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Because Canada is awesome and didn't get delayed.

This week I got two books:

Captain Britain and MI13 #3 (My Pick of the Week, but a little confusing)
Young X-Men #4 (rapidly losing patience)

Full reviews as usual at my comic reviews site for anyone interested.

Work was okay, but hot and tiring. Meh.

Had Taco Bell for lunch on the way home, their 5 taco deal. Mmm, tacos.

What else... things I saw on the way home:
A weird police procession which I believe may have included a guy bound and gagged in the passenger seat (either that or a passenger was weirdly goofing off in a way that just looked like that)
A potted plant beneath one of the street level grates. And someone asked me directions and I was able to give them correct ones! For some reason whenever people ask me directions, I either don't know, or am momentarily confused and give them the wrong information and don't realize it until after they're gone. But yay, not today.

Hmmm... the BBC is doing remake of Survivors... now, I like a good post-apocalypse story so maybe I'll check it out. And Freema Agyeman (Martha)'s apparently in it too. Don't _think_ I ever saw the original, but it's possible I did long ago and just can't remember.

This new show Flashpoint keeps showing commercials, and I have decided I will watch the first episode and then only watch furthur episodes if I'm able to pretend that it's Keith Mars who has taken a new law enforcement job in Canada while his daughter Veronica is at the FBI academy.

Okay, there's these commercials for this movie called 'Nancy Drew', about some teen girl outcast who solves mysteries. Come on, can't anyone come up with any ideas other than ripping off Veronica Mars? ;) (Oh, hush, I know Drew came first, I'm just kidding, but the commercial does give me a bit of the same vibe, even though they're outcast for different reasons). Maybe if the movie does well, for the sequel they'll adapt the controversial "Key in the Clock" (so many swears).

I reconfigured my room a few days ago, reorienting my bed and putting in my desk and all my comics, so it's much more cluttered, but I like it better this way. I'd kept the old way because supposedly people were going to fix my window but since I've been here 3 months with no word on when, I'm assuming someone dropped the ball on that. Really, I don't care about the window being fixed, it's a small crack and I don't look out of it anyway.

Doctor Who was... pretty good. I do have some serious reservations about it, though. (SPOILERS for Family of Blood)
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So some of my high school friends had planned to get together for dinner at a place relatively near me over the weekend. Although I didn't want to confirm for the dinner itself, for various reasons, it was close enough that I thought about doing a surprise drop in to say hello for a few minutes and then going back. Alas, on the day of it slipped my mind and there were no followups on it, so if they did meet I wasn't able to see them. Ah well, would have been nice to see them again. Maybe next time, if there is one.

I have some book foo to do too (wow, try saying that 5 times fast) but I'll save that for another post, I think.

So, it's looking quasi official. Veronica Mars seems to be cancelled (barring some unlikely although still technically possible reprieve before June 14th, the date the network officially has to make a decision by).

It's strange though. After this year... it's not so much that I didn't _care_ if it was cancelled, I wanted it to be renewed, but I wouldn't be terribly disappointed either. My reaction was, "Oh well, it had a decent run". I think that was partly because they'd talked about dropping the longer mystery arcs. In any event, I was okay with it.

But once they started floating the idea that it might survive by jumping a few years ahead in time and having Veronica in the FBI... I was really looking forward to that. I'm more disappointed at not being able to see _that_ than I am that Veronica Mars itself was cancelled.

Looking over the new schedule... the new fall season looks to stink. A couple shows I'm mildly interested in, but none I'm excited about, and some returning shows I'm happy about of course. But no wow factor like last year. I'll give a more complete rundown sometime in the next few days probably.

My thumb's sore. And not quite as opposable as usual. Am I devolving down the evolutionary chain? Or perhaps I just hurt it playing Ultimate Spider-Man. Probably the latter.

This year, I'm going to try really hard not to post a depressed, ranty, V-Day post. Because really, it's all been said.

Features I wish LJ had (or if they already do, I wish I knew how to do it):
1) Browse posts to a community written by a specific person. Mostly this is so I can track down some of my old posts, but sometimes I might want to see what someone else has posted before.

2) Apply tags to your friends list. A lot of times I watch, say, Supernatural a couple days later than everyone else, and lots of my flist post about it that first night. I don't want to backtrack 3 pages to find the posts about it, or go to everyone's individual journal and read back (as I ususall do), I'd rather just say 'okay, let's look at 'tag supernatural' on my friends lists. Though I realize it'd probably be a lot more complicated to code than basic tagging (depending a little on how the flist is implemented), it would still really improve my LJ experience.

Book Foo:

Finished: Big Planet, by Jack Vance
A Fire in the Sun, by George Alec Effinger

Some thoughts, minimal spoilers, behind the cut.
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Started: Hyperion, by Dan Simmons (Thursdays and Sundays) (reread)
Stardoc, by S.L. Viehl (Wednesdays)

Random cracky crossover idea. Yet another thing I'm not going to write, and I'd be surprised if nobody else has come up with it yet, but I've been playing around with it in my head a little. One of them is Supernatural.
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One of my minor goals in life is to have the adjective 'intrepid' prefixed to whatever description of me someone gives. I mean, sure, intrepid explorer would be great, or intrepid astronaut, or intrepid post-apocalyptic drifter would be awesome. But I'd settle for 'intrepid manual labourer'. Or 'interpid slacker' or 'intrepid layabout'. I think I've just typed intrepid way too much.

Some TV thoughts. Spoiler-Free.
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Oh, speaking of TV, here's a quick list of the SF-related pilots for next year's TV. My thoughts:
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Life update: Apartment hunt continues. No luck yet. I hate moving.

Here's a heaping helping of randomness.

One of my fingers has been bothering me lately. ( Read more... )

Monday was Thanksgiving. ( Read more... )

Recently found on BoingBoing this bit about a CBC radio program where they discuss the idea that certain things classified as 'disorders', including autism and psychopathy aren't really such, but in fact 'different ways of being human', and particularly as (perhaps first steps towards) human speciation. I'm mainly just including this here to store the link so I don't have to dig through BoingBoing's archives to find the links when I have time to actually listen. But there is something in the BoingBoing article itself that appeals to me. ( Read more... )

Some TV thoughts. Lost, Jericho, Heroes, Veronica Mars, Grey's Anatomy, Battlestar Galactica, LOST. All talking about recent episodes, but I'm going to be relatively spoiler lite (by which I mean no 'big' revelations, but some incidental minor things, though), so it should be safe even if you haven't seen them, since I'm mostly talking about my own impressions. Oh, wait, there is _one_ icon from Veronica Mars behind the cut, and it's a little spoilery for S3, episode 2. But it was just too funny not to do. ( Read more... )

And now onto Book foo!
Finished: Dies the Fire, by S.M. Stirling (reread)
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Also finished: Swan Songs: The complete Hooded Swan Collection, by Brian Stableford (reread)

Since this is really five books in one, I'm going to do a quote or two from each. And there will be some spoilers, but let's face it... I've only talked to one person online who's even heard of it, and no one who's read it, so I'm not under any delusions any of you are going to read it. Hell, I doubt most people'll even be reading the quotes. So I'm just amusing myself with bits of it I liked. But hell, I'm still leaving out any big spoilers, just in case.( Read more... )

Started: The Protector's War, by S.M. Stirling (Fridays and Sundays)
Appleseed, by John Clute (Wednesdays)

TPW is the sequel to DTF, and the reason I reread DTF. Appleseed is a book I got for $2 in the 'last call' bin at a bookstore. Haven't really gotten far enough into them to give any more thoughts than that. Oh and I was wandering through the bookstore and looked again at Ilium, by Dan Simmons. Anyone on my flist read it and have any (non-spoilery) thoughts? I liked the Hyperion series by the same author, but too much mythological content (particularly when it's 'indistinguishable from fantasy') sometimes turns me off for some reason, and I fear Ilium might tread on that.

Anyway, this concludes another edition of HUGE RANDOM POST.

I've seen a lot of these links posted around, but this one's allegedly legal (sadly, link doesn't work in Canada, but you can still use the other link that was floating around like I did - if you want a link, comment).

http://tv.msn.com/tv/tvbuzz

You can watch the 3rd season premiere there, through MSN. I suppose it doesn't have the thrill of doing it illicitly, though.

Anyway, my not-spoilery-at-all-really thoughts behind the cut.
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Oh, and weirdness... just after watching the VM premiere this morning? I watched the Deadwood eps I recorded last night. Said eps? Featured Kristin Bell as a guest star. It was a bit weird to see her. I kept expecting her to uncover all the mysteries for everyone. And hey, for a while there all I had to do was add some imaginary starships to have a fandom trifecta!

Edit: Oh, and Heroes was on last night, so since I'm doing a TV post, I'd better post about it too.

I liked it, on the whole. Sure, it was corny and too expositiony at times, but I still liked it and am certainly going to stick with it. And the introduction of cheerleader girl - even though I saw it online in a preview, I still think its one of my favorite introductions of a superheroish character ever. It reruns tonight apparently, so check it out if you haven't yet.

Hmmm, Fandom Bits. That'd make a good cereal. Like Alpha Bits, but with Fandom. Little crispy bits shaped like the TARDIS or cylons or something. Slashmallows.

Anyway, found some Veronica Mars news here. I'll put the big bits for S3 behind a cut for the especially spoiler conscious, but really nothing much beyond casting stuff and a few stuff I already figured. Also, I rewatched S2 Episode 1 again since it started airing here in Canada, so I'll put some thoughts of that behind the cut too.
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Runaways #18 tomorrow! The big day! And I mourn! I don't even know for whom yet, but I know it's gonna suck and be awesome at the same time! Also X-Factor and Civil War.

And it's not strictly a fandom bit, as I really have no interest in seeing the movie, but one bit from the commercials for Monster House crack me up:
"If those are the teeth, and that's the tongue, then that must be the uvula!"
"... So then it's a girl house!"
"... WHAT?!"

Long walk tomorrow. Also need to choose a new book. Or a reread, which is probably more likely.

So, in honor of Canada Day, I decided to watch the final two episodes of Veronica Mars. I'm not sure what Veronica Mars has to do with Canada, but I'm sure if I thought hard enough I could come up with something. Unfortunately, I'm not doing any hard thinking on account of it being Canada Day. I'm not sure about the connection there, either, but I'm sure if I thought hard enough I'd have an answer, but see above.

Anyway, my big spoilery thoughts on it below the cut. If you haven't seen it don't click here because it really will ruin some of the enjoyment for you.
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Edit: I figured out the connection between Veronica Mars and Canada Day. Enrico Colantoni, who plays Veronica's dad, is Canadian. See, told ya!

Okay, so I'm up to episode 5 of season 2 of Veronica Mars, and yeah, definitely the love is returning. Was feeling a bit off the first episode but once I got into it and saw a few episodes without waiting nearly a year between episodes it got going again.

Some non-spoilery thoughts (despite 80sfiend still not getting back to me):

Who the hell gave Steve Guttenberg work again? Are the Stonecutters active again?

Re S2E5's ending: Awww. (That's a suitably vague word that I think it counts as spoiler-free, since you'd have to see it to know the inflection).

I've decided if I ever have a daughter I am definitely teaching her kickass sneaky private eye skills from a young age. Of course, if I have a son he's gotta follow me into the post-apocalyptic drifter line of work. Not that I'm likely to have either of course, but one must make plans for all contingencies. I've also got plans lined up for clones, robot duplicates, and adoptive children (they learn to fight the undead, except vampires, which are for if I have a stepdaughter).