the PREAIR copy of AMC's The Walking Dead that is currently being peer-shared all over the interwebs is not high-definition, not as crisp as i'm sure the one that's going to be aired in October 31. i'm guessing it's converted from a bigger file-sized version that must have been issued to the press and reviewers. nevertheless, the copy i ( Read more... )

normally, i don’t like kids except my own (of course!). my son says i’m immune to cute. i think maybe he’s right, which would be ironic really since he and his older sister were the cutest toddlers our side of the village. but anyway, the twins who play Lisa Cuddy’s daughter on House are cute as buttons. i think i may have developed an auto- ( Read more... )

gakked from shipperx

earlier this month there was a flaily flowchart circulating which basically said that if a character is 1) a woman, and 2) does stuff, then she's a flat, bland, boring stereotype, spawning an icon meme where you show off all your icons with female characters on them.

( olivia, motoko, aeryn, starbuck, laura, jane, maura, cuddy, buffy and scully : apparently, my female icons can dissect, slice and dice and wax poetic about multidimensionality and parallel universes )

I am shamelessly pimping the HBO series “Treme.” This show is worth paying for cable, or tying up your bandwidth to download all 10 episodes of its first season, specially if you fall under one or any combination of the following criteria ( Read more... )

i don’t heart you anymore. normally i like dysfunctional people hurtling through in outer space inside a ship of unknown technology. but your group of dysfunctional soldiers and scientists are incompetent, unsympathetic and a bunch of humorless whiners. much as i like finding out what O’Neil, Carter and Jackson are doing now, having them visit your ( Read more... )

i am currently reading and liking "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," the literary mash-up that made mash-ups - a practice common among nerdy fanboys and girls -- legit and profitable and apparently extensible (the author has another book about Abraham Lincoln being a vampire hunter!). what is there not to like? spunky heroine, socially-awkward ( Read more... )

finally a happy House season finale. 20 years of foreplay is just too freaking long even for tv characters. the House writers can now start plotting how to wreck the House/Cuddy romance. i'm fine with that because dude my fictional OTP is now unequivocally canon. the only other times i've been this addled because of a tv show was when Mulder ( Read more... )

today's my birthday and i'm thinking about my dead father, and how i miss him terribly. i'm sure psychoanalysts have something clever to say about why this is so, maybe it's some complex undefined unconscious whatchamacallit or the intertwined meanings of birth and death surfacing on the day you're supposed to contemplate life, specifically your ( Read more... )

you know you're married for life when you get a brand new ref as a birthday gift from your husband. speaking of, this new refrigerator is our 4th one. our first ref was a hand-me down from my in-laws. the second one we bought with our own money. the third one i bought myself. there is a metaphor somewhere in there, but i'm too lazy to think deep. ( Read more... )

how easy it’d be to play hookie if i work from this building. i can tell the boss i’m taking the day off because i’m seeing spots. and i’d be able to say it convincingly. (umm.. that sounded funny in my head) http://www.jasonbruges.com/projects/uk-projects/