QB1, Biggie Smalls and Defamer walk into a bar.

Point A: Last night I dreamt about Matt Saracen. He was a good boyfriend. Really. Not great, but definitely good. And he had stubble. Also, I liked last night's FNL. Not loved, but liked. More importantly though musesfool linked me to this awesome post by hesychasm where she talks about a GQ article comparing Heroes and FNL. Heroes being what American society wants to see itself as (helpful, special, making a difference) and FNL being where American society really is (bleak, a little selfish, kind of depressed, not nearly as pretty as it wishes it were). Rock the fuck on GQ. Who knew. I need this article in full.

Point B: Today kinda suxxors, but I am getting through with the healing power of The Notorious B.I.G's Greatest Hits and Defamer.

My love affair with defamer_atom is pretty legendary since they (along with ethrosdemon and serialkarma) helped spawn The Incredibly True Adventures of Four Stars, Two Actors In Love, and One Gay Landmark.

Sometimes when Defamer talk about George people want to know if *I'm* writing for them -- sadly the answer is no. But I know one of you lot is, because there's NO other way they would come up with headers like this one: Howard K. Stern And Larry Birkhead Put Aside Their Differences For One Night Of Slashfic Passion on their own.

I love you Defamer. Mad, mad love. ♥

Point C:: I have vowed to write Psych AND Mohinder/Sylar for the Dark Lord known as slodwick. Does it smell like the apocalypse to anybody else?

Same shit, different day.

I don't know how many of you use gmail, but those of you who do know that gmail has this little feature where they offer ads and news stories and links based on the contents of your e-mail. Today, I sent ethrosdemon an e-mail about The Roots album 'Game Theory' and the Notorious B.I.G's 'Greatest Hits' -- to which gmail decided that the best sponsored link response was:

Nigga - www.eBay.com - Great deals on Nigga Shop on eBay and Save!.

Oh really.

For those of you who don't know, both The Roots and Notorious BIG (Biggie Smalls) are rappers. So, naturally, when gmail thinks of rappers they think of 'nigga.' Never mind that nowhere in the e-mail was 'nigga' used as I tend to abbhor the use of this word and find is seriously offensive. So, naturally, I think anybody could understand why I might take a moment to say 'wait. WHAT?' Not just as a black person or as a black women, but as a person in general.

Do they do this for Asian people and Latinos? Have I missed something? Has Google been bought by the ignorant and callous? Naturally I went to Customer Service to complain, but since gmail doesn't seem to have a Customer Service area that isn't just 'Tell us How Much You Love Us,' you can see why I'm a little pissed off.

In 2007 you would think a international conglomerate could show a little fucking TACT. Apparently not.

I was just going to let this slide, but you know, my day is already fucked up, might as well go for broke.

The thing is that I really am of two minds about posting this, because on one hand, it's just so fucking typical of American society these days that I shouldn't be surprised. It's the new 'norm.' Everywhere you go people think it's okay to use the n-word (nigger) because their friends use it, or because it they heard it in a song, or because black people use it, so why can't they? Aren't black people past that whole slavery & racism thing? Why are they still harping on about old shit? Hmmm. Let me think on that for a moment.

I don't know if its a generational issue or maybe I'm just pissed off because it's a racial slur no matter how you spell it. Every time someone says "Well, I used 'nigga' instead of 'nigger', and that's not the same thing" I want to slap them, because guess what?

It is the same thing.

Cracka is the same as faggot is the same as spic as the same as chink. No matter what you try to disguise it as, a slur is a slur is a slur. If you don't want somebody else using it, how about you not use it either? How about people step up and admit when they're fucking wrong for a change?

Anybody know of a good competitor e-mail service?