Because this has been me the past couple of days, here's a Zuko gif spam.  You're welcome.

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In the course of putting together this Leaky lecture, I have run across a website speculating about whether Hermione Granger or Christopher Chant would win in a fight, and about a dozen pitting Harry Potter against Harry Dresden.  I just do not understand why there is such a fascination among fan communities with hypothetical battles between ( Read more... )

Oh my heck, I do not think I can ever read the comments on Mark Watches Buffy again.  Or any other fan community.  But definitely not that one.

[shudder]

It's not the commenter's fault.  I have to assume zie is watching along with Mark and has only seen up through "Amends" and has no inkling of what zie typed.  But that doesn't mean I didn't ( Read more... )

This is the opposite of stopping it, Winger.

(I think this is the most I have salivated publicly since Balefest, which probably qualifies Joel McHale for some sort of award.  A really disturbing, kind of gross award.)

(Speaking of McHale-related superlatives, in that selfsame episode, he gave me the biggest “ Oh…!  [fans self] Oh, myyyy GAWD, [ ( Read more... )

I officially Do Not Appreciate Dan Brown.  I don't think it's worth my time and effort to enumerate all the ways Angels & Demons is an awful, awful book, but I will say that I cannot think of a single positive thing to say about it.  I am not being melodramatic; rather, I am telling the honest truth when I say I involuntarily wretched a couple of ( Read more... )

I love Dateline.  I don't, as it turns out, love 48 Hours ( Read more... )

Discovery Health is currently airing "Sex Robot," a...programme about...sex robots.  There was more creepy fucking misogyny in the first sixty seconds than I have heard all month...and I just lived through midterm elections in Lower Alabama ( Read more... )

Can someone - you know, someone other than me and everyone at Shakesville...and it would be particularly helpful if perhaps someone with a penis would come to my rescue, because obviously women's opinions about the world don't represent the views of the actual world and are coloured by our intense desire to bitch about every little thing - explain ( Read more... )

Because what the world needs - what it really, truly needs - is Goliath National Bank opening an advertising firm*.

We did all get the bit about Barney being "an adulterous thief, a hypocrite, a virgin-violator"****, right?  And we all understand that this sort of thing is only humourous on HIMYM because it only ever happens in his mind, and there's ( Read more... )

A commercial for The Office comes on, and Dad - who does not watch the show - mishears what Michael says.

"'That's the goods'?" he asks, as if to request clarification.

"'That's what she said.'" I answer, as if to clarify.

Awkward as all hells pause ensues.

During which I realize that he thinks I've just made an off-colour joke just for the sake of ( Read more... )