Shows that make me happy this week: Elementary, Running Man, Ouran ( Read more... )

Despite waking up in a horrendous mood on Sunday, this week has actually been excellent so far. It's hard to be down when my emotions are being buoyed in every direction, from actual hockey news (!!) to SJM everything, and Daily Show & Colbert Report are back, and Running Man continues to be hilarious ( Read more... )

1. It's been two years since I've had borsch but it's still fucking delicious.

2. I...finally fell in love with beautiful hardcovers. Yes, years behind everyone else, probably. I've grown up always appreciating mass market paperbacks the most because they're cheap and light and made for easy reading and carrying around and, importantly for the ( Read more... )

While reading the news today, I ran across an article detailing last night's hockey game between the Carolina Hurricanes and the Washington Capitals and realized, torn somewhere between horror and fascination, that I recognized some of these names. Thanks, fic. I told you I learned useful factoids! Somehow, I'd always pictured Eric Staal sort of ( Read more... )

Having been watching Running Man nonstop over the weekend, I've been immersed in the general-Asian-culture specific-Korean-culture attitudes towards social hierarchies and the carefully delineated relationships of respect between people of different ages, or between people who essentially "came first" and "came later". Much of the older-sibling/ ( Read more... )

So I've been spending the weekend watching Running Man from the beginning, rather than just cherry-picking episodes with guests I knew, and it's been a hilarious experience. It's also been frustrating because I made the mistake of reading Youtube comments (oh Mei, you know better) and now I have a lot of FEELINGS I would like to express, but I'll ( Read more... )