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This is the coolest play on BADGER BADGER BADGER I've seen yet. Wheeee!

Do you know what my mom and dad are doing this weekend? My grandfather is meeting up with them with New York, and they're going to see "Movin' Out" and then he's taking them to Medieval Times. My mom told me that the other day and I literally squealed into the phone, "And he's not taking me?!" 'Cause any desire I might have to see a Broadway show by Billy Joel I blame on my parents, but Medieval Times is sooooo my thing. See? This is so why Al is my favorite grandparent. With my grandpa Frank a very close second because he's nice and friendly, just not much with the communicating. And my grandma in last place, because she keeps fucking with my family for being nice to Al. You know, you can beg off on one family event because you have heart palpitations, but when it seems you only get them when you can garner the most attention out of them, it's really fucking annoying. (She's already skipped out of my parents' twenty-fifth wedding anniversary and my brother's graduation for those reasons. Grr.) And my dad called her to ask for photos of him when he was a kid for Al's scrapbook (since Al hadn't seen him from the time he was about two years old until he was in his early forties) and my grandmother said she'd send pictures and "forgot." Oops.

I told my mom my dad needs to learn how to lie better. Or at least learn how to stop "We need photos of me when I was little for a scrapbook" before he adds "that we're making for Al". Bah. Stupid grandmother. If she's trying to get us to think she's a real bitch, she's doing a bang-up job so far. (I think that's the main reason I keep reminding Dad to tell her I have four tattoos, and one of them is a pentagram. Because for once, I'd like her to throw a real fit so I can throw one right back. Hey, that's what she needs for treating my dad like she's been doing for the past few years. *is a total daddy's girl*)

Oops. *blushes, gets down off soapbox*

Also, my hair is looking really good today, and instead of taking full advantage of it and hitting the movie theater, I'm staying home to write. Typical me. :)

In other news, remember that Alabama lawmaker who apparently thinks gay people are like the land of Fantasia in The Neverending Story, and if you destroy all evidence of them in libraries, they'll all just go away? Well, the members of the American Library Association have politely told him to shove his ignorant bill up his ass. Although quite frankly, I think he's a bit phobic about things in uncomfortable places like the back seat of a Volkswagon.

And if you want to learn all the wrong things about sex, come sit in an American sex-ed class teaching according to federally-funded abstinence program guidelines. By the way, I actually went and listened to Bill O'Reilly yesterday, and some guy called in to say that he'd gone to his daughter's school when they'd said they were going to start teaching the kids sex-ed classes and dragged her out of the class when he'd heard what they were teaching them. It was the same responsible safe-sex stuff you'd expect, but he didn't want his fifth-grader learning that and said he and his wife would teach her about sex in five years. Teach her about sex when she's fifteen? Yeah, that'll work. *eye roll*

Egads!

I thought I was watching some weird fantasy about a talking giraffe living in Regency England, but it turned out it was just Gwyneth Paltrow in Emma. Does she get her neck professionally stretched? Did she get dropped on her head into a vat of glue when she was a baby and get pulled out by her feet way too soon? Sheesh.

Two more entertainment observations out of me.

-- The more I watch The Bourne Identity, the more I want to write fanfic. Which is bad, because USA Network apparently has nothing better to schedule until it has to show Law and Order: SVU a half-dozen times in a row. (Not that I'm complaining because SVU is the best Law and Order and is another fandom that makes me want to write fic I'm not knowledgeable enough to fake.)

-- I loathe Seinfeld. I've always loathed Seinfeld. Showing me a thousand commercials for the DVD box sets is not making me like it any more, or at all. I hate it for the same reasons I hated Sex and the City -- because the characters are self-centered jerks who don't amuse me in the slightest. (On the other hand, one of my favorite fandoms is Dead Like Me, where the characters are self-centered jerks, but at least they're entertaining self-centered jerks.)

In other news, I've been trying to work on The Monsters of Minooka all day, but all I've been doing is plotting The Vampires of Vandling in my head. I should feel guilty, but some of that stuff is really nice to know beforehand. (And I totally blame Lost and their future episode titles for the snarky bit where Sean gets frustrated and snaps, "We're going to need to have a clause added to the lease. 'You must have this many daddy issues to move into this apartment.'" *snerk* Because it's so very, very true.)

EDIT: Did I mention that I finally got to watch my Spider-Man 2 DVD today after having it for four days and not opening it? No, I don't know how I held out that long, either. :)

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You know what I figured out yesterday after having the iPod for, what, two months now? How to make playlists. How sad is that? I can guarantee that my dad will get his iPod on Christmas morning and have playlists figured out by the time my brother's taking the garbage bags of wrapping paper out to the garage. *sigh* (You don't even want to know how long it took me to figure out that I just had to be a wee bit more gentle with the clickwheel to get Solitaire to work right. Sheesh.)

In any event, I went through my music yesterday and compiled a little playlist for my stories. And since I know some people like playlists, what the hell? :)

( My writing playlist )

EDIT: Lindsay Lohan is starring in an I Dream of Jeanie remake?! God, I hope that's wrong. Because I've always liked I Dream of Jeanie, and as sad as it is, I've liked every movie Lindsay Lohan's been in, but still ... the hell?

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They're rerunning a MadTV episode from before the election with a presidential debate skit, and the best part was when they opened the floor to the audience, some girl asked Faux!Bush what he thought of Kerry's close relationship with Edwards, and Faux!Kerry immediately blurted out, "What are you implying? That he's a beautiful man with hair like a pony?" HA! If I had seen that before the election, I so totally would have made an icon. :)

Also, I think they're rerunning the SNL with Ashlee Simpson's performance. I'm sorely tempted to watch it for that trainwreck, but then again, why encourage 'em with ratings?

EDIT: Also, the more I see the trailer for Blade Trinity, the more I'm positive that I'd get exactly what I wanted if I just sat and stared at this picture for two hours for free. *happy sigh* Mmm, hipbones. I really don't like Alanis Morrissette right now.