18 short posts not about Glenn Gould

[jlh]

Let's see if I can make it that far!

1. The more I look at Ryan's new hair, the more I love it.
   
2. Speaking of Ryan, classy of E! not to run the Rhianna photo. Not classy of the NY Post to put it on the damn front page so it was unavoidable in the city on Friday.
   
3. Speaking of the Post not being classy, here's my favorite comment on the cartoon, from a commenter at Wonkette:

   i don’t know what genius thought a joke about being shot or monkeys within a hundred miles of anything having to do with obama’s left pinky, would go over well with the pajama wearing liberal bloggers. while it’s probably the least racist thing rupert’s ever been associated with, it also missed the whole point about cartoons being funny.

4. Because the thing is, Sean Delonas is so consistently unfunny and offensive that when I heard he was the one behind the monkey cartoon I was seriously unsurprised.
   
5. But that doesn't excuse the Post; a friend said to me that they expected no more of the tab but I'm not wiling to allow a major newspaper to be so overtly racist.
   
6. I don't expect much more from TMZ, either—though at $62.5M, the price for the Rhianna pic was cheap—but that doesn't mean their actions were "okay."
   
7. Someone may or may not have leaked the Oscar winners. I don't consider this spoilery because the last time something like this happened they were totally bogus. While I'll definitely be checking the winners against this list, like the website I wouldn't recommend using it to place a big bet in Vegas. (Also, knowing the oddsmakers there, they'd take this leak into consideration.)
   
8. The new U2 album got five stars from Rolling Stone. Huh.
   
9. I went to karaoke the other night. No U2 songs sung, but a lot of anime theme songs were sung. I was annoyed because NONE of my songs had videos, just lame chyron screens with the lyrics.
   
10. Have you noticed that the female Cylons have the same body type?
    
11. I'm sad that all the fashion blogs trashed MIA's Grammy outfits. I thought she looked adorable! So often these fashion blogs bitch about the samey-ness of the red carpets, but they only have themselves to blame. I watch Ryan and Giuliana on the red carpet because fun things happen, but I've stopped watching any kind of fashion police coverage. It's like the difference between Trinny and Susannah's approach and Stacy and Clinton's—Trinny and Susannah live the person's life, and that results in different looks; Stacy and Clinton make everyone look like Stacy, in black trousers and pointy high-heeled boots, no matter what their lives are like.
    
12. jenncho made manips for the AU! I'll make a post about them on Monday so everyone can see them.
    
13. Ricardo Montalban played a Japanese man in the movie Sayonara (1957). Oh Hollywood and your making everyone who wasn't Anglo the same, like black actors playing native americans in cowboy movies, or Paul Henreid, who was Austrian, playing a Czech, a Frenchman, a German, a Spaniard, an Arab sheik and an Iraqi. Or Omar Sharif, an Egyptian, who played everybody including a Russian doctor and an American gambler.
    
14. I'm up through BSG 3.13, and if not for the mythology, Chief and the fact that I've set up BSG as a sort of endurance test for myself, I would have ditched the show for the events of 3.12. I'm really looking forward to this show being over.
    
15. When it is, I'm going to treat myself to a marathon of the Mary Tyler Moore show before I go once more unto the breech, dear friends, to watch Firefly (the show Joss didn't have an opportunity to frack up).
    
16. See what I did there?
    
17. I'm not watching Dollhouse. I don't like Joss. wordplay thinks I'll be missing interesting things, but one thing BSG has taught me is that I can't watch a show that compartmentally; if I'm not interested in the main thrust of the show, little side issues won't be enough to keep me from wanting to reach through the screen and kill someone every time I watch it.
    
18. I may also have learned this from Heroes, which I was trying to watch for the race issues, and ended up finding a trial that must be endured. I'm thinking that television shows should not be a trial to be endured.

Later: liveblogging the Oscars!

Comments

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Seriously, it's the unfunny that's the first thing you notice.

Totally good call on the What Not To Wear differences. It drives me crazy the way those two react to words like "comfortable."

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Unfunny and using an allusion that many people wouldn't get anymore.

Ugh, they're such snobs and not in a good way.

[twoapennything.livejournal.com]

This is my favorite post of the weekend ♥ Just the exact kind of chatting that I needed to read today . . .

[jlh.livejournal.com]

♥ ♥ ♥ Thank you sweetie!

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

I've never really watched a Joss Whedon show before Dollhouse. Never got into Buffy or Firefly, but Dollhouse has really piqued my interest, and I say this as someone who never thought I'd have any interest in a Joss Whedon show. I'm hoping it's not nearly as byzantine as BSG, which I love but OMG I'm almost glad it's going to be over soon.

[shewalksonroses.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking that television shows should not be a trial to be endured.

YES. This is how I feel about SG-1 - I know so many people who love this show, but I've seen enough of it to know that I don't *want* to watch it, I don't enjoy it, and quite frankly I have better things to do with my time than watch ten seasons of a show I don't enjoy.

[lillijulianne.livejournal.com]

ah, the post. paper of record for men who still don't understand that the reason they can't get a break is not because they're straight, male, "white," or "christian"- who the hell do they think runs things anyway? they get, dimly, that they're being squeezed out. they do not get that all the "minorities" and "special interest groups" they think are squeezing them out are targets to which the actual squeezers have been successfully directing their rage since, oh, about 1980. they also don't get why they haven't gained any ground since, oh, about 1980. pray god this depression wakes them up the way the last one did their grandfathers. there are some hopeful signs.

i find it fascinating that you and i are SO alike yet buffy/heroes/BSG don't fly for you. it's not that i don't love the things you love in narrative, but i love other things that you don't.