawyer’s jumping off a cliff?

Posted by Tiffiny on January 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

I’ll admit I fell in love with Lost late in the game. Thanks to every episode available on ABC.com (and because the show is really that addictive), I watched all four seasons last winter before the start of Season 5 (wheelchair-users need something to do here in Minnesota when the snow flies). And now, it’s crazy, but it’s in my Top 3 shows, (1) Six Feet Under, (2) Battlestar Galactica, and (3) Lost, with Lost knocking Sex & The City out of the Top 3.  

In honor of the last season of the show premiering next Tuesday (which is depressing as Hell btw, and I hope the the ending come May isn’t more Opium-induced visions from J.J. Abrams), here is the brand new smoking hot Davidoff Cool Water commercial starring the official heatthrob of Lost (NOT Jack) - Mr. “Sexy Pants” Josh Holloway.

I’m a Sawyer girl. What can I say.

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Meet Jake Sully, the wheelchair-using hero in “Avatar”

Posted by Tiffiny on December 8, 2009 · 12 Comments 

James Cameron’s new movie “Avatar” focuses on a paralyzed Marine, as he traverses an alien world in a body that allows him to walk. Where will his loyalties lie?

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