Comments | lenadances: This is a hell of an interesting year already

lenadances

This is a hell of an interesting year already

Jan 09, 2008 10:29

Okay, so fandom-wise, we've got the fourth wall utterly COLLAPSING. TV-and-movie-wise, the strike continues so we get no Golden Globes (which, honestly, I'm fine with; awards shows are generally not my thing) and we still have no new TV (booooo) and all sorts of talk shows are now proceeding sans writers, which... I haven't heard yet how that's ( Read more... )

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kita0610 January 9 2008, 17:25:08 UTC

Yes.

Just, yes.

sophia_helix January 9 2008, 17:58:25 UTC

Totally ignoring all the serious and thoughtful content -- is the collapsing fourth wall about the bandslash stuff? I still have barely checked back into fandom and am out of date.

lenadances January 9 2008, 18:11:24 UTC

LOVE THE ICON.

And yeah, it's the bandslash stuff, PLUS the thing that confirmed the trend for me: Punk's flippantly "gay Vikings and psychic wolves and trolls and dubious consent issues AND YET IT'S NOT BAD" funny review getting linked and OMG'd by the author, which made me laugh until tears came. This year is HILARIOUS.

ETA: Oh God, and it turns out the author posts slash to LJ. THIS YEAR, MAN. THIS YEAR IS SO AWESOME.

sophia_helix January 9 2008, 18:17:09 UTC

Andy says thank you!

And actually... matociquala and truepenny are pretty active on LJ in semi-fannish circles and are good friends of Mely and some other folks, plus with some other scifi writers like Jo Walton (papersky). So it's not really that surprising. :)

lenadances January 9 2008, 18:20:46 UTC

Once I scrolled further down and saw truepenny I realized that, since I recognized her name. Didn't recognize the other one. But I do recognize papersky, too... although I had no idea that she and truepenny were real writer-type people.

I utterly love the world today. YAY WORLD.

jood January 9 2008, 22:11:04 UTC

I totally agree with you on the exciting possibility of having two history-makers as the top party contenders, even if I'm not personally on board with either. It will be interesting to hear the right-wing nutjobs try to find politically-correct ways to scream at their audiences, "You Liberal idiots only get to choose between a Negro and a Broad! Serves you right for being traitors!" Hee.

I don't mean to be a naysayer, but I think we could probably count down to McCain's position switch on "enhanced coercive interrogation techniques" if that's what it will take to get elected.

On the other hand, there is sunshine and mild weather and my presentation for tomorrow is finished and I'm going to shop for barrette-making supplies on the way home. So there is much good in the world. A woman even won a presidential primary. I'm not a fan of hers, but I am impressed at the gender ambivalence in New Hampshire.

kellychenault January 10 2008, 02:04:31 UTC

If someone put a gun to my head and said, "You must MUST vote republican," I'd probably vote for McCain. I've liked him for awhile, even though policy wise we don't often agree, I like him better than anyone in that crowd.

Hell, I like Huckabee better than Romney. I know Huckabee is a religious nutjob, but Romney is a scary religious nutjob. Also, I kinda like the idea of sales tax vs income tax (with exceptions for those of low income, of course) even though I know it would never come to pass. Huckabee won't win the nomination and even if he did and even if he was elected, I don't think he's got what it takes to disslove the IRS. More's the pity.

Anyhoo, this is most interested I've been in politics since the 1992 election.

lenadances January 10 2008, 04:15:46 UTC

Dude, Huckabee thought-- in 1992, mind you, not in 1982-- that it would be a fine idea to concentrate all the AIDS-infected gay people together. In temporary gatherings. Camps, perhaps. One might call them concentration camps.

He was recently given the chance to back down from that statement, and he refused.

When there's a lot of charming on top of mean-as-a-snakeness, I tend to find that even more fucking terrifying because America has an unfortunate habit of electing affable guys who run the place into the ground. All the Republican candidates are homophobic and sexist (the two really do go hand in hand) to some extent, but Huckabee's the only one who's topping the charts on that and still looks charming. That scares the shit out of me.

kellychenault January 10 2008, 15:29:46 UTC

Well, he is a nut-job.

You're totally right, though. He's affable, and has a sense of humor, and yet he thinks things that are just plain wrong. I'm not saying I'd vote for him. Even if you put a gun to my head. But even so, I still find Romney more distateful. Perhaps it's because he's all the evil without any of the personality.

Actually, I think it'd be great if Romney actually made the nomination, if only because I don't think he could carry the nation. I think he'd turn off the majority of independents. Unless Hillary gets the nomination. For some reason, independents don't seem to like her.

rfkfortheusa January 10 2008, 04:39:00 UTC

what's obama done in the senate? other than taking a seat for an hour before declaring that he was running for president?

the votes he has cast in his few days as a us senator match clinton's 90% of the time. and i don't believe he has the experience with politicking to bring us the land of hope and rainbows and magical dancing elves he promises.

i do heart edwards, because i think it takes guts to talk to the middle class about the poor. truth to power, baby.

but as between the two frontrunners, i'd rather have a real shot at minor changes than tilt at a fantasy.