~ma to smonster's friend and her family.

As far as I'm concerned, there are two totally different series. The actually edgy one from before it was cancelled, and the one where being brought back convinced MacFarlane that he really can get away with whatever white straight fratboy crap he feels like.

Oooh. Nailed it. I didn't think about that. That is TOTES correct.

And hearing that she was a Spike apologist is just weird, b/c doesn't she opine that RPF=rape?

Something like that, I think. I dunno.

Oooh. Nailed it. I didn't think about that. That is TOTES correct.

Second the TOTES here.

"Conversations are supposed to end when your network calls you a douchebag, McFarlane." Or something like that. I love Doug Ellin. He wrote "Entourage" and has the same movie-quoting/Dialogue's Bitch disorder as me...my mom watched the same interview and said "Yeah, if you guys got together, you could do that all day." He's also sloppy like me. Like I sort of love it when people say "So, Ellin, what are your plans for the next season?" and he's kind of like "Fuck, I don't know...I guess I'll finish writing episode four." It encourages me. HBO probably freaks. My mother hates it when I joke about this, but I googled to see if he is old enough to be all "Luke, I am your father," But no, he was five when I was born. We still are separated at birth, somehow, though.

Windsparrow, thanks for asking about me. The rest of me isn't as creaky as I feared, but I have a horrendous bruise on my back which is making sitting kind of painful. There's an evil bruise on the back of my upper calf, but that's just a dull ache unless I touch it.

My objection to Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is that they do way more than the family needs, leaving them with double or triple the property taxes and utilities. There have also been a lot of reports of shoddy building, particularly in the invisible things that drive up utility costs, such as air sealing and insulation. It's very dramatic, but building a house in such a short time is really not a good idea. At least three owners have faced foreclosure. Also, they seem to do a squicky amount of "this is what it's like to be in a wheelchair," but I'm not really in a position to comment, since I've never gotten through a whole episode without getting angry and turning it off.

Me either. Go ahead. Act surprised.

Lots of ~ma to smonster's friend and family.

My objection to Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is that they do way more than the family needs, leaving them with double or triple the property taxes and utilities. There have also been a lot of reports of shoddy building, particularly in the invisible things that drive up utility costs, such as air sealing and insulation. It's very dramatic, but building a house in such a short time is really not a good idea. At least three owners have faced foreclosure.

I'd heard about the property tax and utility thing, but not about the reports of shoddy building. Doesn't really surprise me, though -- I've worked on Habitat for Humanity, and even with a decent amount of time to do stuff and plenty of supervision, there were a lot of things that we screwed up just because it was the first time any of us were building a house.

It's kind of like that show "Pimp My Ride". A lot of people ended up selling the cars because they couldn't afford the insurance (and in some cases getting dinged for illegal shit that they did, like removing an airbag to put a TV in the steering wheel)

My advisor was actually mostly helpful today. He finally got back to me to tell me that a guy he knows who is really well-known in the field agreed to write a letter of recommendation for me, talking about how my work is relevant and fits into stuff that other people are working on and things like that.

Awesome!