Bored again, and it's Monday, so I might as well vent.

[apocalypsos]

Don't mind me. I just felt like bitching about something, and this was the kind of thing that came to mind. :)

Things that pass from pet peeve territory into the "FISTS OF RAGE" arena with me:

1. Guys whose idea of asking me out includes the phrase, "When are we going out on a date?" You'll notice it's phrased so that I'm not being allowed to say no to that, inevitably by someone to whom NO would be my first answer.

2. My parents have a corner to their kitchen counter on which the coffeemaker and the dishwasher is on the right and the garbage can is in a drawer on the left. My father will pour himself coffee in the mornings, stir it with a spoon, then leave the dirty spoon on a napkin right on the counter in between the garbage can and the dishwasher. It's a tiny thing that drives me absolutely INSANE.

3. People who have an opinion on everything you say, and always think what they're saying is hopelessly witty, and seem to be spurred on when their "witty repartee" isn't constantly responded to with a BWAHAHAHA or the real-life equivalent of "*dies giggling* Metaquoted!". (That's what bugged me so much about Captain Asshat.)

4. Being expected to just know something I can only know if I'm told it by someone else. As much as I might like to read minds, I can't.

5. Cancellation of good TV shows. Firefly, Jake 2.0, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, possibly Arrested Development ... fuck you, television networks.

6. The fact that there's not more apocalyptic fiction. ARGH. Need more mass extinction, damn it.

7. My grandmother feeling like she has the right to behave like a spoiled kid deserving of our attention when she does things like not call me or my brother on our birthdays and skip out on my parents's 25th wedding anniversary party. Yeah, try again.

Comments

[whitetower.livejournal.com]

When's the last time you read The Stand? Nice soothing plague? You'll feel better. :)

[etymological.livejournal.com]

1. The correct response is "Never", or, if you're feeling particularly evil, "How about [time]? Pick me up at [local gay bar]."

[elbiesee.livejournal.com]

Guys whose idea of asking me out includes the phrase, "When are we going out on a date?"

Answer to this: "How about the day after never?"

[hawklaw.livejournal.com]

I've answered number one thusly: ~look thoughtful~ "Nope, my brain is still working. Maybe when it stops."

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. I have it at home. That and Swan Song are my little apocalyptic babies. :)

[ceejayoz.livejournal.com]

Even better - local S&M club.

Call the club and make sure they're expecting him. :p

[randomblade.livejournal.com]

Ah ha ha ha! I am number 3! You would hate me in real life! I can never shut my mouth.

[a-hollow-year.livejournal.com]

Tell him you'll go out with him when you find him attractive.

[phiremangston.livejournal.com]

On number 5: does anyone remember that show, Now and Again that pretty much got cancelled right in the middle of a plotline? That Eggman person.

That was an amazing show. *fumes at CBS*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

YES. Oh, my GOD, did I love that show. And then they cancelled it and made Eric Close and his pretty, pretty muscles go away for a while and it PISSED ME OFF.

Hope these will help.

[dragonwhishes.livejournal.com]

Solution for one: "The day you realize that that doesn't work on me."

Or

"When's the date for your sterilization surgery?"

Or

"Sorry, I don't date people who's father and mother were brother and sister in this century. Maybe next?"

Or

"When you put several pints of arsenic and rat poison in your water and drink it in one gulp."

[octopedingenue]

You realize you've now made us all paranoid with #3. And depressed with #5. And annoyed with #6. Rawr! Now I must go away and look at pictures of fluffy baby kittens.

[thebitterguy]

Somewhere, I have posted my opinion on The Stand's ending.

I did not love it.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

"Lucifer's Hammer" and "Footfall" are both good end-of-the-world books, cowritten by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Then there's the classic "Alas, Babylon" of course, and "The Andromeda Strain" for your disease-borne-apocalypse needs.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Okay, the ending has never made me happy, either, but that's why I usually stop before I get there.

[fortuna-juvat.livejournal.com]

Firefly, Jake 2.0, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, possibly Arrested Development

Considering I love three of those with every fiber of my being, perhaps I should look into Jake 2.0 and Arrested Development?

[thebitterguy]

My observations are to be found here.

Make of them what you will.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

"Oh, hell, yes" to both. Jake 2.0 was just getting really great when they cancelled it (DAMN IT) and seriously, if you haven't gotten a chance to see Arrested Development yet, you HAVE to get your hands on it. The first season's out on DVD, and trust me, it's totally worth renting to catch up on. It's one of the very few decent sitcoms in recent memory.

[azurelunatic]

Ooo, I like that one.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I really need to see Arrested Development. I keep hearing fabulous things about it, plus it has Portia de Rossi, who is my only Get Out Of Bisexuality Free card. Le-ROWR, but that's an attractive woman.