I love pop culture analysis, I love podcasts with pop culture analysis, I love podcasts which include women's voices in pop culture analysis. So why, WHY, it is that every* women I hear on these shows (*sample size = 2) has apparently never seen any James Bond movies (or maybe 1 or 2)?? I had seen them ALL (at least all that were made at the time, ( Read more... )

So, in the course of my usual I'm-overwhelmed-so-let's-go-drown-in-fanfic coping mechanism, I finally reached the breaking point with several fanfic tropes. And of course must now expound upon them for a bit, just to check my Reality Meter with other normal (more or less) adults.

No. 1. What the H*** is up with the hair holding while vomiting???? ( Read more... )

ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH! Let the outrage begin!!!! Ok. So, the first version of Pride and Prejudice I ever saw was the old Lawrence Olivier/Greer Garson version from 1940. This was back when I was about 13 and well before I'd read the book. I thought it was light-hearted and funny and generally a great film - okay, so I was 13 but still, it made me ( Read more... )

God, I've been so fucking depressed lately! Pissing me off. Can't get anything done, and don't really care. I know some is PMS-related, but not all of it. Just went out to the northwest (got to be there for all the snow! Way cool.) And I was surprised to find that far from my interest being stimulated from being someplace new, I was more ( Read more... )

So I'm already blowing off the real world to write fic. Surprise, surprise. It's amazing how this town just sucks out my will to live. And chews it up and spits it out and then drives over it with an army of gas-guzzling pickup trucks. And of course I could only watch 3 sets of the Roddick/Youzhny match because they had to bump the rest to ( Read more... )