January 25th, 2010 | by AmyV | 24, blog carnival, carnival of bauer
Jan
25
Sorry for the delay; what with four hours of 24 and lots of other stuff going on, we didn’t get our carnival off the ground the same way we usually do.
But that doesn’t mean we don’t have some good entries.
Let’s start with the first Motivational Posters of Season 8, by Adam at The Jack Sack. While all are wonderful, as usual, the one entitled “Dissonance” is brilliance. Really. Brilliance. And I have to, once again, share the fantastic Bauertar poster Adam did previously:
May 8th, 2009 | by AmyV | 24, blog carnival, carnival of bauer, liveblog
May
08
Honestly, it’s hard to get too excited about an episode that was so obviously filler and in which so little happened.
I mean, what does it say when Kiefer Sutherland headbutting a fashion designer on the streets of Manhattan in defense (kinda sorta) of Brooke Shields is almost more interesting than the Monday episode (for the definitive story on this, see Point / Counterpoint)? Especially when there are only three hours left in this day and we still have no idea what the frak is going on.
I guess that’s why I never really got around to a separate blog post on it this week and decided to wait for the weekly blog carnival, which I am always happy to host.
Basically, this is what happened this week:
April 17th, 2009 | by AmyV | 24, blog carnival, carnival of bauer
Apr
17
When I volunteered to do this week’s Carnival of Bauer!!! I didn’t realize I’d not only be the lucky one to host a carnival about the (brief) return of Kim Bauer, but also the (possible) turn to the dark side of Darth Zombie Tony Almeida.
But I’m the luckiest girl in the world, as we all know (I am, after all, the only full-fledged female member of Blogs4Bauer). And so, I am hosting a fabulous carnival.
And now, the carnival:
March 13th, 2009 | by AmyV | 24, blog carnival, carnival of bauer, jack bauer
Mar
13
All across 24 fandom, people remain in mourning for a man we once disliked but came to love almost as much as Jack and Tony.
Call him a mime. Call him Chiggy Killer. Call him Billy Boy. Whatever you want to call him, do it with the flag at half-mast and hat over heart.
First off, we have Jeff Kouba with not one, but TWO glorious posts at Truth v. The Machine. In 24 Day 7 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM he recaps the hour, including the secret love Bill harbored for Chloe. And my favorite sentence of the Carnivals so far: “In the subsequent chaos, approximately 28 of the remaining 4 Africans are gunned down.” Then, he confesses he actually watches Dollhouse and noticed a horrible secret connecting it to 24, in It would explain a lot.
Adam gets all mystical and ponders who or what Bill might come back as if he were reincarnated, in 24 Season 7: Bill Buchanan, Reincarnated? posted at The Jack Sack™.
Note to Adam: We all know why you offered up No. 4. Have you come out of your Scotch bath yet?
King Tom presents Ode To Bill posted at King Tom’s Kingdom and includes my favorite James Morrison (the actor, not the dead musician) photo ever: The New York Yoga magazine cover with Morrison on the cover. He’s a yoga master, after all. Tom also reminds us that he had a relationship with Michelle Dessler, yet still bore no ill will toward Tony.
Tom Harris, a British MP (minister of Parliament), is only up to Season 4, but he offers up how his son asked, “Does Superman wear Jack Bauer pyjamas?” (That’s how those wacky Brits spell pajamas) in his personal blog, And Another Thing… and offers up this quite accurate statement: “Jack Bauer is the man every man wants to be like but is also really, really scared of.”
Blogs4Bauer’s very own V the K handled this week’s TiVo blogging duties, deftly weaving comedy (igniting Jack’s farts to kill the terrorists) with the tragedy of Bill’s death (Jack comes perilously close to showing an emotion). It is, of course, over at Blogs4Bauer.
Then there’s the now-cliché, but always amusing, Jack Bauer vs. Chuck Norris posted at 944.com. We’ve been through this before. Jack shoots Chuck before Chuck even thinks about doing a flying crane leap or whatever it is he does.
And, finally, here’s a matchup we haven’t seen before: Jack Bauer vs. Candyman posted at Digital Spy. They chose the horror film monster because the actor who played Gen. Juma also played Candyman. (I’ve only said it twice now, and I’m not in front of a mirror, don’t worry.) Given that the C-man is already dead and has a swarm of bees at his disposal, this isn’t your ordinary matchup. Nice.
That concludes this edition of The Carnival of Bauer!!!. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of bauer!!! using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
Want to host a future edition of the carnival? Say so in the comments and mention your favorite Jack Bauer kill.
March 6th, 2009 | by AmyV | 24, blog carnival
Mar
06
It’s posted, over at Blogs4Bauer. Check it out.
I promise you’ll be glad you did, because it includes a great motivational poster by Adam of The Jack Sack. Not this one:
Tell Adam you want more motivational posters – he said he’ll make more if you ask. And you don’t even have to ask nicely.
February 5th, 2009 | by AmyV | 24, blog carnival
Feb
05
Hour 7 totally rocked the house, with 5 Jack kills, Red Hot getting at least one kill, Tony claiming some lives, Phlox blowing up and general mayhem – along with the First Dude talking his way out of getting his brains splattered all over the wall.
Sure, we had a total WTF moment when Chewbacca got home and his waitress girlfriend came by to ask if they were still on for dinner, and Jack didn’t drop any Dammits, but it was an excellent hour of television, by any standard.
So it’s no surprise we have some excellent entries this week for the Carnival of Bauer!!!, and I’m thrilled to say Adam from The Jack Sack™ made a carny screencap for me (actually, gave me two choices, and as a bonus I’ll put the runner up at the bottom of this post):
To start things off with the appropriate humor, let’s head on over to the aforementioned Jack Sack™ and check out the latest set of e-cards. No. 3 makes me sad. 
Steve over at the Magic Lamp, whose minute-by-minute recaps of 24 are so frakkin’ funny that Dave Barry posts them on his blog, does it again Warning: He does these so detailed it might take you an hour to read it. But it’s pretty funny, so it won’t be a wasted hour. Like this: “2:54 – At the White House, the news shows the Kidron plant is in a state of disarray, with some people wearing chemical outfits. Others are just going into neighboring towns which must have some kind of anti-insecticide shielding (but really HUGE bugs).”
Kasia over at Almeida is God waxes poetic over the episode. She truly, madly, deeply loves 24 and, of course, Tony. One thing I missed, though, was the symmetry of Jack and Tony’s handshake mirroring the opening scene of Season 2 (my personal favorite, btw), but that’s not lost on her.
Jackster at the covert diaries of jackster maps out all the potential moles in Season 7 so far, detailing the pros and the cons on why each would or wouldn’t fit the role. I really hadn’t considered Janis Gold as a mole, but he had some interesting theories. Fact is, it’ll be another 15 hours before we find out all of them for sure.
TonyJunkie from Tony Almeida Junkie Blog found a great little article about the good folks of Kidron, Ohio, who were quite surprised to find their town was the focal point of a 24 terrorist near-attack.
Jeff Kouba of Truth vs. the Machine recaps the hour with a Copy That drinking game, in which, just as it sounds, you have to drink every time someone utters “Copy that.” Needless to say, he’s a bit tipsy by episode’s end.
King Tom from King Tom’s Kingdom points out something I hadn’t noticed before (and neither had he) that our big bad guy (so far) is named “Ike.” Yes, Like Eisenhower. Really?
Finally, we have Blogs4Bauer‘s weekly Tivo Blogging update by our very own VtheK, complete with all the “official” (to B4B, at least) nicknames of the season to date.
Want to join in the fun next week? Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of bauer!!! using our carnival submission form. Past and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
Again, thanks to Adam for the fabulous screencaps! You should see what he can do with some paint, children’s furniture and too much knowledge of Star Wars!
February 4th, 2009 | by AmyV | 24, jack bauer
Feb
04
Hour 7 gave us almost everything that is the best about 24, except for the fact that Jack didn’t say “Dammit” a single time.
You hear that? Not a single D-bomb.
But Chloe computered, Jack killed at least five bad guys, Renee Walker shot a guy in the back – yeah, baby! – and Bill, Tony, Jack and Chloe all working together for the common good.
And now, they’re going straight to Madame President because they can’t trust anyone else. This is what I wanna know: How does any president at this point not know that s/he simply must trust Jack Bauer? Tell me President Cankles (sorry, my friends at B4B started calling her that and I can’t stop now) doesn’t have some sort of secret memo from the multiple President Palmers that says,
Always listen to Jack Bauer. Always. Really – always. No, really. You need to listen to Jack. Did I mention that you should do whatever Jack Bauer says?
I think there should be a special panel on the desk in the Oval Office with that etched into it that pops out anytime someone tells the president not to listen to Jack or that Jack’s a bad man.
OK, I know the jokes – If everyone listened to Jack, the show would be called “2.”
I love how Matobo totally believes everything Jack says now, only an hour or so after meeting him. And blowing up Phlox (the guy who played the man who invented the stupid program that controls every sensitive computer-run system in the frakkin’ United States once played an alien doctor on the Star Trek spinoff Enterprise, for the five of you who didn’t know that) was inspired.
C’mon. We watch 24 because people are killed and blowed up and that sort of thing. You know you loved it.
January 21st, 2009 | by AmyV | 24, blog carnival
Jan
21
Yours truly, the only female member of Blogs4Bauer, has the extreme honor of hosting the first Carnival of Bauer!!! of Season 7.
It’s been a very long time since the last carnival — heck, we were still on Blogspot then — but it’s very welcome. It posts tomorrow (Thursday) sometime… Basically, once I have a chance to get through all the posts and write it up.
I’m the luckiest girl in the world!
