rose_griffes

Crossover silliness: Battlestar Galactica plus The Muppet Show, Pushing Daisies and The Pretender
warnings for karate-chopping, talking while eating, hypothetical stalking, and bad fashion choices. And guns used on cylons who will just come back and choose the same ugly shirt.

At some point I was going to try and write a Buffy crossover, but it involved Spike and I just didn't have the nerve to write Spike and Leoben in the same story... ( sorry about this )

For a summer that wasn't going to include much travel, I sure did travel a lot. June: four days of camping, then two weeks of travel, including Niagara Falls, Quebec City and Pennsylvania. July: a week-long teaching conference (within my state, but at a touristy destination), visits with the family and an old high school friend... I haven't been home much (er, where I live now, I mean). Now that August is here, I'm busy planning school stuff. I have a two-day presentation to prepare for, a brief break, then back to the grind of teacher inservices (taught by other people) before students finally come back.

Where did my time go? Oh yeah, to traveling. Heh. No wonder I haven't added much to my 2009 book list.

Anyway, here's an update on fannish things (aka movies/TV and writing/reading related to it) (spoilers for the trailer for BSG's 'The Plan'):
( not a lot to say... )

Can't sleep. Have just now deduced that it was the decongestant I took. Blergh. At least today is Sunday and not Monday yet.

Someone on my reading list asked for favorite fanvids, any fandom, self-reccing allowed. For that last part I say: ahahahahahaha! Anyway. I've mentioned before that vids are just not my medium and that watching one all the way through is a major accomplishment. Also, I'm ridiculously picky about the music. Now that I'm done with the disclaimers, ( here are some vids I liked enough to download this year. )

Hey, prolix_allie, have you seen this Cally fic? It's about her in the brig after shooting Boomer.

I think I shall do bullet points today. Or the equivalent of them, since I don't know how to make them on LJ.

- I've Loved You So Long is a good movie. Bring a tissue. I particularly liked the relationships in the sister's family--lots of love, affection and respect.

- Pushing Daisies has apparently been cancelled. That's sad but not unexpected. Possibly I brought this on by buying season one on DVD? *g*

- Did you know that Harlequin romances are still around? Huh. While mulling over the idea of a post about the draw of the powerful man/ordinary woman convention in romance media (because I clearly don't have enough things to do with my spare time?!), I decided to check the book section at Wal-Mart and there they were! The titles are just as cheesy as I remember from my teenage years when I would sneak them into my room from the library because my mother would've been appalled.
Title examples: The Sheikh's Rebellious Mistress. Bought: One Night, One Marriage. The Billionaire in Penthouse B. Aw, way back when it used to be just millionaires. Cost of inflation, I guess.

- Firefly fic rec. She'll Fly True by ubiquirk. Zoe and River, post-movie. Go read this, it's fabulous!

- There's a new ten-second promo for season 4.5 of Battlestar Galactica.
( slightly spoilery personal reaction )

- Time for lunch! Food, whee! And then maybe some Thanksgiving/Christmas shopping.

Have some links. Just because.

WATCH PUSHING DAISIES! I would just say ditto. Also, I'm ordering season one on DVD right now.

Interesting essay about the history of female characters in fiction and how that may impact who our favorite characters are.

An amusing rant about the overuse of the 'Mary Sue' label.

Stuff about The Mentalist: see Simon Baker be smug, tortured and sexy!
picspam from the pilot episode
picspam from episodes 1-3

BSG: Kara/Sam picspam! *sigh* They're so pretty.

30 Rock: I have nothing even resembling a favorite pair on this show--it's just sheer fun. And I haven't been purposely looking for fic about the show, but some of those Liz/Jack fics by jennyo are absolutely hysterical. There's a list here--I like the first five the best. (Number five is Tracy Jordan's POV... *snickers*)
How to get Rose to read sex in fics: make it absolutely hilarious

1) Pushing Daisies was awesome this week. If you've never watched before, give it a shot! Free on abc.com (or whatever their site is--did I mention free?!).

2) I've now watched disc one of season one of Flight of the Conchords. Okay, I'll confess--I thought y'all were exaggerating about the show. But you weren't! It's fabulous!