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Of course, after Patty finishes her comps _then_ I wind up with a work weekend from hell. Today's goal -- no LJ after I post this. I want to be home, and I want to clean all the things (okay, one area of all the things), because I'm sick of letting it hover over me. Also, we have important things to do like seeing if Merlin still sucks.

Stranded is the magazine of the volcano. Put together on the fly during the Eyjafjallajökull-caused closing of European airspace, the magazine features stories by and about those stranded by the unprecedented situation. I'd actually been assigned a story and a photographer when we got a flight out, so I'm not a part of it, but I'm going to get a copy as an awesome souvenir of Patty and I's UK odyssey. Plus the $18.95 purchase price goes to benefit the International Rescue Committee.

New Yorkers: Tomorrow is primary day in our state. If you are eligible to vote in a primary please do so.

Gabourney Sidibe is one of 4 cover models for the new issue of Elle. Which seemed pretty awesome until jnanacandra pointed out in comments they they used photoshop to lighten her skin. Not cool, Elle, not cool. (We can also, I think, reasonably complain about the way we can't see her body. The shot is much closer than the other models).

Brutal, but still not Wolfram & Hart: The making and unmaking of partners at Goldman Sachs.

Kristof responds to the appalling recent piece in The New Republic about the value of Muslim lives to Muslims. If you missed the original item, he quotes the relevant bits.

From street vendor to shop owner.

Lady Gaga appeared at the MTV music video awards with an escort of four soldiers dismissed under DADT.

CNN has a bit of an oopsie with "Are gay characters bad for society?"

Interview with Baz Luhrmann from a while ago. It's 22 minutes long, and I don't think any of you care, but the thing where the reporter asks him a question while he's trying to pour tea and then he keeps gesturing with the Limoges teapot for a really long time is pretty lolzy.

The True Blood finale: I missed pretty much all of the season before, this, so I'm not engaged with it the way other people are, but I have some complaints:

1. Bill is a creepy asshole. He's also boring.
2. Not a complaint: Eric and Pam are the bomb.
3. Tara used to be the most awesome character. Now she's a bucketfull of kinda offensive cliches. The writers need to fix this.
4. Cement? For serious? It was lolzy on Torchwood and agonizing here.
5. Okay, the whole faerie plotline annoys the crap outta me.
6. Lafayette is awesome, so how about we don't turn him into another person with a crappy victim narrative?

I love heightened realities. But this show doesn't quite work for me. And yet, I still want to know what happens next.

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[eandh99.livejournal.com]

2. Not a complaint: Eric and Pam are the bomb
It doesn't matter how much True Blood you watch or don't watch, the above is an eternal truth. I would be the biggest TB fan in the world if it focused on Eric and Pam. Also - Eric/Pam vs Jack/Ianto, compare and contrast? Starting with the impeccable dress sense and the unerring snark, and carrying right on through "rescue from imprisonment in concrete".

[rm.livejournal.com]

YES. ALL THE YES IN THE WORLD.

Pam is proof we can have female characters that are just as compelling as male characters. It doesn't take a cock to be awesome in fandom terms.

I love how deeply Pam and Eric love each other, how they're both preoccupied by their separate lives, how she's largely more competent than him, how whether they are in love or not is both a huge question and totally irrelevant. I look at Pam (who is a lot more femme than me), and she's the closest representation to my gender and sexuality I've ever seen on screen.

[eandh99.livejournal.com]

Pam is my favourite fandom character since Aeryn Sun in Farscape, I think. She's also hugely popular in the fandom itself - fangirls don't have to trash the female characters. I'm a fairly femme, fairly sarcastic dyke, so she's everything I've never had a representation of on TV before. And she rocks those stopstaring dresses in real life.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I want Pam/Ianto friendship fic (wth Jack/Eric being all "are they talking about us? Shit" in the background) hot like burning now.

[eandh99.livejournal.com]

Eric/Jack could be fun too, or it could go very very dark. Wouldn't an immortal Jack be irrestible vampcandy?

There's a great scene in the first episode of this season where both Sookie and Pam walk in on Eric having sex with a woman. Sookie is trying and failing not to look at Eric, Pam doesn't even bother with Eric (meh, same old same old) and ogles the naked woman. I can see Ianto reacting to Jack in much the same way.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, yes, I totally saw that.

And I agree, there could be some seriously dark/fucked up Jack/Eric. I normally don't like putting vampires into non-vampire universes, but that shit could work.