We love everyone who’s bored enough to come onto our nerdy podcast, but to have Nancylee Myatt, Maeve Quinlan, and Paige Bernhardt come and talk about 3way, South of Nowhere, and Nikki and Nora with us – this is truly our geek mecca. We pretty much spent the entire hour squealing like the little fangirls we are. And since I’m super not funny in print, Notes!:

- Go be cooler than us and see the ladies in their element at Stage 33 Chicago, Dec 5th and 6th. Tickets and info here. (did that link work? Cause I usually eff them up).

- If you haven’t seen 3way, I don’t know what you’re doing here. Or Nikki and Nora for that matter. WTF is wrong with you?

- If Nancylee ever tells you you can move in with her, don’t believe her. She totally turned away my moving van last week.

- We haven’t had a chance to try our PaaV cocktail yet, but it will for sure be served at our next Pancakes party. If you shake / stir one up – take a pic and let us know! Although, actually send the pic, because we never did get a copy of the picture of Nancylee. Just sayin…

Hey peeps! We were lucky enough to catch up with the awesome Bridget McManus before she heads off to Chicago for McManusLand. Find out all about Brunch With Bridget’s new variety format, what it’s like to be the First Lady of Lesbians, and why she thinks coming out is so important.

Links:
Brunch with Bridget @ AfterEllen (Friday nights at 2am on LOGO)
Official Bridget McManus
Follow Bridget on twitter
AfterEllen: News, Reviews & Commentary on Lesbian and Bisexual women in Entertainment and the Media
Bridget’s Blog and Coming Out Challenge

Are you in Chicago? See Bridget host McManusLand presented by Stage 33 Chicago on Nov. 11-15. Tickets are $30 in advance, grab them before they’re gone and don’t forget to send us pics!

We’re back like Pee Wee and Backstreet! This week is an experiment of sorts. We decided to talk about things we love and things we hate. There might be some Grey’s, Glee, and Balloon Boy in there. We’re naturally long-winded, so, voila!

We missed you bitches!

Links:
Sara and Aimee
Rescue Marriage
Autostraddle NEM recap
http://www.noh8campaign.com/
Charm City Cakes
This weeks Calzona
Douchebag Jon Gosselin
Balloon Boy’s Dad in deep shit
Keith Bardwell, Justice of Hate
January Jones: “Suck it, Ashton”
Levi Johnston – STFU and keep your clothes on, please

We somehow convinced Jennifer Gibbons from Red Room to come talk with us about all things groundbreaking on Guiding Light. Clearly she’d never listened to our podcast, she’s way too cool for us. We had a great time and feel 65% smarter now, so win. I looked up a few things she mentioned as being awesome:

-Enough is enough

-I knew someone would find me the Lisa Brown fantasy sequences. Thanks Laurel!!

-Patrick Erwin – The Right Guy at the Wrong Time

-Jennifer Gibbons – Look out old Laura is back!

And just a note from us. We know about Days, TV Guide, and Carly Manning. We want all of you to know we’re available on twitter, email, or Skype. Feel free to reach out, we don’t bite and chances are somewhere in the 10,000 emotions in us right now, we’re feeling the same way you do. <3

This is probably one of our rantiest podcasts ever. It could be because Dani’s blood alcohol content was 90% pinot grigio. But probably not. If this week didn’t inspire you to go on a rant yourself (share in the comments!) then we apologize in advance. We bitch because we love, and this week was damned frustrating. At least we got the backwards wave and a few other tidbits. Unwind with us, it’s cathartic.

Notes:

- Frank or Alan?

- Thanks to Rachel (spiderweb55) for being our first ever live studio audience!

- Do you have to act so gay? One more reason to love Otalia

- “Struggling Soaps Seek New Niche” – tvweek

- We’re still talking Guiding Light questions for our Jennifer Gibbons podcast

- Also taking questions for the Tello Girls re: their JL interview or any of their other interviews

- Start thinking about your top 10 Otalia moments for our special 10th podcast!

Enjoy the 4-day Otalia week, everyone.

We know a bunch of you had been asking about this podcast, and we’re happy to say it’s back like Converse and gold lamé headbands! Yes, you can still trust us to be cool enough to interview the cool people who interview the cool people.

It’s really one of our favorite podcasts, probably because it involves two things we love: Crystal Chappell and the Tello Films girls, Christin and Nicole.

It’s been a light Otalia week, you deserve it.

We chose to cut about 7 minutes from it just to avoid internet drama and/or stress. Luckily it still completely rules. But as LeVar Burton says, you don’t have to take our word for it. Five points for a Reading Rainbow reference, oh!

Somehow we managed to convince Nicole and Christin to come back to discuss their recent Jessica Leccia interview. Watch, laugh, point at the geek in the headband, and then write in or call with your questions.

Runtime: 1 hr 8 min

- Dani relies on Duracells to power her remote through the many, many Otalia rewinds.

- Still waiting on dark hair for Olivia – hopefully we believers will be rewarded soon. Verrrrrry soon. Like is tomorrow too soon?

- Otalia is the new black.

- If you are awesome / lucky, you’ll watch this when it airs in a city near (hopefully) you next week. Why? A- Documentaries are super cool, and they make you smarter. B- Anything with Jane Lynch is automatically 100% win. C- Its produced by a PaaV listener (pays to be an emailer people).

-Send your questions for Jennifer Gibbons to admin@pancakesandavalium.com.

- Are you connected with us on Twitter, Youtube, and Skype? Cause ya should be. If you think we’re cool on Monday morning, you should see what we can do on a Thursday afternoon!

The brilliant gals at tellofilms.com just wrapped up their interview with The Dimpled One, Jessica Leccia! We’re completely geeked because not only do we get a new JL interview, but she answered some questions we gave to Christin and Nicole. They are so super cool for being gracious enough to ask on our behalf.

Jessica might have also said our names. It may or may not be our ringtone right now.

The full interview (and PaaV questions) should be up at tellofilms.com in the next couple of days, so look out for that on their website and twitter. Don’t forget to leave the ladies some love for bringing us so much Crystal Chappell and Jessica Leccia interview goodness.

Oh – and because Liz is a moron the video was accidentally public for like 20 minutes Thursday until she realized it and pulled it until we could get the blog post ready. Congrats to you luck 76 viewers! No conspiracy, just Youtube being probalsome.

Runtime: 1 hour, 13 minutes

Don’t call it a comeback!

“The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way. Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Be true to yourself and everything will be fine. Life is like one big Mardi Gras, but instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain.” – Ellen DeGeneres

Notes for the week:

- Dani was sad to note that she did not actually make it through the podcast without swearing. She said “shit” twice. F*** that experiment!

- Liz is glad Dani swore because she likes her the way she is [ed. Awwww!].

- If you’d like to leave us voice messages, we have that set up on Skype. Call up PancakesAndAValium and rant away. Geeks especially welcomed. Your messages may show up on a future podcast! Emails, tweets, comments all still loved and adored!

- Here’s the Gay Christian Network article Liz mentioned, for further reading.

- Dani is a big fan of Downy Simple Pleasures fabric softener, and would like to thank P&G for making her so popular on the train.

- Oxygen and Lifetime are on twitter – an easy way to let them know how insane we are devoted we are to Guiding Light.

Runtime: 1 hour, 6 minutes

-  Thanks again for all the amazing comments, tweets, and emails.  Keep them coming.  This was way less fun when it was just me and Dani and my dog listening…  Email addys to the right.

- So. Welcome to our relaunch of our relaunch. The old new site was jacked, but our new new site is fab (hopefully). Hope y’all like it!

-  ‘The Good Man‘ video.  Also if you haven’t seen ‘Ode to Olivia‘, ‘Girlfriend‘, and ‘Never Gonna Happen‘ you aren’t a real Otalia fan.

- Stuff we talked about:  Oh Otalia and Orlagh interview.  Also, I lied, and here’s the rally info.  Go if you can, we wanna know about it. Apparently something is happening in Pittsburgh now too? All I know is, I want pics please.

-  I tried to find a PG product tie in, but failed.  So uhh…  Marsupials are cool, buy Aussie!  It smells yummy.  Also, keep writing and campaigning. 

- Dani may have changed her mind about the blue dress. She can live with the wrap because the win overpowers it.

- Liz has convictions and stands by her blue dress opinions (even if she’s the only one).