Over the past few months I've been working my way through a full rewatch of The West Wing, concluding in a 2 1/2-day mainline of season 7 when I was home sick this week. My initial watching had not been that methodical. I didn't start at the beginning, but did watch regularly from season 2-ish through season 5-ish when it was airing. Then the end ( Read more... )

I have a number of fics I want to be working on, but I can't quite seem to get back in the fic writing groove. So I'm soliciting drabble/five things prompts: I'll write a drabble or five things for the first five people to comment (possibly more if I feel like it, but I'm only committing to five at this point). Y'all know more or less what I watch/ ( Read more... )

Have yesterday and today together:

Day 08 - A show everyone should watch

I think I will try to take that "everyone" as literally as possible and go for the show I think is both awesome and has wide appeal. There are a number of shows that I think people who like certain kinds of television would love and should watch (Farscape, for instance, for ( Read more... )

The best kinds of shows are the ones with character journeys that dig so deep and hit so hard that years later you can think of the group of characters--these people you knew and loved while you watched them grow and learn and struggle and love--and it's like the best kind of punch in the gut, the best kind of achey adoration. And the best kinds of ( Read more... )

Apparently it's Quote Leo McGarry Day. I'm not sure why today, but I'm definitely in favor of such an occasion. My very favorite Leo quote, which came to mean even more to me during this past election season:

Because I'm tired of it, year after year after year after year, having to choose between the lesser of who cares, of trying to get myself ( Read more... )

( Toby does textual criticism, omg! )

The sun finally came out again after several days of rain, and I've been shut in my carrel all day, so I decided to go for a walk--yay! Except at the end of it I arrived at Queen Video, just had to step in, and once there, just had to rent season 1 of The West Wing. Also yay, but I think coming home with 22 hours of TV sort of defeats the whole " ( Read more... )