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- 19:41 apparently my grandpa on my dad's side passed away today #
- 20:26 concert!! dec 16th. papa roach, shinedown, and hailstorm. am soooo going. XD cast should be off by then, so bring it on! #
| Friday, November 6th, 2009 | ||
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katfusion |
11:04p | Tweet Tweet! Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
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lore |
11:56p | BloMo6: Friday night is Wonky TV night!.... It's like...if you stay home on a Friday night, you must have eclectic tastes. Right? It's certainly not Loser TV for Losers, nooooo. ~_^ (I am kidding, really!) Ghost Whisperer I didn't watch the early seasons of this show, trying to tell myself I wasn't interested, but I have a hard time resisting supernatural anything. I mean, I watched Charmed for a few seasons, for gawd's sake! Plus, I have to admit, Jennifer Love-Hewitt is awfully...Lush. It's actually not a bad little show. Usually, the ghost is put to rest at the end of the episode, and any mytharc the series flirts with fits into the regular episode. Ok, the husband's not bad either. Ugly Betty Bright, colourful, wacky, fun! I'm a little sad that more people don't watch Ugly Betty. I love the entire cast; I can't think of one character I don't adore. *clings to it* Medium This show is smart, the family and characters are real, and NBC is staffed by fools. The End. Monk The first half of this last season, the show was cruising hard. The cases were almost nonexistent, and the "bits" were tired. But now that we're into the second half, it's like a light went on and the people involved realised that they only have a few episodes left to say goodbye to one of TV's most original characters. If you watch The Mentalist or Numbers, you have Mr. Monk to thank. Psych Oh. How. I. Love. This. Show. Shawn and Gus are a great team, and I love the premise, of a man so observant that people wouldn't listen to him until he began doing his psychic schtick. It's funny, it's fun, it's smart. I actually like Corbin Bersen for once. If you have no idea what Psych is about, then ask me more, because this is a show you should be watching. White Collar Jury's still out on this one. The SO likes it, but I have a hard time cheering for criminals. Sanctuary & Stargate Um, we have bazillion episodes sitting on the TiVO. Does not bode well. The first episode of Stargate Universe was a huge downer, and people keep telling us it finds sub-levels from there. So, who's home with me? ^_^ love, lore Current Mood:  sillyCurrent Music: White Collar |
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ptyx |
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5:51a | How to view another journal with my layout I'm terrible about posting here, but I'm trying to get better. I have a techie question though about Insane Journal. On LiveJournal, I can click a setting to view other journals in my layout. Does anyone know how I can do that here on InsaneJournal? I'm having trouble reading a comm journal because of the colors. |
| Thursday, November 5th, 2009 | ||
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lore |
11:43p | BloMo5: Thursday is Bones Day!.... Thursday Night is over-packed night. Between rushing home and the two TiVO tuners, I almost get to watch everything that interests me tonight. But I'm only going to talk about a few shows.... Bones I really need a Bones icon! There was some criticism of the show last year. But this year has been consistently strong in terms of characterization and acting. I think the only character who occasionally suffers is Bones herself, and that's because it's hard to keep a character "obnoxiously innocent", which is how Bones started out, and how, some writers still try to write her. But that hardly matters when the other characters are so alive, fun, effervescent and cool-in-a-smart-way. And David Boreanaz has only become better and better in his role and FBI Agent Seeley Booth, who has become so much more than a wise-cracking tough guy in Boreanaz's hands. One TV commentator says almost every week that Bones is the most unappreciated show on television. Don't let Bones get by you. Flash Forward This show is intense, and it has a mystery that threatens to be somewhat solved by the end of the season (gasp!). It feels like Lost without all the baggage of 5 seasons. So why not check it out and get in on the ground floor of a fascinating show that promises an actual payoff come May? Fringe I'm one of dozens of people that I've read saying, "I watch Fringe, but Anna Torv bugs the hell out of me". Anna looks too much like Cate Blanchett on first glance, so I always end up doing double-takes. But...Joshua Jackson and John Noble...now those are two men I could watch read the phone book, so why not suffer the Blanch-ette to get a weekly double-dose of adorable men? One online friend calls it "The Walter Bishop Show", which is a moniker I could get behind. Oh, yeah, and there's a plot...just think X-Files with more dopplegangers and you'll be able to jump right in. Project Runway/Models of the Runway Again, this is a show that could be on anytime...and on any channel! This has not been a great season of PR, but it was still good enough to be considered must-see TV, compared to a raft of other reality shows. Lifetime added a half-hour show after PR, Models of the Runway, which is about the model competition that's also always been involved with the show. Honestly, though, I don't think we need it. The models weren't as empty as you might think models are, but I don't watch PR for the model-bonding and cattiness, I watch it for the designer-bonding and cattiness. ~_^ And now I need to go make a Bones icon so I can replace the icon on this post with it later! I've been meaning to make one for ages, but I keep putting it off. Well, no more! love, lore Current Mood:  rushedCurrent Music: Flipping to Bones on the TiVO now! |
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hp_dungeons [ dozhd ] |
9:01p | Conversation in Potemkin, Camden Town, London Don't make that face at me. ( I'm rather certain you can get wine here as well as vodka. ) |
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akuma_river |
4:26p | Shooting at Fort Hood Army Base http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_p http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_p http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/05/te It's horrible. Fort Hood is home to about 60,000 people. It is about the size of a city. It is the world's largest military base. It happened in the solider readiness center which is the area where soliders get the last medical check-up before shipping out and coming in. CNN is saying that ABC out of Waco (which is near Kileen) said the shooters named is major Malique Nadal Hassan. There is 12 dead. 11 are victims. Of those 11 one was a civilian cop contracted as military police. One of those civilian MP's killed the shooter. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/1 Update | 7:41 p.m. Given that Thursday’s shooting spree took place at a readiness center, where troops were about to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, the subject will certainly turn to combat stress. A description of the work of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, where Major Nidal Hasan, the suspected gunman who was killed on Thursday at Fort Hood, says this: The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) addresses both the invisible and visible wounds of war through research, education and consultation. The invisible wounds of war include the mental health consequences of deployment. These can range from normal distress to the treatable mental disorders of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Warrior wounds can also involve health risks such as increased use of tobacco, alcohol and/or drugs that can result in violence to self, spouse and/or children. Update | 7:22 p.m. Information about Dr. Nidal Hasan posted on a Virginia Board of Medicine Web site includes a note that he saw patients at Darnell Army Medical Center Monday through Friday. http://www.statesman.com/blogs/cont Officials: Shooting suspect discussed suicide bombings, other threats online Thursday, November 5, 2009, 07:30 PM FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: Federal law enforcement officials say the suspected Fort Hood, Texas, shooter had come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats. One of the Web postings that authorities reviewed is a blog that equates suicide bombers with a soldier throwing himself on a grenade to save the lives of his comrades. “To say that this soldier committed suicide is inappropriate. Its more appropriate to say he is a brave hero that sacrificed his life for a more noble cause,” said the Internet posting. “Scholars have paralled (sic) this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers.” http://www.statesman.com/blogs/cont Official: Fort Hood shooting suspect not dead By American-statesman staff | Thursday, November 5, 2009, 08:17 PM Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings, has not been killed and is in stable condition at a hospital, Lt. Gen. Bob Cone said at a press conference at Fort Hood. He is in custody at an undisclosed hospital, Cone said. Three soldiers taken into custody after the shootings were released, he said. Investigators believe Hasan acted alone. “Evidence does not suggest this was a terrorist event,” Cone said. One of the first people to shoot Hasan was a civilian police officer who was shot but survived, said Cone, who added that earlier reports of a civilian officer dying were incorrect. |
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akuma_river |
10:05a | ACTA will put you in Jail Global treaty could throw file-sharers off Internet after ‘three strikes’ (November 05, 2009 - Raw Story - Daniel Tencer) File-sharers could be jailed under proposed ACTA provisions Leaked details of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement being negotiated in secret by most of the world's largest economies suggest Internet file-sharers could be blocked from accessing the Internet if they are repeatedly accused of sharing copyrighted material, say media and digital-rights watchdogs. And the worst-case scenario could see popular Web sites like YouTube and Flickr shut down because of a provision in the treaty that would force them to monitor everything uploaded to the site for copyright violations. Internet law professor Michael Geist published details of "leaked" portions of the discussions on ACTA on his blog Tuesday, as a new round of ACTA negotiations began in Seoul, South Korea. The US, along with all the countries of the European Union as well as Japan, Canada, Australia and a handful of other countries, are involved in the negotiations. "The provisions would pave the way for a globalized three-strikes and you're out system," Geist blogged Wednesday, referring to a proposal from copyright holders to have Internet service providers cut off service to anyone accused at least three times of illegally sharing copyrighted material. "This means that your entire family could be denied [access] to the Internet -- and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living -- if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel," blogged tech writer and digital-rights supporter Cory Doctorow. Doctorow also noted that another provision being proposed for the treaty would mean "that ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any hope of profitability." And, as Geist noted in a follow-up article on Wednesday, the proposed treaty could end up seeing file-sharers jailed for sharing copyrighted material, even if they had no financial gain from the transaction. Geist wrote that the treaty, as currently proposed, would "extend criminal enforcement to both (1) cases of a commercial nature; and (2) cases involving significant willful copyright and trademark infringement even where there is no direct or indirect motivation of financial gain. In other words, non-commercial infringement could lead to criminal penalties." "The US government appears to be pushing for Three Strikes to be part of the new global IP enforcement regime which ACTA is intended to create -– despite the fact that it has been categorically rejected by the European Parliament and by national policymakers in several ACTA negotiating countries, and has never been proposed by US legislators," writes Gwen Hinze at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. ACTA negotiations were being held entirely in secret until this past May, when the Wikileaks Web site released a 2007 draft proposal. The Obama administration has resisted attempts to make the negotiations public, though it did make an exemption for a long list of senior executives at major corporations. In June, the administration announced it would continue the ACTA negotiations started under the previous administration. |
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9:51a | The ACTA Treay and how it will take away your internet and land your ass in jail!! ACTA is being touted as an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. It's not. It's a vastly reaching copyright enforcement law that will be far more powerful, malicious, destructive than DMCA. This treaty is being designed in SECRET by members or people, whom we do not know their names because of "national security" as agents of our government and 40 other nations. As a citizen of this nation YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY RIGHT TO EVEN LOOK AT THE WHAT THE TREATY IS PROPOSING! As a worker of any big company you do, but you have to sign a non-disclousre agreement in compesation of being able to read it. Why? Because the Government, Bush and Obama, have deemed this as a National Security necessary secret. Other Nations have sued or been given a look at the all powerful secrety treat that is still in the works. It's been in the works since 2007. But us? Oh no, we are given the National Security excuse and told that is all we need to know. Now we know. Now we are pissed and now we are scared. Because now we know, through a leaked document, what this treaty is about to propose. Have any of you EVER downloaded music, video, images, wrote fanfiction? Because now through ACTA if you have and if you have been given a take-down notice by the propose owners of the copyright material that you have SUPPOSEDLY violated, then after three times your ISP will be ordered by the GOVERNMENT to take away your homesteads internet service. That's right, your internet service of your instead house/apartment, etc. That means even if you yourself have NEVER downloaded ANYTHING at all and only use your computer as a means to surf the internt to check your e-mail but your kid or husband has then ALL OF YOU lose your internet. This is also most likely going to be in addition of some fine for violation of copyright law and even possibly JAIL TIME! Don't believe me? Think I'm just over reacting to things? Then read what the experts are saying: * That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any hope of profitability. * That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet -- and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living -- if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel. * That the whole world must adopt US-style "notice-and-takedown" rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused -- again, without evidence or trial -- of infringing copyright. This has proved a disaster in the US and other countries, where it provides an easy means of censoring material, just by accusing it of infringing copyright. * Mandatory prohibitions on breaking DRM, even if doing so for a lawful purpose (e.g., to make a work available to disabled people; for archival preservation; because you own the copyrighted work that is locked up with DRM) http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/se ( cut ) LINKS on what ACTA is: Lawfont.com: ACTA: here we go again? (Australia) Lawfont.com: Geist on ACTA (Australia) Electronic Frontiers Australia (Australia) InternetNZ alarmed by latest ACTA leaks (New Zealand) ip-watch.org WikiLeaks: ACTA search Wiki Leaks: Talk:Classified US, Japan and EU ACTA trade agreement drafts, 2009 Wiki Leaks: Classified US, Japan and EU ACTA trade agreement drafts, 2009 Petition to Obama - keionline.org The ACTA Internet Chapter: Putting the Pieces Together ACTA Negotiations, Day Two: What's On Tap ACTA Internet Chapter Leak Signals Far-Reaching Copyright Policy Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions: Three Strikes and a Global DMCA ISPs Soon Forced to Police Your Internet Behavior? Secret Anti-Piracy Treaty Turns ISPs into Pirates EU Breaks Deadlock in Debate Over Right to Internet Access (November 05, 2009 - PC World - Paul Meller, IDG News Service) That is it. I've had it about these fucking companies influencing laws and governments and getting their fucking way. I've had it. I'm emailing my congressman. I'm linking to these articles. they have got to know this isn't about piracy anymore this uninforcable and its trying to censor the internet!! I'm going to write out a long e-mail to my local newspapers. It is time that we stood up and told these fuckers, no more. Just because I do a little downloading here and there does not mean I am not entitled to my rights as a human being. this law will make it to where the burden of proof lies on me that I didn't break the law. It is almost impossible to defend against this law. They could say I illegally downloaded music when maybe I just ripped a cd I bought to play music on my computer. Or about webpages or youtube. They could say that all the film about the Iran Riots and Protests is copywrited and if I uploaded any of it that I'm a pirate. This, this is fucking insane. |
| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 | ||
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katfusion |
11:12p | Tweet Tweet! Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
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lore |
11:45p | BloMo4: Wednesday is Glee day!.... Well, tonight, there was a big load of nothing on until 10, but normally, Wednesday brings GLEE!! Glee I'm not sure there's anything I can say to make you love this show. It's like...a peppier Freaks and Geeks with singing. You either know how to roll with that, or you don't, you know? Me, I can rollllllll. It makes me a wiggly, happy puppy each week and as long as it stays on the cheesy side of soap opera, I'm there! The second the show starts to take itself seriously, the shark will have been turned on its belly for a good jumpin'. Eastwick OK, so I like an unrealistic girl!power show or two, and this one is due to be canceled at any minute. Still, I love magic, I loved the original theatrical, and it's not like there's a lot of other interesting shows on Wednesday. If Eastwick is canceled, Wednesday will become a wasteland with Glee an island in the middle. Sheesh! Top Chef I can't count on Top Chef being on a regular schedule, so I'm talking about it here, even though I don't count it when I talk about Wednesday being a wasteland. This season has been nice, but the strongest chefs have been obvious from the beginning, and now that we're down to the end, they're all still around. No big surprises here, but I adore Padma and Tom, so I'm always entertained, even with a sub-par season. Finally, just to revisit V - The first episode ended stronger than it began. Plus, I know the SO is going to make me watch it anyway, so I guess I'll be hanging with it for a while longer. That final fight scene was awfully cool. Also, is anyone else jonesing for Lost now that they've seen Elizabeth back on the small screen? Hee! I wish I could bounce back faster from this sickness. I still am coughing and dealing with congestion every day and I feel weak and run-down. I can only hope it was N1H1, because I don't want to have gone through all this just for a regular flu. love, lore Current Mood:  blahCurrent Music: Top Chef All Stars Dinner |
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hp_dungeons [ quidditch_prat ] |
9:56p | Conversation in Lake Cottage Chickens. ( Really. ) |
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ptyx |
7:11p | Maine: confusing wording You know I'm not an English native speaker, so you may disagree with me, but frankly, can a question be more confusing than: Do you want to reject the new law that lets same-sex couples marry and allows individuals and religious groups to refuse to perform these marriages? ????? No, seriously... Current Mood:  confused |
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4:15a | The results Well we all know how Main's Prop 1 went. 87% of it counted and it went to the YES. I call voter fraud and a recount. Nate said it would be NO by 70%. Something is wrong here. Oh btw, Main passed the medical marijuna distributing bill. So they get their dope but no gay marriages. Houston is most likely going to have a gay Mayor. New York City elected two Asians to office, one citywide as comptroller and the other in Manhattan as councilwoman. Boomberg wasted a lot of money to get his squeaked by win. Which is pissing off the Democrats because the Democratic Party didn't even campaign hard for their guy. Washington is about to extend domestic partner benefits to same sex parters. In essence they are getting the separate but equal clause of 'gay marriage' not in name. Nate Silver is suggesting that maybe the GBLT should focus on this a compromise to get the benefits to same sex parterns. But we all know that once it gets passed (Nationwide) it will eventually get challenged in the Supreme Court because separate but equal is unconstitutional in all regards. It seems that Austin passed it so that it is expanding COBRA+ to domestic partners. Since you know in 2006 Texas made the constitutional amendment where Gay Marriage and Civil Unions are not ALLOWED or RECOGNIZED. And ALL 11 propositions passed in Texas. |
| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 | ||
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hp_dungeons [ sicarian ] |
9:00p | [Filter: Draco Malfoy] Draco, The next time you attempt to bring a bundle of joy into this world, I think it would be wise for you to discuss with your nixiecidal fertility specialist other living creatures to murder. Something less sentient. A very large salmon perhaps? (Because when a salmon ends up quivering on top of little clumps of rice, other salmon don't congregate and wonder about its disappearance.) Current Music: Anatol Lyadov - The Enchanted Lake |
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lore |
11:40p | BloMo3: Tuesday TV Wasteland.... Actually, there's nothing I'm IN LOVE with on Tuesday. I'm starting to become really burned out on So You Think You Can Dance and I'm beginning to question the judge's ethics, but if nothing else is on, I will probably continue with it, just with the sound down low. Tabitha's Salon Takeover is back on Bravo at 10 p.m., though. This show is everything Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares ought to be. Tabitha is in charge of a needy salon for a week and she doesn't cajole the staff or wait for things to happen, she makes things happen. It's a great show to watch when the special snowflakes of the world are wearing you out. So, in other news, I can't wait for 2012 to open just so I can stop seeing the commercials. Why, John Cusak, Why?! We have V on right now, but I'm not holding my breath about it. Alan Tudyk is only listed as a guest star, after all. I caught up on Storm Chasers on Discovery from Sunday night. Tornadoes are terrifying and all the chasers are pretty much testosterone-laden asses, but when they actually spot funnel clouds, it's just fascinating. If you're remotely interested, I believe the next new episode will have footage from a vehicle that survives going through a tornado. That's pretty much been the holy grail of this show, so this would be the episode to watch. (V story break - she's a lizard, kid. Anyone who's seen the original knows that. Leezard, leezard, leezard!) Rather than continuing to babble right up to the last minute tonight, I think I'll close and go answer some comments. Peace out! love, lore Current Mood:  groggyCurrent Music: V, the second coming of the first series |
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hp_dungeons [ persuade_me ] |
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2:43a | Highest in the world!!! No wonder our system is so damn broken. they our robbing us blind. U.S. Medical Prices Highest In the World Posted by: Cathy Arnst on November 02 There is a set of charts flying around the policy blogosphere today that starkly illustrates why the U.S. devotes almost 18% of its gross domestic product to health care spending, while other wealthy nations spend no more than 10% or 11%: Because we pay far, far more per unit of care than any other country. The 36-page document was put together in September by the International Federation of Health Plans, which represents 100 insurers in 31 countries. It consists of a number of charts that show the difference between what the U.S. pays for any number of medical services, and what other industrialized countries pay. |
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1:22a | Voting Tomorrow is election day in some states. Some for Governors others for Mayors. For us in Texas we have 11 Constitutional Amendments going up for vote. The Burnt Orange Report has a great lowdown on what they are and what major newspapers are endorsing and their own endorsements. Me, No on Prop 1-3, Yes on Prop 4-8, No on Prop 9-11. I know a lot of people support Prop 9 (Open Beaches Act) and Prop 11 (Eminent Domain) but I'm against them. First, 9 is taking people's property away from them in cases of land eroison that cause public beaches to become private property. And 11 is just going to screw up the emminent domain laws more than what it is already is and will not FIX/REFORM them. Not to mention that Governor Goodhair (Perry) and Hutchinson and the Texas Tea Party LIKE it! And seriously there are some amendments here that are ridiculous. Did Prop 5 and Prop 7 really have to exist? Seriously, couldn't we have made LAWS and not constitutional amendments? I know 7 is to add the National Guard to exempt that already has everyone else added...but couldn't we have just tossed the old amendment out and just made a new LAW that did the same thing? What about Prop 5? A constitutional admendment to dictate how apprasial boards work in concert with each other?! And Prop 10?! "Proposition 10 would ... allow members of governing boards of Texas emergency service districts to serve terms not to exceed four years." --League of Women Voters Guide Austin Chronicle: YES. "But trivial, and this belongs in ordinary legislation, not the state constitution." El Paso Times: YES. "This would provide more continuity and experience on the boards." Fort Worth Star-Telegram: NO. "This is goofy. There's no good reason why board members of obscure districts in Harris County should have longer terms than members of the Texas House." Houston Tea Party Patriots: No Endorsement. Sen. Kirk Watson's "Watson Wire:" YES. It "would lengthen the term of emergency services district board members from two to four years." *sighs* *shakes head* Oh for god's sake why can't Texas do something logical for a change!!! |
| Monday, November 2nd, 2009 | ||
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11:55p | BloMo2: TVMonday - Castle, Heroes, Big Bang Theory.... I have said, out-loud in front of family no less, that I would happily fuck my TiVO if I could, I love it that much. Sad-sounding, yes, but in a year it has completely changed how I approach visual entertainment. Not having to worry about getting home in time for a show, or whether the VCR is going to get it, or planning a complex taping system for a vacation - well, it's huge. Now we talk in terms of watching in "real-time" or just "on the TiVO". And look out, babolas, since I last waxed rhapsodic about the TiVO, we've upgraded ours to a TERABYTE hard drive. Dudes, there are over 450 programs in our deleted right now, WHOO HOO (the machine only deletes when it runs out of space)! Anyway, I thought since sweeps started last week, I would talk this week about the shows I think are particularly special. Castle If you're not watching this show, you should be. It's intelligent, witty, sharp and so much more than a police procedural. Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle, crime writer with an "in" at the NY police department, is nothing short of utterly charming and warm in a smart-ass way - Richard makes people want to talk to him. It's easy to see why detective Kate Beckett puts up with him week after week, even after he bases his next hit character, Nikki Heat, on her. Castle's home life is just as interesting as the cases he tags along on, but his daughter and mother's appearances are kept on the wise side of "just enough to want more". Seriously, this is not snoozy old Law & Order here, and the writing for Castle is amazing. The cases seem fresh and interesting to me, and the characters are human. Stana Katic as Kate is not getting much credit for her role, but she's growing on me. She's not a stereotypical tv female, but she sure has great, happily slow-building, chemistry with Fillion. About the only "history" you might need to know other than the basic premise (crime writer goes on real cases with the inspiration for his latest hit character) is that Kate's mother was murdered a long time ago, and Kate almost burned out trying to find her mother's killer before she put the entire unsolved case behind her for good. This plot point doesn't come up every episode, so, see, this is a totally easy show to get into! If you do decide you want to give Castle a try, or if you happen to be an old Firefly fan, watch the episode "Vampire Weekend" online. Heroes Yeah, I know, last season, it's done, it's cooked, it's jumped the shark, it's lame, over, lamented. What-EVER. Heroes is like nothing on TV right now, and it will probably be years before we see something like it again. The show has problems, but it also has hope, fun, action, and that OMG!-factor that keeps me hooked right in. Sometimes logic and characterization shifts too much and I roll my eyes, but I keep coming back to it because it's still different. I still love the characters. And I still end up going OMG!!! almost every week. Plus, Noah is dead-sexy, especially when he speaks Japanese. ~_^ Want to check back in on Heroes? Try watching Strange Attractors. The Big Bang Theory I hardly ever talk about half-hour comedies, and that's because most of them are pure drivel. Occasionally, one like Sportsnight comes along, bringing something new to the table, and BBT is one of those shows. It's not really 4 Men and a Hot Chick, which is what the ads sometimes makes it out to be, but, rather, it's a show about friendship, geekiness, and the people who can accept super-geniuses for who they are. If you've ever been into anything remotely nerdy, it eventually comes up on this show. I think all the characters are terrific, but I have to admit, I have a special place in my heart for super-smart, super-OCD Sheldon, who pings me hard as a "Snape". I do like my Snapes. ~_^ CBS is too uptight to put entire episodes online, but there are plenty of fun clips to be found here. If you want a truly nerd-tastic moment, though, I suggest Now Fetch Me Wil Wheaton. We watch other shows on Monday - it's one of our most-juggled nights of TV even with the TiVo - but these are the ones I adore. Anyone adoring them with me? love, lore Current Mood: blahCurrent Music: Good Eats! |
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hp_dungeons [ cauldron_brew ] |
9:49p | Conversation in the Athenaeum ( You're late. ) |
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hp_dungeons [ allandsundry ] |
9:46p | Conversation in Finola Dolohova's Clerkenwell house ( Another glass of wine, dear? ) |
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neotoma |
6:33p | I only seem to get fic-a-thon stories done anyway... ...so I signed up for the JBBS secret santa story exchange. Today's the last day, so if you're interested in writing DCU fic for the less popular teams (Titans, Outsiders, Justice Society, etc.), you can sign up here. |
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ptyx |
6:59p | Rainbow Awards: the cover competition Round 2 has started! (The cover contest lasts for six weeks: every week the covers are halved by 50%.) The cover of Clippings (art by ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} korekan, design by morgan_d) is still in competition. You can vote for it here.You can find the links to the other groups and covers here. Current Mood:  cheerful |
| Sunday, November 1st, 2009 | ||
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hp_dungeons [ persuade_me ] |
9:33p | A small but well-appointed cafe and bar, Milan The coat, I think, is my purchase of the day. Not that there are not many excellent purchases. Shopping with you, or in this case you and Pansy, is always more pleasurable than shopping alone. Current Mood: accomplished |
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