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[apocalypsos]

Pimp something.

Hell, pimp anything. Anything that you think needs more love or gets love but could always use a wee bit more.

TV shows, movies, books, comics, websites, LJ user, LJ communities, fanfic, writers, songs ... anything you want. (Just make sure you pimp it in such a way so people can get their grubby little paws on it. Tell where it can be seen, link to it, etc.)

Go on, you know you want to. ;)

As for what I'm pimping ...

1. The 4400 -- No, seriously. Why are so few people I know watching this? For crying out loud, this show makes me happy. It's got superpowered people and neat little romances and it's ten dozen kinds of awesome. It's on USA Network on Sunday nights at 9 and midnight, and the first season is also on DVD (for only sixteen bucks, depending on where you pick it up).

2. One Big Happy Pantheon -- It's a Dogma/Good Omens crossover. Did you hear that, people? Dogma and Good Omens, and it's a perfect blend of both of them.

3. Orville Redenbacher's Cinnabon popcorn -- Oh, don't make that face. I know it sounds ... well, questionable, but as long as you like both popcorn and Cinnabons, you will love this. Seriously.

4. Encyclopedia Titanica -- I've been all over this website lately for DMIDS, and damn. Honestly, the detail they've got on the sinking is so great.

5. Arrested Development -- This is the best comedy on TV, and I'm not just saying that because it's funny but because it's got one of the best senses of continuity on television right now. Stuff just comes out of left field in the storyline, and if you've been following it, it's hilarious. (Although you definitely don't have to be a rabid fan to get the jokes. They're good like that. :)) Those of you not watching ... *chases after you with clue-by-four* The premiere is Wednesday, September 14th, and the first season's already on DVD. WATCH, damn you! *goes back to chasing*

6. "Paperback Writer" by the Beatles -- See, what you do is you put it on your iTunes or Winamp or whatever, and then whenever it comes up, that's your computer telling you to WRITE, DAMN IT. (Well, that's what it means when my computer does it, anyway.)

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[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

Once upon a time, back in 1998, Fox put out a TV show called Brimstone. Billions of critics said it was way, way too dark, featuring as it did the Devil and damned souls and lots and lots of talk about Hell. What they neglected to ever pay attention to was the fact the Devil was played by John Glover, which meant instead of eeeeeeeevil we got lots of gleeful smirking snark, the lead character was played by Peter Horton, which meant he was utterly adorable and hit on by everyone, including the aforementioned snarky Devil, the canonical love pairing--the main character and his widow (so the main character is dead, so?)--was also utterly adorable and capable of making people who determinedly ship other pairings squeak and root for them whenever they were on screen together, the single-episode side characters were usually astoundingly well-drawn, and the show writers were starting to do some very fascinating things with Christian history, theology, and mythology.

But it was being done by Fox, so we only got thirteen episodes, and the bastards are so determined to make the show a failure (it was very subtly and deliberately maneuvered so as to have bad ratings) that we do not have DVDs. But we do have a torrent.