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deangirl
deangirl

I'm actually ok with the end of Supernatural, I have been ok with it for 10 years now! But I appreciate the concern. I absolutely agree with Sarah about Jared's hair, just know that the current hairst

TheOtherLibrarian
TheOtherLibrarian

For the flatulent robot child, I would have gone with Small Winder.

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Fukui San

Guys, it occurs to me that Game Time is now the world's foremost currently running sporting competition. Either that or the guy on YouTube who films marble races. Thank you for shouldering this a

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Kip

Jerry from Seinfeld is George's Tyler Durden. He's cooler, gets women that George can't even dream of (and then breaks up with them for the dumbest reasons), has the parents that he wishes he had, and doesn't actually seem to work (we see him tell a joke, but we never see him stuck in Ohio at a crappy hotel waiting for a show or being cheated out of payment because he wasn't funny enough or having to fight to get paid in money rather than cocaine).

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heshy

heshy

Josh was involved in two internet/tv plot points: one about LemonLyman.com, and the other about Star Trek. I always read the LemonLyman plot as "Sorkin understands the internet and fandom har har har" (except not really, not really at all).

But I felt Sorkin's actual criticism of fandom and people's microscopic analysis of his precious, perfect show was commented on in season 4, "Arctic Radar", when Josh has a run-in with a staffer wearing a Star Trek pin:
"I'm a fan. I'm a sports fan, I'm a music fan and I'm a Star Trek fan. All of them. But here's what I don't do. Tell me if any of this sounds familiar: "Let's list our ten favorite episodes. Let's list our least favorite episodes. Let's list our favorite galaxies. Let's make a chart to see how often our favorite galaxies appear in our favorite episodes. What Romulan would you most like to see coupled with a Cardassian and why? Let's spend a weekend talking about Romulans falling in love with Cardassians and then let's do it again." That's not being a fan. That's having a fetish."
The listing of things "fetishists" talk about -- that's straight off fan forum topic headings.

And, because Sorkin is who he is, he has to top it off with the condescending "we'll make [a Star Trek holiday if you're good enough]."

Monty

Monty

And what's weird about the whole thing is that Sorkin is constantly writing fanfic about the real people in his life where he gets to tell network executives "If you can't make money with Sports Night, you should get out of the money-making business," and that doesn't seem THAT different from writing a story where your favorite Vulcan gets to be extra-awesome.

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sconstant

sconstant

Re: "we are gay and straight together" - I'm pretty sure the Indigo Girls sprang from Holly Near's imagination and not vice versa. 

(And before she was an earnest folkie feminist and an early out quasi-celeb, she was on TV in significant bit roles, so this is not off-topic!   All in the Family and The Partridge Family.  With a (triumphant?) return in an episode of L.A. Law.)

I'm glad that it's mockable in retrospect, because it shows how far things have come.  But a small twinge at all the mockery, because the sentiments were both necessary and brave then.

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NichD

NichD

Apologies for being this nitpicky person, but I feel compelled to point out that Drag Race doing the Snatch Game with nine queens left is not an anomaly. I double-checked the Drag Race wiki, and Seasons 2-5 all had nine queens competing, Season 6 brought it up to ten, and it's only in Seasons 7 & 8 that it was done with eight.

All this to say, I don't suspect there were any shenanigans in the timing, especially given what a popular challenge it is. I think Rupaul & co. wanted to do it early in the season so that we'd get to see as many queens' impersonations as possible.

Source: http://logosrupaulsdragrace.wikia.com/wiki/Snatch_Game

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RMH

RMH

Apologies for being this nitpicky person, but I feel compelled to point out that Drag Race doing the Snatch Game with nine queens left is not an anomaly. I double-checked the Drag Race wiki, and Seasons 2-5 all had nine queens competing, Season 6 brought it up to ten, and it's only in Seasons 7 & 8 that it was done with eight.

All this to say, I don't suspect there were any shenanigans in the timing, especially given what a popular challenge it is. I think Rupaul & co. wanted to do it early in the season so that we'd get to see as many queens' impersonations as possible.

Source: http://logosrupaulsdragrace.wikia.com/wiki/Snatch_Game

I was about to post the same thing. Not always 8 queens.

purist

purist

Further to what @sconstant said, the protest song by Holly Near is called 'Singing for Our Lives' and was almost as significant in its time as 'We Shall Overcome' was in the 1960s. Wikipedia has more:

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[Near's] song "Singing For Our Lives" appears in Singing the Living Tradition, the official hymnal of the Unitarian Universalist Association, under the title "We Are A Gentle, Angry People" (Hymn #170).[7] The hymn was also performed by Quaker Friends in an episode of the TV series Six Feet Under. In 2015, the same song, credited as "Singing For Our Lives" appeared in the Australian independent film The Lives We Lead, alongside its theme song "I Am Willing", another rousing Near-penned protest song.

Sure, the song sounds pretty naff now - but I also found this on a blog called 'Queer Music Heritage', which is Near talking about the origins of the song:

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I wrote "Singing for Our Lives" after Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone were assassinated in San Francisco, and I can remember it being sung at many events but the thing that always moved me so was that people would put up their lighters, their candles, and there were people in the streets singing this song, the first verse is that "we are gay and lesbian people" … were saying those names about themselves for the first time. They were being very brave in coming forward and trying to take the rage and the hurt of the city as a result of Harvey being killed, trying to take that anger and direct it toward the social change movement so that something can be built rather than something destroyed. So it's become kind of a peace anthem, a gay and lesbian anthem, and an anthem that allies and gay people can sing together. In fact oftentimes in the concerts when I start to sing that song people stand, and take hands, and sing it together as a real glue in their community, which is very moving to me.

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Jesse

Jesse

On 9/14/2016 at 9:25 AM, sconstant said:

Re: "we are gay and straight together" - I'm pretty sure the Indigo Girls sprang from Holly Near's imagination and not vice versa. 

(And before she was an earnest folkie feminist and an early out quasi-celeb, she was on TV in significant bit roles, so this is not off-topic!   All in the Family and The Partridge Family.  With a (triumphant?) return in an episode of L.A. Law.)

I'm glad that it's mockable in retrospect, because it shows how far things have come.  But a small twinge at all the mockery, because the sentiments were both necessary and brave then.

For what it's worth, I was a College Feminist in the 90s and I mocked that earnestness at the time. (Not saying it wasn't important!)

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kimbrchick

kimbrchick

Guess what's been stuck in my head for two days straight (and gay)? I totally remember that episode. Hearing the clips was weird. During the first 4 or 5 seasons of the Real World, I remember MtV would replay them during marathon weekends all the time. I would always tune in because it was really interesting TV for back then. Then it got really dumb and I tuned out. Anyway, great submission!

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MaryPatShelby

MaryPatShelby

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10 hours ago, MuuMuuChainsmoker said:

As one of the 4 people who watched Bloodline, I can attest that Ben Mendelsohn was amazing.  I assume y'all will be content to just take my word for it though. 

I was one of those 4 too. Though I love Jonathan Banks also, I was just fine with Mendelsohn's win.

I'm in total agreement with Sarah about Rectify. My mantra is "don't let me die before October 26". Not that I'm close to dying or anything, but no car accidents please, or sudden heart failure.

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Monty

Monty

My first thought was the big apartment in Friends. I think Monica would be the most annoying roommate, because things would start out great. My roommate cooks AND cleans! But she'd probably murder me for not keeping things as clean as they were supposed to be.

But then I decided that even an implausibly large Manhattan apartment isn't big enough. I'm going to live in the giant mansion from the first couple seasons of Arrow. That place has like 23 bedrooms, so I think I can stay out of the way of  whoever Ihave to live with. And it's only minutes from downtown!

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