You'll never know what you'll find.
I knew the Yoplait commercials were gay. Here's proof, from the latest one.
Two chicks are in a spa eating chocolate Yoplait. They compare it to various things, finally concluding 'Like dating a masseuse good.'
From dictionary.com:
mas·seuse
n.
A woman who gives massages professionally.
Proof.
Sometimes I'll see a movie listed in the TV schedule that I want to watch. So I turn it there only to discover it's DVD on TV or Dinner and a Movie or some other crap like it. Where every five minutes, they interrupt the movie to have a little chat with the co-hosts (and possibly special guest) about the movie, or about something totally unrelated. Maybe they'll be cooking (dude, this isn't Food Network) or maybe they'll show you an extra from the DVD (dude, this is not going to entice me to buy the DVD and I hate being shown the extras before I've seen all of the movie). Sometimes their comments even ruin the movie either by a spoiler or by going behind-the-scenes and ruining the magic before you've even had a chance to fully experience said magic.
It's all just pointless and annoying. This is why I don't listen to the radio. I don't want to hear your 'witty' banter. Just show me the movie and go away.
Dateline's been doing tons of shows on online predators. They get guys to come to their house to meet a young girl (is it always a girl? hmmmm) and then confront them with what they're doing. Then arrest them.
Are they doing a service? Are they catching people? Are they stopping others? Are they educating kids and parents?
Or are they enjoying this just a little too much? They seem to like quoting from the online conversations and showing blurred images of genitals.
One or two episodes, sure. But when you make it a regular feature.. just who is your audience?
And where are the female predators?
Hey, I'm not a reporter. I can sensationalize a title if I want. Apparently Rowling won an argument to carry her working manuscript of HP7 as carryon on a plane.
You can read about it here.
I'm left with some questions.
1) Why wouldn't they let her carry it on? Why was this even an issue? Paper is contraband now?
2) Why was she lugging around the entire manuscript in paper format?
3) How could she stand having only one handwritten copy of stuff? That would freak me out.
I went to read it straight from her website, but it didn't clear these things up for me.
I'm disappointed in the last episode of House. The one with the kid who was abducted by aliens. They took too long to come up with chimaerism as the reason for the kid's 'alien DNA'. It seemed blatantly obvious to me. I was willing to give them the commercial break cliffhanger, but then there's another whole scene where they're talking about it and NONE of them come up with it. Then they go through the entire section before the next commercial in blissful cluelessness, and another half section after that. Until finally his brilliant revelation in the parking garage.
I don't even think it was necessary that it be a big mystery for as long as it was. They could've still gone ahead with their cancer-like tagging, surgery, and further confusion over the hallucinations.
I can't even let it slide as House being depressed and distracted. I mean, come on, surely House on a bad day has to be better than me.
I also don't think that alien chip in the back of the neck was adequately explained.
P.S. Wilson needs to be smacked.
I'll be going to Albacon with Dad this year. Peter David is going to be there, which was the initial draw. However, I'm just ready for a con. A dealer's room, panels, and geeks in costume. It would be nice if they'd put up some information about panels on their website. I don't need a specific schedule. I don't care if some panels get dropped before the con. I'd just like an idea. Surely there's more going on Saturday than the art show and the banquet!
So people know I've looked at Clarion in the past and keep almost doing it. The lack of stories was the major problem. (Only because I did my best to ignore the financial problem.) I've been doing better on the story front, though I wouldn't say I have anything new polished since the last submission deadline. So I had hopes for 2007.
Some of the authors/editors that were (are) going to be at 2007 are, well, at least names I've heard of! Cory Doctorow cowrote the quite good Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction. And Mary Ann Mohanraj compiled the really cool Alternative Sexualities in Fantasy and SF List.
So that was really cool. And Clarion was my choice over Clarion West because it seemed more likely I'd get a scholarship of some sort. Plus, it's closer. And the original.
Clarion's moving though. To San Diego. I don't know what to make of that. How can you have Clarion and Clarion West when they're both west? Is Seattle at least more west than San Diego? I probably would've flown anyway, so I guess the cost won't be much different. It's just weird.
And creepy. The press release is dated September 11, 2006. Ominous much?
Now I've missed the chance to be the last class in the old location, like I managed to do when I rode Pirates of the Carribbean the last day before they closed it for a movie remodel.
I don't know much about San Diego. It's in California. Okay, so I guess that's about all I know. I wish it had been San Francisco. There's like, y'know, a bridge, and a Japantown. And, presumably, nuclear wessels.
Oh. San Diego Comic Con. Well. That's something. Not that I'm interested in comics, but it's heyuuuge, right? Probably some cool guests and a good dealer's room and things to do. It occurs during the workshop.
Wow. San Diego is crazy south. Near Tijuana. Now that would be a trip. Brush up on my Espanol and get me a passport.
It'd be just my luck if California fell into the ocean next summer.
So they're taking applications starting in January. That's a good target. Beats aiming for the final deadline. :P
I'm not so sure I should be giving Harlan Ellison more publicity and attention by even mentioning his name, nor do I want to seem obsessed with him, but I did run across this blog entry that I think is good.
Adding to my list of lists, I've put up a list of Hugo award-winning novels and Nebula award-winning novels. You can get at them over in the sidebar. I've only marked as read the ones I know I've read. There's a couple I may have started and not finished, or may have even read, but don't remember. This is especially true of the older 'classic' stuff by 'masters'.
I hope I have read Man in the High Castle, because I'm not at all inclined to read a Phillip K. Dick novel now. Or ever again.
There's a new commercial for Star Wars DVDs. Why these are different from earlier Star Wars DVDs, I don't know. And I don't care. What I want to comment on is the little girl who says, all cutely of course, that she wants a Wookiee as a pet.
Excuse me? A pet? Wookiees are a sentient race with their own civilization and culture. You cannot have one as a pet!
Where did this idea come from? Did this girl get the impression that Chewbacca was Han Solo's pet? Or perhaps a step higher, slave? But he can't be a slave, because he's too cute and you can't understand what he's saying. So clearly he's a pet instead. Not even a slave.
Is this the reaction our species is going to have when we make contact with aliens? If they're cute, then they'll be our pets?
At least the girl had the brains to pick the Wookiee over the Ewok. If you're going to have a pet, might as well have one that can beat up your big brother for you.
More, what's it say that they let this part into the commercial? Why did no one contradict this little girl's idea of keeping a sentient being as a pet?
Last month I read 20 books! That's like, a whole lot, for me. Don't look at the list too closely or you'll start counting the kid's books and manga on there. So to keep on track with last year, I need to read 3 this month. I've already read 1. Two to go!
I can do maths me.
(There's a joke most of you won't get.)