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[apocalypsos]

-- They're canceling Guiding Light. Witness my complete lack of surprise. The stories lately, as much as I've seen of them, have sucked (with Reva's cancer-filled medical history and age, her uterus shouldn't have a fetus in it, it should look like the wasteland in the opening scenes of The Terminator), but what really made me never want to watch again was when they switched away from normal filming to the handheld camera bullshit.

-- Squeeze bacon!

-- I know I pick on Taylor Momsen's hair and addiction to microscopic skirts -- God knows she might as well wear them while she can -- but every time I see a picture of her, I wonder how much higher it would have to be for me to see her shamecave.

-- 6 Historical Villains Who Were Actually OK Guys

-- OH GOOD LORD. They're making the Anita Blake books into a TV show?! Nobody tells me anything. Hmph.

-- Oh, and guess who might be replacing Zac Efron in the Footloose remake? Chace Crawford. I still don't approve of remaking it, but I'd rather have him than Zac Efron. Zac Efron just strikes me as soooo wrong for that role.

-- Paul Bettany's starring in the adaptation of the comic book Priest, about "a warrior priest (Bettany) who turns against the church to track down a murderous band of vampires who have kidnapped his niece." Okay, Paul Bettany + that plot description = me, sexually gratified, at least for the moment.

-- My laptop has been acting really wonky so I'm restoring the damn thing from scratch. Thank God for my netbook, is all I'm saying.

-- I only wrote 11k words last month. Which, hey, is still about 2k more than I wrote the month before but I'm still way behind where I'm supposed to be right now. This month, I'm just going to try and get a thousand words a day. That's it. I should be able to do that much, even if I have to spread it out over two or three different stories. It's not like I have anything else to do, right? *sigh*

-- The internet is taking too damn long to give me the new episode of PR Canada, but I spoiled myself with Wikipedia anyway. OH THANK FUCK. I don't know what Jason was doing this episode, but it couldn't have been worse than the way Crazy Bug Eyes has behaved all damn season so far, so I'm glad it's Sunny-Jessica-Jason. As long as Sunny and Jessica were there, though, I'm happy.

-- Also, thank God for you, Bryan Fuller. THANK GOD FOR YOU. I miss Pushing Daisies like crazy (and now I crave pie), but the last couple of episodes have definitely been better than the rest of the season.

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[jya-bd-cp-ttgb.livejournal.com]

*glances out the window at the weather* Raining. Yep, my grandmother is bawling her eyes out in heaven over GL. *sighs* It's on in the mornings here instead of the afternoon because of that asswipe Dr. Phil and I stopped watching after I kept falling asleep in the middle. My last full episode was in the old style of shooting - I think they'd just brought in Gus's ex-wife and kid? About three months later I turned it on so I could watch while I ate -- about fell out of my chair with the horror of the new cameras and never watched since.

Longest running daytime serial in history and they royally fucked it. Didn't even use lube for Goddess'sake.

RIP Guiding Light. You were my favorite immediately-after-school show. I still remember Lujack. I still remember Billy being hypnotized. I still mourn for the Four Musketeers - R/M/B/P. I remember the first time Reba died so the actress could work on MacGuyver. *raises a glass* See you on SoapNet! Salud! *slams the Coke shot*

*moment of silence*

In other news, http://community.livejournal.com/lkh_lashouts/ is the place to go for Anita Blake books/movie news. They were talking about this a few weeks ago.

Anyone on my flist remember the meltdown I had over the Vampire Diaries on The CW? Yeah, same day I found out about Anita. Excuse me while I go have another freak out because I still haven't figured out how to tell my niece that her father will never let her watch VD for the same reasons she can't watch GG-90210.

*wanders off*

[aquila1nz.livejournal.com]

Huh, the Guiding Light I've been watching clips from for the last two months is some of the best TV I've ever seen. They've spent the last fourteen months slowing building a storyline where Gus' ex Natalia and Olivia have gone from hating each other to reluctant allies, to roommates coparenting Olivia's daughter, to realising they are falling in love. It's classic soap pairing building of the kind you just don't see anymore. The writing on this storyline is wonderful, and Crystal and Jessica's acting has been pitch perfect. And they've done it without fanfare, unlike the betrayals of fans hopes that we've seen watching same sex storylines on AMC and ATWT.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Otaliafan

Anyway, that's my 5 cents. I'm pretty much gutted by the cancellation.