Sunday Round-Up
Oct. 18th, 2010 12:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
handful_ofdustLoved 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?
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Date: 2010-10-18 01:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-18 03:48 pm (UTC)That would be the someone I'd like, yes.
It's almost physical/chemical, like how I can recognize Jeff Bridges is a great actor, and yet still want to chew off my foot to avoid having to watch anything with him in it.
Interesting. I don't love him instinctively, as my parents do, but I am very fond of The Fisher King and it was to my immense surprise a couple of weeks ago that I found I enjoyed the hell out of The Big Lebowski.
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Date: 2010-10-18 04:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-18 07:30 pm (UTC)Dude, thanks for this phrase: it describes a phenomenon I have long noted but been unable to put a name to. It explains, for instance, why I don't love Lois McMaster Bujold as much as some other people do - I mean, I do really like her stuff, but it does get a bit wearing that all the characters we're meant to sympathize with are so awesome at what they do. They screw up, sure, and bad things do result, but they screw up like an annoying guy in a job interview: "My flaws? Well, sometimes I'm so focused on my task that I don't take proper care of myself, and neglect the people close to me! I don't always think through all the moral consequences of the shit I'm getting accomplished so well!" Nobody's screw-up is ever "Man, I just wasn't feeling super motivated that day."