In the visual arts, I watched three DVDs this week:

( Happy Endings, season 2 disc 1 )

The controversy I was apparently alluding to in the 2007 post I quoted yesterday was so earth-shattering that it has its own section in LiveJournal's Wikipedia entry:

In May 2007, LiveJournal suspended approximately 500 accounts and communities, causing what news.com referred to as a "revolt" from "thousands of LiveJournal customers", after a ( Read more... )

In the visual arts, I watched five DVDs this week:

( Happy Endings, season 1 disc 2 )

UPDATE! Hey, I didn't think anyone would take my request for Hulu Plus account info seriously -- heck, I only meant about half seriously -- but thanks htbthomas! Community fans are the best.

UPDATE! Lisa says that she in fact was not interviewed by the RA selection committee on which I served, but neither of us know why she ended up serving as an RA there ( Read more... )

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Item the first: Community has been renewed for a fifth season! I am of course very pleased by this. I still love the show and value being part of the online fandom, so having both around for at least another year is something to be excited about. (Of course, I have quite a few friendships that have long outlasted the show we were fans of, and I ( Read more... )

In the visual arts, I watched three DVDs and one movie in a theater this week:

( Silver Linings Playbook )

You know, I've been a part of various online fandoms for almost 20 years, and if there's one thing I've learned in that time, it's that networks don't care about fans. Producers, maybe, but networks definitely not. All they care about is the total viewership, and even the largest fandom is but a small subset of that. So I would say it's always a ( Read more... )

Badass Digest writer Brian Collins didn't like the most recent episode of Community, particularly the setting in time of the flashbacks:

But more baffling - why is Abed telling people not to see 1999's Phantom Menace in 2008? They state the year more than once, and even throw up some posters of Prom Night and 88 Minutes (both conveniently Sony ( Read more... )

In the visual arts, I watched three DVDs this week plus two movies in a theater:

( Grimm, season 1 disc 1 )