* I saw the McCain thing today. He's now claiming to have never seen any evidence or testimony of the military doing things like hacking people's email to root out homosexuals, despite being on tape questioning people testifying about that very thing last winter. Given that he is claiming to have no memory of last March, I guess it's time to ask, is he going senile? I mean, it's not even a whole year, since he heard this testimony, and really the only choices are he's a lying hypocrite who would rather pretend to be senile than admit basic facts or he's actually senile. Given his massive personality change and complete disavowal of principles he held and championed two or three years ago (I'm not just talking about DADT here. He's done an about face on issues such as immigration, budget allocation, etc. as well), I'm really starting to worry. He used to be a decent, reasonable human being, and now he's this angry, hidebound, thinks with his emotions instead of his brain, denier of facts who claims not to remember events from less than a year ago. I don't recognize the man he was in the man he is now, and it freaks me out more than a little.
* I got only three hours of sleep today, for a variety of reasons.
* Snerk:
http://catalogliving.net/post/1161897347/the-cats-meow*
( Criminal Minds: )* I tried to watch the premiere of
The Event the other night, but the first half hour was slower than zombies playing monopoly, and I fell asleep for the rest. Clearly, no one explained editing to them, as cutting back and forth between action and really slow boring backstory scenes that could have been summed up in a minute or two just made it excruciatingly dull. Modern audiences are well trained to pick up basic relationships with cues they had already embedded in their footage. They could have boiled everything in the first 30 minutes or so to a 5-7 minute first act and then actually moved on to plot. When I fell asleep there were n signs that they planned to move on to actual stuff worth watching. If I'm checking my watch every minute or so and wishing for a fast forward button nigh constantly? Time to pick up the pace, folks. Keep the stuff with the president. Keep the stuff with the meetings with the spokeswoman, and the footage of the agent trying to stop the plane. boil down the cruise stuff to essentials establishing characters and relationships using shorthand. Shorten the plane footage a little since it won't need to stretch so hard to try and fail to hold up all the long boring cruise stuff, then get on with it.
Obviously, I won't be watching, as I have better things to do than watch paint dry.
* Last night I dreamed I was discussing Lucielle Ball with Ricky Richardo. I was all worked up over the difference between who she was off screen (a strong, intelligent business woman) and the politics of her infantilized on screen persona. He was all apologetic about it.
* Thank you, John Stewart, for your piece on the DADT blockage. Thank you, Mr. Colbert for the piece on the bizarre responses to Mr. Obama's address to students about the value of education.
* Someone tried to sell prints of their baby's poop. Um... eeew? Also, that poor kid. Imagine the embarrassment later on when schoolmates learn of it.
http://www.regretsy.com/2010/09/21/leonardo-da-stinky/* Word:
http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2010/09/22/sell-the-girls/* Nooooooo!
http://www.twilightlexicon.com/2010/09/22/twilight-themed-corn-maze-is-back/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TwilightLexicon+%28Twilight+Lexicon%29&utm_content=LiveJournalIs "smart decisions" the right phrase for anyone this into Twilight?
* Interesting:
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