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beawesomeinstead hearts WGNA

aaron — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:59:15 +0000

So because I’m a worthless slacker, I never told you all how my trip to New York courtesy of WGNA went. Furthermore, I won’t say much other than the people at WGNA are amazing! It was extremely cool that even I could feel like a celebrity for even a brief moment. The crew and other HIMYM Super Fans were amazing but I really want to offer the highest of fives to Josh and Martin. These guys were Legendary. True Story. I also enjoyed meeting and hanging out with Heather who runs the HIMYM Wikia, Tally who you better know at LivetoTivo on Youtube, and Ryan (ryan narciso on youtube). Also, Ryan and I made an exchange of sorts…his album The Key in echange for an Awesomeness Poster, excellent trade btw. So with that said…let me share a few of the awesome videos WGNA did, I’ll pump some more later in our Season 1 Summer recaps…also check them out on facebook, twitter & youtube!

Enjoy.

How I Met WGN America

aaron — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:37:43 +0000

For some of us, Monday night’s of How I Met Your Mother just isn’t enough, luckily TV stations like WGNA are there to give us even more! This also means some cool news for Be Awesome Instead and How I Met Your Mother Superfans. Because of the insane attention to detail that we try to provide here, WGNA is considers beawesomeinstead.com as one of it’s superfan sites. This means that when you watch HIMYM on WGNA, or visit their new facebook page MeetatMacLarens, you will see some more in-depth details from time to time contributed by us! We are really excited to be able to partner with WGN and hope you will help us be apart of contributing there.

With that said here is what you can do, to help. First off make sure you follow us both on twitter (@bawesomeinstead & @meetatmaclarens) and fan our facebook pages ( BeAwesomeInstead (The How I Met Your Mother site) on Facebook & MeetatMaclaurens on Facebook).

Nest and MOST urgently, WGNA has asked us what questions we would love to ask show creators Thomas & Bays. So we desperately need you to Suit up your brain and pull out your most awesome questions for this! Head over to the Lingering Questions post and leave your questions there. We’ll be selecting the best 3 questions to ask in an upcoming interview with them!

Finally, watch How I Met your Mother episodes every night on WGNA! After you are done you can come back to the old episode discussions at beawesomeinstead at leave your thoughts!

the Perfection Motivational Poster

aaron — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:04:45 +0000

SO if you have been around here long or watched How I Met Your Mother for any length of time then you are probably familiar with the Awesomeness Poster and the legendary poster collection in Barney’s office. Despite the Awesomeness poster being the most famous, I have always thought the coolest was the Perfection poster. The poster was there in Season 1 & 2, gone from the walls in Season 3 and back but in a different spot in Season 4! There has never been a 100% positive id on the catch phrase but I’m fairly certain it says:

It is not good enough to win, everyone else should lose

It’s either everybody or everyone. More to the point though, it’s not exact but I’m building my own ultimate motivational poster collection like Barney Stinson’s and thought that, like the awesomeness poster, it was time to build the Perfection Poster…so, now available from the be awesome instead store is the perfection motivational poster. Try to control yourselves.

Dr. Horrible on DVD Available December 19, 2008.

aaron — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:03:00 +0000

Now you too can own your very own tangible copy of Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog on DVD! Amazon will be releasing it on December 19, 2008. If you haven’t seen it yet take some time and get the iTunes version or watch it on YouTube or the Dr. Horrible site. If you are a fan of Neil Patrick Harris or Joss Whedon then you will not be disappointed.

Enjoy.

Not a Father’s Day Website

aaron — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:53:44 +0000

The writers of How I Met Your Mother have done it with notafathersday.com. Barney(Neil Patrick Harris) was excellent in the episode “Not a Father’s Day” (it reminded me a lot of Scrubs, when Jordon told Dr. Cox that she was not pregnant and he went running through the streets screaming with excitement). The Who’s Not Your Daddy shirt’s and other merchandise was priceless. And the cheerleader effect was well thought out and so very true… I’m still pretty confused about the actually date we need to celebrate, is it November 10th?

Still… it’s an excellent use of off t.v. show marketing, you gotta love when shows do that. Check out the site, notafathersday.com; buy a who’s NOT Your Daddy shirt; or just re-watch the show..quite legendary. To encourage you to visit the site here is my favorite not a father’s day postcard from there:

Who’s Not Your Daddy

aaron — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:18:38 +0000

Who loves t-shirts? They happen to be a favorite hobby of mine.

Another thing I love are t-shirts I see on TV. Call it an affliction or some sort of weird people I will never meet form of peer pressure…hell, call it weak sales pitch resistance. One of my favorite shirts (that I can’t find an exact replica of) come from Scrubs. It’s the “I’m what Willis was talkin’ about” that J.D. (Zach Braff)… I did find one at T-Shirt Hell (*warning: site might have objectionable content), and while it is awesome it is not quite the same.

Either way, in tonight’s episode of How I Met Your Mother titled, Not a Father’s Day, Lily and Marshall are considering having a baby, but Lily wants advice from Ted and Robin, first. However, she soon finds they have very different views. I haven’t seen the episode yet but I have seen the preview and it show Barney with some pretty clever “Who’s NOT your daddy” tshirts! While not the same (but pretty stinking close) you can get your own Who’s NOT your daddy shirt on Cafe Press there are several variations so check out the choices. Just another way of helping you Be Awesome Instead (of whatever you’re doing currently… sorry I always hate ending a sentence with just “Instead” so I thought I would mention the implied part)