![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Dec. 2nd, 2011
Nothing Much To Say
Dec. 2nd, 2011 11:55 amSo... yeah. Not a lot to say. Random bits of 'whatev...'
* While I get the point of this week's Being Erica, I cannot say I liked it. Neither can I say that I was particularly surprised. The deck was stacked a long time ago and the answer was obvious in the credits. But even then, though I knew the outcome and had accepted it even before it came about, I think the execution was lacking. Oh, and Erica's 'perfect man' was kind of gross. The only one who can pull off that sort of physique and still be attractive to me is Mark Lawson, and that's basically because he's clearly overcompensating for being so short. That and he has beautiful eyes. Otherwise -- blergh.
* Speaking of OLTL's Lawson -- who has been massively screwed in the writing of the ending of OLTL (why oh why is he being trashed for Rapey? Damn it, even when I root for the true blue good guy my ships never win). -- Anyway, it looks like OLTL's headwriter and Executive Producer are being transplanted to take over General Hospital effective immediately. Hope GHers like 'rapemance' and good guys randomly being driven insane and evil for no purpose to prop other characters ( ::pets Schuyler, Marty, and Brody::)
* Used my Kindle's free month of Prime to read the latest pure fluff romance by Connie Brockway. I tend to like the way the arch and rueful tone she writes her story with. There's quite a bit of meta-awareness in her romances such as her Victorian heroine's offense when the hero was berating himself for 'taking advantage' by kissing her with the heroine basically saying What? She wasn't a participant? He doesn't get to claim her actions. And there's no hint of rapemance anywhere in it. That said, I didn't care for the ending. I saw where the writer was trying to go with saying that the heroine was trying to live to her family's expectations not her own, but they didn't adequately set up a passion for the heroine other than archeology. I think they were trying to imply that she went on to become a writer, but honestly, it wasn't strong enough and it sort of came off as her sacrificing archeology to become a housewife. So, in the end, I still prefer Brockway's first book which happened to feature the latest book's heroine's parents... who actually were intrepid Victorian archeologists.
* Perhaps it was my disappointment with the most recent Brockway tale of Egyptology Romance that has led me to spend my audible.com monthly book credit on Book I of the Amelia Peabody series Crocodile on the Sandbank . It's light, enjoyable, and amusing thus far. Fluff read.
* So, I've read the summary/review of the latest Angel/Faith comic series. So, I gotta know, does this latest development/possession/whatever make Angel hate himself more than normal? Seems like it should. Question is, how would we know? (And Angel should figure out whether there's some sort of insurance he can take to cover damage incurred the next time he's taken over/possessed/controled/and/or infected by some outside force/soul/entity. It's happened a lot now, y'know.)
* Ooh, saw a bit on GRRMartins LJ about the upcoming season of Game of Throne's showing Arya's 'new look.' That little actress is quite adorable.
* Seriously impossible deadline at work. What else is new?
* While I get the point of this week's Being Erica, I cannot say I liked it. Neither can I say that I was particularly surprised. The deck was stacked a long time ago and the answer was obvious in the credits. But even then, though I knew the outcome and had accepted it even before it came about, I think the execution was lacking. Oh, and Erica's 'perfect man' was kind of gross. The only one who can pull off that sort of physique and still be attractive to me is Mark Lawson, and that's basically because he's clearly overcompensating for being so short. That and he has beautiful eyes. Otherwise -- blergh.
* Speaking of OLTL's Lawson -- who has been massively screwed in the writing of the ending of OLTL (why oh why is he being trashed for Rapey? Damn it, even when I root for the true blue good guy my ships never win). -- Anyway, it looks like OLTL's headwriter and Executive Producer are being transplanted to take over General Hospital effective immediately. Hope GHers like 'rapemance' and good guys randomly being driven insane and evil for no purpose to prop other characters ( ::pets Schuyler, Marty, and Brody::)
* Used my Kindle's free month of Prime to read the latest pure fluff romance by Connie Brockway. I tend to like the way the arch and rueful tone she writes her story with. There's quite a bit of meta-awareness in her romances such as her Victorian heroine's offense when the hero was berating himself for 'taking advantage' by kissing her with the heroine basically saying What? She wasn't a participant? He doesn't get to claim her actions. And there's no hint of rapemance anywhere in it. That said, I didn't care for the ending. I saw where the writer was trying to go with saying that the heroine was trying to live to her family's expectations not her own, but they didn't adequately set up a passion for the heroine other than archeology. I think they were trying to imply that she went on to become a writer, but honestly, it wasn't strong enough and it sort of came off as her sacrificing archeology to become a housewife. So, in the end, I still prefer Brockway's first book which happened to feature the latest book's heroine's parents... who actually were intrepid Victorian archeologists.
* Perhaps it was my disappointment with the most recent Brockway tale of Egyptology Romance that has led me to spend my audible.com monthly book credit on Book I of the Amelia Peabody series Crocodile on the Sandbank . It's light, enjoyable, and amusing thus far. Fluff read.
* So, I've read the summary/review of the latest Angel/Faith comic series. So, I gotta know, does this latest development/possession/whatever make Angel hate himself more than normal? Seems like it should. Question is, how would we know? (And Angel should figure out whether there's some sort of insurance he can take to cover damage incurred the next time he's taken over/possessed/controled/and/or infected by some outside force/soul/entity. It's happened a lot now, y'know.)
* Ooh, saw a bit on GRRMartins LJ about the upcoming season of Game of Throne's showing Arya's 'new look.' That little actress is quite adorable.
* Seriously impossible deadline at work. What else is new?
Gakked from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
goldenusagi the LJ Markov Ramdom Text Generator It grabs text from your LJ and makes... gobbledygook:
goldenusagi the LJ Markov Ramdom Text Generator It grabs text from your LJ and makes... gobbledygook:me from having to do the pinch and zoom of going to make Buffy pregnant. I can see. 9) The onscreen keyboard in portrait position is fairly small but is adequate fro typing in web addresses. In landscape position the onscreen one that it lets you access anything on their cloud or own your own device. The same is true of your Kindle and your Audible.com library (since these are owned by Amazon. Yeah, it's an Amazon delivery device. But if you don't have to do the pinch and zoom of going to be knocking her up (if it happens)
Gakked from goldenusagi the LJ Markov Ramdom Text Generator It grabs text from your LJ and makes... gobbledygook:
goldenusagi the LJ Markov Ramdom Text Generator It grabs text from your LJ and makes... gobbledygook:me from having to do the pinch and zoom of going to make Buffy pregnant. I can see. 9) The onscreen keyboard in portrait position is fairly small but is adequate fro typing in web addresses. In landscape position the onscreen one that it lets you access anything on their cloud or own your own device. The same is true of your Kindle and your Audible.com library (since these are owned by Amazon. Yeah, it's an Amazon delivery device. But if you don't have to do the pinch and zoom of going to be knocking her up (if it happens)
Gakked from goldenusagi the LJ Markov Ramdom Text Generator It grabs text from your LJ and makes... gobbledygook:
goldenusagi the LJ Markov Ramdom Text Generator It grabs text from your LJ and makes... gobbledygook:me from having to do the pinch and zoom of going to make Buffy pregnant. I can see. 9) The onscreen keyboard in portrait position is fairly small but is adequate fro typing in web addresses. In landscape position the onscreen one that it lets you access anything on their cloud or own your own device. The same is true of your Kindle and your Audible.com library (since these are owned by Amazon. Yeah, it's an Amazon delivery device. But if you don't have to do the pinch and zoom of going to be knocking her up (if it happens)