shit kenzi says

Fangirl Weekends = Of the Good

Day After Fangirl Weekend = Not So Much

It is a sad, sad fact that the Day After Fangirl Weekend is nothing like The Day After Tomorrow. There is no Worldwide Apocalypse to enjoy, only sinus headaches and banking woes and boring, boring billing. < /whine>

Alex Krycek is Sex on Two Legs. Put him together with Mulder or Skinner or Scully or even have him pushing Marita Covarrubius up against a bulk head and you have scenes that are better then porn. Oh.My.Gosh.

The UK's Channel 4 has put up a crazily cracked out promo for Lost up over here. It's for season one and looks like some sort of arthouse movie. Seriously, ya'll should check it out. It's fascinating.

One day the RHAR shall Rule the World.

Y'know, Livejournal is a strange beast, a fact that is readily apparent and rather obvious. I've seen better, more interesting people comment on how these posts we all make are nominally personal but not really because we all know that we're talking to a community rather then writing in a real, personal journal so it's this strange combination of the private with the public and I'm sure in some way it's changing the fundamental basis of modern social interaction but I'm a historian, not a sociologist so I won't be able to comment on anything like that for another 20 years, or so.

Anyway, my whole point is that my real life is rather boring and I'm not the most skilled storyteller in the world so I have a hard time making it seem even a modicum more intersting then it actually is. I do, however, have a very active secret pretend world where I go on lots of adventures and meet lots of interesting people but I'll probably never be able to actually write anything coherent about it because while I enjoy meeting these characters I never feel up to the challenge of writing them so I make do with enjoying other people's fanfictional goodness.

And writing is hard, yo, and I'm kinda lazy. ;-)

And the point is ... well, really, there is no point it's just that in some world I have flirted with Josh Lyman and gone on missions for the RHAR for Leo McGarry and gone out drinking with Lewis Nixon and lived in a house in Cleveland with the Scooby Gang while learning how to become a Watcher and attended a magical boarding school in England and helped Mulder and Scully investigate an X-File and worked at a pub in Aldbourne and they've all been very good lives (and you were there and you and you). In those worlds I'm a better, more confident version of myself who doesn't have a weird phone phobia and finishes what she begins and never lets anyone down because, really, there's no point in having secret pretend worlds if one isn't fabulous enough to participate in them. ;-)

And, you know, it's inherently unfair that when I was a kid I read all of those wonderful books like Little House on the Prairie and Ozma of Oz and Little Women and Anne of Green Gables so that I had this idea that men and women were inherently equal only to grow up and realize that the world doesn't have the same opinion. Seriously, what is up with that?

I found some interesting entertainment stuff this morning. It mostly concerns what some RHAR actors are up to next, but there's also a movie announcement that has made me extremely happy.

I'd heard rumors about a new animated show from Seth McFarlane, the guy who brought us Family Guy and now I see that Scott Grimes is going to be regularly involved in it. How cool is that?

Apparently there's a movie coming out called Annapolis that will star Donnie Wahlberg, Jordana Brewster and James Franco. Wow, that's Lipton, Delilah and Harry Osborne all in the same place. I think if I ever write an autobiography it'll be called As the Vortex Swirls ...

And now, the exciting movie news. It was recently announced that Ed Zwick will be directing a movie adaptation of the Guy Gavriel Kay novel The Lions of Al-Rassan. The press release can be found here.
( Why This is So Exciting )

Have also just found out that my brother really is going to buy me a digital camera with his income tax return. Wow. I love my brother.