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hackthis_archive) wrote2009-04-17 12:20 pm
hackthis_archive) wrote2009-04-17 12:20 pm
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A thought.
My issue with The Great Dreamwidth Migration Or Something Like It, is not that people are going, or not going. If you go, have at it, i've got an OpenID, I'll stop by -- if you stay, I'll see you around. It's not that I've been offered a code or haven't been offered a code. I do think there is something a little Supply and Demandish about it, in that the fewer codes there are the more people want them and the more it becomes almost a status symbol, and then other people want them because they see other people wanting them. But that's not my point either. I am neither pro-Dreamwidth nor picking up the pitchforks. I haven't done the homework, I haven't tested the application. It could be the best thing since the Notes App on my IPhone, I dunno. I am not making any call or pissing in somebody's sandbox.
The issue I have is that there seems to be this immense pressure, not from one person or even one direction, but just a overall press that 'Everyone Must Go!' like the house is going to burn down around us if we don't get out now. Like if you don't get out of LJ now you're going to be left behind, and that, to me, that's just not cool. That, to me, takes a lot of fun out of something that indeed might be great. But, you know, that's just my opinion.
And on a wholy unrelated Southland note: HOLY FUCKING COW, JOHN COOPER + REGINA KING FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING WIN. *\o/*
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SOUTHLAND is like... oh, baby. It is the BOMB. It's bad fucking ass. Or as bad ass as you can get on network TV. If it were on HBO, it'd be GK in Copland. *sighs moonily* Go on, get to Hulu.
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*hides under blanket*
Of course there's no way for you to know this, but the first week we lived in Florida back in 1996, a six-year-old girl was abducted from our apartment complex -- the next building over, in fact -- as she sat on the curb in front of her apartment one sunny afternoon reading a book while her grandmother cooked dinner thirty feet away. We came home to find every TV van in a 100-mile radius camped on our front doorstep, and all the neighbors milling around talking in hushed tones. Several of them had their dogs with them -- a regular crew of dog-walkers who lived in the complex. You can see where this is going, right?
Yup. It turned out one of the men with a dog, one of the men standing around talking with his neighbors that night, and the day after, and the day after that, had pulled up in his Blazer, said to the little girl that he was going to McDonald's, and would she like to come with him and his dog and get a Happy Meal? She did, probably since she knew him and his dog from their daily walks. He did something he shouldn't have, she screamed, and he covered her mouth to keep her quiet, and, accidentally, he says, suffocated her. He took her body to a electric sub-station nearby, left her there, then went to a convenience store a mile away and used a pay phone to call 911 and say, "I left Jessica at the station." The 911 operator, of course, had no idea who Jessica was, or why they should care that she was at the station. It took the cops another eight hours to put together the pieces of the puzzle and find her body.
They eventually caught the guy (who lived with his mom in the complex) because they found one of Jessica's sneakers in a garbage bag in his closet. He blamed it on their cleaning woman, but eventually did get charged and convicted.
Mr. Bone wonders why I get so upset when he's in the back yard and our 7-year-old daughter is in the front yard, out of his sight. I know for a fact that if our neighbor who walks his dog ever came up and said to her, "I'm taking Bo up to the park for a walk. Want to come?" she would get in the car. Because she loves the dog, and she knows the man. The world is a very scary place sometimes for a parent of a little girl.
The "abandoned baby" trauma hit me in a different spot -- I'll save that for another day. ;)
Aside from all that? I love me some Regina King. I've never liked that squinty-eyed guy playing the detective whose wife thinks she's nothing like the other wives, but I like his partner. I like Tom Everett Scott, though I hope they give him more to do soon, and I miss his Saved persona. Is Cooper canonically gay? closeted canonically gay? is the actor gay? He was referenced on afterelton.com, but I'm only halfway through the baby episode and if they spell it out more than the bar scene at the end of the first ep, then I've missed it or I haven't gotten to it yet.
And now I'm shutting up. :)
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As for the rest of it, yes, Cooper is canonically gay, which pleases fans of Michael Cudlitz (like myself) to not end as he was in Band of Brothers and perhaps the bad ass to end all bad asses. It would be like if Alexander Skargard showed up on some network show and was gay. I don't know if he's closeted gay, but he's definitely canonically gay according to the creators of the series.
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I borrowed Band of Brothers...I have seen the first episode...I guess I should watch the rest?
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Yes, it would help.
I still need to watch the rest of Mozambique.
This would help too. Just saying.
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*shakes tiny fist*
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I was talking about Southland, not Band of Brothers. Yes, I've got my cheat sheet for BoB so I know who kicks it.
It's Southland that I find myself bracing myself to watch -- I'm particularly worried about Janella.
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Okay, yes, I am worried about her, that I do not deny. She is so ricking adorable... I told somebody else that what I really want is for the series to end in five years with her very first day at the academy.
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I approve of that plan.