I got some dragstrip courage

HATED IT. *snaps*

Watching the Dawson tortures Reid episode of Criminal Minds right now. The couple times I've seen it I can't help but be reminded of two other bits of pop culture ephemera: Frailty and Supernatural.

The first time I saw Frailty, my initial thoughts were "Okay, Paxton's stranger than I thought and, yes, Powers Boothe remains as Powers Boothe-y as ever." However, what's more salient to this conversation is the thought I had after that. Y'see, first time I saw Frailty was, oh, I think about two seasons into Supernatural and I couldn't help but read this film as resembling almost an alternate universe version of the SPN storyline. Mother dead, two young boys raised by their dad, dad takes 'em out killing demons. Except, of course, the main tension in Frailty is caused by the older son's disbelief and the question of his father's sanity, making it an inverse of SPN in which not only is Dean unwaveringly loyal to his father but the question of sanity never arises (after all, the SPN universe relies of it's reality of the supernatural).

Watch some heavy John & Dean & Sam angst episodes back-to-back with Frailty and it will really hit you how very different the boys' lives could have been.

Which brings me to my point. Sitting here, watching this Criminal Minds a part of me began to think about how for all I love SPN and will continue to love it there is still a small part of me that would like to see something a little more psychological. Some part of me that would have liked to see SPN's set up but instead as an HBO series in which supernatural beings do not exist and in which Sam and Dean are children and are attempting to cope/figure out what to do now that their dad's gone plum loco. Just thought it might be interesting, is all.

The internet is a strange place. One of the most surreal things about it, I think, is the fact that someone can comment on something I wrote literally when I was a teenager as though it were still relevant today. I got a notification in my inbox today of a reply to a comment I wrote in a conversation I had YEARS ago in a comics forum about feminism in comics and someone - some strange person for whatever reason - found that conversation today and even though it is date stamped on the fucking site still felt the need to reply with great vehemence and let me know YEARS LATER that everyone in that conversation is a moron. Yet, the irony escapes them that they are the ones getting bent out of shape over the comments of a teenager in a YEARS OLD conversation. Egads. I mean, they saw this comment and it so enraged them that they never even entertained the possibility that I have long since been educated through the graduate level and taught at a university which maybe, just maybe, makes them look a tad bit foolish.

And, of course, the comment was anonymous.

Oh, internets, you iz crazy.

1. Bold the shows you watch/used to watch.
2. Italicize the shows you've seen at least one episode of.
3. Underline the shows you own on DVD (at least one season).
4. Post your answers.
[5. Turn it Red if you own ALL the seasons on DVD] - (If my bro owns it and I watch it I'm counting it)


50. Quantam Leap
49. Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars
47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
46. Sex in the City
45. Farscape
44. Cracker
43. Star Trek
42. Only Fools and Horses
41. Band of Brothers
40. Life on Mars
39. Monty Python
38. Curb Your Enthusiasm
37. Star Trek: The Next Generation
36. Father Ted
35. Alias
34. Frasier
33. CSI: Las Vegas
32. Babylon 5
31. Deadwood
30. Dexter
29. ER
28. Fawlty Towers
27. Six Feet Under
26. Red Dwarf
25.Futurama
24. Twin Peaks
23. The Office
22. The Shield
21. Angel
20. Blackadder
19. Scrubs
18. Arrested Development
17. South Park
16. Doctor Who
15 Heroes
14. Firefly
13. Battlestar Galactica
12. Family Guy
11. Seinfeld
10. Spaced
09. The X Files
08 The Wire
07. Friends
06. 24
05. Lost
04. The West Wing
03. The Sopranos
02. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
01. The Simpsons

*takes an imaginary baseball bat to the abstract concept which is the job market and proceeds to pummel it*

*sits down and pouts like a 2-year-old*

Bro: *points at me*

Me: *blinks* *pokes his finger*

Bro: WTF? This isn't 'Wonder Twin Powers - Activate!'

Me: *shrug* I thought it was an E.T. thing.

Bro: I was pointing at the light! I wanted you to turn it on!

Me: Well, you should have said that.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is all.


(Also, commercial breaks are evil.)

HOLIDAY REMINDER!

I need updated addresses for all of you for Holiday cards this year! Anyone who wants a card needs to email me their current address so I can update my files accordingly, PLEASE. Just in case I'll repost this reminder next month, too, my flisties. Just know that the further away you are the more lead-time I need to mail you something. Canada, I'm looking in your crappy postal system's direction.


HOLIDAY REMINDER!

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Oh, an for the record, I'm still laughing my ass off over last week.

HERPES!

That is all. ;)

I DOWNLOADED AN MP3 OF THE SITCOM THEME FROM keepaofthecheez AND I CANNOT STOP LISTENING TO IT! (It's "Bale Out" all over again!)

This is the first ep in awhile that I've had the need to watch a BILLIONTY times in a row just to laugh and analyze and laugh some more. Holy jeebus! Yet, oddly enough, now I also have "Guy Love" from Scrubs stuck in my head.

Anyway, flyby status update on life: nothing has really changed. However, things have happened. I met up with the lovely hansbekhart and her boyfriend and doggies last month which was truly excellent (and a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time coming). Homegirl came to town for a week and we enjoyed ignoring our miserably unemployed status together whilst celebrating Halloween (which we missed last year) and my b-day (ahhhhh, mid-20s, how crappy you are). And now I'm back to the grind. O, looming student loan bill, get thee from my sight!

Ah, technology!

Watching the end of Vampire Diaries on mute while listening to Kevin Smith discuss shark attacks is pretty goddamn hilarious.

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I want an episode of Supernatural that opens with Lucifer-in-Sam in the white suit. He's standing in some sort of cheesy, Barbara Walters-style interview parlor complete with soft focus camera and flower arrangements. He's busy either stoking the hellfire in his fireplace or else poking at his Wall O' Damned Souls (a la The Devil's Advocate) when he looks up at the camera, smiles, and says "Oh, hello. Didn't see you there!" and proceeds to launch into an introduction to his talk show - Luci! - before sitting down to interview his first "guest" a.k.a. a hunter strung up on a torture rack. Then he takes calls from viewers. It's all very Sally-meets-Jesus & Pals-meets-Barbara Walters complete with lilting music and plenty of reaction shots of Lucifer with the condescending smile.

Bro: If I had a band our first single would be "Wake Up (Spooning with Satan)"

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In conclusion: That was one pretty, pretty car. Good GOD, ya'll!

Only makes sense if you've seen a Joy Ride movie.

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My weekend thus far

Friday night, bed @ 1am. Saturday morning, awake @ 4am and up @ 4:24. Drive parents to airport. 5am, driving back from airport. On the way back from the airport, my brother and I were discussing the new season of Supernatural which lead to the following exchange...

Me: So, like, last season was kinda partly about how Dean was all pissy 'cause Sam was with Ruby all the time and not telling him shit so maybe then this season - obviously, the season will be about them learning to be bros again - but maybe it will be Sam getting all jealous 'cause Dean doesn't trust him the same and 'cause he and Castiel are hanging all the time and like, like...

Him: Bro-in' it up?

Me: Yeah!

Him: All fist pound-age an' shit?

Me: Yeah, an', like, watching SportsCenter and things like that.

Him: And Sam's left out.

Me: Yeah, Sam's all, like, Sad Puppy 'cause Dean's supposed to be his bro. But Castiel an' Dean are having bro-time 'cause Dean's all betrayed.

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And so then I crash around 7:40pm last night, woke around 4-something, then crashed again until sometime around 9:40, 9:45. Now I'm still feeling tired and ugh and on top of it I'm STILL sick (the meds from Dr. Douchebag did nothing) so I've gotta go to the doc again tomorrow and get a for reals diagnosis and some meds that will actually help.

Obviously, I shall cut for spoilers lest you have not seen it yet.

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