1. Done teaching for 2010!!! Still have what feels like a year's worth of grading to do, though...

2. Last two minutes of last night's Castle: too much even by their own admittedly cheeseball standards? Was there an allusion I failed to catch?

3. Is there a Sydney Bristow vid to Dar Williams's "After All"? If not, I suspect this is a situation ( Read more... )

The problem, I think, is that most of the television I've been watching lately isn't worth talking about. For a good part of the last year or so, that's exactly what I've needed--the more brainless, the better! I'm starting to miss good, thinky TV, though, and I suspect that soon enough I'll be tapping my fingers impatiently: where is my shiny, new ( Read more... )

I haven't made a fannish (or public) post in ages, it seems. Mostly this is because I'm only mildly engaged in fannish things at present, but that doesn't mean I have nothing to say. To wit:

1. femgenficathon stories are beginning to be posted today!!! I've read nothing so far, but I'm excited ( Read more... )

beccatoria posted a very crunchy and layered Jesse (TSCC) vid yesterday! Lots of layers, fabulous use of imagery to show connections that I hadn't ever put together before. Of course, so much of what I realize when I see people like Chaila and Becka vid this show is that the show itself was being so careful with its imagery, but I've typically been so caught ( Read more... )

In case anyone who cares didn't realize this: Lie to Me returns this evening! I admit I'm a little skeptical that the things I didn't like about the first half of season 2 will be perpetuated in the back half (especially after I saw an interview with one of the writers who basically said that turning it into The Show Where Cal Takes Lots of Stupid ( Read more... )

The other day I asked for drabble and five things prompts. Here are the first two (though I should try not to get quite so carried away with the others or I'll never finish...):

For chaila43: Five Times James Ellison Didn't Feel Like a Father

( assume spoilers for the whole series )

Tomorrow (quite possibly all day and all night) I expect to be engaged in the FINAL DISSERTATION PUSH, which is very exciting but not terribly conducive to LJ posting. Plus, today's meme topic has basically the same answer as yesterday's and tomorrow's is completely obvious, so have two days of the TV meme for the price of one:

Day 03 - Your ( Read more... )

Today was all full of "ohgodohgodohgod SO MUCH TO DO!!!!" again, so I may not reply to comments right away or, well, ever (I'll get better again after this whole dissertation thing is done, but I can't promise I'll catch up with the backlog). But I figured that falling off the wagon on the second day of a 30-day meme was kind of lame, so here we go ( Read more... )

This was inevitable, wasn't it? :) I've been trying to wrap my head around Gillian, and this seemed to be as good a way as any to do it. Unbetaed, mostly gen but including a bit of Gillian/Cal, assume spoilers for all aired episodes.

( Five Things Gillian Foster Has Never Told Anyone )

I have blazed through all the Lie to Me that there is so far, and I find myself a little disappointed. I really loved season 1. Season 2...much less so. And it's entirely because Gillian went from being an equal partner in the plot, with agency and an interesting role, to being a fairly one-note subordinate. If this continues through the rest of ( Read more... )