MALP on a stick

So I've just gotten into Being Human. I saw an episode while staying at my parents' house last week (thank you digital cable and BBCAmerica) and thought it was intriguing. I've found it online now that I'm home and have watched the pilot and the first two episodes. I really quite like it, and plan to watch the rest, but wanted to know what any of you might have thought about it, if you've watched it, thoughts on the cast change from pilot to first episode, etc?

I only turned it on that night because I saw it had Russell Tovey in it and he absolutely blew me away in The History Boys. If I see anything with one of those boys in it, I feel the need to watch it no matter what it's about. So now I'm wondering if it's actually a good show or if I just like it because, well, it's Russell Tovey (and I can't not appreciate a show that lets me see his naked ass at least once an episode...mmmmmrusselltovey)!

So let's have a discussion, if anybody else has watched it!

Quite bad at this journaling thing. I'd rather forgotten this was here. I've stickied it now. I shouldn't be neglecting it again, I hope. Not that I really have avid readers here in the first place, but it's my one connection to a friend I greatly miss (which is how I remembered I had it in the first place, I was reminiscing) so I shall endeavor to be more attentive to this account.

So... what haven't I updated one? Um...

I loved Star Trek. Very good reboot. Can't wait for DVD.

I haven't seen HBP yet but hope to soon. I'm greatly looking forward to it.

I still don't have a job but would like one very very much. Nobody is hiring.

My car died and now I have a new-to-me vehicle. I've named him Rhys. He's lovely.

Can't think of much else at the moment.

Did anybody else watch the premiere of the new Fox show Glee last night?

I did. I think I'm in LOVE. It was part reality of the way high school was and part the way I always dreamed high school could be (mostly because I, personally, can't sing). Only in my high school, the rejects and weirdos didn't join Glee club or Drama club... we moved to a different school (Quest, the high school for the weird intellectual rejects where everybody was welcome).

If I could make a dreamy-look-floating-hearts face with text, I would put one here. Because I'm enamoured with Glee. Please tell me I'm not the only one?

Dom DeLuise dies at 75

So so so sad. I just can't believe it. I was not expecting this one. *sob*

Why does Chuck deserve a third season? Well I could go into detail about how intelligent the show is, how witty and it's uncanny ability to span multiple genres and do it well. But that's not the point of this post today.

Today is me asking for your help, whether you watch the show or not. Today (Monday, at 8pm eastern) is the season two finale. If it's in your budget and power today, please go to Subway and purchase a $5 footlong sandwich of your choice. Leave a comment card (most locations have them) letting them know you're participating in the Finale and a Footlong Campaign to get Chuck a third season. Show Subway their sponsorship is worth it and show NBC that people love this show. You could also send a note via the Subway website letting them know you appreciate their sponsorship. Then go to NBC.com and let them know you participated (or wanted to even if you couldn't) in the Finale and a Footlong Campaign and you want a third season for Chuck. I know it's asking a lot, especially if you never watched the show, but seriously... this show is WORTH it. If you haven't watched it, and it is in a very competitive time slot (Mondays at 8pm eastern), take some time to watch the first few episodes.

What else can I say? Well how about this? The lead actor of the show, Zachary Levi, was at a convention in Birmingham (UK) yesterday. He took over 200 convention attendees down the street to a local Subway, got them sandwiches, and then went behind the counter to help the employees make ALL 200+ sandwiches. He was there from the first sandwich to the last. I mean, seriously, how AWESOME is that?



Nearly every actor in the show has taken time to post a thank you to their fans, a thanks in all our hard effort to get a third season. This is such a humble and gracious cast. They deserve another year of work.

Like all of you, I'm angry about the current underhanded shenanigans from Amazon. I want to know what happened and why. I want to pull my support for them. I'm sure you all know what's going on, but I'll link anyway: copperbadge talks about it and meta writer has a post and it's all over the blogosphere. Amazon fails.

Have a comprehensive list of books with ranks pulled for your anger inducing perusing.

And in my anger I'll contribute to this: Amazon Rank Amazon Rank Amazon Rank Amazon Rank and for good measure, here, have a Amazon Rank.

That being said, I want to give Amazon the benefit of the doubt. Mind, how they've handled this is still really shitty and I'm still really angry. But I know a standard customer service script when I hear one, and the replies given since February for the adult content material IS standard customer service script material. They can't actually look into a problem, they don't have time and aren't allowed. Trying to actually help a person can get you fired. Call centers suck. For one possible theory, which I'm not sure how much I believe in the first place (but I'm kind of desperately flailing for some sort of explanation, no matter how out there it is), here's this theory.

Even if this does turn out to be some massive underground effort by some homophobic WHACAKALOONS, it does not excuse anything Amazon has done. I'm still angry. I'm still likely to pull my support. I just want to know why they allowed this and how they could respond so poorly.

We'll start with The Good because, well, The Good is just THAT good.

Iowa. Iowa legalizes same sex marriage. Iowa. IOWA! Go Iowa! I want to squish it in a big hug and snuggle it. The Supreme Court heard the case and determined the prior language defining marriage between one man and one woman was unconstitutional. They voted to abolish the defining language and make same sex marriage legal. The vote was UNANIMOUS. Aw, IOWA!!!!!!!

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And The Bad. So ANGRY right now. Time Warner Cable, just about the only viable internet provider in the Greensboro area (it has long had a monopoly in this city), has decided to make us a "test city" to try out their new idea of tiered internet. What does that mean? That means that you buy a plan for how much internet you will use each month and when you exceed that, you have to pay an overage fee. The caps are RIDICULOUS. Seriously. The highest you can go is 40GB per month, and that's going to cost us $55 per month before their fees and taxes. Just streaming one online movie takes up, on average, 8GB. I do most of my tv watching online! We're not sure what we're going to do, but we will NOT be keeping our Time Warner internet service. There aren't a lot of other options though. Comcast serves some of Greensboro, but not all. Earthlink MIGHT come to our area, but at this point in time does not service the specific apartments I live in. AT&T isn't any better.

Big Broadband Users: Get Ready to Pay More

Time Warner is also doing this in Austin and San Antonio, Texas as well as Rochester, NY.

Yes, another meme. Done this one before but it's always fun.

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

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What the crap was that???? That was 2 hours and 11 minutes that was wasted. Okay, the first hour was AWESOME. Then it went downhill. Then it went to insane land. Then it went to WHAT THE FRAK ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT land. It ended with "I wasted four years of a television show for THIS?" and I'm fuming.

What a waste. What a craptacular ending. So so so disappointed.

I am inordinately happy that not only are the stories going up today at purimgifts, but that the mod posting them is using an awesome Starbuck icon. :D

Go and read, people. There are some good fics going up today, tomorrow, and Wednesday!