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handful_ofdust) wrote2010-10-18 12:04 am
handful_ofdust) wrote2010-10-18 12:04 am
Sunday Round-Up
Loved both Rubicon and Mad Men tonight, both of which left off in very interesting places. We spent much of Saturday looking after my Mom, who's on antibiotics for something, and much of today shopping for winter clothes for Cal. We also got him a media plan for the iPad, which has still to be set up. Then I made dinner while Steve watched Cloverfield, got pretty drunk, watched my own share of TV, etc. And on Monday, I start Chapter Fifteen.
This week is going to be all about moving toward Saturday, which is the SpecFic Colloquium: Hopefully getting a haircut and my eyebrows done, putting together an outfit and an argument/lecture notes, etc. Meanwhile, I find myself thinking at least a bit about Hallowe'en, which was once my favourite holiday, and has since become as negligible as every other damn holiday to me--the type of thing where you occasionally look up, say: "Oh shit, is that today?", and do...nothing much. At least we've already bought Cal a costume, though he hates it: "No monkey." Yeah, whatever, kid: You'll wear the monkey, go to school and out trick-or-treating, and then we're damn well done. Like it or don't, it's happening.
Still--he's been pretty negotiable-with overall, which is all I ask for. Earlier today he started covering his ears and reciting the intro to Law & Order: SVU over and over ad nauseam, until I said: "Man, just do something else. I don't really care what--anything's good." And he immediately switched to reciting The Cat in the Hat, which was acceptable. Communication.;)
Otherwise: I notice that Unpopular Fandom Opinions meme is making the rounds once again. Unfortunately, I think most of my fannish opinions are pretty consistently unpopular: Finding all Stargates dog-puke boring except for Universe, for example. Hating Due South and Merlin equally. Not hating on Supernatural for being the bad, bad women-and-POC-killing thing that it is. Not letting the end of BSG retroactively poison every other thing about it. The fact that BNF chicks are finally beginning to recognize Fringe as an extensive piece of goodness surprises me greatly, as does the fact that hey, I really do like A: TLA, like everybody told me I would. Still, I certainly more than make up for it by continuing to like horror movies and not give a fuck if there aren't "enough" women attached to something to make it "interesting", since the mere fact of my possessing a vagina doesn't really necessitate the inclusion of somebody with comparable genitals in any given narrative before I can find said narrative worth my time/attention.
In other news, last night Space got up to pre-Hallowe'en speed by showing The Mist, followed by The Fog (not the Carpenter version); this afternoon, they ran The Fog, followed by The Mist. And I'm really starting to look forward to The Walking Dead.
And that was my weekend, in a nutshell. You?
This week is going to be all about moving toward Saturday, which is the SpecFic Colloquium: Hopefully getting a haircut and my eyebrows done, putting together an outfit and an argument/lecture notes, etc. Meanwhile, I find myself thinking at least a bit about Hallowe'en, which was once my favourite holiday, and has since become as negligible as every other damn holiday to me--the type of thing where you occasionally look up, say: "Oh shit, is that today?", and do...nothing much. At least we've already bought Cal a costume, though he hates it: "No monkey." Yeah, whatever, kid: You'll wear the monkey, go to school and out trick-or-treating, and then we're damn well done. Like it or don't, it's happening.
Still--he's been pretty negotiable-with overall, which is all I ask for. Earlier today he started covering his ears and reciting the intro to Law & Order: SVU over and over ad nauseam, until I said: "Man, just do something else. I don't really care what--anything's good." And he immediately switched to reciting The Cat in the Hat, which was acceptable. Communication.;)
Otherwise: I notice that Unpopular Fandom Opinions meme is making the rounds once again. Unfortunately, I think most of my fannish opinions are pretty consistently unpopular: Finding all Stargates dog-puke boring except for Universe, for example. Hating Due South and Merlin equally. Not hating on Supernatural for being the bad, bad women-and-POC-killing thing that it is. Not letting the end of BSG retroactively poison every other thing about it. The fact that BNF chicks are finally beginning to recognize Fringe as an extensive piece of goodness surprises me greatly, as does the fact that hey, I really do like A: TLA, like everybody told me I would. Still, I certainly more than make up for it by continuing to like horror movies and not give a fuck if there aren't "enough" women attached to something to make it "interesting", since the mere fact of my possessing a vagina doesn't really necessitate the inclusion of somebody with comparable genitals in any given narrative before I can find said narrative worth my time/attention.
In other news, last night Space got up to pre-Hallowe'en speed by showing The Mist, followed by The Fog (not the Carpenter version); this afternoon, they ran The Fog, followed by The Mist. And I'm really starting to look forward to The Walking Dead.
And that was my weekend, in a nutshell. You?
Loads of fun and no commitments
...For some reason it's reminding me of a skit my older son and I were laughing at--it's a Japanese comedy duo (the skit's in Japanese), and they have this schtick of pretending to be foreigners learning Japanese. They stumble upon a Japanese language-learning book, and they start reading it, and it starts with oddish but normal things, and then, as they're reading along, the instructional phrases become,
"I don't understand ... I don't know... I think it's flour or something like that ... I don't understand ... I don't know ... I've never seen that syringe before .... those marks are just mosquito bites .... those plants just grew there on their own ... I photocopied that 100,000-yen note by mistake ... I know the photo looks nothing like me, but this is my passport."