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| Saturday, January 21st, 2012 | |
| 11:34 am | |
| Thursday, January 19th, 2012 | |
| 8:34 pm | The internet and fandom often combine to prove that just when I think my ideas are too weird, someone else already went further than I ever thought to. |
| Thursday, January 12th, 2012 | |
| 12:08 pm | Candidate promises to go back in time and kill baby hitler He has been endorsed by Occupy NH, even though he's been around longer than them, they've sort of rallied around him. Even though Bachman is crazy and Cain is a sexual harasser, it is disheartening to see that the Republican lineup was quickly and easily once again reduced to a group of white men. It shows that their party is so hostile to women, and men who aren't white, that the only women, and men who aren't white that they can get to run on their ticket are on some level deeply disturbed. Or that both those candidates were merely token gestures, encouraged to run by people who knew they'd never make it anyway. |
| 12:15 am | I played with some Seventh Sanctum story idea generators because I'm still kinda bored and very hyper. ( the best results ) |
| Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 | |
| 8:57 pm | |
| 12:24 am | ( Primary REsults ) |
| Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 | |
| 6:58 pm | Which American Girl heroines could survive a Hunger Games? For the sake of keeping it simple, I’m sticking with only Historical characters (book/movie characters, not the dolls). ( The rules, for those unfamiliar with them ) ( Deader than Dead, Probably ) ( Wild Cards ) ( Definitely Has a Sporting Chance ) ( Most Likely To Win ) |
| 1:51 am | Election years are bad for my blood pressure. The last time around I dealt with that by cherry picking what I watched and listened to. But not while I live with my parents. My dad seems to want the news on constantly during the Primary. WHen I said it made me uncomfortable, he said "how else will you know what the candidates stand for?" Erm...well, first off, I can read blogs, or when I see headlines on MSN I can click on the ones that seem interesting to me, or I can watch John Stewart when I feel like it and not before or I can read the newspaper. Trust me, the news will find some way to reach me without my having to get myself needlessly upset. My dad is also thinking from the perspective of an "Independent" voter, meaning, he really does have to sort through all the candidates in both parties and decide who he wants to vote for. I don't have to. I'm a registered member of a party. I chose to register as a member of a certain party because I knew that there was little to no chance I'd ever have a reason to want to vote the other ticket. So far, the opposition has proven me right every time. Candidates come and go, but I have a basic outline of what I believe in, re: national politics and the other party's basic outline of beliefs doesn't mesh with mine. I think my dad feels that the only real way to make a decision like who you'll vote for is to not take any side until you've throoughly examined all of it, while I'm more of a...I am not that fair minded. This time, my party's candidate is, so far, his party's only viable candidate. It's important that I have some sense of what's going on in the oppositional party but only for the sake of knowing what to expect should my candidate ultimately lose. Nothing any of those guys has to say is going to ultimately make me switch parties so I'd even be eligible to vote in their primary and the more I do learn about them, the more sickened I become. And becauase I am someone who can be thrown into spirals of crippling anxiety by very simple things, I choose to ration and limit, needless exposure to undue stress. ( Yeeeugh, politics ) |
| Friday, January 6th, 2012 | |
| 12:20 pm | The American Girl "Girl of the Year" for 2012 is a gymnast character called "McKenna". It's obvious that the gymnastics theme was chosen because of the 2012 Olympics. She doesn't interest me much, which I'm relieved about because she's just not in the budget. But a lot of collectos were wondering why "McKenna"? And then these two tidbits came to light. Apparently, one of the earliest Transcendentalist Philosophers to discuss the "2012 phenomenon" was someone called Terence McKenna. And 1984 Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton has a daughter called "McKenna". Lots of teas have caffeine in them, but this one I've been drinking for the past few days, I think it was twice or even three times the normal amount. That last post? I posted that at 4 in the morning. |
| Thursday, January 5th, 2012 | |
| 5:22 am | TV Land is another offender. When I was little, I loved Nick at Nite. When TV Land was announced, it was exciting because here was a whole channel of Nick at Nite, 24/7 instead of just a few hours in the evening. But the establishment of TV Land gave Nickelodeon the opportunity to stop showing truly classic tv at all. Now they show “George Lopez” and “Everybody Hates Chris”, two shows that only ended a couple of years ago. So, TV Land must be safe, right? Nooo. While most of their daytime programming is made up of shows like “Leave it to Beaver”, “Bonanza”, “Hawaii Five O”, “The Jeffersons”, “Sanford and Son”, “Murder, She Wrote” and “Andy Griffith”, they’re stretching it with some of their choices. They’re showing “Roseanne” and “The Nanny”, which I wouldn’t count as classic television just yet, but I have to remember that just because I lived through the topical jokes and fashion trends seen on “The Nanny”, that doesn’t make them any less old. Bill Clinton hasn’t been president in ten years, JFK Jr. is dead, and the “Clueless” look has not yet returned to fashion and MTV doesn't show music videos anymore. Oh yes, and “Cats” closed. So I just have to admit it, I'm getting old. However, they’ve done a lot worse. 1) They’re now showing programs that only went off the air around five years ago, like “King of Queens” and “Everybody Loves Raymond”. Two shows which are also in syndicated reruns on multiple other channels. 2) Reality shows still airing new episodes. In this case, I’m referring to “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”, which was only cancelled a couple of weeks ago. It’s not “The Real World”, it’s not a show that’s been airing for so long that people start to get nostalgic for earlier seasons. And it has absolutely nothing to do with classic television. At least, if you’re going to rerun a reality show on Tv Land, make it “The Surreal Life” or “Celebrity Rehab”, so we can watch old sitcom stars implode. 3) Original sitcoms. They currently have four, providing probably much needed work for various sitcom actors who don’t know how to do anything else but who aren't big enough or interesting enough for the major networks to court them. The shows are kind of charming and clean and inoffensive. They are not going to make any cultural contributions, but if you want to spend a couple of hours with some people who seem nice and have vaguely amusing lives, it's not torture. “Hot in Cleveland” has gotten much better. But no one was really tuning into TV Land to watch original sitcoms. |
| Wednesday, January 4th, 2012 | |
| 6:27 pm | BBC America to Produce Scripted TV For American Audience The network is about to commence with the production of its first original scripted series, Copper, which will star ex-MI-5 spook Tom Weston-Jones as an Irish-American cop pounding the cobblestone pavements of 1860s New York. Dear BBC America, Your new show actually sounds pretty awesome and I might end up watching it anyway. However, Americans pay extra (BBCA is not packaged with basic cable) to watch shows set mostly in Britain, by British people, that air on British television. Believe it or not, that’s what They're all under the impression BBC America is for. They do not, for example, pay to watch reruns of Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica (reboot!), and there is no reason to start producing television specifically tailored to an American audience, particularly if the show is set in America. Come on, you have more than an ample supply of shows that American fans of British tv are always clamoring to see more of, especially since the previous source, PBS, has been dropping the ball more and more. How about filling up the extra airtime with classic British shows that Americans haven't been able to see in awhile or never got to see at all? Our commercial tv networks rarely import shows from other countries unless they’re cartoons (or Canadian, syndicated mostly on generic independent stations at weird hours). Instead, they prefer to do their own adaptations of live action programs, which tend to either be extreme hits or extreme misses. No, I don't understand why either, but that's what they do. Meanwhile, American networks already exist which endlessly rerun classic American television, so you don’t have to do that for us. Thanks! |
| Monday, January 2nd, 2012 | |
| 9:02 pm | went to see The Muppets ( spoilers ) In short, I really enjoyed it. But my suspension of disbelief ends at the idea of Vogue having a Plus Size department. |
| Sunday, December 18th, 2011 | |
| 1:01 pm | Vanessa Lengies will probably help balance out the fact that Damian can’t dance or act, since she can do both. Even though she's playing a character who can't sing. Heh. On “Community”, they did an episode called “Regional Holiday Music”, where “Glee club faculty advisor Cory Radison” (a man with a penchant for sweater vests) recruits the study group to fill in for the obnoxious Glee club. In the opening scene, Abed proposes that the study group watch “The Inspector Spacetime Holiday Special”, a production “so critically reviled that its creator refuses to acknowledge its existence”. Apparently, the original Glee Club got a C&D from the record companies for performing other people’s songs without permission. They enter the choir room and see a man sitting at the piano. The man waves and smiles but says nothing. “Who’s that guy?” Pierce asks. Worriedly, he adds “you all see him too, right?” Annie sings “Teach Me How to Understand Christmas”, which is a parody of Santa Baby. As I understand it, one of the cut scenes from Glee’s 2011 Christmas episode involved a performance of “Santa Baby”. It also makes a point about how condescending "religious diversity" episodes can be. Which makes me think that despite all the complaints that they haven't gone there, it might be better if "Glee" didn't go there, because it would be a trainwreck. This episode aired a couple of weeks before the Glee Christmas ep. Not only is it heavily and openly making fun of them, but it seems that either they accurately predicted many elements of the other show's Christmas ep or Glee's Christmas episode was a response to theirs. A little of both, I'm thinking. Baby Boomer Santa Jehovah’s Secret Witness |
| Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 | |
| 8:58 pm | |
| Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 | |
| 8:22 pm | Tv Tropes on Buffy as an Unintentional Period Piece “The early seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer don't so much scream "1990s" as they beat you with a sledgehammer labeled "1990s" and perhaps teamkill you with a tank. The effect gradually fades as the seasons progress, though.” ( It really does ) |
| Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 | |
| 8:30 am | I kinda like "Once Upon a Time". At least, I hope it gets to stick around long enough that it has a chance to be good and interesting. Only three things though. 1) I wish there was more of a mystery to it. I'd enjoy guessing and not being told everything. 2) If someone had a car accident in rural Maine and told the police they'd swerved to avoid a large, dangerous wild animal, I kinda think the police would believe them. I mean, I know they're ( spoilers ) 3) Long, multi lane, high speed roads are not generally called "freeways" in New England. |
| Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 | |
| 5:36 pm | They have a point (Glee spoilers for the season premiere). ( failure to think a plotline through strikes again ) |
| Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 | |
| 12:26 pm | ( Glee premiere ) |
| Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 | |
| 12:42 pm | |
| Monday, September 12th, 2011 | |
| 10:39 pm | Actually, I'm really into trains right now. And I read this on the website of this scenic train ride "The wonderful meals are prepared to your order on board and are served to you with warm, friendly Yankee hospitality." What? Eta, by that I mean...what? |