Taking a break from self-pity to focus on dorkier pursuits. Like convincing everyone I know to watch my latest TV obsession, The Middleman.

It's sort of like a Pushing Daisies-Doctor Who hybrid, as far as humor goes. It's also kind of like a living, breathing comic book, which makes sense as its adapted from a comic book of the same name, ( Read more... )

Repo! The Genetic Opera is just good for fandom, I think ( Read more... )

During the whole Moonlight debacle, someone on Fandom Wank asked what it is about vampire fandoms that make people act so crazy.

Someone else responded:
I think there have been a couple of attempts to examine the psychology of it, floating around the Twilight wank ( Read more... )

Out of all the many, many LJ entries I missed while on vacation this weekend, I think this one might be my favorite. And it's spawned quite an impressive dialogue!

Were the Doctor and Rose doing it?My little fangirl heart could go either way, honestly, if it weren't for the end of "Doomsday." Someone brought up that the moment when Rose mentions ( Read more... )

I was totally doing okay with this "Not Continually Ranting about Twilight" thing, but then it invaded my friends page today, and my body's natural reaction was to retch. Literally, I started to gag ( Read more... )

I was totally going to write an entry about the real story of Madame de Pompadour and how her actions throughout history don't really have any bearing to her depiction in fandom. But I'm really, really sleepy, so I'm going to read some H. G. Wells and avoid writing more tonight ( Read more... )

Holy crap, I was just listening to the Rifftrax for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets with Julia, and Bill Corbett, I think, started singing the rap from "Leggy Blonde."

The one Jemaine sings in the seventh episode of Flight of the Conchords:
ooh leggy blonde you ( Read more... )

I was driving to work today, and listening to this post-"Journey's End" mix I made to make myself feel better, and this song that I picked as their "Doomsday" song started to play, and...well, I started crying.

I know I'm a very silly girl, but it just makes me cry:
( To think I might not see those eyes... )

My mother, who is the most awesome mother ever, decided to buy me not just new clothes for work, not just a volume of C. S. Lewis religious writings, but series two of Doctor WhoThe list price is $100, which was way out of my price range, but I got a Borders 30% coupon in my e-mail...which still left it out of my price range. However, my mum ( Read more... )

( Thoughts )