Yes, it's been known for some time now

But, in case you'd wondered or worried, I'll confirm for you that I am, in fact, a tremendous slut.

( A little True Blood TMI, feel free to skip )

The show itself? Hard to say at this point. The setting is fabulous, the feel is very real south, not the TV-and-movie-execs-in-LA version thereof. This greatly grounds the story because it's about small people dealing with a huge thing (vampires being real). I'm a little annoyed at the accents--not because they're not good (most of 'em are, actually), but because they're not Louisianan. There's exactly one guy in the show who sounds authentic Louisiana. Of course, that's because he has just about the only Cajun accent I've ever heard (it's gotta be real; you can't study those cadences). It is beautiful, and I want him to speak more just because he brings the show back to where it is supposed to be set.

The real failing of this show will be in trying to make me care about either of the two romantic leads. Absolutely everyone else, including the awful slut of a brother, is more interesting. It's just...not. It could be worse. (It could be Twilight.) But it could be better. The more they talk about the consequences of being vampire-old and the ability of people alive throughout history to disabuse the idiot masses of their romanticising of the past, the more I'm interested. The two lovers off on their own and the angst--he's a vampire! woe!--the more I turn off, tune out, and go back to fantasizing about the bartender. Mmm...

*****

Kitty update: Not about Wally for once! I let Oscar out because it's clear to me that Wally is just not going to eat the food on his own. He's being a right brat. If I have to feed him especially anyway, I'm not going to pen up the other kitty for nothing.

And my poor, poor Oscar baby, he was clearly lonely and not happy with being alone. I let him into my room after dinner where I started to doze off. Never a good idea with cats around if only because they're bound to get into trouble that I might easily sleep through. Instead, I got rousted out of sleep by Oscar headbutting me in the face, trying to get some love out of me. He was purring and adorable and curling up into me and doing that thing where he mushes the air (or whatever is in the way) with his claws (fortunately for me and my skin, he does so gently). Kitty wuvs me. He's a few cards short of a full deck sometimes, and he's dumber than a post, but he wuvs me. Poor fing.

Tina Fey, I love you. Amy Poehler, I love you.

Funny shit. Tina Fey's accent is hilarious. I'd also sooner elect her to any office in the land than Sarah Palin. Because Tina Fey is savvy and jokes about using looks to cover gross incompetance and inexperience. Sarah Palin actually uses that joke as her guiding star in the campaign. The one who gets the joke or the one who is the joke? Not a hard call to make.

Oh fuck yes

HIPSTERS!!! ::shakes fist::

I fucking hate hipsters. For all the reasons Jay goes into. They make it hard to tell who's really a cool person who likes the things you do and who's wearing all the hallmarks of said person but who will mock you mercilessly when you approach them to compliment them on their taste for all things geeky. Gah. Haaaate.

Whether he wins or loses, we must never forget

John McCain invented the Blackberry. Strange that he should invent something with a keyboard since his war injuries clearly keep him from using such things. No, actually they don't, he's just a techonological dinosaur.

And no, he didn't really invent the Blackberry. But Al Gore got hounded mercilessly with the "He invented the internet!" meme when he said something that wasn't even half as bald-faced about his work in government that lead to the development of the modern intertubes. McCain doesn't get off easy for this. Be sure to remind everyone who thinks red during the election that their candidate and his people thinks he invented the Blackberry.

Hey, at least he didn't claim he invented Post-Its right in front of this chick who actually worked at 3M and knew the real guy who did or anything...

You have to hand it to David Brooks

No one calls him on his backhanded compliment shit the way they do to Maureen Dowd. Of course, she's the ditzier writer of the two, but that doesn't make him less insidiously evil.

To whit: He doesn't support Sarah Palin, but you'd be hard-pressed to reach that conclusion when 3/4s of his op-ed sound like a cheerleading section for her.

Sarah Palin has many virtues. If you wanted someone to destroy a corrupt establishment, she’d be your woman.

Wait, wait, that's not right. Here, let's try it this way:

Sarah Palin has many virtues she's like to exercise at the expense of others. If you wanted someone to destroy a corrupt establishment and replace it with a newer, toadier, less accountable corrupt establishment, she'd be your political hack (who happens to have a vagina).

Fixed it for you.

In other news: this is my 7th post of the day, and I still have two and half hours of work to go. Faaaaaabulous.

Aieeee!!!!!

Wall-E cake!!!!