Don't leave a voicemail, seriously.

I have got to say that other people have differing opinions but my most annoying trait to myself is the sleep walking. I need 4-point restraints when I sleep, I swear to god.


( True Blood and Entourage )

Whatever, thank you Spencer Smith for getting fat! Sometimes he plays drums, too!

Where has George been in this election cycle?

Why yes, I have been up since like three this morning, why do you ask?

The other day I was thinking about how I never talk about fandom anymore. That is to say, I never type up meta or go batshit insane about how people are idiots or any of what I would term my "usual" (ok, since TDS started making fun of McCain's quote fingers it's started a whole new round of me doing it in my head. I had a prof back in the stone age when I was your age who used to do it ALL THE TIME for no real reason, this is before the hipster trend to do it--when I think is related to everyone having degrees in communications and lit crit there for like a ten year period) mutterings. This has certainly cut down on my personal aggro with random nimrods busting up in my journal and laying down some supreme truthiness on me, but I feel like I'm missing out on what used to be a hobby of mine--being sanctimonious and bitchy. Where did my self-righteous assholery go? I think I lost it about the time I stopped clicking meta_fandom links. I HAD TO FOR EVERYONE'S SAKE.

Actually, what I think happened is that I fell into bandom where I hesitated to meta because every time I did kool-aid drinkers would rattle their chains in my comments and make me do things like scream my head off at poor, poor friends who didn't even like bandom (then, oh, how the mighty have fallen). Bandom is primarily non confrontational and people just like to enjoy themselves (or they're on journalfen where I never have to see them) so that makes one pause before writing a sixteen part essey titled How I Know Pete Wentz Is Totally Inauthentic And If You Disagree I Will Write a Sequel Entitled Patrick Stump Needs a Vocal Coach. I mean, why bother? I have a lot of opinions on, say, Cobra for example, but I don't need the aggro (btw, I'm totally right and if you disagree it kills five cats every time you think hateful thoughts about me).

Anywaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, guess where I'm going with this?

So I've been thinking a lot about SPN fandom because, duh, I do put on a Con and all, and in particular how we get along in person much better than on the internet. I think that's because you're forced to confront the humanity of the person who posted that rant that made you breathe into a paper bag/kick over a lamp/c&p fled materials to a email hate loop. The fandom has gotten very...reactionary on a lot of fronts and people fly off the handle a lot and go a little, er, shall we say BATSHIT INSANE and that's easy to do when you can pretend the person pissing you off is not quite as human as you are. It's more difficult when you've had a drink with them and discussed their dog's funeral.

I have a lot of friends in fandom (and strangely in no related to fandom) whose opinions I find STUPID OMG!!11 RAGE RAGE but that doesn't prevent me from liking them for something else. When all the fights over the role of women in SPN were going down I honestly wanted to have a whole "can't we all just get along" moment wrt. I have my opinions on the topic, but they're only my opinions. That being said, I think Wincon proves over and over again that yeah, we don't all see things the same way, but when you take a second to look passed that you might find out that one opinion someone has really doesn't matter once you've had half a bottle of Bombay.

Oh, wait, that got away from me...

It's only natural that as fandoms grow, expand, and diversify they won't hold the cohesion of the early days. That doesn't mean they have to go up in rancorous flames of degenerate loathing (looking at you, Smallville fandom!).

Hahahaha omg, I'm doing that thing again, you know, exposing my true nature as a unicorn! Shit.

XO SPN fandom, I do love you when you're not pissing me off. I might be contemplating angel fic.

Yes, it's a spamming kinda day!

Christopher Buckley, my new pundit bf This isn't the article he was fired for but his commentary on the firing.

Scroll down and you will see this:

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Neither conservatives nor liberals nor readers of NR get it: This is the way the world ends:

Some say the world will end in fire, some say it will end in America's conversion to Islam by the secret Muslim president who is also black but we're going to pretend like it's the Islam thing because we've learned to at least not say the racist stuff in front of people who don't go to our church.

The gratuitous use of : is interesting. I wonder if she was c&ping something else but someone good came on the Hour of Power and she had to run in the other room.

In no way is this whole incident surprising or unusual. What really bothers me is the people who are SO SHOCKED by a conservative pundit being fired for endorsing a Democrat. I mean, hello, do you not smell Rome burning? I really think that fiscal conservatives and the whole East Coast elite society have watched the fundies taking over and just laughed in the cherry cordial because how does that impact them? Dance little monkeys, dance! But, you see, my dear Social Register cockbrains, it does influence your life when your portfolio dips 10$ mil in one day. Oh dear, it might be time to tune back in to the warmongers and your fellow Yale classmates who found The Lord. What's to be done?

Idk, the Buckleys crack me up. I know that Pup is on every Baby Boomer's hit list, but, seriously, get over it, people. Especially since what he represented was a whole lifestyle, not just the attitude that you needed to get a job and wash your hair. Whatever, how many people reading this even know who William F Buckley is besides recognizing the name? You don't have to comment to say you do, that's quite alright, I'm just more or less lamenting the death of the indepedent thinkers (who were mostly independent because they were independently wealthy).

Sorry libertarians, this is reaping what your cockamamie beliefs sew: the strong always bash in the weak's brains and the fundies have the sticks. You let this happen to your own party because you're entire political philosophy is "I don't care unless it directly impacts me." Well, guess what? It does now.