sundries

[rm]

Thanks to Patty, yes, I have seen SinFest over the last several days.

http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3210
http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3211

It's really the braces that kill me.

Meanwhile, Top 100 Hot Butches.

We're having a Pepper Frenzy. There are currently 4 peppers on one plant (soon to be as many as nine -- one bud broke off); and buds on the other two plants.

- The Czech bush tomato plant finally has two tiny tomatoes growing.

- Green zebras continue to grow.

- Flowers on other tomato plants, unsure if there are tomatos yet.

- Have noticed some small insects that seem to be breeding on some of the tomato plants -- little white things that then turn into little green things. Is this symbiosis or do I need to intervene? And if so, how? My instinct is to clean the leaves with rubbing alcohol, but I don't imagine that's good for the plants. Help!

- The basil is managing well and we've been eating a lot of it.

- The rosemary and lavender have both taken various hits from birds trying to take them for nest materials, but overall are doing well.

Still reading The Angel's Cut. More when I am done -- it's nice to be reading again. Wish I knew a little bit less about the period of this book, not that the author gets is wrong at all, but I'm doo aware of the non-fictional versions of some of her characters. Also, am now noticing some of the themes she insists on visiting over and over again, and I feel.... disturbed. But again, more later!

Oh yay, new Torchwood tie-in novels are in the mail to me!

We just bought ALL THE TICKETS EVER to the BAM Next Wave festival as well as to Street Car (Cate! Sydney people! yay!)

I can't wait for July. This month is Kicking My Ass.

When I've time, lots on Iran, journalism, Neda, etc. It may not be until July.

Need to go look over a pegging fic for someone.

Woah. Audition excitement. Neat.

Am caught up on True Blood.

Lovely. Crazy Fred Phelps & Co. are now targeting Jews.

Am totally wondering what America will think of the pretty awful Merlin. It's diverting enough, but I don't resonate with any of the characters, find the show utterly devoid of emotional logic and just keep watching for the "what the fuck?" factor. I get being amused by it, as I am and Patty and I have been watching it and are entertained, but I don't get the degree to which people are into it. Gay subtext does not automatically make a show worthy of our attention, fandom.

Oh my glamorous life!

Comments

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

I just started True Blood last week. Bizzare - who'd a thunk I'd watch a soap opera!

The intro credits are truly disturbing though.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I am really attached to it, but I think I twitched when a friend of mine watched all of season 1 and proclaimed that it was good, but it was adult Twilight. Because she's kinda right. A little.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Definitely in the relationship stuff between Sookie and Bill. I can't tell if I'm turned off by their shit because it's overwrought, because it's heterosexual or because I'm just way too into actually owning my own sexuality.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I think for me, because I done went and read all the books, that I don't much like the Sookie/Bill for the sheer...sap? of it. On the other hand, I understand that Sookie has the right to act like a lovesick (mistyped that as "lovesuck" lol) idiot a little because she's never been able to have a relationship before, and everyone gets one mulligan. Bill, however, has no excuse. Nor does his accent. So it might just be the awkward nature of their relationship for me.

Now Tara, and her "big ass mutherfucking Paul Bunyan pig" antics? Sign me up for some more of that.

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm much more interested in the other characters than Sookie and Bill. I like Sam best, so far.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I like Eric (hey, I'm predictable) and his highlights! Also, as peripheral characters, Hoyt Fortinberry and Terry Bellefleur are two of my favorites. Oh Terry, ILU.

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

It's true that the shape of their relationship is very sappy but ... at the same time I sort of wonder why there's such a contrast between those two and the rest of the show - whomever's making it must see that contrast.

My private imagining is that Sookie is crazy, as in batshit crazy, and the body language and the way the character is acted really doesn't contradict that interpretation. Her reactions to things are so *off*, often for reasons that can't be easily identified.

I also find interesting that since she can't read Bill's mind (can she read other vampires? it wasn't clear in her visit to the bar), we actually have no idea as to the real motivations behind his actions and the very casual way he killed uncle molestor suggests that his motivations are more complicated than getting the pretty girl and settling donw in a rundown little town in Louisana.

It's the sort of universe where you know things don't end well but watch anyway. I do wish they'd spend a *little* more time on trying to figure out whose doing the killings though.

I think the think I like best about this show is that ... they've intentionally kept the trappings of modern supernatual ala Hamilton but instead of the 'poor misunderstood vampires' of her novels, the vampires are, for the most part, as evil and nasty as supposed prejudice paints them.