Letting my freak flag fly.....

[e_juliana]

I was never a big fan of My So-Called Life. I might enjoy it more now, but back then I just wanted to smack everybody on the show upside the head, and then smack my friends who kept saying "They're JUST LIKE US!!"

I must be one of the few people who is not actively repulsed by Christina Aguilera. For whatever reason, I don't mind her antics, and it's very amusing to see what look she'll come up with next. The fact that she actually has talent and does something interesting with it doesn't hurt. I'll forgive a lot for talent. Not hatemongering/misogyny/homophobia/spousebeating/etc., but a lot.

I like deconstructing books, but it's just a neat mental trick I do in my head. I don't want to share it with anyone, because then it becomes mindwankery for me. Intellectual masturbation, IOW.

The serial comma is The One True Way.

I'm enjoying the hell out of the Moulin Rouge soundtrack right now. It's just the thing to keep me awake on my long weekend drives.


(FTR, these are all things I'd say on b.org, if I ever caught up in time to make such statements relevant to the conversation. Or, in the case of the MSCL issue, I don't want to interrupt the lurve-fest. The show was treated very unfairly by the network, and I think a lot of people are still very sensitive about that.)

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[gchick.livejournal.com]

>Or, in the case of the MSCL issue, I don't want to interrupt the lurve-fest. The show was treated very unfairly by the network, and I think a lot of people are still very sensitive about that.

Agreed. Actually, I feel somewhat the same about Wonderfalls: I enjoyed the show, and was sorry to see it dumped, and I do think it was treated just horribly. But as much as I had fun watching the eps I saw, I was never grabbed in that fannish must obsess/discuss/fic/write letters way, as I was with, say Firefly. Am I about to go say so in-thread? Certainly not -- it wouldn't be a useful addition to the discussion, just contrarian peeing-in-people's-Cheerios.

In the case of the serial comma, however, I'm prepared to fight to the death! Go team comma!

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

Don't really remember MSCL--I watched it once or twice while it was on. I'm sure it was fabulous. Maybe someday I'll catch up on DVD. Wonderfalls, while I liked it a lot, I didn't have enough TIME to get all fangirl about it, you know?

GO SERIAL COMMA!

I love Christina Aguilera if only for using the gayboys kissing in her video for "Beautiful". Go Christina!

[e-juliana.livejournal.com]

I was just singing "Beautiful" to myself! Love that song.

[e-juliana.livejournal.com]

Commacommacomma!

I'd agree about Wonderfalls. I never quite got the obsession. Some people juggle geese, I guess.

[calligrafiti.livejournal.com]

I rather like Christina A., too. I caught her on SNL once, doing a rather bluesy version of something or other, and she's got a voice.

[e-juliana.livejournal.com]

I think I saw that, and yeah. I hope she does more blues-y stuff, because DAMN, that's nice to listen to.

[helvirago]

Wow. I agree with everything! Except maybe MSCL... no, actually, I may agree with you there too. The show had some good insights in the voiceover monologues, but everyone on it needed a good thwap.

I even have a fondness for Ms. Aguilera.

[e-juliana.livejournal.com]

I (mostly) enjoyed the Halloween episode, the one that "I Only Have Eyes For You" sort of paralleled, but other than that, meh. I don't know. I'll admit to not being a huge TV fan, so there you go.

[stephl.livejournal.com]

I never watched MSCL.

I really disliked Firefly.

While I really liked Wonderfalls, its cancellation does not seem to me to necessitate fan campaigns and Web sites. If it was cancelled after 4 episodes, it's dead, people.

I have no opinion on Christina Aguilera, other than, whenever people have clued me in to the fact that that's who was on the radio, she does have one hell of a set of pipes.

I *can* deconstruct books, but I generally can't be arsed to do so.

There is no other way than the Serial Comma.

I have spoken. So shall it be....

[e-juliana.livejournal.com]

I really disliked Firefly.

HERETIC!!@! Okay, I can see why. But it pinged me in a way Wonderfalls never did.

I think you'd like some of Christina's songs. I'll have to burn you some. YEs.

[debg.livejournal.com]

>mindwankery

I love this word. Lovelovelove. Let's see:

MSCL I liked very much, but remember, I was watching from the perspective of a parent, not a teenager. Different gestalt entirely, trust me.

I have no opinion of Christina Aguilera - I know who she is, but that's all I know about her. I am sadly deficient in pop culture stuff that doesn't immediately grab me.

I had no Firefly love at all. I thought Wonderfalls was sweet and deserved better, but I wasn't likely to get wildly hooked on it. I just miss Joss or any iteration thereof on the tube.

I use the serial comma, but I am very fluid about its use. Me and the absolutes thing, you know? I wear the grammar; it does not wear me.

[e-juliana.livejournal.com]

I love this word. Lovelovelove.

I would have sworn I took it from you....

I was watching from the perspective of a parent, not a teenager. Different gestalt entirely, trust me.


I'll believe that. And I might quite like it now. At the time, though? Meh.

[vandalisimo.livejournal.com]

I love Christina, that little tart. And "Fighter" is a fucking great song.

[alterjess.livejournal.com]

I was never a big fan of My So-Called Life. I might enjoy it more now, but back then I just wanted to smack everybody on the show upside the head, and then smack my friends who kept saying "They're JUST LIKE US!!"

MY SISTAH! I disliked MSCL for the same reasons I disliked Sex and the City -- yes, there are real people like that, but they're the real people I try to avoid. (When Claire Danes was cast as Beth in Little Women, all I could picture was her lying in bed whining "Jo? Dying sucks.")