Really? That's really the best you could come up with?

Project Runway might benefit for being off the air a bit longer because that finale? Bee-yatch, please.( Spoilers! )

From the last episode: how much do I love this thread at Project RunGay? The biggest issue here is that you have two white girls designing/modeling a look that is meant to be idiomatic for a predominantly black music culture. Kenley doesn't know shit about hip-hop culture, she's a goddamned hipster. The best she could do would be an "ironic" take on hip-hop, which, by dint of it being a mocking sort of thing would be overtly racist. Instead, she chose to just willfully misunderstand hip-hop and then abuse people whiter than her by tarring them as the ones who were being ignorant of black culture. She poked fun at hip-hop culture and the "baggy, oversized look" which, actually, since fashion is cyclical in its trends, is partially back right now. Someone isn't on trend, but that was no surprise in Kenley's case. She prefers prints stolen from old beach chairs.

Then there's Leanne. She tried to do the hip-hop "thing" with her outfit because holy shit it was not hip-hop. And she failed. She looked a tad clownish as a result, but if she'd gone all the way gangsta, she'd have been treading close to that mockery again, which is a no-no. So, no, Leanne didn't sabotage shit. She was hamstringed by an ugly outfit that did not flatter her or fit the aesthetic and had to sell it in front of a guest judge who is very necessarily on trend for that look. She played a little, but she couldn't have done more and doing less would have let Kenley's outfit die entirely. As was, Leanne at least amused the judges. If they're laughing, they're not hating quiet as much.

Except in Kenley's case because they hate her. With good reason. Heidi's face tonight...it was priceless. I've come to call it the "Stupid American cow!" face after the Project RunGay guys started up a meme. Awesome.

Remember when this show didn't suck?

PR review of Heroes 3.03, "One of Us, One of Them" is up.

Season three has only just started, but I'm wondering which will prove to be worse: the pointlessness or season two or the deliberate plot-and-character torpedoing of season three? I think there's more room in a show like Heroes for boring episodes than episodes that destroy the rules of the world and the characters in it. It wants to have a mythology, but it keeps sabotaging it because things aren't "cool" enough.

It's agonizing exactly because, as I was saying to ivy03 and mithras03, things that are half good, half terrible get me more worked up than things that are all terrible. Because you can see where there were chances for the show/movie/etc. to be really awesome and go a really fun direction and the show just blows it. It's like watching the season premiere of Smallville each year: they might have had a half-way decent threat built up over the course of the previous season, but they squander everything in the first episode and then never revisit it.

And that's Heroes in a nutshell, only it doesn't have the routine established like Smallville does, so when they're done with something they lurch away from it and get to make all new and better, grander mistakes in the process of not-learning from the old ones. What really bugs me is that there are ideas that could be explored on Heroes that won't be, and now can never be. AU fanfic reads better than this show right now.

Also, pardon me, but The 4400 did a lot of this better. It wasn't perfect either but at least it enjoyed some internal consistency. Its worst failings didn't break the world the way Heroes' do.

Stuff and more stuff

-This is just sick. A law meant to help out women who cannot care for babies that they have is being used to allow people to just drop off unruly teenagers at the police station. Yeah, that's a great way to show your kids how much you respect and love them and only want the best for them: by abandoning them to be wards of the state when they're old enough to know that that is exactly what you're doing. Parenting: UR DOIN IT SO WRONG U SHULD BEE FIRED. FROM LIFE. OUT OF CANNON INTO SUN.

-We may never see the film if Fox is feeling particularly snitty about it, but we can all take heart in knowing that the Watchmen is really awesome. This is according to the judge who heard arguments that lead to the upcoming court battle in January. His remarks were based solely on the trailer, have nothing to do with the legal process, and are basically useless. Still, we can rest comfortably, die happy knowing that he thinks its good. And Zach Snyder says that if they're thinking sequels, he'll have no part of it. Bless 'im.

( Uh, the rest of these are political. Advance at your own risk. )

Cheap shot, but fair assessment

see Sarah Palin pictures

Enjoy the debates, y'all.

George Will thinks you're a lazy bastard

Even if you don't exist as a brain attached to a junk-food distended stomach: if your vote isn't of a certain 'quality,' he thinks it shouldn't count.

( Fuck him. )

It's a shame Will has to be a totally elitist fuckhole, who, as a journalist, consultant, speaker, whatever, can take as much time off as he needs on Election Day to vote, and can probably do so in some rich white guy district where no filthy brown people will make him wait on to cast his informed vote while they vote for the guy who'll give them more watermelon and chicken wings. Because he did have one--ONE--cogent point, and that's that early voters truncate the learning process about candidates, and that's a shame. Given how the Palin thing is falling out, there are people who, if they'd cast ballots after the convention in favor of McCain because of her who would be now (one would hope) bashing their heads against walls.

However, since he then points out that early voters also are more likely to inform themselves more thoroughly on policies of candidates than the electorate who vote in November, and are, therefore, unlikely to have changed their vote, this point isn't really relevant. I said it was cogent point only because in an election season that wasn't quite as long, we might not have been inundated with info on the candidates. We have, so fuck off, George Will.

Also, explain to me how these voters are lazy, worthless shits unworthy of getting a voice if this is true:

Furthermore, those unusually partisan and informed people who take advantage of early voting options are not typically the poor or people who, absent those options, would be nonvoters.

Meaning they would have voted at the local place anyway. Are their votes still worthless? You know George Will thinks they are.

The second problem with early voting is that one of its supposed benefits is actually a subtraction from civic health. The benefit is that it makes voting easier—indeed, essentially effortless. But surely the quality of the electoral turnout declines when the quantity is increased by "convenience voting."

Yeah! Because if more people have a say by voting, they're bound not to be rich white blowhards--law of averages! That means they won't vote for the rich white blowhards I like! WAAAAH

Shorter Trinity: ROT IN HELL, GEORGE WILL.