me and my TV

[renenet]

I want my brain back. I don't know where it's gone. I have a half-finished post about genre, lawlessness, and loyalty in Deadwood and vague notions that I should report on other TV I've been watching. Nothing major, but, for example, I find that Futurama grows on one like mold on cheese. But in a good way, like Roquefort. Also, the lesbians of

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[par_avion]

Still haven't watched Deadwood. I should get on that.

I go back and forth on The L Word. I actually missed the last one or two eps, but Shane! I like Shane.

Joan/Amber really got to me on Friday. Sniff. There aren't many shows that can make me really feel that teen angst.

I have a similar high horse, which I was discussing recently in oursin's journal. I wish more people would read this book.

"Talk show hosts are convinced that 'bisexuality' is a cover for unbridled lust, or what bisexual activists prefer to call 'nonmonogamy.' Never mind that monosexuals, straight and gay, have practiced enthusiastic nonmonogamy for centuries."

Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life by Marjorie Garber, 1995.

[renenet]

As a personal gesture to you (and also because it's been vaguely on my radar for a while) I looked up the book you mentioned and wrote the call number on my palm in blue ink. I didn't get around to checking it out today, but I can still make out that call number. ;)

Shane! *Everyone* loves Shane. And for good reason. I still have an episode or two of the first season left to watch myself. (If you are looking to catch up on the show I have all of the episodes in SVCD format and would be glad to share whatever you missed.) I'm not in super duper fannish love with the show, but I'm attached to many of the characters and it serves a certain I-haven't-been-spending-enough-time-around-other-queer-people substitution function for me.

[heresluck]

Not to impinge on your library patronage, but I've got the Garber book if you wanna borrow it.

[renenet]

Yeah, I was pretty sure that I remembered seeing it on your bookshelf. The library copy is in the same (admittedly very large room) where I work every day, so I'm more likely to borrow that one but not until I'm done with a couple of things I'm reading now. Thanks!

[elynross]

Bisexuality is such an obvious concept to me that I'm always made terribly cranky when people both queer and straight act like it doesn't exist or like it's anathema.

I get this. I get annoyed with things like "Willow is now gay, because she's dating a woman," as if Oz was some kind of mistake, and if she were to date a guy again, this would somehow be bad. Or Andrew, who, rather than somehow being bi (which makes sense to me) or more probably omnisexually geeky, is suddenly being "reformed" to be straight because he's shown with two women. Okay, I get that interfaced with the theme of "change" it could be taken that way, and I'd rather have had a hunky guy and a pretty girl, but given how he lunged at Spike and was all flirty, I certainly didn't take it as saying he'd turned straight.

Sigh.