First, a link that is sort of wonderful and also sort of awful, via Language Log: XKCD did a survey about what people name different colors and sorted the results by gender differences. While they first found that men and women generally agreed on how to name most colors, then this happened:

Then I decided to calculate the "most masculine" and " ( Read more... )

MY THOUGHTS ON TV, LET ME SHOW YOU THEM

Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains: ARGHBLARGHARGH. I'm out of our household betting pool already because I picked Cirie and Tyson and we all know how that ended up. Now the focus shifts to cheering against Candice, Sandra, J.T., and Evil Russell so I don't owe anybody beer! Granted, there was some pretty ( Read more... )

Here's a fannish meme from
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First off: Beth Kinderman & the Player Characters will perform an electric show at the St. Paul Eagles Club on Saturday, February 6 at 9 p.m. Music starts at 8, the show is 18+, and the suggested donation at the door is $5. Once again, we've had relatively low fan response for this show so far, so please make it out if you can ( Read more... )

Please don't forget my band's show tonight! It's at 8:30 p.m. at the Acadia Cafe in Minneapolis, all ages, no cover. Come hear us debut a brand new song (which I hope will also be available for download soon, and which I bet a lot of you are really, really going to to like), among other things ( Read more... )

I think that might be the best, most evil cliffhanger I've ever seen. It can't be 2010 soon enough.

Also I can't believe that we're ( spoilers )

I must admit that I laughed my ass off watching Lost last night when the whole episode turned out to be about ( spoiler )

dayzdark and I watched the second-to-last disc of Doctor Who season 4 the other night. While watching the preview that followed "Midnight" I noted that the line "It's not as if things can get any worse" was immediately followed by shots of Rose. I LAUGHED THROUGH BITTER TEARS OF IRONY ( Read more... )

The Unpopular Fandom Opinions Meme01. Post this on your journal ( Read more... )

A couple of quick notes and disclaimers before I get into the meat of this post: I am speaking from a feminist perspective here, which I know may not appeal to all of my flist. If that's not something you want to hear about, you may not want to read past the cut. Also, what's behind the cut contains recent and not-so-recent spoilers for various ( Read more... )