oi with the breeding already

[dianora2]

Kitty update: her bloodwork came back normal. That's good, right? I think, I hope? Now I need to decide whether to drag her in for x-rays. She does seem to be acting a bit more like herself tonight than she has since this started, which I'm hoping is a good sign. I don't know. I guess I'll give it a couple of days and see how things go. We both need a couple days' break, that's for sure. Aaaargh, so frustrating.

Law & Order: CI was filming in my neighborhood today. Didn't see any celebs, but I did walk past Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe's trailers. At least, I think I did -- they were labeled GOREN and EAMES and I assume that's who they are. *g*

The Studio 60 ratings make me want to cry, but I'm not entirely surprised, either. Weren't they supposed to be folding DVR ratings in with the Nielsens? That never happened, eh? Sigh. I love that everyone knows the Nielsens are a corrupt and ineffectual system (my brother's friend used to work for them and oh, did he concur) and yet that's still what everyone blithely goes by. You know, like the New York Times bestseller list. ;P

Speaking of S60, I can't believe I forgot to mention Lucy Davis in my post last night. LUCY DAVIS ON STUDIO 60. That is so awesome I can't even stand it. I hope she's going to be recurring, assuming episodes continue to air. :(

Lane is pregnant? Oh, I do not like that one bit, I most certainly do not. Blech. Geez, Sookie, Liz, now Lane -- Stars Hollow is a freaking baby factory. I confess I thought the thing with "Kirk's" was HILARIOUS. I really did. I was laughing more than was seemly. I also loved the Asian tour (Hello Kitty shrine!) and really loved how Rory was the voice of the audience and called Lorelai out on her shit. I've liked Rory more in these past couple of episodes than I have in the past couple of seasons. And I kind of loved the frozen food section scene. They're both so full of shit. Sniffle. Also, Luke in a t-shirt? Um, yes please.

This week on Jeopardy is little kid week and I can't even watch it. It freaks me out.

I don't have much to say about the news because, you know, fish in a barrel. I love how they're turning on each other, in particular. I also love how certain factions are trying to make this into a gay thing. Um, this isn't a gay thing, it's a PROTECTING A SEXUAL PREDATOR thing. Asswipes.

(Meanwhile, 17 soldiers have died in Iraq so far this week.)

So there's this movie in production called The Tourist, starring Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman, and Michelle Williams, and it's an erotic adventure that takes place partially in Manhattan sex clubs, and it is apparently SO sexually explicit that Fox has decided not to distribute it domestically. Which I don't understand, because to me it sounds like THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE.

OK, I'm going to try to go to bed early tonight since I'm utterly exhausted.

Comments

[corellianjedi.livejournal.com]

I'm just going to... stare at your icon for a while. Excuse me.

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

He makes tired look good. Well, he makes just about anything look good.

[corellianjedi.livejournal.com]

Hell effing yes he does. Nngh.

[lzbrt.livejournal.com]

This week on Jeopardy is little kid week and I can't even watch it. It freaks me out.

Yesterday one of the questions was about philately. I was very Josh like about it, while giggling of course. And then I remembered it was kiddie week and it all became awkward. None of them got it right.

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

And then I remembered it was kiddie week and it all became awkward.

Heeeeeeeeee. Perv.

[maegwen.livejournal.com]

Random comments:

I can't even look at the ratings for S60, because I'm scared of what I'll see. I guess your post confirms that.

A friend and I were just IMing each other about how weird it is that Lorelai and Luke make a much more interesting couple now that they're not a couple. The frozen food section scene had more emotion than *any* L/L faux-snogging scene of last season. And yes, GO RORY. Ahem. I'm done shouting.

Finally, I saw this jaw-dropping interview on one of the cable networks yesterday with a representative of some 'family values' group insisting that the failure of anyone reprimanding Foley sooner lay on the Democrats' shoulders because liberal groups have made it impossible for anyone to criticize homosexuals. A big wtf at that.

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it's so much that they're more interesting when they're not a couple as it is that they're more interesting when they're actually being written IN CHARACTER. Sigh.

the failure of anyone reprimanding Foley sooner lay on the Democrats' shoulders because liberal groups have made it impossible for anyone to criticize homosexuals.

Yes, that is exactly the kind of bullshit I am talking about. Who do these people think they're kidding??? Talk about desperate attempts to shift the blame.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

Wait, wait. They're holding back a movie in which Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman /both/ get naked? That makes NO SENSE. Don't they get that porn sells? Why not at least release it in say, CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, where we LIKE Independent Movies and PORN.

The Studio 60 ratings -- sigh. They really suck. :( Thirteen episode committment. *rocks back and forth*

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

SERIOUSLY. At least, I think they both get naked. I HOPE they both get naked. I know Ewan does. With Michelle Williams, I'm guessing. *pauses to wipe drool off keyboard* I would gladly give that movie a lot of my money.

It's going to be a Joey type situation where it actually would cost them more money NOT to air the show.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

I think I would, but I can't remember what the last movie was that I saw in a theater.

Yeah. I have the feeling that if things don't pick up by January, which is when Sorkin pops off to Morocco, we're going to end up with a 13 episode box set. Which is kind of what I thought was going to happen all along, but I want to be wrong.

[bexatious.livejournal.com]

Yay, Miss P! Wait a few days before getting xrays; she probably did just pull a muscle or something and it'll all fix itself up nicely.

GG does not screen here until 10pm which is annoying but I laughed my head off with Kirks, and even though the sushi thing was gross it also elicited a snigger. Plus, I do so love TJ. The pregnancy thing was so obvious from the start but perhaps it's their plot device for getting Mrs Kim back into the picture.

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, come to think of it, Mrs. Kim dealing with a pregnant Lane could be worth the price of Lane being pregnant. Because that could be HILARIOUS.

[soaked-in-stars.livejournal.com]

Lane's pregnant?!? By whom? Is she still with the fugly band dude? Oh my.

And WORD on both the Nielsens and NYT bestseller list. Sigh.

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

She's MARRIED to ugly band dude. But they've only had sex once because it was really bad.

[gpsysngbrd.livejournal.com]

Yeah the poor little girl is saying "MOM STOP TORTURING ME!
I'll be good if you just leave me alone!"

Glad she seems to be feeling better.

[marakara.livejournal.com]

Weren't they supposed to be folding DVR ratings in with the Nielsens? That never happened, eh?

Actually, it did. If you read any of the ratings stories from the networks, the ratings are "live plus same day", which incorporates the DVR/TiVo crowd.

I love that everyone knows the Nielsens are a corrupt and ineffectual system (my brother's friend used to work for them and oh, did he concur) and yet that's still what everyone blithely goes by.

Believe me, everyone would like a system to work but no one can come up with a better one and companies have spent multi-millions to create a competitor and nothing ever took.

Take Care
Mara

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

I guess I just don't see how useful "same day" is. How many people actually watch stuff they record on the same day? I know a few people who TiVo S60 to watch at a later date because it's on so late.

Believe me, everyone would like a system to work but no one can come up with a better one and companies have spent multi-millions to create a competitor and nothing ever took.

Oh, I know. But it's still frustrating.

[marakara.livejournal.com]

I guess I just don't see how useful "same day" is.

But the only way you'll have the ratings the next morning is to use same day as a measure. There is also a "live plus seven day" rating but that's not available for two weeks. Again, terrible system but the only system we have.

Take Care
Mara

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get that, and I know that advertisers don't care much if someone watches the show a week later. It just seems like the one-day yardstick unfairly favors 8 PM shows over 10 PM ones, you know?

So does TiVo know if I'm watching a show live? Like, I record S60 and watch it live. When it's over, should I then watch the recording on TiVo to generate a rating? It's so confusing.

[marakara.livejournal.com]

So does TiVo know if I'm watching a show live?

For the ratings, it doesn't matter what TiVo knows, it matters what the Nielsen meter in the Nielsen households knows but rewatching something on teh night it is broadcast doesn't add anything to the ratings.

Take Care
Mara

[badboy-fangirl.livejournal.com]

Are you a big WW fan? I'm just guessing. I adore Bradley Whitford, maybe we should be friends? Is it okay if I friend you? I'm so glad that he's on Studio 60, but I already wish they'd cast Janel Maloney as some flighty actress to come turn his head!

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

Are you a big WW fan? I'm just guessing.

HA HA HA HA HA. Ahem, sorry. Yeah, you could say that. Try clicking on my ww tag or even my fic tag and you will get an idea. *g* I also maintain bradleywhitford if you don't watch that comm already.

Friend away!

[michellek.livejournal.com]

Watching the Republican party implode is going to be fun. Though I'm going crazy with the people blaming the Democrats, the kids, and the fact that Foley is gay (and the "tolerance" of that fact; I saw Tony Perkins from the "Family Research Council" on Hardball tonight and I wanted to get stabby).

Fox is stupid. Sexually explicit movies with sexy people are never a bad idea.

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

Sexually explicit movies with sexy people are never a bad idea.

Amen, my friend.

[deelaa.livejournal.com]

Can you tell me what happened in the Frozen food section scene? I got distracted and missed it. I know, that's pretty lame.

I have a question for you about GH, since I don't keep up on the behind the scenes stuff anymore. Maybe you don't either. Anyway, do you know if Laura is waking up or what?

I didn't look at the ratings.. Now I'm so depressed. I wonder if it's not really a good show and I'm just blinded by the Brad/Matt/TimB/Sorkin/Shlamme love (not necessarily in that order).

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

I don't remember all that well what was said -- basically Luke said that they just weren't meant to be, they were too different and worked better when he was just a guy who served her coffee in a diner. And she pretended to agree but you could tell it was a sucker punch.

Laura is waking up but only for a few weeks. It's all part of a Luke & Laura anniversary celebration.

[deelaa.livejournal.com]

Yay, you used a Robert icon to reply to my GH question. Also, it amuses me you answered both my Luke related questions but they were two different Lukes.

I had a feeling she was only waking up temporarily, but do you know if she is going to die at the end of the few weeks or just go back to being catatonic.

[kiss-me-cassie.livejournal.com]

Goren! Eames!

(man, I'm pathetic if that's all I can come up with, but... Eh.)

[ratmmjess.livejournal.com]

I'm glad Kitty's feeling better, at least.

Y'know, I'm sure I'm wrong about this, but it seems like there are fewer films in which Ewan *doesn't* show his penis than there are films in which he does. Am I wrong about this?

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Well, that's an understandable assumption, but I swear it's really not true. *g*

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

They want me to go back in a month regardless to check to see if she's actually losing weight on the diet food, so we shall see.

Apparently TiVo is folded in but only if you then watch it the same night, which doesn't make much sense to me.