Debet! I realised I had the end of The 4400 on the beginning of The Dead Zone -- if you got as far as the male agent saying he's going to a bar with or without her, that's all they wrote. Previous to that, it's them driving off the baseball player (I wonder if knowing that they wanted to help counts any?) while the two agents talk bitterly.

I had the "TV rots your brain" conversation yesterday. How annoying. His response to "You know how much crap there is in bookstores that you hate?" was "Depends on which bookstore."

Good call. It's not like the analogy can be expanded to find a parallel for a bookstore in the TV world.

Good call. It's not like the analogy can be expanded to find a parallel for a bookstore in the TV world.

Heh.

Well it makes sense that TV would be totally homogeneous, what with there only being three networks and all....

It's funny ... his dad is a muckety muck in TV ... so it's not like he has any reason to be ignorant of the details. I guess it's what happens when you start from that position of dislike. Also, he has a bit of an addictive personality.

LAST DAY!! Do the LAST DAY dance with me.

WOO HOO! WOO HOO!

WHEE! WHEE!

WHOOT!

Congrats, msbelle!

I am, I've been learning, scarier than I could have imagined, and I get the pause of respect before sparring from guys as well as women. It comes down to technique, eye, and willingness to take a hit and keep moving forward. Heart.

That's not divided up by gender, and in the end, can win you the fight.

Oooh. I wanna use this in the piece. I'm interviewing Tim and Rachel about the critics' responses to the first three episodes of The Inside, specifically about "girl in peril" and whether it's reasonable that a new agent would get tied to the railroad tracks in the beginning, regardless of gender, of s/he keeps charging in without backup, and why people do stupid shit like that in the name of heroism or trying to prove strength.

I was HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED by Vanilla Ice on that repeat last night. That was lame as fuck.

David Sedaris has ruined Billie Holliday for me as well.

I am at my new job, but don't really feel like working. Whoops. At least at 10, there's a graduation thingie for the people who recently passed the GED test. So it's not like anyone's expecting me to get anything done this morning.

Happy Last Day, msbelle!

My boss isn't here. My office mate's boss isn't here. I should've brought a book.

Billie Holiday is unruinable even by the most skilled impersonator, not to mention the legion of unskilled ones.

Why do people do stupid shit? One of the people I had dinner with last night has neck problems that might result in paralysis if he takes a hit the wrong way. Another has bone chips floating around in her thumb. He waited until the day before the big test to decide he wasn't going to to it. She did the test anyway.

And that's not even heroism (let's for the moment ignore my own tweaked wrist). That's just ... tying up too much of your own wellbeing in what you can and do do. There's a picture in your head of a martial artist (or an FBI agent) and it involves certain things -- not being a wuss, being tough, having heart, and these things are in service of a certain goal, and not achieving that goal means you are a wuss with no heart and really what were you thinking getting into this anyway?

Or that's how it works in my head.