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The Newsroom
I'll start out by saying that I hated The West Wing. The few episodes I watched were transparent morality plays, showily contrasting Sorkin's own political opinions with the naked will to power, or with strawman versions of real-world opposing views. Even when I agreed with him, it made for cloying and uninteresting TV; the closest he got to really ( Read more... ) -
Voyage dans la lune
Rereading Tom Wolfe's famous (in some circles) article "Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died" reminds me of Miss St. George. She was an elderly friend of the family in my early childhood, an authentic spinster -- she insisted, not at all ironically, on the "Miss" -- who died when I was eight or nine years old. I remember her chiefly for her name, which ( Read more... ) -
Arguments that can be safely ignored in every case
Example #1: Men who accuse women of exploiting their sexuality to advance a media career.
How do we know this argument can be ignored? Simple: if it can be leveled against Felicia Day, a woman who unquestionably has contributed an enormous amount of creative work to popular culture (multiple acting roles, creation of her own web series, etc.), then ( Read more... ) -
Reddit Buffy Survey Results
http://s1242.photobucket.com/albums/gg522/bright_ephemera/ (You have to hover over the pictures and pick Zoom -> Original Size to read most of them.)
Some things I found surprising and/or cool:
-S3 and S6 are in a dead heat for favorite season! I've never seen S6 rank so high on a large poll.
-Spuffy is one of the top ships, beating out Bangel. Oddly ( Read more... ) -
ME3 Redux
So the Mass Effect 3 "Extended Cut" came out today. I YouTubed it (reloading the whole game on Origin and playing through the 2+ hour ending sequence seemed likely to have a poor return on investment), and it was pretty much what I expected it to be: technically an improvement, but still clinging stubbornly to the original's highly flawed "artistic ( Read more... ) -
Fic: A Meeting of Minds (BtVS/SPN)
This short fic was inspired by harsens_rob's post requesting Giles/Bobby intersections. It got me thinking: How would the two of them interact, and why? This is the result.
(I'm a hell of a lot more familiar with the Buffyverse than the Superverse, so please excuse any canonicity errors. It's set prior to the actual start of the Supernatural timeline, so Sam ( Read more... ) -
Happy 48th, Joss Whedon!
You don't look a day over awesome. -
Cthulhu 2012
This is probably the only post I'll make about the 2012 election, so I might as well get it out of the way before the real frenzy starts.
I will be voting for a third-party candidate this year. While there are several possibilities depending on who actually runs, at the moment I'm leaning toward the Libertarian Gary Johnson. He's a solidly anti-war ( Read more... ) -
Vindiciae contra tyrannos
This post is in honor of a personal hero of mine, whose name I don't even know and who probably died 23 years ago today.
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The OMWF Whodunit
Thesis: Xander did not actually summon Sweet in OMWF, Dawn did. (Inspired by discussion on the TVTropes WMG page - the second comment under this heading is mine.)
Evidence:- Xander is a terrible liar. This had long been established on the show -- see the Xander/Willow arc in early S3, for example. So how's he able to be so convincingly clueless for ( Read more... )