HOT FUZZ: GREAT MOVIE, OR GREATEST MOVIE? discuss.

in other news, i'm watching angel season five on the tivo, and i had forgotten how desperately wrecked both "you're welcome" and "a hole in the world" made me the first time around. i can't say that i was any particular sort of 'shipper in the angel fandom, because i was partial to a variety of ( Read more... )

guys, if you like sports night, you should totally go read everything that was posted for putting the sports back in sports night -- every single story is fantastic, and exactly what i was craving when i thought this challenge up. i'm so pleased! it was like a birthday present ALL FOR ME when stories were posted on thursday ( Read more... )

( bobby -- including SPOILERS (though if you are like the middle-aged man sitting behind us who was surprised by the fact that bobby kennedy got shot, i ... don't really know what to say to you. bobby kennedy was shot and killed in 1968. this is not a spoiler, this is history. there are, however, spoilers for the movie behind this cut tag.) )

did i loan someone my copy of raymond carver's what we talk about when we talk about love? i can't remember if i loaned it out or just lost it (both are possibilities; i tend to trail stray books all over the place like i'm a personal walking library, which is why i've had to replace certain favorites three and four times), and i was craving it ( Read more... )

i'm not sure why asb, ashley and i decided to go see snakes on a plane - except for the fact that it was, well, snakes on a plane - given that all three of us are scared of snakes, and i particularly belong to the shriek and scale the furniture or the nearest available tall person indiana jones school of snake phobia. that said, ( do i need to warn you that there were snakes on the plane? )

on tuesday, oracleasb, quicknow and i went to see wordplay - which i'd wanted to see since asb and i saw trailers featuring jon stewart before thank you for smoking - and it was a truly fantastic little documentary. compelling, funny, and genuinely charming without being saccharine. i can't recommend it enough; it's possibly the best movie i've seen all year. A ( Read more... )

paraphrased recreation of a conversation had this week:minervacat: i think i should write spin city fic.
oracleasb: usually i encourage your crazy ideas, but this time, i think, just ... no.
minervacat: yeah, i guess so ... but carter was canonically gay! it would be so easy!
oracleasb: seriously. no.
sometimes i stop and take a long hard look at my life and think how the hell did i ( Read more... )

can somebody send me dolly's nominated song? because i fucking loved that, and i missed it when it was free on itunes a couple of weeks ago. ha, apparently it's still free on itunes. I STILL NEED "HARD OUT HERE FOR A PIMP", though, because honestly, people, that ROCKED.

( the actual awards bit )

i have SO MUCH WORK to do tonight and i'm glued to the tv and i hate microsoft access like burning. LIKE BUUUUURNING ( Read more... )

( west wing 7x12: internal displacement )