Archive for 2008

• 21:55 My Own WorstEnemy tinyurl.com/3uv3gx #

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Christian Slater in My Own Worst Enemy

by Amelia G : November 10th, 2008

After a brief hiatus to make room for election coverage, My Own Worst Enemy returns to airing on NBC tonight after the supposedly revamped Heroes. If you have not checked out this new television vehicle for Christian Slater, you can watch the first three full episodes of MOWE online for free now.

If you like espionage with just a dash of science fiction, you’ll probably enjoy this show. In its general category, My Own Worst Enemy is a lot more fun than MI-5 and a bit less fun than Burn Notice. MOWE also has a bit of an interesting externalized study of the sorts of internal conflicts many people face. Christian Slater stars in MOWE as a super spy who has had a reverse-Manchurian candidate done on him. The norm in this sort of storyline is to have a regular person who is secretly a ticking time bomb of a killer. It makes so much more sense psychologically and just logically to have a multilingual martial artist military guy create a normal guy cover identity. I want someone to give me a chip where I can also live a milquetoast life and communicate with my alter-ego about the pros and cons via cell phone video messages.

The conventional wisdom in Hollywood, for a long time, was that movie stars could not do TV, that a movie star who did TV was finished. With shows like Breaking Bad, The Wire, and Mad Men being so obviously higher quality and more interesting than most movies today, it gets harder to view acting on television as somehow lesser than a role in Saw V or Sex Drive. With an Oscar winner like Anna Paquin starring in True Blood, Alec Baldwin . . .

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• 15:09 @Halcyon So ugly chicks are afraid that a guy as stylish as you is going to lure all the good men away even though you are with a chick? #
• 15:14 @ForrestBlack What kind of mini cupcakes would make the best party? #
• 15:14 Going to get delicious iced latte made by serious professional barista and not me now! Yay! #
• 21:33 Buffet on True Blood looked delicious! Want comfort food. Storeward ho! #

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• 19:36 Puppy Cam! www.blueblood.net/2008/11/puppycam/ The internet is good for something after all. #
• 02:43 Carbombs taste like boilermakers left out past expiration date. #
• 02:45 Fell asleep during Contract Thurs. Might get chicken and waffles tonight. #

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I’m getting ready to go to a party at the new Antiseptic Fashion digs right now, so what better time to post a gallery of the beautiful Vampirabat modeling Antiseptic Fashion clothing in this set shot by yours truly and Forrest Black in the San Francisco Antiseptic Fashion location. Cool background by Forrest Black. Both series available in their entirety to Blue Blood VIP members.

I’m thinking about how little I learned in school before college. Now, when I got to college, it was my 12th school in 12 years, so maybe my experience was not totally average. But I went to schools in supposedly great school districts from grade one through half of fourth grade and then again for grade six and seven. I went to private school in fifth grade and eighth grade. And I went to public school in a supposedly bad school district for half of fourth grade and in kindergarten.

In kindergarten, I learned to share and be around other kids, but I also learned that I just couldn’t get up in the morning and morning kindergarten was just not going to work for me.

In first grade, I learned to read.

In second grade, I started to learn how to share knowledge by teaching other students how to read. I also began to process that adults could be as cruel as children.

In third grade, I learned that sometimes punching someone in the face is more effective than going through proper channels and specifically that punching a bully in the face is shockingly effective.

In fourth grade, I learned that sometimes people get weird about what gender your friends are. I learned that adults could actually be much much crueler than children.

In fifth grade, I learned multiplication and sort of learned division. I had mostly figured out addition and subtraction and some % stuff on my own.

In sixth grade, I learned that I was very bad at handwriting and probably always would be, but I might have an aptitude for writing as well as reading.

In seventh grade, I went to school with a member of the Bush family who became our student body president and watching him run taught me how to successfully run for class president myself in tenth grade. I also learned that paying some minimal attention to personal grooming improved social interaction. I also learned some typing skills, partly because I needed to, but largely because I had this crush on a boy in my school, who I think had a crush on me too, but we were both too shy, so we would both come in for after school typing practice and it would be just the two of us typing and talking.

In eighth grade, I learned a little bit of Elizabethan and American history, just enough really so that I’m not totally surprised by the plot of The Tudors on Showtime. I started learning to play Dungeons & Dragons. My art teacher convinced me to never do art again and it was years before I came back to it.

And that is pretty much everything I learned in my first decade in classrooms. Seems like there should have been more to show for that much time spent in places I did not want to be, at times I did not want to be awake, with people I might never have chosen to be around on purpose.

Incidentally, my experience was that teachers in the best school districts tended to resent their students intensely because those teachers were less fortunate than their students’ parents. Sensitive, artistic kids don’t do particularly well with resentment.

• 15:02 Should churches lose their tax exempt status? tinyurl.com/6y3a3c #

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True Confessions and a Bottle of Rum Rock Me Like a Hurricane

by Amelia G : November 6th, 2008

I have a confession to make. You probably know I’m opposed to piracy. I’m especially opposed to the kind of modern large scale digital piracy which makes it pretty much impossible to make a living as a midlist band. The internet is great for giving nowhere bands a shot and it rules for creating record-breaking manufactured pop and blanketing the world with it. But it is a polarizing medium and, in the faint spotlight of the computer monitor glow, midlist bands have either rocketed to wild success or more frequently withered on the vine.

But nobody is perfect and I have committed piracy on two occasions. Ironically, the first was when The West Wing had a special episode with a fictional candidate political debate and I missed it. It was going to be at least a year before the debate came out on DVD or Instant Play on Netflix, there was no download option either on the official site or Amazon Unbox, and I wanted to watch the following episode. Technically, I was not the one who downloaded it off a torrent site, but I did knowingly receive stolen property.

The second time was when the Axl Rose project Chinese Democracy was leaked. I missed it the first time Antiquiet posted it, but I listened to it one of the times it was repeatedly re-posted in the Antiquiet comments. I could say that maybe there was some kind of justification in my head because I liked the writing style on Antiquiet. But really I took it for the same reason most people steal — I wanted it and there was not another way to get it.

I was terribly disappointed in what I heard. Appetite for Destruction changed my life and . . .

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About Last Night

by Amelia G : November 5th, 2008

By next week at the latest, I plan to stop compulsively watching political news for a while and get back to morbid and funny vampire and angst television, fall movies, non-political social commentary, entertaining misbehavior, music and hot naked counterculture. This week, however, even South Park is still hyped up about politics and the election. South Park tonight featured adults partying drunk in the street with beer kegs and Stan and Kyle calling in a noise complaint to the cops. The expressions on the two kids’ faces and the appalling soundtrack the grown-ups select is priceless.

It featured a kinda dumb riff on Oceans 13. After fast-forwarding through parts of Oceans 12 before determining it to be unwatchable, even at high speed, I passed on the movie they were spoofing, which left some entertainment value out for me there. South Park’s emergency room scene was amusing, with suicidal McCain supporters and Obama supporters who partied too hard.

I think having both the presidential election the USA just had and the referendums we just had, the country is at least either a little hyper-adrenalized or a little hung-over. I’m really hoping that, when California finishes tallying up all the provisional ballots and suchlike, the moronic Prop 8 will somehow not have passed. In general, the results of the referendums are all a little surprising. It appears that pro-life/anti-abortion measures all failed. It appears that anti-gay measure all succeeded, including referendums on both marriage and adoption. I’m sure kids bouncing from foster home to foster home are thrilled that they won’t be getting taken in by any loving families which are not 100% traditional. Or not. Additionally, marijuana got a lot more legal in a number of states. And Washington appears to . . .

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• 12:29 Cooking trout, butternut squash, and espresso. Today seems much more delightful than yesterday. #

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• 19:11 @ChadSavage Stephen Root is so rocking True Blood! #
• 19:13 You are legally entitled to a free credit report from every bureau. You don’t have to give Experian any bonus data for freecreditreport.com #
• 19:15 @audaciaray I have a @blueblood acct, but I just tweet here. Hope people who care what I ate for breakfast care what I wrote too. #
• 19:17 @corachaos I think referendums are the most important because they are on such specific issues. Cali did fail with Prop 8, but . . . #
• 19:24 Everyone on parts of internet I frequent sure seems indignant, pissy & poor reading comp today for how celebratory they were last night WTF? #
• 20:35 @viviane212 I guess that would explain it. I wish I’d been in NYC last night. #
• 23:05 @malixe That does seem to be a plausible theory. Made it really hard to get anything done today though. #

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• 16:49 Did You Vote Today and Read Those Referendums? tinyurl.com/5k6ksk #
• 16:50 I Voted, Handling Registration Issues & Free Gifts tinyurl.com/6xaok7 #

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