The Caped Invader
In my current place of watching barely any TV because I am a communist who hates freedom (and also sleeps a lot), I did not realize that shows are starting again today.
Oh, except one. One which I will NEVER WATCH just based on the ads alone.
To advertise The Cape, NBC put a cape on a statue. Well, actually, they probably put many capes on many statues, and they probably did this a while ago, but I only pass one on my way to and from work every day and only if I walk a certain path that I normally don't [ETA- found an article about it!], so Friday was the first and only time I saw a regular statue of a dude with a GIANT BILLOWING CAPE.
I swear for a moment I thought it was, like, Dracula or fucking Batman or something, who had been turned into a statue, because if Dracula or Batman is real, why WOULDN'T something that can turn them into statues also be? Nothing's real or everything is. Come on, that's just science.
I should note that yesterday, when I walked by the ice rink, I didn't notice any of these capes by 30 Rock. It's possible they just didn't have appropriate statues and/or Prometheus does not play by those rules (and/or I missed it because I was just finishing Kneebone Boy and was VERY INTENSE, okay?), but more likely they figured out that it's FUCKING CREEPY and they wanted no part of it near their jobs, which I actually feel was a sign of intelligence. *shudder*
I also set up a post stickied at the top of my LJ/DW for keeping track of books I read in 2011, which is probably going to be edited a lot today because tomorrow is the ALA awards announcements and I have a pathological need to have read as many of the selections as possible, which you should feel free to check out if you have time and/or want to rec a book to me! Right now I'm reading the fifth of the shortlisted Morris Award books, so there's a pretty good chance I'll have read at least ONE book that walks away with an award. And then I'm reading Clockwork Three, and then... well, probably then the awards will have already been announced, so any pre-reading would be useless and I can jump right into reading the winners. And then back to normal reading- four parts manuscripts, three parts books that look interesting, two parts random lit crit, and one part Jellicoe. :D? :D?
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Oh, except one. One which I will NEVER WATCH just based on the ads alone.
To advertise The Cape, NBC put a cape on a statue. Well, actually, they probably put many capes on many statues, and they probably did this a while ago, but I only pass one on my way to and from work every day and only if I walk a certain path that I normally don't [ETA- found an article about it!], so Friday was the first and only time I saw a regular statue of a dude with a GIANT BILLOWING CAPE.
I swear for a moment I thought it was, like, Dracula or fucking Batman or something, who had been turned into a statue, because if Dracula or Batman is real, why WOULDN'T something that can turn them into statues also be? Nothing's real or everything is. Come on, that's just science.
I should note that yesterday, when I walked by the ice rink, I didn't notice any of these capes by 30 Rock. It's possible they just didn't have appropriate statues and/or Prometheus does not play by those rules (and/or I missed it because I was just finishing Kneebone Boy and was VERY INTENSE, okay?), but more likely they figured out that it's FUCKING CREEPY and they wanted no part of it near their jobs, which I actually feel was a sign of intelligence. *shudder*
I also set up a post stickied at the top of my LJ/DW for keeping track of books I read in 2011, which is probably going to be edited a lot today because tomorrow is the ALA awards announcements and I have a pathological need to have read as many of the selections as possible, which you should feel free to check out if you have time and/or want to rec a book to me! Right now I'm reading the fifth of the shortlisted Morris Award books, so there's a pretty good chance I'll have read at least ONE book that walks away with an award. And then I'm reading Clockwork Three, and then... well, probably then the awards will have already been announced, so any pre-reading would be useless and I can jump right into reading the winners. And then back to normal reading- four parts manuscripts, three parts books that look interesting, two parts random lit crit, and one part Jellicoe. :D? :D?
Cross-posted at http://fox1013.dreamwidth.org/40121.html. Comment wherever you feel more comfortable.