Okay, just call me sheep

There's this 30 days of vids meme going around and I ... probably won't post every day but I can eventually manage to complete the meme (I think).

So! First day: A vid that made you start watching a brand new show.

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My hope for SPN S6

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Life Imitates Art Again

Second Circuit holds that the FCC's policy on "indecent" language is unconstitutionally vague (pdf). Mostly, the opinion just takes great relish in quoting back everything the FCC saw fit to deem "indecent." Also, this bit is brilliant:

Take, for example, the disparate treatment of “Saving Private Ryan” and the documentary, “The Blues.” The FCC decided that the words “fuck” and “shit” were integral to the “realism and immediacy of the film experience for viewers” in “Saving Private Ryan,” but not in “The Blues.” We query how fleeting expletives could be more essential to the “realism” of a fictional movie than to the “realism” of interviews with real people about real life events, and it is hard not to speculate that the FCC was simply more comfortable with the themes in “Saving Private Ryan,” a mainstream movie with a familiar cultural milieu, than it was with “The Blues,” which largely profiled an outsider genre of musical experience.

And in honor of that Second Circuit decision I linked below...

(Sekrit Message to rivkat: What do you make of the fair use issues in this one? Like the erased Garfield cartoon, no?)

Now you know.

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Hey, it's back!

I tried to post this earlier but YT had taken it down. Here's the pitch piece on the new BBC modern Sherlock Holmes show:

Edit: Dammit. They pulled it again. But damned_colonial typed up the best parts.

My very brief thoughts on Rizzoli & Isles

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Oh, also, tripoli has created a fantastic primer for the character of Red Hood, for anyone who plans to watch the animated movie out of love for Jensen Ackles but comes to it with little knowledge of the comics.