a. I really want to be able to say, "God, Dollhouse was so boring and awful and vaguely offensive. Maybe Buffy was just over-rated?" But I just re-watched the third season of Buffy at the gym a couple months ago and it -- somehow, against all odds -- still manages to be under-rated as one of the best teen shows of all time. Dammit, Joss Whedon ( Read more... )

This is just a drive-by to note that Deadspin (the Gawker media empire's sports blog) discovered baseball RPS. Of the brothercest (JD Drew/Stephen Drew) variety.

Cartercest aficionados: Fuck y'all, we were into brothercest RPF when it was underground.
Wincest shippers: Who's the black sheep of fandom now, huh?
People who are in fandom and also ( Read more... )

I was going to post to the baseball blog today about Manny Ramirez, but there's this weird business with Blogger where they've locked a huge swath of blogs as spam, and Blogger Support is actually less useful and responsive than LJ Abuse. But this is what I was going to say:
Recently Joe Posnanski wrote this great post about Brett Favre. Basically ( Read more... )

1. I write to you from my summer home in the scenic Sonoma County wine country, and by that I mean my parents' house, where my younger brother is currently spending is annual 3/4ths of the year living with them rent-free, so I don't even get a bed, although I have been upgraded from the couch to an air mattress that only needs to be re-inflated ( Read more... )

if you are already feeling bummed out and sorry for yourself, i do not recommend getting caught in a rain storm without an umbrella and allowing "if she wants me" by belle and sebastian to come up on the shuffle of your portable electronic music device of choice. (triple threat of songs that, if i am feeling anything less than barney stinson levels ( Read more... )

last night's episode of supernatural reminded me an interview with ron moore where he and the interviewer talk about how the biggest problem with star trek: voyager was that they made the episode year of hell and then they ( hit the re-set button )

the red sox won the world series and i was elated, and then i fell down into an embarrassing post-partum depression-esque shame spiral. thanks to my playoff lifestyle, i got sick, and i fell down into a hazy whiskey-fueled fog. then the patriots beat wretchface mcsweatervest the homophobe king and his little fetal alcohol syndrome baby, dawson ( Read more... )

i feel like i haven't slept in a week, probably because i haven't slept in a week. seven out of the last eight night, i have caught the very last red line train home, and i have drank too much cheap beer, and i've chewed off my fingernails and i wouldn't have it any other way.


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awesome weekend or AWESOMEST WEEKEND?

friday: stars concert! if you like this band at all, please see their live show, they are wooooooonderful torquil campbell looked more continuously delighted to be performing music for a living than anyone i've seen in a long time (and weirdly reminded me of alton brown, or how alton brown would act if he ( Read more... )

this is my fifth year living on the east coast and traveling to see my family on the west coast, and (when i was ... younger? oh, jesus christ) i used to be really good at jerking my internal clock back and forth between time zones. this past week, i couldn't get on pacific time to save my life, i kept falling asleep at eight-thirty at waking up at ( Read more... )