The Sound of the Crowd

Pitty Sing.

Once again, Americablog. Once again, gay groups vs. Microsoft. Here’s the latest: Christian Coalition, “pro-life” homophobe Ralph Reed is on the Microsoft payroll.

Give or take. But can I just say, tonight’s 24 earned a “yay!” when that certain someone (be warned; spoilers for earlier “days”) was called in. I thought that’s what they were building up to, and I feel Chloe-like smugness in knowing I was right.

Speaking of Chloe, the episode also got a “thasright!” from me at the end. 24 being 24, I was praying they wouldn’t kill her.
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Bill Gates claims those troublesome gays have been threatening his life. Right. And the Kitten board sent death threats to executives of the WB, even though such fans as feel they were wronged feel it happened when Buffy was on UPN.

Someone has taken unflattering photographs of Anne Hathaway. Well, that about wraps it up for this lifetime. More dead in Iraq, the new Pope who is at best an archconservative tool and at worst an ex-Nazi, the U.S. prison population soaring, and the death grip of the GOP on American politics…all of this I can stand and take with a smile.

But unattractive photos of Anne Hathaway? Would someone like to remind me why I get up in the morning?

I just spent six hours (give or take) moving heavy furniture, but this sentence hurts.

Any and all of you whose curiosity has been piqued by my incessant references to this series but still haven’t seen it might like to look in on:

ABC Family’s Gilmore Girls Viewers Choice.

–if you’re near a TV at five pm anytime next week. The selection culled should give you a good idea of the strengths of the series. And yes, the one I voted for, with Rory’s graduation day, is in there.

PS to those of you who know my character Annabel: If you decide to try it, keep an eye on an actress called Liza Weil, who plays Rory’s ferociously intelligent friend Paris. She is who I would like to get to play Annabel if I could.

Who Said It?

“The time has come that the American people know exactly what their Representatives are doing here in Washington. Are they feeding at the public trough, taking lobbyist-paid vacations, getting wined and dined by special interest groups?”

Now, Who Said It? Was it…

A Democrat-leaning columnist?
James Carville?
A left-wing blogger?

Or was it….(click below for the answer)
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Once again, Americablog has the latest on Microsoft. Apparently they’re now in the “hoping it all blows over” phase.

“One of life’s great pleasures is watching a really good critic tee off on a really bad movie.”

Barry gave that as part of his back-of-the-book quote for Roger Ebert’s I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie, an invaluable collection of reviews he’s written about bad films.

His review of “A Lot Like Love” is a sure candidate for a sequel to this volume (hey, his Great Movies II just came out this year…). He really putts the movie into the water hazard.

And I take a smug pride, the kind that will almost certainly go before a fall if I’m not careful, in thinking to myself that the words he uses to describe its characters will never be used to describe mine.

“A Lot Like Love” is a romance between two of the dimmer bulbs of their generation. Judging by their dialogue, Oliver and Emily have never read a book or a newspaper, seen a movie, watched TV, had an idea, carried on an interesting conversation or ever thought much about anything. The movie thinks they are cute and funny, which is embarrassing, like your uncle who won’t stop with the golf jokes.”

Go read, enjoy.