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coatkneedee needs about $200 to prevent legal action from being taken against her for an old tuition bill. $$, advice for dealing with collections agencies, job leads in the region, etc. all of potential use. (Go, Team Internet! the immediate part of the $$ crisis is solved).

The Yes Men are responsible for hoax about proposed (fake) bill requiring gay Utah citizens to accept "treatment" or leave the state. Who's more pissed now? Gay folks or Utah? via ravenskye8.

On the on sex and the off-label use of our bodies. via _fx. Note: this post is on the Blowfish blog. There's no NSFW images on the page, but it is part of the Blowfish sex-toy shop website.

Same-sex marriages start in DC today.

sparkindarkness has a roundup of anti-LGBTQ evil.

The more literate a country is, the more likely it is for its citizens to prefer boy babies over girls. via reannon.

Frozen Dead Guy Days 2010.

Okay, I've been a little grumpy about this Tron remake thing. I mean, I _love_ Tron, but it also seemed to be the movie on the TV every single time I wound up in the ER in college (from my own medical mishaps to friends getting gay bashed). But then popfiend linked to the trailer for the new thingy. Um, yeah, I'm on board. Also can I just pause to say that there were some things about the '80s that were fucking great? I loved how much time we spent obsessing on how sexy the future was going to be solely because we really fucking hated Reagan and hey, let's play Space Invaders.

Last night we finished season 3 or Buffy, and started season 4.

I really don't know why the Buffy/Angel plotline annoys me SO MUCH. It's well done. It hits all the right notes. It's the kind of emotional suffering I tend to care about. But somehow I don't get why either of them like each other. And I feel like a hypocrite about that considering I'm all over the Jack/Ianto relationship which has a lot of the same problems (they get together WHY? the age difference is WHAT?). Maybe it's just that David Boreanaz's acting is nothing to write home about. Don't know.

LOVED the moment when all the kids stand up to fight. That's some fantastic shit. Was, believe it or not, sort of sad to see the principal get eaten. Don't love the psychic coma Buffy/Faith crap (yes, I'm complaining about a lack of realism in a show with demon ascensions, shut up).

What the hell was that whole Wesley/Cordelia thing? Like, worst kiss ever because they apparently have negative chemistry in actual practice or because Wesley has no experience at all or what? Sadly, I still sort of like them together in a where's the Cordelia/Wesley pegging fic, thanks way.

And Giles! He gets around, now doesn't he?

Also, Sunnydale U. is so conspicuously the high school set redressed it's hilarious. (Except apparently I'm wrong and just think everything in California looks alike).

Comments

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

My favourite thing about the Buffy/Angel relationship was how they moved on from it. Which doesn't really speak well for the thing itself, I know, but it makes it easier to go back and watch in retrospect. I like the way it kind of comes to feel like a thing they both did together and had to do, but they do both move on and grow past it and it gets to a point where it's just not going to happen no matter what their circumstances because they're both different people. That felt realistic to me, which I kind of appreciated, because I'm far too shrivelled up and cynical for that true-romance-world-ending-love kind of thing.

On a slight tangent too, I must say, I had doubts about DB's acting, even loving him in Angel, until I saw him in Bones, because I felt his character there has such a different energy to Angel, he must really have something going on.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I don't think DB is a terrible actor, I think he's just good at playing a very ordinary guy (vampirism or whatever aside) and that doesn't resonate for me. Whereas I can often overlook some of JB's more awful acting moments because the character is so odd, it still works for me.

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't mean to imply I thought he was bad either - on the contrary, I really do love both him and his character - I just had some doubts about his range. Like, Angel has a lot of stillness and small gestures, and that does work for me, but I wasn't clear if that was necessarily deliberate not doing much or just not doing much. If that makes sense.

I'm with you on JB though - I can handwave so much of Jack's weird stuff, because who the hell knows what constitutes normal body language or boundaries for a 51st century guy.

[rm.livejournal.com]

And, bad line deliveries on shit lines ("the worst creatures you can imagine") = idiom that translates badly. It's the only way I can get through it.

[rhiannonstone.livejournal.com]

That's interesting! My partner and I just started watching Bones a couple months ago--catching up with a few seasons in parallel because it's syndicated on a bunch of different channels--and we've both commented that Booth and Angel are the same character in a lot of ways: they're both old-fashioned, caretakers in an almost overbearing sort of way, loving/nervous fathers, and have huge hearts.

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more in terms of their physical energy. Angel is very still, very composed, makes small gestures, doesn't give much away, while Booth is this huge huge fidget, all over the place, always doing stuff with his hands and his face and his body, big gestures, expressive face. Angel is lurky in the shadows, while Booth acts like he's the centre of every room he's in. Just in terms of presence, they don't remind me of each other at all, which I thought was quite a feat given they have the same face. Mileage may vary, of course :)

[moljn.livejournal.com]

I remember watching Bones when it started and being really impressed with DB. I'd enjoyed him well enough in Angel, but would probably have characterized him as kind of wooden with the occasional brilliant deadpan delivery.

Bones, though, like you said, gave him something to do, and now he's classed in my mind as this great physical actor. The proof of the pudding will be in his future roles, I guess, but with Booth, at least, DB uses body language beautifully and the way it seems so natural and effortless is a joy to watch.