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intertribalThe title is inspired by me and Lucia watching Charmed today and me accidentally saying, "You see, I make a great source"... I meant a resource on Charmed timelines, but The Source is short for The Source of All Evil in the Charmed universe, so of course that made for a funny five minutes. Lucia said, "You know, now I think you are the Source," and seeing as how I've been telling my mother how I'm always more sympathetic to the Devil in movies than God...
... there are reasons for that, people. Memnoch was definitely the most sympathetic character in Memnoch the Devil. When we got to God and we the readers were all supposed to bow down and be amazed, I was just like, "what? you're a bastard." I'm like a Cormac McCarthy priest. I'm the one in the broken house with a one-eyed cat, shaking my fist at God.
Uh, okay. Battlestar Galactica first.
1. I feel like nothing happened in this episode.
2. What the fuck is with the whole Callie-Tyrol baby daddy drama? How was that necessary? Okay, yes, I wanted to know who the father was... but... that was a cheap soap opera ploy on BSG's part.
3. So fucking uneventful with the VP politics drama. Lucia watched this episode with me - first time she'd seen BSG, and it was not a good one to start her on - and she was like, "this show is so boring," and I have to say, if I was a newbie, this episode would not have converted me either. I thought at the end for sure the fuel ship would blow itself up, but instead they were just told, "prepare to be boarded," and said, "okay." Hello, writers.
4. I think this is the first episode I was actually sympathetic to Roslin. I know, right. That's saying something. Clearly there was something wrong with this episode.
Apparently I'm moving to Canada. In all seriousness, though, the football business is fucked the fuck up if they have people like Missouri's back-up quarterback getting invited to an all-star game and not Ganz. If you invite the guy with a pass efficiency ranked 93rd nationally and not the guy whose pass efficiency is 14th. Or how about the quarterback that was outplayed in the bowl game and clearly could not handle pressure getting invited over the quarterback that won the game and was named the game MVP? WHAT THE FUCK. Jesus, yes, height and how far you can throw the ball is "not really what being a quarterback's about." Of course, tell that to Rex "I-Like-Throwing-The-Ball-Long" Grossman, but we start to see what makes - or rather, what doesn't make - a dick-quarterback, don't we. A lot of us in fandom didn't think he'd get drafted because of the whole build thing - and the fact that Nebraska is getting snubbed nationally in revenge for the '90s - but when you compare him to the people that probably will get drafted, it looks ridiculous. Cullen Harper! Why!
I know that football's a bloodsport and all, but this is starting to piss me off. I wonder sometimes if this overall attitude has anything to do with why we suck as a society overall. I'm into judging a society on how it treats its children - and this has something to do with that, too - but obviously there's something to be said for judging a society based on what it wants in its leaders. Football fails both gauges. For having such illusions of patriotism and godliness and health and community, it's pretty pathetic.
But how strange, right, he's only nine inches taller than me. God, I'm such a selfish fuck.
... there are reasons for that, people. Memnoch was definitely the most sympathetic character in Memnoch the Devil. When we got to God and we the readers were all supposed to bow down and be amazed, I was just like, "what? you're a bastard." I'm like a Cormac McCarthy priest. I'm the one in the broken house with a one-eyed cat, shaking my fist at God.
Uh, okay. Battlestar Galactica first.
1. I feel like nothing happened in this episode.
2. What the fuck is with the whole Callie-Tyrol baby daddy drama? How was that necessary? Okay, yes, I wanted to know who the father was... but... that was a cheap soap opera ploy on BSG's part.
3. So fucking uneventful with the VP politics drama. Lucia watched this episode with me - first time she'd seen BSG, and it was not a good one to start her on - and she was like, "this show is so boring," and I have to say, if I was a newbie, this episode would not have converted me either. I thought at the end for sure the fuel ship would blow itself up, but instead they were just told, "prepare to be boarded," and said, "okay." Hello, writers.
4. I think this is the first episode I was actually sympathetic to Roslin. I know, right. That's saying something. Clearly there was something wrong with this episode.
Apparently I'm moving to Canada. In all seriousness, though, the football business is fucked the fuck up if they have people like Missouri's back-up quarterback getting invited to an all-star game and not Ganz. If you invite the guy with a pass efficiency ranked 93rd nationally and not the guy whose pass efficiency is 14th. Or how about the quarterback that was outplayed in the bowl game and clearly could not handle pressure getting invited over the quarterback that won the game and was named the game MVP? WHAT THE FUCK. Jesus, yes, height and how far you can throw the ball is "not really what being a quarterback's about." Of course, tell that to Rex "I-Like-Throwing-The-Ball-Long" Grossman, but we start to see what makes - or rather, what doesn't make - a dick-quarterback, don't we. A lot of us in fandom didn't think he'd get drafted because of the whole build thing - and the fact that Nebraska is getting snubbed nationally in revenge for the '90s - but when you compare him to the people that probably will get drafted, it looks ridiculous. Cullen Harper! Why!
I know that football's a bloodsport and all, but this is starting to piss me off. I wonder sometimes if this overall attitude has anything to do with why we suck as a society overall. I'm into judging a society on how it treats its children - and this has something to do with that, too - but obviously there's something to be said for judging a society based on what it wants in its leaders. Football fails both gauges. For having such illusions of patriotism and godliness and health and community, it's pretty pathetic.
But how strange, right, he's only nine inches taller than me. God, I'm such a selfish fuck.
