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Just because I didn’t HATE the episode, it doesn’t mean I like it. Got a few more thoughts but that’ll have to wait till later. I just wanted it to be on the record that this ep is nothing like.. you know.. Swing or Lead. I was merely… mollified by the extraordinary number of good looking outfits Alex was sporting.

UPDATE: ANNND IT’S NOW LATER…

The more I think about it, the more it bugs me because this episode was essentially an Alex Cabot character assassination piece. Mostly because it seemed like her lines, like in every episode post Lead, were written for Kimmie Gibbler– I mean Greyleck. So, Invasion of The Body Snatchers happens; it looks like a Cabot, it walks like a Cabot, but it doesn’t *ACT* like a Cabot! Which kinda explains why I thought Stephanie March looked like she wanted to poke her own eyes out while examining M.E. Warner in court. Sleepwalking through scenes, dialing it in, whatever you want to call it, it was pretty uncomfortable to watch them lecture me about measles.

Some of the B.S. leaps they’ve made in the season prepared me for those WTF moments so we won’t talk about Giant. Ass. Plotholes.

I stand by my other statements – there wasn’t enough Olivia (er, probably because Mariska just returned from that hospitalization), Trevor Langan deserved to win the case, Alex Cabot blinded me with nice clothes and all-round hotness.

It was three weeks of nothing. When there’s a new ep, it’s like a burst dam. Just… ya know.. random thoughts…

- I didn’t hate the episode even though there was a 15 minute PSA about measles and vaccinations

- I want to MURDER bingbangbongboy

- Alex Cabot looked really good in that grey number

- there’s something really fishy about bingbangbongboy’s role 

- I have a theory: he’s the killer in the finale.

- Alex Cabot looked really GOOD in that black number

- there wasn’t enough of Olivia

- this might be the first episode that I begin to really notice Chris and Mariska hava aged.

- there were a couple scenes were the actors sleepwalked through their lines. don’t know if that’s better than over-acting or not…

- Cabot looked REALLY good in that purple top and charcoal coat. *dies*

- I do not like Trevor Langan wiping the floor with Alex but her case was rubbish

- I hate it worse that Alex thought she was going to get a guilty verdict

- that woman on trial could be Donna Moss’s mother

- Peter Hermann is a damn fine looking man

The crew is on location in Brooklyn. Coney Island! Look at all that sun. Sheesh.

I’m nerd enough to notice Richard Belzer has a gloved hand, which might indicate a crime scene… which begs the question of what kind of jurisdiction the Manhattan cops have in Brooklyn. But oh well. At least it doesn’t look like anyone we like died.

So if someone watches this show can you tell me if this ep is any good? Here’s the teaser to tonight’s episode –  Stephanie plays a psychic, sharing screen time with Denis Leary’s ghost-seeing firefighter. And that’s all I know.

This is a special edition of the “Hitching Homos Watch of Whateverlah.Com”.

Yesterday/today, depending on where you live, following its Supreme Court ruling about three weeks ago, Iowa began issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples.

And the world did not come to an end. Much to the chagrin of a few nitwits, I bet.

The New York Times reports: “The large, angry protests some had imagined never materialized in this city [Des Moines], the state’s most populous. Neither did the crowds of couples from all over the nation that some feared might create a carnival-like atmosphere captured in earlier images from other places.”

First, Indiana turns blue, now Iowa is more progressive than California. What’s next?

A nice little commentary on why Man U will win the EPL this year. My favourite part:

They know what they’re doing. They’ve been here before. They know what’s at stake. This group is a team full of winners. Sir Alex Ferguson has made it so. Take Ryan Giggs for example: he’s won more silverware than an entire squad of players in many cases. He’s a proven medalist and that attitude filters down all the way to players like young Federico Macheda, a striker who is half Giggs age.

Yeap. There is still love for Giggsy out there. I will almost certainly be slightly less enthused about the club when #11 retires.

Ok, I think the summer song of 09 has been found. It’s not quite Estelle’s American Boy but Love Sex Magic by Ciara is pretty damn danceable. So tentatively, it’s my 09 song.

 
Other songs in my still-in-the-works playlist:

Green Day – Know Your Enemy It’s all in the riff.

The Saturdays – Just Can’t Get Enough – A little bit of retro.

La Roux – Quicksand – Neo-retro?

[this is so unbelievably emo. I don't recognize the person who wrote this. nor can identify anymore most of the people the 'things' refer to. -ed]

20 things    2/13/2004

Nicked this from someone who stole it from someone who stole it from someone, yadda yadda… Excellent exercise in vagueness.

Make 20 statements about 20 different people without telling who they pertain to.

1. I thought I knew you… turns out I didn’t. I vow to never say another word to you now.

2. I wish I had never told you.

3. You are still my biggest cheerleader and I am thankful.

4. I try because I know you care in your unspoken ways.

5. You’re fake, fake, fake but after 15 odd years it’s difficult to ignore you.

6. I see you’re like me and I know I must be patient.

7. Why do you sabotage yourself like that? It hurts us all, you know?

8. You were so slyly manipulative and I tried so fucking hard to make you like me. I know better now.

9. I fell in love with you? I’m sorry.

10. Our relationship is fine and you are ok no matter what they may think.

11. No, you’re not perfect but you were honest — and I will still kill you in my movie.

12. I’m glad we can talk like long lost girlfriends.

13. You are such a good person at heart if you could stop over-doing the pleasing thing.

14. Sometimes I wonder if it would have been easier for you if you let us help.

15. You’re on your way, baby, and would that I had some of that determination.

16. It’s people like you who remind me how much I have to learn about not pigeon-holing people.

17. Why is it that you never look me in the eye? You think you’re better. I know. That’s ok.

18. You may never know what to make of me but I love you because you take care of her.

19. Those stunts you pulled, they will come back to haunt you. When will you learn?

20. With me you had an inferiority complex which in turned developed into a superiority complex. You’re a sorry sod.

You knew when NOM (that’s the National Organization for Marriage – whaa?) launched it’s ‘Gathering Storm’ video, it was just begging for parodies. Go ahead, youtube it and there’s like a million of them out there.

I wanna share two of my favorite. One is from the Colbert Report (“It is like watching the 700 Club and the Weather Channel at the same time.”):

And the second one is quickly making its round in the last 48 hours from Funny or Die, ‘A Gaythering Storm’, featuring Alicia Silverstone, George Takei and Lance Bass:

Ah. Life.

OK, here’s the deal, Mr. Dick Wolf and Mr. Neal Baer. I don’t want to say this twice (but apparently I have to). Since it’s official that Michaela McManus is leaving the cast of SVU, instead of throwing another new face on us, how about keeping extra-special-sauce guest star Stephanie March for next season, the entire season, full time?

You didn’t listen to me the first time, after Diane Neal left. I said you gotta bring back Stephanie March and I even gave you a really good list of reasons why. But you didn’t listen to me. (I’m always right) And what happens? Kim Grayleck, the gal from DC, wasn’t hacking it and midway into the season, you ran and called up Ms. March to salvage the remainder of this train wreck.

Because you did this, clearly you must be listening somewhere, somehow to the fans. How else would you know that none of us could stomach Grayleck? I don’t know where. I doubt it’s here. But dammit, I have to try.

So Dick…. Neal…. FORGODSAKES listen to me this time, ok? KEEP STEPHANIE MARCH AS ADA ALEX CABOT FOR THE 11TH SEASON.

Oh, if you could let Amanda Green write more, bring back DeNoon/Peterson or the Fazekas/Butters writing team, *and* straightjacket Daniel Truly so he can’t touch a single writing utensil ever again, that would be fabu.

This entry is a bit of smug, self-approving type of thing but it then goes on to talk about other stuff though…

From AIM earlier…

Bro: hahahah you’re so right……founder of bfm went to harvard
Me: OMG hahaha

The backstory – some time ago there was a conversation in the car where I punctuated my statement with, “Don’t argue; I’m always right!” and the brother goes, “That’s my line!” and I was like, “No, it’s mine… I guess we’re just both so damn perfect then.”

Soon after that, I started a game counting the times where he’d admit that I was right or vice versa. It’s a simple game… the other person doesn’t necessarily has to be wrong, they just have to admit that the other’s supposition or assertion has been supported by facts uncovered/discovered at a later time.

The brother does not know I’m playing this game. So far, I’m ahead by a couple counts.

Now, onto, why I was right about the owner of BFM – a radio station outfit that’s fairly new. My bro turned me onto BFM when I got back. Said he, “You gotta listen to this station, it’ll remind you of being in the States.” He was right (damn). 89.9 FM quickly became the number 1 preset in our car. The music was definitely more American – come on, would any other station you know here play Steve Earle? Yea, didn’t think so.

So we talk about BFM quite often. Our theory is that this guy misses the states as much as we do. And I said he’s definitely someone who went to school there, probably business school since BFM is The Business station – its target market are those in the corporate world. I said, “Probably Harvard Business or some other high falutin school like that.”

Turns out, I’m right.

i needs me some stephanie march!! nao!!!

Whether it be in Alex Cabot form:

(or otherwise)

I’m starting to think this is some kind of Dana Scully Syndrome. The other day, ADA Cabot used the word “specious” in a pre trial hearing and I almost had a tvgasm.

I need more of that kind of good stuff. There are no new eps of SVU until the week after. We’ll have to make do with screen caps of Stephanie playing a psychic in Rescue Me after the jump.

(more…)

Helpful hint of the day:

If you’re looking to get a Letter of Good Conduct or “Sijil Kelakuan Baik”, this is done through the Foreign Ministry at Wisma Putra (that’s Putrajaya, dears) and not your local cop shop, kay?

Here’s a link you’ll be needin’: Letter of Good Conduct form and instructions [pdf] from the Kementerian Luar Negeri.

Yea… i just like using that word inappropriately. Teabag. Teabag. Teabag. Also, can I just marry Jon Stewart? Please?

Hey fUCLA, you must be so proud. Your lacrosse team was overhead being homophobic and racist during a game by a photographer working for Outsports. Via: Towleroad.

I really want to like lacrosse, you know. Cause it’s a small time sport. But you guys prove that you’re no different from the other student athletes. Why should I support the little known sports when I can get the same brand of immaturity and ignorance from big time college sports and… just about any form of professional sports?