What's the point of a revolution without general copulation?

A fairly accurate analysis of Man of Steel

2013-06-16T23:20:05Z

So anyone else watch Rebecca Romjin's new buddy procedural, King & Maxwell?

2013-06-15T17:26:16Z

It's pretty by-the-numbers, but hey, it's Rebecca Romjin in a buddy procedural, which is really all I need to keep watching.

And as long as we're on the subject of TNT shows and their casts (esp. since King & Maxwell appears to have stolen John Tenney from Major Crimes), Rusty actually made me cry in the Major Crimes season premiere. Oh, Rusty. I do not know why fandom is not all over the show about the homeless gay teenage hustler and his clam-like guardian.

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Man of Steel

2013-06-14T19:14:31Z

is the ... oddest .. Superman adaptation I think I've seen.

It is also very, very long.

It would have benefitted from more displays of Henry Cavill's chest.

I appreciated that Amy Adams had curves that more closely resemble those of real life women than is common in Hollywood (idealized, still, of course, but we're getting there - and, with Jennifer Lawrence, does this signal a new aesthetic?)

Also, bizarrely, there were no previews. I don't know if this was a quirk of my particular theater or what.

Maybe I'll do a Lois & Clark rewatch.

...maybe just the first season.

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Huh.

2013-06-14T04:30:07Z

Birthday Song’s Copyright Leads to a Lawsuit for the Ages

The song “Happy Birthday to You” is widely credited for being the most performed song in the world. But one of its latest venues may be the federal courthouse in Manhattan, where the only parties may be the litigants to a new legal battle.

The dispute stems from a lawsuit filed on Thursday by a filmmaker in New York who is seeking to have the court declare the popular ditty to be in the public domain, and to block a music company from claiming it owns the copyright to the song and charging licensing fees for its use.

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THE U.S. NAVY WILL NO LONGER COMMUNICATE EXCLUSIVELY IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.

2013-06-12T23:02:58Z

NAVY WANTS ITS ORDERS AND OFFICIAL MESSAGES TO BE MORE READABLE AND LESS RUDE.

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We are literally off the charts

2013-06-12T22:13:49Z

In income inequality:

Income inequality in the United States is soaring so high, in fact, that the authors of the ILO’s new 2013 World of Work report couldn’t even place the United States on the same graph with the other 25 developed countries their new study examines.

I think the obvious solution is to cut food stamps and social security.

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Heh. People.

2013-06-08T01:45:47Z

Everything you need to know about the cronut

What exactly is a cronut? Simply enough, "it's part croissant and part doughnut," explains Hugh Merwin at Grub Street. But the process of making one isn't. It is extremely difficult to take croissant pastry dough and fry it like a doughnut. To master the "sheer implausibility and engineering genius that goes into each one of these things," says Merwin, Ansel tried about ten different recipes and learned to fry his creation in grapeseed oil at an undisclosed temperature. The cronut originally premiered in rose-vanilla, complete with Tahitian vanilla cream and rose sugar. However, at the start of June, Ansel switched the flavor to lemon maple to be "zesty" and "lighter."

How do I get my hands on one? With great difficulty. There are two main ways you can acquire an authentic cronut. First, you can be one of the many, many devotees who have started waiting in front of the Soho bakery at around 6:00 AM, a full two hours before its doors are even opened. "Simply put, this is a pastry you have to get up early for — earlier than when your mother used to wake you up for church," writes Alexander Abad-Santos at The Atlantic Wire. And the lines go well around the block. "It's sort of like Occupy Wall Street, but with freshly bathed, possibly unemployed individuals in printed pants plus a smattering of tourists determined to find the next Magnolia Bakery," says Abad-Santos.

However, even early risers aren't guaranteed a cronut. Ansel only bakes around 200-250 cronuts each day, so people are even left empty-handed — and distraught. "I've seen some people crying," Ansel told Eater.com, and "someone flipped off one of our baristas, which I was really not happy about."

There's a second route for getting a cronut, but it's a little shady. As with many precious items in short supply, cronuts can be purchased on the black market for up to eight times their in-shop value. As The Huffington Post reports, often the first people in line have no intention of eating the pastry confection. The $5 cronuts sell on Craigslist for up to $40. Cronut scalpers (yes, they're really called that) Joe and Danny Bird are able to make up to $120 a day.

Due to the lines and the black market, Ansel has even imposed limits on how many cronuts an individual is allowed to purchase. It was initially at six but reduced to three in the past week.

Where else can I get cronuts? Technically, nowhere. Ansel has already acquired an international trademark for the cronut "just to be on the safe side," so he's the only one baking these goodies. However, people are clamoring for them worldwide: Jenn Harris at the Los Angeles Times implores, "L.A. Pastry chefs, save us from Cronut fever envy," and Katy Salter at The Guardian wonders, "Short of hopping on a plane to JFK, how can we get our hands on one in Britain?"

As a result, cronut copycats have emerged as a global phenomenon.

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And fandom breathes a sigh of relief....

2013-06-03T22:52:26Z

Court Says Prison Can't Confiscate Erotic Werewolf Novel

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For those of you who sort of heard about the SWFA thing but didn't know what was going on

2013-06-02T17:47:31Z

Which was me, pretty much, here's a nice rant that can work pretty well as a primer

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NewsRadio

2013-06-01T18:09:00Z

Somehow, at some point in my life, I came into possession of the first two seasons of NewsRadio on DVD. I have no idea how this happened - I certainly never purchased them. Possibly someone gifted them to me at some point?

Anyhoo, I finally put the DVDs on for background entertainment while doing various chores, and - man, I'd forgotten how good this show was. I think I have to buy the rest of it. At least, through the Phil Hartman episodes.

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The horror

2013-05-30T21:50:38Z

Scientists fear female libido booster too effective

(via onyxlynx)

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It is truly terrifying

2013-05-25T23:21:31Z

just how much shelf space is devoted to alcohol in gas station mini-marts.

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Y'all have probably seen by now but...

2013-05-23T16:31:14Z

The Captive Prince is getting published by a Penguin imprint!

This is awesome - I never thought they'd take a chance on a m/m romance - especially since it's not a straight up romance, in the romance novel sense - it's much more like an awesome adventure story with a heavy romantic subplot built in, which makes it a bit harder to slot into the romance genre. If it involved a straight couple, it might not even be called a romance at all, just an adventure story with a love interest.

Anyhoo, I'm looking forward to holding the third book in my hands. (Umm, I won't be buying it in a bookstore, though - I buy everything through Amazon.)

The free versions are going offline, so read while you can - happily, I bought the Kindle versions of books 1 and 2, so I can reread them in anticipation.

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And a second QOTD

2013-05-20T23:22:29Z

Women read comics and are a driving force behind fandom. I think I could call them the driving force behind fandom and put up a convincing argument. Just think about it: what fandoms have driven America crazy in the last decade? Could anyone dissuade me from saying that they were Harry Potter, Twilight and the Hunger Games? "Avatar" may have put butts in theater seats, but you don't hear about it... ever. No one is immersed in the world of "Avatar" except James Cameron and people who enjoy wearing Na'vi Zentai suits. "The Avengers" was pretty darn huge and, if Tumblr is any indication, a whopping portion of the people driving that fandom online do not possess a Y chromosome. Women engage in fandom to levels that men do not. When women get behind something, their sheer numbers and passion force it into the mainstream. That's why you can name the actor who plays that werewolf kid in "Twilight" and probably sing at least the chorus to one Justin Bieber song. What do tween boys like? I have no clue. Sports? Probably sports.

-- Brett White

(as seen on Tumblr, because everything is)

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QOTD

2013-05-20T22:55:04Z

Is actually spoilery for Star Trek Into Darkness, but only for that THING that everyone already knows anyway, so -

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For those of you upset about fandom migration to Tumblr

2013-05-19T18:48:57Z

No worries, Yahoo just bought it. So we can all expect functionality destroyed and a migration back to journals in short order.

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It took me several hours this morning to figure out...

2013-05-19T13:47:08Z

...why my vision seemed to get blurrier when I put on my glasses and got clearer when I removed them.

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QOTD

2013-05-18T17:35:18Z

[W]hat I usually hope to take away from these films is Chris Pine getting hit in the face a lot. It's a very specific interest, but I try to own it.

-- greywash, in a spoilery angry post about Star Trek Into Darkness

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Scandal

2013-05-18T13:27:03Z

Best season finale last line in the history of finale last lines.

This crazy, crazy show.

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Okay yeah, so the Elementary finale was amazing

2013-05-17T23:54:30Z

Now I can go read everyone's spoilery reactions.

Mostly, my own thoughts are just that I really liked the part where everything - but aside from that, one tiny thing that just struck me:

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This link is for Thingswithwings

2013-05-17T20:08:02Z

Maybe Jeremy Brett fans have already seen this pic, but it was a first for me.

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New Vid: "Einstein on the Beach" (Person of Interest)

2013-05-17T07:54:03Z

Song: Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman) by Counting Crows
Fandom: Person of Interest

Summary: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

Size/Format: 61 MB (720 x 396 .avi)
Length: 3:40

Download: Monsters from the Vids

( Embed under the cut )

( Lyrics )

I am so incredibly grateful to my betas, astolat and rivkat. I really appreciate the help!

Comments welcome.

(Crossposted to LJ)

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Star Trek Into Darkness

2013-05-16T17:58:36Z

Oh my god that was terrible.

The dialogue was so stilted, the action so over the top, it was like a parody of a science fiction movie. I kept expecting a voice to yell "cut" and then the camera would pull back to reveal a movie set in a Hollywood satire.

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Okay, so ignore every time that Jim Caviezel speaks

2013-05-10T23:11:49Z

But listen to Michael Emerson describe the Finch and Reese relationship at 1:00.

*dies*

(Not for nothing, but does anyone else remember how in Ben-Hur, Stephen Boyd was directed to play it as though he and Ben-Hur were ex-lovers, but Charlton Heston wasn't given a similar direction because everyone knew he'd freak out?)

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Everything in this profile of Shonda Rhimes is a delight

2013-05-09T23:17:37Z

Network TV Is Broken. So How Does Shonda Rhimes Keep Making Hits?

My favorite line:

The font of all this fervid storytelling is Rhimes, who, at 43, is often described as the most powerful African-American female show runner in television — which is too many adjectives. She is one of the most powerful show runners in the business, full stop.

Also, everyone should always watch Scandal.

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