A Ph.D in Horribleness

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog

Seriously, there’s not too much to be said about this. Except that it is clearly one of the most amazing things in the history of the universe. My understanding is that it was written and produced by Joss Whedon (of Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel fame) during the writer’s strike, in part to scratch an itch, but also to prove to the big studios that they weren’t a necessary component to online content.

He proved his point. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is a sign that, despite impending economic disaster and other apocalyptic happenings, something is wonderfully, wonderfully right with the world.
It’s a forty-two minute webisode featuring Doogie Howser as a villainous wannabe who has an ongoing video blog chronicling his simultaneous quests to gain admittance to the Evil League of Evil (headed by Bad Horse, the Thoroughbred of Sin), defeat his arch-nemesis Captain Hammer, and win the heart of his true love, do-gooder Penny.

Did I mention that it’s a musical?


Other Things That Are Not Hein:

~Starbucks’ new Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate
~Firefly
~central heating
~pear pie with gruyere baked into the crust (hopefully. we’ll see how it turns out, but so far, so good)