OMG I love Untamed Heart SO MUCH! Romantic and rips your heart out in all the best ways, plus gratuitous Red Wings game, and it was shot in JLA.

This chick is in town tonight at The Ark, and I am in love:



If you like throwback bluesy country (she reminds me a lot of Alanna from Hot Club of Cowtown) give this a listen and check out her album Junction City. It's the bees knees.

Also in town tonight? nongenius!! Excitement it's been way way too long since I saw her last and I'm looking forward to dinner tonight, and her and the mister moving up here at the end of the summer.

I am also in need of assistance, what to do with a teenager in Chicago in the fall? I am torn between taking Riv to see Cirque de Soliel thing at the Chicago or Tony and Tina's Wedding, which I think she will get a kick out of, but maybe it is lame. I'm also trying to decide where to eat, I'm kind of wanting to check out Uncommon Ground/Frontera for their committment to slow food, but after seeing Graham Eliott on Top Chef masters, and loving his food, I'm thinking of checking out his place, screw slow food!

The weekend was lovely even though the weather was not as nice as promised, River is staying with us and we watched the fireworks in bucolic Americana central Manchester on Friday. There was SO much food, but I think I did pretty well and managed not to gain due to the two hours I put in at the gym each day this weekend. I also caught up on bunch of fun tv...

( One More Time )

MAN it can not be vacation soon enough for me. This week was already gonna be a pain in my ass since people who are not me need to get their shit together, but I came in this morning to find out I'm the only one around in the division! Then I remembered I like it when no one is around to bug me and I can get stuff done. And I'm ordering out for sushi, cause it's beautiful and I want to go for a walk. Tonight I'm going to the ball game with River, and the Tigers are going to try not sucking for a little while, which should be easier now that they don't have to face Mauer/Morneau four times a game.

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Hottest Top Gun Wing Man

New Jersey Housewife of Choice...

Okay Hockey is over and since I can't bear to think about it (Goodbye Cheli, I never thought I could like you, and now I'm gonna miss you!) I've moved on to my #1 sports love, baseball. I was so happy I got to spend Father's Day with my dad watching a game, some of my best memories of my dad are all tied up in sports generally, but baseball most of all. I love that my dad didn't let having a girl change the way he shared what he loved most, he took me to games, played catch, spent time showing me how to hit a hardball, and when I was 6 I believed with absolute confidence I'd be the first female MLB player, I attribute that entirely to him.

Anway, I love my Tigers, they are on paper, not that good of team. Hell sometimes in person they are not that good a team, but DAMN if they're not winning a hell of a lot. My big joke this year is that Leyland sent the whole team to Fat Camp, there's like six or seven guys who are at least 10-20 pounds lighter than they were last season: Cabrera, Polanco, Galaraga, Thames, F. Rod, Miner, and Ordonez, and NOW Mags is light hair, he shaved off his flowing curly mane, he looks kinda hot. Almost. Unfortunately poor Laird wasn't on the team last year and missed Fat Camp. Zuma merely failed it. Like he fails at RELIEF.

This was all an excuse to post my Tigers who resemble someone else famous:



Miguel Cabrera is CLEARLY a doppleganger for the lovable instantly recognizable Honey Bear. My plan is to refer to him loudly and vociferously as Honey Bear at every game I attend, and I have every confidence that people will hear it and say, BY GOD she's right he IS Honey Bear! If I can get a campus of 20,000 people to buy that Lenny Kravitz is an ACTUAL Apostasy, this is small potatoes.

Also may I introduce you to Adam Everett, you may recognize him from The Hangover.

( Buffy S5 Talk )

I can't believe how excited I am to get the next disc with Listening to Fear, my personal threshold of "Buffy loves Spike...and she doesn't even KNOW IT". Hee.

Ah my travel/budget for the next six months is crazy dreamweaver:

July - Lollapalooza/Rothsbury Chicago/Western Michigan

August - possible visit to eastern seaboard if I am not rudely inviting self.

September - Toronto International Film Festival

October - possible Girls Weekend at my house.

November - The Event that shall not be named.

I can make this work, yes I can.

I love Nathan Fillion to death and he needs to find a way to get Robin Strasser on Castle. His affection for his OLTL castmates and experience there? Awesome.

Oh god I am re-watching Arrested Development S3 and I am catching SO many jokes I missed the first/second/third time, like all the stuff about Rita being a result of cousins marrying, and being determined to marry Michael because she thinks he's her cousin? Bwhahhahaha, good times.

*Crazy tinhat opinion: for Jen Clive Owen was a substitute/Fuck You to Brad, and for Angie Brad was A Clive Owen approximation. Hey. So Brad is =/or < than Clive Owen. Like Jen I have to side with Brad as < Clive. Alone, yet fucked Clive is < than a million babies with Brad. It's simple as geometry, I mean Julia, bitch extrodinaire, sweats him, Brad's bestie George sweats him, his ex sweats him, and his current used to sweat him. He's doable in a subway bathroom even. The idae that man *isn't* spreading it around depresses me.


( Buffy v. Dracula, crazy shipper ramblings on S5/6/7... )

Oh praise be it's OVAH, I finished S4 of the Great Buffy Rewatch, even while others languish in season two, ahem....


The Yoko Factor - eh, this is one of those that sometimes entertains me and sometimes bores me to tears, but like HLoD I just think it basically isn't that good. The whole last third of the season feels like it's *struggling* to recover from the whole big middle part of Doomed in Iowa, Goodbye, in which we get it Petrie we really GET IT you like Riley Finn, you think his story is very important, so important that Buffy hardly matters herself. Having said the entire Angel/Riley confrontation serves to remind me that a petty Angel is fun fun Angel. I also like that those two fighting, makes her want it to end, where as Angel/Spike fighting demands oil of some kind. Not that Riley did not also get off a great true fax bitchy commment, "Seriously? That's a "good" day?", Oh those two assholes really kind of bring out the best in each other, hee Mr Billowy Coat King of Pain. And what kills me is NO he doesn't trust her, he never has, and I love you Buff but yes I think you have given him reason not to trust you, cause you haven't trusted him, and he KNOWS it, that has been clear since well the entire season.

Primeval POLKA DOT DEMON!! I love the whole possessed by the first Slayer Buffy spell, but otherwise? Eh.

Restless I understand while people dig it, but it does nothing for me. Well George Herzberg saying I'll get the pilllows cracks me up, and the cheese guy is funny, but meh.



( Emmy Opinions - more out my ass than usual... )

So there is a ship meme, hell I've probably done this before, but my issue as ever, is that most of the ships I ship, never actually materialize in canon, what with lots of them being incest, so you know SCREW CANON.


Ten Favorite Ships (off the top of my head I ship like a crazy person)

In no particular order

1. Mulder and Scully...Moose and his Squirrel, have I ever loved a tv love story like that one? Um.....no no I have not, and everyone who hates on Carter and talks about the show sucking should never have watched S8/9, because honestly S7 was clearly CC's natural end point for MSR and his story.

2.Spike and Buffy...pretty much tied with Moose and Squirrel and mining the very same gender fucked territory I loved in MSR.

3.Sam and Dean - Dude they're fucking hot. You want reason's and stuff go read some fic there are lots of good reasons, but mine all boil down to Jesus H. Christ on Hockey Stick is that hot.

4. Jack and Sun...need I say more? Yes, yes I should, it is blindingly obvious that Matt Fox has incredibly chemistry with Yunjin Kim, and this has so thrown JJ into fits that he felt it necessary to make his show SUCK all year and keep them separated, and Jin alive even though the better story was Sun blaming him and then seducing him so she could kill him but the HATE SEX on the way to killing him blows her mind and then she falls in love with him the way he has always loved her from afar. IN SECRET.

::sigh::

JJ, you are a dumb.

5. Todd and Blair man they were SO SO awesome for so long, and when TSJ remembers he's Todd Fucking Manning, and when the writers allow Blair to be Blair Fucking Daimler, they are hot and fucked up and so twisted and wonderful. I hate myself for loving them because he's such a unmitigated douche and she deserves better, but when they are on they are on like gang busters.

5.Zoe and Mal Pretty much no one least of all Joss Whedon is going to convince me that Zoe and Mal didn't fuck one night behind enemy lines, or that she isn't the only woman in the world for Mal Reynolds.

6.Cordelia/Xander - they make me full of squee like a 14 year old girl, and their decimation, as a couple, as individual characters, to this day breaks my heart into tiny pieces.

7.John Crichton and Aeryn Sun I still can't believe neither one of them ever got an Emmy nomination. Their love for each other was amazing, and complex, and hilarious, and just fucking awesome.

8.Miguel Alvarez/Ryan O'Reilly - Ryan totally wanted to hit that ass, is all I'm saying. Seriously though those two hit all the same buttons Spuffy/MSR did.

9.Lindsay and Angel The only Angel relationship I ever liked, and Linds got a Becoming with his boyfriend Angel just like Buffy did *g*

10.Lily and Holden - I am a sap and a sucker, and I bawled my eyes out when Holden finally remembered Lily and was waiting for her at the Bell Tower, but she never showed up and they played I Can't Make You Love Me and he left his ring at the tower, while Lily stayed with Damien out of obligation!!! Screw clink boom, that is just right MAN.

OH OH and my favorite Threesome that never was Jeff/Tom/Annie - Smith


Um, some Ships I Haterated

1. Xander/Willow - Rage. Black. Out.
2. Willow/Tara - I need a bucket.
3. Fred/Wesley - I need a bucket.
4. Mark/Elizabeth - Has there ever been more brain scarring chemistry anywhere, especially when Benton and Corday was compelling and interesting and hot and moving? I'm so glad I stopped watching ER.
5. Inara/Mal - I liked what they did with them better in the movie, mostly because they didn't actually do anything with them, and further established that they don't really work, and they killed Wash clearing the path for Mal/Zoe, she's all tore up, but she hold sir is the emotional close point of the movie.


That's all I can really think of, despite my reputation, I don't actually dwell on ships I don't really like. I dwell on the ships that should have happened but never did. *g*

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Who was Michael Mancini's soul mate?

This argument has torn me in two for years Michael and Syd v. Michael and Kimberly??? I usually come down on the side of Kimberly being the only woman Michael ever loved, like for real, but that ultimately Syd and he were perfect for each other, they were so equally horribly wonderful.

I can NOT wait for the reboot of MP, it looks to be as trashy and campy as the original, rather than a limp wrist remake of an overly earnest soap opera that the new 90210 has become.

I don't know why I bother to read the Puck Daddy blog, but those people are smoking some SERIOUS crack in most of it's staff picking the Hawks and Pens. I am the furthest thing from over confident(I think it will again be a 6 or 7 game series). Much as it pains me to admit I LIKE these Hawks, Kane, Toews, and Versteeg who is like the Wings killa, but give me a fuckin' break we are the Big Red machine and the truth of today's victory is that the Wings took half the game off, Hossa/Pavel are still snake bit, and we still won by three goals. Oh yeah and the Canes? Are totally gonna wax Pittsburgh, god the last thing I want is a rematch with the weak ass Pens. I want the Cinderella and not because I think they are easier to beat, but because I think they are honestly the better *team*, with better fans, and better uniforms, and Cam Ward makes me feel a little girly with how good he is.

Man I need to get to sleep and yet...my first day is tomorrow, but it's orientation which I can't really consider a first day.

Buffster S4 recapage, though I refuse to recap The I in Iowa.

This Year's Girl - Aw, feeling the Big Buffy love, when she finds out Faith is awake, I truly believe she wants to believe Faith doesn't remember or if she does that she is sorry and scared. I especially love the way Smidge delivers the don't remember part, how desperate Buffy is to wipe away what she did to Faith, and then of course Faith is there and every inch the pain the ass Buffy remembers. I also love that they had Faith bring up the feeding me to your boyfriend thing and I LOVE that she questions whether any one is ever truly "innocent". This is seriously one of the only episodes I think is ANY good in S4. Hee, she punches Joyce in the face and I'm supposed to NOT root for Faith a little bit? Go Faith! If only ED looked half as healthy now as she did then.

Who Are You? - Perhaps the king of my Buffy UO, but I still don't think Smidge was any good as Faith, fun and evil yes but convincingly ED as Faith? Noooooooo (especially in the pop like warm champagne scene that was fuckin SMG version of "bad", ergo Kendall/Cruel Intentions). Ugh. And I think ED was hilariously spot on as Smidge's Buffy. "What's a Stevedore?" Heee. Admittedly Smidge had a layer of ED as Faith AS Buffy, but I think that made her job even easier, and I'm still like yeah that's Smidge, neither Buffy or Faith, it's just B.A.D. Ugh and the official Gay Now ep, HATE. Hey, Riley tells Buffy he loves her when she's Faith, still having Wrong Box syndrome, note to Doug Petrie the audience can never root for someone THIS dumb. Y'know I used to hate Adam until I saw George Herzberg, and ever since I have seen him, I can't *unsee* him, so no matter how boring Adam's speeches, HELLOOOO George Herzberg, I want to climb you!!


I don't wanna watch Where the Wild Things Are/Superstar, my brain can't take it. It's time for another Spike/Buffy palate cleanser.

Hee, this was my mantra throughout most of college and.....life. And I am pleased to say it is still mostly true!!!

Oh Supernatural and Eric Kripke, shit I got to have to you! And I DO have you, clearly since you texturally uttered what I already put out here into the void, that Sam's issues were more like steroid dependence than rec drug addiction, and that Ruby was manipulating Sam as much as the Angels were manipulating Dean. SCORE! Man it's just too bad fucking your brother doesn't save the world cause otherwise SPN=Paradise!!!

* I polished off an entire bottle of wine tonight, impressive since I've lost weight and my tolerance only increases, bolsters my concept for fad diet marketing: Sushi and Liquor does a body good!

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This is song is so old school it reminds me of the time I saw lockin' and poppin' glow in the dark break dancing "in concert".

I wear the cheese....

I've been progressing through S4, slowly, I can't make myself sit through it, and then when I do I forget what happened five minutes later, because I could NOT care less.


Living Conditions - I enjoyed it more this time than I usually do, but I can't remember why. It's still pretty dumb, I still don't relate to the idea that it's so cool Buffy doesn't like her roomate and isn't it awesome and grown up how she's literally JUSTIFIED and moves in with Willow? I guess I just liked Kathy, she cracked me up, and I wanted her to stick around.

Harsh Light of Day - Of course Spike's panther walk is hot, and I LOVE the double date at the party, but aside from that? So trite, so lame, men are only out for one thing and women are just their roadkill.

Fear, Itself - Love this episode, I think the frat house is effectively creepy, and the jokes are funny, and Buffy as Little Red Riding Hood might be her best outfit all season. "actual size", hee.

Beer Bad - I want to like this, I'm queen of loving cheesy-bad episodes, but I have never laughed once, the only thing it's good for is Parker/Willow, who have more chemistry than Buffy/Parker did. This will be S4's main theme Aly having more chemistry with Smidge's romantic leads than Smidge.

Wild at Heart/The Initiative - I don't know Veruca is Oz's wolf mate? And then he's caught by the Initiative and somehow he and Spike get away, but he leaves Willow for some reason, but I don't really care. I mean I love the chip turn of events maybe more than anyone, but everytime I think of Petrie thinking The Initiative was a good and super cool idea, my eyes roll right out of my head. Oh I forgot the Initiative has some good Willow/Riley stuff. And now it's becoming clear to me why I S4 is the big ball of meh to me, it's the Season of Willow, it's not really about Buffy, but about dropping these long term hints about her being a total freak who can not handle power, and okay, but meanwhile Buffy is BORING me to tears.

Pangs - cute and yet BORING. They I love this line from Anya about Angel: What's he like when he IS evil? Hey, so true Anya.

Something Blue - Yay, another episode about Willow and her PAHWER. Hey, obviously I enjoy SB a ton, as much for the Riley is Mr. Wrongness, as for the B/S sparring-lusty bickering, and Buffy being in love with Spike, even though they were just getting married. Oh look, Willow continues to have great chemistry with Blucas. "Cars and Buffy are unmixy things." R: Cars are awesome I love them, you just don't understand what you're talking about silly girl! Square peg, meet round hole. Here begineth the Giles/Spike show, the only reason to watch S4.

Hush - Damn, I think the Buffy/Riley creepy dream kiss in front of the whole class might be the only time I've ever found them hot. When I kiss you it will make the sun go down? And he turns into a Gentlemen? Riley smashing the wrong box? Look how cute it is that they're both LYING To each other! They have to talk and yet they say nothing? Hee, aw Joss, see baby I love you, even when you're shamelessly ripping off Dark City. Ugh Tara. More Giles/Spike awesomeness, out of Weetabix. Hee.

Doomed - Buffy/Riley officially get together in an episode entitled Doomed. I love that Buffy knows more about him and his "secret" than he's can begin to know about her, yeah you're such the Super Spy Stud. He's looking pretty hard and still can't see her or the "scratches" slaying has left on her. Yeah, right Percy..*Laurie* goes there? Cause you're all about Laurie. All to make her turn gay for Mumbly Tara??!! Jesus.