So, Toys R Us actually phoned me back, so since I was yelling about them in my last post, I thought I should actually update everyone on what happened. It was...fairly anticlimactic, as suspected? About as useless, but a little less indifferent.

( Cliff's Notes: A non-dismissive, respectful human called me, but ultimately nothing useful was concluded. )

So something weird happened the other day. I was in Toys R Us (as you are when you're bored and have nowhere else to go), with a friend. And his girlfriend texted him and said could he look out for a present she could give to a kid she knows who's in hospital, since we were there anyway, and she loves Disney stuff, and Jasmine is her favourite ( Read more... )

Hey guys - thanks to my flist, two things have been brought to my attention that I feel I ought to share. One is fun, the other is not fun.

The fun thing is that emmiere linked me to this piece of awesome:

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I love it for a couple of reasons. The music itself is not my favourite thing ever, though I like it. But I do really love her voice, it ( Read more... )

Today, my Ma called up the Council to sort out voting and stuff since she has very recently become a british citizen and now holds dual US/UK citizenship. The woman she spoke to told her she needed a british passport or she couldn't vote. My mother was really, really sure this was not true as long as she had evidence of her citizenship (in this ( Read more... )

Torchwood's got some well-problematic stuff going on with race. From what I can gather from my utterly-disconnected-to-current-fandom-way-out-of-date-radar, some people are trying to deny this with the whole, "british racism is different from american racism," thing. Which it is, but not in any way that makes Torchwood less problematic about race ( Read more... )

I haven't felt moved to write about Heroes this week, though I did enjoy it. Instead I'm going to tackle the few episodes of the Sarah Jane Adventures I've seen. Mild spoilers through the third episode follow!

( Suddenly, the Slitheen are Scary! )

Okay, first, the title. Why? Just…why? What is it supposed to mean? Apparently there’s supposed to be a comma in it (see above) but it still doesn’t make any sense.

( I’m convinced there’s a fantastic episode hiding in here somewhere. Here is what it could have been about: )