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New birthday, new winds -- turn, turn, turn
Hello to friends ( Read more... ) -
'Checkpoint' day
A very big 'Checkpoint' day yesterday where a parent's possible terminal medical crisis involving my sisters (the older of whom is Glory-esque, I'm persuaded she maintains the appearance of sanity solely by draining brains) made me recognize, as I'd never realized previously, that I have the power in this balance -- something I've never wanted ( Read more... ) -
William, Creature of the Dreadful Night: or When William Met Buffy (in fits and starts)
She had been quite right. He needed a woman. Someone to hold him together at this moment ( Read more... ) -
The Unversed Doctor
Tho' I like the pairing of Matt Smith & Karen Gillan, what's really lacking in this season/series is the poetry of the DT years -- the rather unnerving and often beautiful bits, like the vacuous crew-woman in the ep that introduced River Song (can't think of its name right now) who's devoured & there's only a feedback echo of her left -- deeply ( Read more... ) -
Book Me
"1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to ( Read more... ) -
And now, the Proust questionnaire
Since the tv meme put me in the narcissistic mind-frame, the Proust Questionnaire:
What is your most marked characteristic?
Loquacity; or, negatively, talkativeness
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Calmness
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Self-assurance
What do you most value in your friends?
The ability to assess people & ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Day 16: Your guilty pleasure show --
LAW & ORDER: SVU - It's a cactus wholly bristling with fraud & manipulation, pretending to be something it's not -- I know what it is, and I go to it all the same
Day 17: Favorite mini series -
JOHN ADAMS - Laura Linney is Abigail Adams, and with Paul Giamatti, she brought the viewer entirely into that marriage ( Read more... ) -
TV Meme-eographed in a night
Swiping from shadowkat who swiped it from elsewhere ;) . . .
Day 01 - A show that never should have been cancelled :
LOU GRANT - This newsroom show was really & truly about journalism in the age when journalism really really mattered and it set a pattern for ensemble workplace shows. It was axed over the title actor's visible activism ( Read more... ) -
How racists advance
The ploy that racists have used in the last decade or more is that we Americans are "beyond" racism. This was the thesis of one reactionary author's book & undergirds the support given to Arizona's utterly racist "illegal immigration" law, which is in actuality a law designed to give the appearance of legality to the disfranchisement & ( Read more... ) -
Joss Whedon's Poetics of Space
Joss' commentary for "Objects in Space", the concluding ep of "Firefly", offers a much more convincing case for the impossibility of carrying Buffy into two dimensions than any of the elaborate arguments against canonicity have done ( Read more... )