Talking about pop culture

[magwana]

Alyssa Rosenberg's blog is fantastic. She's got a critical, almost outsider-ish perspective that comes from being severely limited in her pop culture options as a child and a teen. It's interesting, and fun, and smart. I love reading it, even when I don't particularly care about the topic at hand.

Her post on Bones pretty much sums up the things I

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[winding_path]

I just can't bring myself to try again.

If I quit now, I can still watch the first two seasons and enjoy them. Those are the characters I love.

But there isn't a single thing I liked about the show that they didn't undercut last season, and I don't want to risk getting so embittered that I can't even watch the stuff from before it went Deep End.

[magwana]

I think that's absolutely fair and I don't blame you a bit. I think I was always slightly less invested in the show - and also, the things they did to Booth were slightly less egregious than the things they did to Angela and Temperance (brain tumor aside, which I ignore, because, REALLY?).

Also, Cyndi Lauper was on! And Cyndi Lauper makes me happy. It wasn't a bad episode (though I only really half-watched it) but it also didn't make me fall back in love with the show, either. It just sort of gave me a sad, sick sort of hope.

[cal_boudicca]

Hi! This is Tad Williams. Please excuse the interruption to your regularly scheduled bloggery. People here have mentioned my work, or love fantasy and science fiction, so I just wanted to pop in and say that anyone interested in reading a chapter from my new book, SHADOWRISE, should drop an email to:

deborah.shazam@batnet.com

and we'll send one to you. We won't do anything rotten with your email address, either, we promise.

Thanks - Tad