All FOX is good for is Faux News (thank you Rupert Murdoch) and prematurely cancelling good, smart TV or cool sci-fi TV (which is often one and the same). Over the years they have canned many a brilliant show, probs because they cater to idiots and right wing extremists (as if there's a difference...) and killing many of them before some of the best episodes or finales even got to air:
-Arrested Development
-Wonderfalls
-Fastlane (beautifully shot and action-packed, big screen style)
-Tru Calling (ok so it wan't *great*, but it was Eliza Dushku)
-Dark Angel
-Firefly
-Futurama (I liked it on and off)
-Undeclared (I've been an Apatow fan from the beginning)
(note: I also think they let programs like That 70's Show and X-Files run too long until they started to go bad/wrong...)
Actually, I own a good chunk of these series on DVD. Great stuff. But now, in the grand FOX tradition of cancelling sci-fi/fantasy shows, The Sarah Connor Chronicles has been canned and things aren't looking good for Dollhouse. In fact, only 12 of the 13 Dollhouse Season 1 episodes are going to air. I guess we are all supposed to dumb ourselves down and watch Don't Forget The Lyrics or Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader. I do hear good things about Fringe, but seeing as how it's a sci-fi series on FOX, I shouldn't jump in and get attached because it will probably suddenly be cancelled next week. No, I'm not bitter. What would ever give you that idea?
(yes, I sort of stole the phonetic WTF from Ms. Snarker but it goes so well with my post and all, being that the Actives/Dolls of Dollhouse are named for said alphabet. And yes, I like to speak in parentheticals.)
UPDATE: Apparently all the buzz on the interwebs today has caused even more articles/blogs to be written to try and clarify things. Dollhouse has not actually been cancelled, but a second season still hasn't been confirmed either. There were actually 14 episodes shot, but one was a scrapped pilot that was cannibalized into the other 12 'main' episodes. 'Episode 13' (the one with Felicia Day and Janina Gavankar) exists as an apparent coda to the first season, but is not considered part of the main storyline, it's a stand-alone of sorts. That episode is not going to be aired. It will be on the DVD. Episode 12 is considered the season finale. It sort of ties things up, sort of opens doors for season 2, but is not a big cliffhanger.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Why Not?
I did that 25 Things About Me deal a while back on FB and decided to repost it here so that the... 2 of you that read this blog (because you actually find me to be interesting?) can read it and learn a weird thing or two about me. Believe it or not, I left some of the more horrible things off (I could actually add at least 5 more major injuries to the list, but I stuck to bones and left off the real bloody ones...)
1. I get really motion sick on the bus/train if I sit backwards. If it’s also hot... I’m better off walking.
2. My fingers are sort of double jointed. Interpret that as you will.
3. If I like a band/song I tend to get really obsessed with them for a while. So much so that it’s all I will listen to for months. I will scrounge up demos and obscure things on YouTube... and read every bit of info I can find. Meeting favorite musicians have been the only times in my life when I’ve been star struck.
4. I have eleven extra holes in my head. I want another ear piercing or two, maybe a lip or labret. But no piercings that aren’t on my head.
5. I have 16 individual tattoos, but some have started to combine together into larger pieces. I’m going to start working on #17 next week (April 17th).
6. I’m afraid that one day I will drink waaay to much at a bar/party and someone will ask me to take off my shirt to show off my tattoos... and I will. My friends will encourage this activity.
7. I am really nerdy about many things, like TV. shows. For a while I wanted a Battlestar Galactica tattoo... I still might.
8. I hate big (drunken) parties. I get really uncomfortable, especially if I don’t know a lot of people. I think it has something to do with my childhood and having alcoholic family members.
9. I can clap with one hand. Interestingly enough it sounds just like two hands clapping. (verbatim from Moo’s list cuz it’s also true for me!)
10. I still sleep with stuffed animals a lot of the time. I like to snuggle.
11. I’ve never been a good sleeper. I can get by on 3-4 hours a night.
12. I get really anxious about things. Lately I’ve been having panic attacks in the middle of the night over nothing. It’s less than fun...
13. I'm a pesco-pollo-ovo -lacto ‘vegetarian’, but it’s easier to just say that I don’t eat red meat or pork... I don't eat much poultry or fish at home, just when I go out. I could never give up salmon.
14. People constantly think that I'm much older or younger than I am. No one gets it right.
15. When I was 6 or 7 I jumped off a table into a kiddie pool and sprained both my ankles and fractured pretty much all of my toes. I was staying with my mom’s boyfriend’s ex-wife at the time.
16. When I was 12 I was ice skating and I fell down, tripping my friend, and she landed on my arm and it broke. My arm swelled up and got stuck in the elastic cuff of my puffy winter coat. I called my stepdad who was home sleeping (because he worked nights) and he was so out of it he hung up on me.
17. When I was 21(?) I slipped in the shower right before Christmas, kicked the faucet really hard and horribly horrible broke my toe. They almost had to do surgery to fix it. My mom kept wanting to pull on it to straighten it out and my best friend wanted to call me Niner. It still bends funny.
18. This guy, Tony, used to live on our couch when I was little. He raised tanks of angelfish on our bar. My babysitter’s best friend also used to come over in the middle of the night a lot when her stepdad beat her. If my mom had it her way we probably would have been running a halfway house. We both like to take care of people and fix things...
19. I am a bastard. My mom and dad were never married. I didn’t really see my dad until I was 4 and we didn’t really speak from when I was 8 until I was 22.
20. I have a half brother and two half sisters. I had another half brother that passed away almost 5 years ago. To me, the half part is not at all important.
21. My sisters are fraternal twins. I didn’t get to meet them until they were 15.
22. The same day my brother died, my car also got broken into and all my cds were stolen. I was meeting Hoobastank at the time.
23. The only time I’ve ever left the country was to drive into Canada for lunch one day.
24. When I was 13 I fell asleep while reading and my bed sheet caught on fire from the small reading lamp. My mom woke up for no reason and came in to check on me and my little brother. In all the commotion of my mom ripping the burning sheet and lamp from me/my bed I didn’t even really wake up. I was just like, ‘Oh’ and laid back down and kept sleeping. The next day I was really confused as to why my room smelled like burning plastic... I wasn’t allowed another reading lamp for a while.
25. My name isn’t what it was supposed to be. My mom wanted my first name to be Elisabet or Lizbet (a German form of Elizabeth) but the nurse wrote me down as Elizabeth Jones. My mom didn’t want me to have my father’s last name either, but she could only afford the court fees/paperwork for one name change. She changed my last name to her maiden name and left my first name as Elizabeth.
1. I get really motion sick on the bus/train if I sit backwards. If it’s also hot... I’m better off walking.
2. My fingers are sort of double jointed. Interpret that as you will.
3. If I like a band/song I tend to get really obsessed with them for a while. So much so that it’s all I will listen to for months. I will scrounge up demos and obscure things on YouTube... and read every bit of info I can find. Meeting favorite musicians have been the only times in my life when I’ve been star struck.
4. I have eleven extra holes in my head. I want another ear piercing or two, maybe a lip or labret. But no piercings that aren’t on my head.
5. I have 16 individual tattoos, but some have started to combine together into larger pieces. I’m going to start working on #17 next week (April 17th).
6. I’m afraid that one day I will drink waaay to much at a bar/party and someone will ask me to take off my shirt to show off my tattoos... and I will. My friends will encourage this activity.
7. I am really nerdy about many things, like TV. shows. For a while I wanted a Battlestar Galactica tattoo... I still might.
8. I hate big (drunken) parties. I get really uncomfortable, especially if I don’t know a lot of people. I think it has something to do with my childhood and having alcoholic family members.
9. I can clap with one hand. Interestingly enough it sounds just like two hands clapping. (verbatim from Moo’s list cuz it’s also true for me!)
10. I still sleep with stuffed animals a lot of the time. I like to snuggle.
11. I’ve never been a good sleeper. I can get by on 3-4 hours a night.
12. I get really anxious about things. Lately I’ve been having panic attacks in the middle of the night over nothing. It’s less than fun...
13. I'm a pesco-pollo-ovo -lacto ‘vegetarian’, but it’s easier to just say that I don’t eat red meat or pork... I don't eat much poultry or fish at home, just when I go out. I could never give up salmon.
14. People constantly think that I'm much older or younger than I am. No one gets it right.
15. When I was 6 or 7 I jumped off a table into a kiddie pool and sprained both my ankles and fractured pretty much all of my toes. I was staying with my mom’s boyfriend’s ex-wife at the time.
16. When I was 12 I was ice skating and I fell down, tripping my friend, and she landed on my arm and it broke. My arm swelled up and got stuck in the elastic cuff of my puffy winter coat. I called my stepdad who was home sleeping (because he worked nights) and he was so out of it he hung up on me.
17. When I was 21(?) I slipped in the shower right before Christmas, kicked the faucet really hard and horribly horrible broke my toe. They almost had to do surgery to fix it. My mom kept wanting to pull on it to straighten it out and my best friend wanted to call me Niner. It still bends funny.
18. This guy, Tony, used to live on our couch when I was little. He raised tanks of angelfish on our bar. My babysitter’s best friend also used to come over in the middle of the night a lot when her stepdad beat her. If my mom had it her way we probably would have been running a halfway house. We both like to take care of people and fix things...
19. I am a bastard. My mom and dad were never married. I didn’t really see my dad until I was 4 and we didn’t really speak from when I was 8 until I was 22.
20. I have a half brother and two half sisters. I had another half brother that passed away almost 5 years ago. To me, the half part is not at all important.
21. My sisters are fraternal twins. I didn’t get to meet them until they were 15.
22. The same day my brother died, my car also got broken into and all my cds were stolen. I was meeting Hoobastank at the time.
23. The only time I’ve ever left the country was to drive into Canada for lunch one day.
24. When I was 13 I fell asleep while reading and my bed sheet caught on fire from the small reading lamp. My mom woke up for no reason and came in to check on me and my little brother. In all the commotion of my mom ripping the burning sheet and lamp from me/my bed I didn’t even really wake up. I was just like, ‘Oh’ and laid back down and kept sleeping. The next day I was really confused as to why my room smelled like burning plastic... I wasn’t allowed another reading lamp for a while.
25. My name isn’t what it was supposed to be. My mom wanted my first name to be Elisabet or Lizbet (a German form of Elizabeth) but the nurse wrote me down as Elizabeth Jones. My mom didn’t want me to have my father’s last name either, but she could only afford the court fees/paperwork for one name change. She changed my last name to her maiden name and left my first name as Elizabeth.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
What would you call it?
I have to name my construction 'painting' for class and I am at a loss for the right words or title. The whole idea was that the piece had to be completely design free and non-representational, everything had to be either painted over or part of a poured-on paint slurry. Colors were up to us, so I did mine in a rainbow pattern (yay). The background was originally just white but my instructor told me I had to paint it (yes, in between all the poured and painted bits) so I did it in black, white and greys to keep the rainbow and make it pop. I do get a musical feel from it, and not just from the cds- The yellow fabric stripes are reminiscent of a guitar neck as well. Any ideas? Help... (click to enlarge)
Wowzers, or And Then There Were Four
1- Massachusetts
2- Connecticut
3-California Iowa
4- Vermont!
The Vermont marriage bill to allow same-sex marriage passed through state congress (with record votes/in record time, it seemed), the stupid, ignorant governor vetoed the bill as promised, and then, THEN, the Vermont legislature voted and overrode the veto (23-5 Senate, 100-49 House)!! I hope Cali feels super salty today.
Also, the Iowa Senate Majority Leader, Mike Gronstal, blocked a proposal to bring up a constitutional amendment to ban the newly allowed same-sex marriage. It's brilliant, you have to watch it-
The other really great thing about the Vermont win is that, in the cases of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa, same-sex marriage rights were granted when the courts, via civil lawsuits, found same-sex marriage bans to be unconstitutional. Vermont was the first state to have a bill proposed and passed through legislature, without there having to be a lawsuit or supreme court involvement. That's major progress and words cannot describe how happy this makes me today. Twice in roughly a week. Wow. It's really something.
2- Connecticut
3-
4- Vermont!
The Vermont marriage bill to allow same-sex marriage passed through state congress (with record votes/in record time, it seemed), the stupid, ignorant governor vetoed the bill as promised, and then, THEN, the Vermont legislature voted and overrode the veto (23-5 Senate, 100-49 House)!! I hope Cali feels super salty today.
Also, the Iowa Senate Majority Leader, Mike Gronstal, blocked a proposal to bring up a constitutional amendment to ban the newly allowed same-sex marriage. It's brilliant, you have to watch it-
The other really great thing about the Vermont win is that, in the cases of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa, same-sex marriage rights were granted when the courts, via civil lawsuits, found same-sex marriage bans to be unconstitutional. Vermont was the first state to have a bill proposed and passed through legislature, without there having to be a lawsuit or supreme court involvement. That's major progress and words cannot describe how happy this makes me today. Twice in roughly a week. Wow. It's really something.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Weird Words
I ordered this brilliant Boober (Fraggle Rock) tshirt from 80stees but they apparently got it from somewhere else. And on the inside, where the tag (actual or screen printed) should be... is some sort of dictionary or manifesto. It's strange. I will try and transcribe it as it appears, as best I can (spelling, punctuation, spacing, etc.= sic):The Emperors New Clothes
MADE IN AMERICA
100% COTTON
Wash with care, do not mix with minty Greens,
or girlie pinks etc....... *iron on reverse*
Wash with cold water, take pride with this beauty, cheers.
DON'T TRAVEL OUTSIDE YOUR COUNTRY:
THERE ARE LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES, ESTUARY ENGLISH,
IT SOUNDS THE SAME, BUT IT'S NOT.
AVOID DEATH. IT CAN HURT.
COUNCIL ESTATE PRINCESS
COUNCIL ESTATE PRINCESS
PROJECT ROCK(IST)
trailer trash stories...
trailer trash stories...
ESTUARY ENGLISH, OR ENGLISH ENGLISH:
Pissed - Drunk, not angry.
Tomato/Geiser/deodorant/alluiminium/mate/dude
Bollox - Sucks, not the truth, a staple word.
Fag - Cigarette
Gaff - Apartment
innit - Is it not?
Corta Panda - quarter pound cheese burger
Fit - Attractive/hot
Easside - East Side
Donut/Muppet - idiot, no style, no class
Oi Oi - Traditional greeting
Up Tan/Dan Tan - Uptown/Downtown
Yafta - you must/obliged
Yooz - the assembled company
Cockney Slang - avin a bubble bath (having a laugh)
Rub a dub dub - Pub, Glory be - Tea, Fish & Shrimp - Pimp
Dog & Bone, Eau de Cologne - the phone. 4 by 4, boat & Oar - ?
Trouble and Strife - Wife. Milky Way, Cafe au Lait - Gay.
Very Chandelier, Buccaneer, Ginger beer - Queer.
Adam & Eve - Believe, Ooh La La - Bra.
Melvyn Bragg - Shag. Holyfield's Ear - Year.
Harry Dash - Flash. Laters.
ROCK(IST).
(ps- Blogger and I are not getting along w/r/t images and where they should go, what size they should be, how they can be moved/edited/etc. nor do we agree on my time zone or where paragraph breaks should go. ARgh.)
Friday, April 3, 2009
w00t to same-Sex marriage in the Midwest!
So first we had Massachusetts. Then we got Connecticut. Third was California, but then they reneged. But now we have a new #3, so California can suck it!
Today the Iowa Supreme Court UNANIMOUSLY struck down the same-sex marriage ban, stating that it was unconstitutional. Weeeee! You can read all about it here- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30027685/
Now only time will tell if Vermont can get their bill passed. The VT Governor must know what a jackass he is, especially after today.
Today the Iowa Supreme Court UNANIMOUSLY struck down the same-sex marriage ban, stating that it was unconstitutional. Weeeee! You can read all about it here- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30027685/
Now only time will tell if Vermont can get their bill passed. The VT Governor must know what a jackass he is, especially after today.
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