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fannish weekend YAY.
Home! For those who didn't notice I was gone: I was in Boston this weekend! Celebrating ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
brooklinegirl's birthday along with lynnmonster and misspamela and estrella30! Plus dinner on Saturday with aneli8 and mrsronweasley and mayatawi and drlense and kageygirl, hi yay!
We mainly celebrated by drinking and watching TV, which included, um. Miami Vice? And Jake 2.0? And The Sentinel, and Undeclared (guest starring Tom Welling, yay?) and about thirty seconds of anime porn before everyone, includinglynnmonster, became totally unendurably traumatized. Then we watched Sports Night, all a-squee over it, and couldn't figure out why we don't watch it ALL THE TIME (consensus: because once you start watching you can't stop) and spent a lot of time looking around and saying, "Seriously, why aren't we all writing this? Why isn't EVERYONE writing this?"
We also watched - without any fast-forwarding at all, which if you know anything about our collective attention span is the highest possible compliment - the first two episodes of Life on Mars (NB: NOT ACTUALLY SET ON MARS, just named after a David Bowie song). For those of you who've already seen this pimped up and down your friends list in the last few months, Oh my god, everyone is right, WATCH IT. For those who haven't, Life on Mars is absolutely brilliant, visually and directorially gorgeous, Sam is a HUGE woobie and spends all of the first two episodes getting periodically beaten up. And, oh yes, time-traveling.
(The first time Sam walked by a telephone box,misspamela, who'd spent the entire previous day watching Dr. Who with brooklinegirl, pointed at the screen and yelled, "TARDIS!" but that seems not to be quite how it works for our Sam.)
And eventually the weekend had to end, and after much consoling ourselves with the fact that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
con_txt is coming up fast, it was just me and Tracey left on the couch, and we watched this past Friday's Numb3rs, which Tracey had TiVoed for me, and YAY.
I'd been so worried about David that - although I'm GLAD he didn't have to, y'know, put poor Colby through a lengthy bedside vigil - it was really kind of anticlimactic when he got shot in the shoulder. But yay solicitous Don and solicitous Colby! And yay David coming to babysit Charlie, and playing air hockey left-handed and <3 <3 <3.
And CHARLIE! In his classroom, keeping his cool and getting help when he spotted the mob guys! And playing his part at the end, making his call (though I sincerely hope that there were about a dozen FBI agents hanging out in the driveway while he did so).
And DON! Being HOT! And, er, a teensy bit irrational, but that's understandable in matters relating to his baby brother. (Don: you can't reduce the risk to Charlie by taking him off the case. You can maybe reduce the risk to Charlie by sealing him in a bunker surrounded by armed guards, but taking him off the case really just makes it harder to solve the case. kthx.)
And at the END! CHUCK! And DONALD! (So, hey, is that full-name canon, now? Or will this debate NEVER END?)
And, in short, YAY.
Also, it seems that my DVD player is dying, and I would like to replace it with a spiffy region-free, AVI-playing model. It seems - from my thirty seconds of research - that the Phillips is not now widely available, but I know it's cheap and goodish. Recs? Help?
brooklinegirl's birthday along with lynnmonster and misspamela and estrella30! Plus dinner on Saturday with aneli8 and mrsronweasley and mayatawi and drlense and kageygirl, hi yay! We mainly celebrated by drinking and watching TV, which included, um. Miami Vice? And Jake 2.0? And The Sentinel, and Undeclared (guest starring Tom Welling, yay?) and about thirty seconds of anime porn before everyone, including
lynnmonster, became totally unendurably traumatized. Then we watched Sports Night, all a-squee over it, and couldn't figure out why we don't watch it ALL THE TIME (consensus: because once you start watching you can't stop) and spent a lot of time looking around and saying, "Seriously, why aren't we all writing this? Why isn't EVERYONE writing this?"We also watched - without any fast-forwarding at all, which if you know anything about our collective attention span is the highest possible compliment - the first two episodes of Life on Mars (NB: NOT ACTUALLY SET ON MARS, just named after a David Bowie song). For those of you who've already seen this pimped up and down your friends list in the last few months, Oh my god, everyone is right, WATCH IT. For those who haven't, Life on Mars is absolutely brilliant, visually and directorially gorgeous, Sam is a HUGE woobie and spends all of the first two episodes getting periodically beaten up. And, oh yes, time-traveling.
(The first time Sam walked by a telephone box,
misspamela, who'd spent the entire previous day watching Dr. Who with brooklinegirl, pointed at the screen and yelled, "TARDIS!" but that seems not to be quite how it works for our Sam.) And eventually the weekend had to end, and after much consoling ourselves with the fact that
con_txt is coming up fast, it was just me and Tracey left on the couch, and we watched this past Friday's Numb3rs, which Tracey had TiVoed for me, and YAY. I'd been so worried about David that - although I'm GLAD he didn't have to, y'know, put poor Colby through a lengthy bedside vigil - it was really kind of anticlimactic when he got shot in the shoulder. But yay solicitous Don and solicitous Colby! And yay David coming to babysit Charlie, and playing air hockey left-handed and <3 <3 <3.
And CHARLIE! In his classroom, keeping his cool and getting help when he spotted the mob guys! And playing his part at the end, making his call (though I sincerely hope that there were about a dozen FBI agents hanging out in the driveway while he did so).
And DON! Being HOT! And, er, a teensy bit irrational, but that's understandable in matters relating to his baby brother. (Don: you can't reduce the risk to Charlie by taking him off the case. You can maybe reduce the risk to Charlie by sealing him in a bunker surrounded by armed guards, but taking him off the case really just makes it harder to solve the case. kthx.)
And at the END! CHUCK! And DONALD! (So, hey, is that full-name canon, now? Or will this debate NEVER END?)
And, in short, YAY.
Also, it seems that my DVD player is dying, and I would like to replace it with a spiffy region-free, AVI-playing model. It seems - from my thirty seconds of research - that the Phillips is not now widely available, but I know it's cheap and goodish. Recs? Help?