sundries

[rm]

Patty is feeling mostly better and the next seasons of Buffy and Angel have arrived. But, we won't be watching them tonight as we have tickets to Alvin Ailey.

Yesterday was long and stupid and I was pretty much non-verbal by the time I got home. Patty is thankfully very patient with me when I'm like that and I was able to wind down enough to sleep.

This weekend we may take a day-trip excursion to the beach. I also may bring my mother to Costco. Yeah, I'm scared too.

Anybody see Colbert last night? Was it just me or does he have a new writer? The show felt "edgier" (in a cranky, air quotes sort of way) and fail-y. Maybe it was just more racism and violence than I'm used to, evenin the face of the persona that is Colbert the host (as opposed to Colbert the performer performing Colbert) on the show.

Today you'll be able to read the first round stories in writerinadrawer, which is a fanfiction elimination competition for Torchwood fandom. Stories are shown without authors' names until after the voting is over and to vote you must provide reasons for your pick of the best and worst story of each round. I'm participating, mainly because I miss my fic output -- it soothes a place in me other projects don't. So I'm in it, maybe to win it, but mostly to write some stuff. The competition has a pretty wide variety of writers in it and the prompts are such we all have to stretch, so you should check it out. And that's all I can say about that.

Brittrack panelist application in for Dragon*Con.

Teen sailor located.

In Sweden 85% of men take paternity leave and it's considered weird if they don't. This is causing shifts in a lot of things, including the definition of masculinity. Let's think about all the reasons we can't get this done here, shall we?

Gay marriage passes in Iceland.

More anti-Muslim bigotry because of a proposed mosque near the WTC site.

French WWI cemetery desecrated with swastikas and other Nazi-related graffiti.

More as it happens, but you all never read this stuff if I don't post before 9:30.

Comments

[firefly124.livejournal.com]

I didn't see Colbert, but I did see both you and AfterElton tweet about it within seconds of each other, so now I'm very curious to know what was said.

you all never read this stuff if I don't post before 9:30.

I'll admit, it's rare that I think to come back and re-check to see what's been added once I've read the day's "sundries," whatever time that may happen.

I'm glad to hear Patty's feeling better. Have a blast at Alvin Ailey!

[rm.livejournal.com]

I can't remember the exact quote but it was racist liek WOAH. Add to that some random violence meant to simulate a meteor shower that evoked school bullying, some really over the top stuff about BP (which was actually sort of funny) and I was like WHAT HAPPENED HERE?

[firefly124.livejournal.com]

Wow. Yeah, that does sound over the top, even for him. Just poked around YouTube a bit, and it doesn't appear to be up yet, but it sounds like it will be sooner or later.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

He had two guys on to take opposing positions in a debate on the World Cup- one guy saying Americans don't like soccer, the other guy saying Americans should like it. The guy for soccer was arguing that soccer players are better athletes than those in other sports; making fun of (I think) football players, he said something like, "Those guys, they're seven feet tall and three hundred pounds, that's not normal! That's a freak of nature."

And Colbert replied, "Hey! They prefer to be called African Americans."

I think Colbert realized it was problematic as soon as he said it, because he got a weird look on his face, but it was all strange and off-putting.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I BLOCKED IT OUT IN MY TRAUMA.

The meteor thing also really disturbed me.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee. Well, also, you were doing other things at the time, and not just watching.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Like being totally non-functional on the couch?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

That takes lots of careful attention!