I try not to be one of those fans, but last night's Community episode prompted me to find my inner Comic Book Guy and say, "Worst. Episode. Ever." That's probably a bit unfair and hyperbolic, but it's certainly true to say there's never been an episode of Community I enjoyed less than "G.I. Jeff."

A large part of my dissatisfaction stems from its ( Read more... )

At the sandwich shop the other day, we were listening, as we often do, to Pandora's classic rock station. They play about what you'd expect to hear on a classic rock station, which is to say mostly guitar-based rock from the 60s and 70s with occasional forays into the 80s. Most of the latter are by artists who got their start in the 60s or 70s but ( Read more... )

I'm still on that fanfic kick I mentioned a few weeks ago, which means I've been seeing a lot of things like this:

Disclaimer: I own nothing; it all belongs to J.K.Rowling. I'm just borrowing the characters to play with for a while. This is for pleasure only, no profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended.That's the disclaimer ( Read more... )

Down the hall from the calendar store where I work part-time is a young women's clothing store called Wet Seal. On a typical work day, I pass Wet Seal at least twice, which means that I've seen a lot of one particular advertising display they have near the entrance, a full-length photograph of a cute young woman with short, blonde hair wearing a ( Read more... )

I mentioned not long ago that at some point in the future I would be reading a book called Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere by Lucas Mann. I have arrived at that point; in fact, I'm almost past it, being now just 10 pages from the end.

I'm sorry to say I didn't think it was very good. It's fussy and overwritten; the author rarely lets ( Read more... )

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I have learned a new word: orthopraxy. I ran across it in this passage from Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement by Kathryn Joyce:

[Phillip] Lancaster promotes a Christian men's movement of "abiders" who "abide in Christ" by obeying His commandments and harkening to the "good old days" not of the 1950s but the 1700s, before ( Read more... )

So, I got that new floor. And a new bed frame and mattress. Well, not a new mattress, but a different one. My room isn't very big, and the landlady had the idea that I would be better served by the full-size mattress from her room, so we switched. Interestingly, it turned out that she didn't have a full-size mattress; she had a queen, just like me ( Read more... )

The controversy I was apparently alluding to in the 2007 post I quoted yesterday was so earth-shattering that it has its own section in LiveJournal's Wikipedia entry:

In May 2007, LiveJournal suspended approximately 500 accounts and communities, causing what news.com referred to as a "revolt" from "thousands of LiveJournal customers", after a ( Read more... )

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