Notes and Errata of Mark of the Asphodel

RIP James Gandolfini

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:54:26 GMT

It is WEIRD to me when someone identified with one particular role dies-- especially when they die fairly young, and you know they likely could've "become" someone else to the world of TV/film, but instead they'll be that one character forever. Now, sometimes it's almost fitting, like when John Thaw died not long after the final Inspector Morse aired, but this just kind of sucks and I didn't even care about The Sopranos. (He was easily the best thing in Zero Dark Thirty, though.)

So I'll just sit here being weirded out about it.

( Cut for rant about body policing and body issues )

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Amy's Borderline Company Bistro

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:24:14 GMT

So last night, I came in from trimming the lawn to find the house oddly quiet. My most excellent spouse was sprawled on the bed in Grandma's room downstairs, earbuds in place, staring at the screen of his phone. I asked him what he was enjoying and he said, with a grin, "Amy's Baking Company."

( You should watch this. No, really. )

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(Not) Shameful Confession

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:32:16 GMT

This entry on My World of Flops led me to revisit The Simpsons. I gave up on that show when its quality first started to slide in the late 90s (seriously, I remember complaining about stupid Homer-centric plots before "Jerkass Homer" was coined), but looking back I have to admit that yeah, it was really great and really influential in ways that slipped past people in the early 90s. Good stuff. Yep.

That said, I always preferred Life in Hell.

THAT said, for my money the most heart-breakingly awesome prime-time cartoon show of that era was The Critic. My GOD, that show was memorable. I'm glad it's acquired a cult following in the end because at the time I just couldn't believe that almost nobody watched it or liked it. I rewatched the Siskel & Ebert "love scene" for kicks plus a few other sequences last night and man, it really holds up even now. So does the best of The Simpsons, but that's "teh most influential and greatest longest-running blah blah blah" and The Critic is a sad little flopperoo in the night.

Take that, Guernica.

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SICK like mosquitos

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:28:16 GMT

"[T]echnically not sinful in the eyes of GOD, but it is still SICK like mosquitos."

Best review ever.

I will repeat this to myself whenever I stumble across one of J!fandom's "wonderful" stepfather/stepdaughter romances.

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Speaking of sick, I spent the weekend at a friend's beach house and saw actual cable TV for the first time in... well, since I don't know when. Including this "Wilfred" show that... wow. So sick. So close to home. The spouse and I were transfixed and appalled.

~~Elijah Wood does sad-sack deranged suffering like no one else, man.~~

Also watched Honey I Shrunk The Kids, which proved a mistake. It does not hold up well. :(

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I did cupcake testing last week for the wife of a co-worker who plans to enter a contest. It was a very mixed experience. When cupcakes go wrong, man...

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