The Avengers is the first thing I've seen Renner in. I'd heard of him, but I didn't get the appeal. He's great on screen...it never came through in pictures.

But he was Penn!

Though I actually haven't seen Hurt Locker. I should. But he was Penn.

In the random googling I just did to bolster my memory about the Julia Roberts scandal (OMIGOD), I was surprised by how vehement some of the women writing were about the wrongness of various bits of female body hair. Like, I dig that you don't dig it, on yourself or others, but to have such deeply seated feelings that it's wrong seems like too much feels for the appearance of other people.

It's amazing how bad Ion TV makes Leverage look. I'm watching numerous episodes of Flashpoint, and their Leverage promos are almost making me doubt what I know to be true about my past appreciation of and current anticipation for the show. They just make it look so low rent and awkward and uncharismatic. Uncharismatic!

Gnargh. There is a frustrating niche in web business that I wish I could work out how to boycott--it's a weird sort of link aggregator--they provide "maybe you'll like" clusters, but if you click on something they don't take you straight to what you thought you were going to, and in fact, your intended destination may be obscured with a list of other links they're presumably getting paid to stuff down your throat. The links in the first place were pretty much always shallow, so once I get distracted I end up closing the window, since it's not worth working at--it's like Cracked-level articles, but less substantial. Don't make me think about these choices, internet. I don't respect these urges. That's not the me I want to be.

Why is Russell Wong shilling for Ikea? Sadface. Vanishing Son, my brother. You deserve better.

I saw a (fairly) recent picture of Julia roberts at the beach in a bikini and she had underarm hair. I think the picture had a body shaming caption but the picture was linked from positive website.

I think that's the Eat Pray Love-related fiasco.

She's a shameless horrible woman, clearly.

I would get rid of our cable TV were it not for two things: the Tour de France and the Olympics. Anyone know if there's a way to watch those online?

I've been seeing promos for wall-to-wall Olympics coverage online, but I think it's through the cable company.

I feel like Jeremy Renner had a fair amount of buzz around The Hurt Locker, but only in certain circles, I'm sure. Also I saw The Town, and might not have remembered he was in it!

Yeah, I checked NBC, and you can get everything streaming! If you have a cable subscription.

Because the world is bullshit.

Also, my concert went well! For values of "my" that include 200 other singers and an orchestra. And a guest conductor who was that guy from I forget what country in Africa that started an orchestra there.

NBC is streaming all the Olympics. BUT you have to subscribe to a cable package that includes MSNBC and CNBC.

I didn't remember the name of the cute guy who played Penn, and other than that had never heard of Jeremy Renner before The Avengers.