And that's all I have to talk about really

I can't believe that on a show where one of the stars has the weirdest duck-tail haircut, the thing that bothers me most is not knowing where on Earth he got a cast from. So, Supernatural fans, how did Sam get a cast, and why, after several months, does he still have one? (Warning: I'm only halfway through season two, so references to events later probably won't make sense to me.)

I feel pretty good about catching up on TV, but I'm still so far behind it's ridiculous. I mean, LOST is over and I've not seen half the episodes (or more). Ditto Torchwood. Sooooo far behind on Doctor Who that I'm at risk for spoiling whenever I turn on BSG on Fridays because the American broadcast is ahead of me. SHAMEFUL.

And all of those are going to continue to be neglected as I should have not one but two discs of Tales from the Crypt coming to me from Netflix today. Damn EC Comics reprints being so expensive! I shall have to watch the wonderfully gruesome horror on the tele-vision-machine!

Women ARE funny!

This is feminism you can all get behind.

I need a laughing icon

They made a sequel to the Batman/Iron Man "I'm a Marvel/I'm a DC" and it's even funnier than the first one. Z-to-the-O-M-G, spoilers.

This story is 100% true

me: I had a pitcher of margaritas last night. I swear I'm not an alcoholic.
moonlightalice: Uhhhm.
me: feiran just said she wouldn't play Scene It with me unless I had a handicap.
moonlightalice: omg
me: So instead of having only half the pitcher, I had all of it.
moonlightalice: You still beat the pants off her, yes?
me: Well, not pants-off beating. Especially not the last round where I had a 3 second lag handicap, too.
me: I beat her by about twice as many points. Usually, I can do 3x as many.
moonlightalice: Wow.
me: Yep. No one wants to play with me. I'll drink until they do!
moonlightalice: I've beaten you :D
me: It's true. But this version on the XBOX makes me more competitive. There's no chance.
moonlightalice: I think cumulatively I've seen more movies than you have.
me: But that doesn't seem to matter--whether I've seen movies or not. I know them. It's like osmosis.

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Have I mentioned lately how adork-able I find Jon Favreau? Well, I do. FYI. Seriously, he spends half the interview talking about other people's comic book movies and how excited he is to see them. WUV!

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And then there's this. The sequel to Transformers is going to be called...wait for it...Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.

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...er, no.

...No, thank you? Please no? WHO WRITES THESE TITLES? (And does this mean that Jazz is going to be undead along with--I assume--Megatron? ZOMG SPOILERS YOU DON'T EVER CARE ABOUT.)

We have a half-black guy running for president now, is the excuse

Or do we even need excuses any more?

Blackface has a hideous, hideous history. I won't deny that. And "comedies" like The Love Guru and You Don't Mess With The Zohan definitely are falling prey to the stupidity of white people who think pretending not to be white makes them somehow exotic. That's exactly how they're billed in their trailers--the race thing isn't even addressed which means that the film isn't adressing it.

The other example, Tropic Thunder takes the opposite track and has, in every trailer I've seen, addressed the fact that Robert Downey Jr. is playing a white guy playing a black guy. What to make of that? I can't see as it's the same thing as "blackface" as was, though my defensiveness is probably due to a) the trailer being fucking funny (unlike anything I've seen from Zohan or Guru), and b) Robert Downey Jr. could probably sell me a bridge to Brooklyn.

From what I understood, the point of this use of blackface is not to mock, deride, or relegate black men to side roles or to lampoon them with clownish, racist stereotypes but to mock and make clowns of white people who think they can "relate" to black people as though they were a homogenous group of reparations-seeking, hostile aliens. The focus is definitely on making the white guy look ridiculous for assuming he could be black with just makeup and effort.

But the article raises a good point: this is being explored in a comedy where said white guy is going to be the butt of jokes, but no real point is being made about the history of racism in blackface. And the fact that the character will be lampooned is an excuse to have this character, not a reason. Hrm.