Gallimaufry

[neadods]

Been offline for a while, and going back through LJ is like using the Wayback Machine, watching AmazonFail running in reverse. My only comments on the whole thing are:

1) I doubt it was a glitch, unless the glitch was that someone had no idea how fast the Internet responds to things.
2) That someone did not think ahead as to who was more likely to be online on Easter Sunday. Answer: not the conservative Christian faithful.
3) I will give Amazon points for going "oh, SHIT!" and working as fast as coding fingers can fly to fix it. I don't believe it was a glitch. I do believe they've been spanked so hard they won't try that again in a hurry.

Ever since the line "you will knock four times," I've been struggling to write a regeneration filk to "Knock Three Times." Someone has got to do this!

I'm asking how to get Dreamwidth invites for people who have asked. I'm amused that there's already a crafting and a Doctor Who comm on it and it isn't even officially open yet. I need to figure out how to do a new style, though. The default is a bit aggressively... pink.

Congratulations to Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto, for non Torchwood fans) for getting engaged.

Am now the USF reviewer for Scarifyers too. At only 1 CD a year, this will not, alas, take long.

Misc Links:

The National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics' Common Simple Emergencies web page. It's written by doctors for emergency room doctors, so it's full of jargon. But it's also an excellent resource for figuring out if you need professional aid or you can take care of yourself.

One of the downsides of being American is that if you're not young and pretty, the only way you get on talent contest shows is to give someone to laugh at. It looked like middle-aged, overweight, frumpy Susan Boyle was going to serve that purpose on Britain's Got Talent... until she opened her mouth and blew everyone away. The last winner was a portly guy with bad teeth doing opera, of all things, and he had a nation eating out of his hands. Here's to Susan, may she take the prize she deserves and get the singing contract she wants.

Seconding metaquotes' recommendation of yuki_onna's mashing of The Dollhouse with Monty Python's "Spam, Spam, Spam:" Me: Have you got anything without rape?

Joss Whedon: Well, there's rape, intrigue, shirtless Helo and rape, that's not got much rape in it.

Comments

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

Agreed, Amazon will think twice and maybe three times before trying something like this again.

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

And I forgot to add that Watching Simon Cowell's eyebrows crawl across his forehead when she started, Was PRICELESS! So was his heaving a sigh and smiling towards the end- he looked besotted! :P Unfortunately, then he got back into character and was an @$$...

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Not too bad an ass. After all, he passed her through with compliments.

[queenmaggie.livejournal.com]

I expect that's why he's such a jerk...so that when he does love something, it makes all the more impact.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

He has also seen a lot of dreams rise and fall over his years, and knows the business - isn't he the only recording professional in the lot of judges?

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

True- he did.

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

I need to figure out how to do a new style, though. The default is a bit aggressively... pink.

I could only find unreadable b&w and unloadable white&green&blue. Point me towards the pink/red?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I don't know - it's just what was there when I signed on.

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

Bah! ;-) Thank you.

[netgirl-y2k.livejournal.com]

I was watching Britain's Got Talent and left the room cringing to make a cup of tea when they were all laughing at Susan Boyle, I heard the start of her song and went back through to be cross at whoever had turned the TV off and put the les mis soundtrack on. It was kinda incredible.

You know, when Dollhouse first started I thought that I wouldn't bother downloading it week by week so that I could watch it all in one go at the end of the series. Now, the more I hear about it, I'm just glad I didn't bother wasting my bandwith, it sounds as though it's getting more dodgy by the episode.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

It was kinda incredible.

It was! And so was Opera Guy. I'm firmly rooting for her to win.

Here, they'd never even let her on, *because* they couldn't laugh anymore once she showed her stuff. It's sad, but true.

it sounds as though it's getting more dodgy by the episode.

I certainly think so. But I've been told I'm interrogating it from the wrong perspective, and a lot of the comments on metaquotes are that she's not giving it enough time or not seeing the Deeper Meta and whatever. As I said there, the only thing I'm going to give hour after hour to warm up is a crock pot. There's too much entertainment out there for me to keep hanging around hoping that this week he *might* have worked up to providing something that I'll enjoy watching.

But at the same time, it's a bit like watching a car wreck. I kept wandering in while M was watching it.

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

well the dollhouse fans started off by saying that it won't be good until episode 6, and when ep 6 came around it looked like they were justified in saying so (allegedly - I avoid shows based around a premise of LOLrape on principal)... and then ep 7 apparently undid anything set up in ep 6 that undermined or made good the premise and offered hope that it wasn't going to be just a rapey version of quantum leap.

So the fandom basically has just reverted to the stockholm syndrome from before ep 6, where I think the theory now goes that joss is taking a reverse buffy approach to the show, so if you'll stick around until series 6 or 7, you'll find that the show will be as good as series 6 and 7 of buffy was bad.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

the dollhouse fans started off by saying that it won't be good until episode 6

*trying to suppress rant... oh phukit* Why in hell was everyone supposed to burn off five episodes until the showrunner could be arsed to actually entertain us? What kind of contempt does that show for the audience? "I'm going to give you this great dinner, but until then, choke down this disgusting appetizer week after week." Buffy was entertaining right out of the gate. So was Angel. Firefly presumably was (that bug never bit). Doctor Horrible was. So it's not like he *can't* do it.

And that's such a stupid philosophy anyway, with all the other TV and forms of entertainment out there.

and then ep 7 apparently undid anything set up in ep 6 that undermined or made good the premise

I don't know the number of the episode I last watched, the one I ranted about, but it was undermined right in the episode itself.

Yarg! And yet there are still people insisting that it's going to get better any time now... *twitch*

[evil_plotbunny]

I made a "knock three times" song reference to someone at the DWNY meeting last night. She was, alas, too young to get the reference.

It seems to have started writing itself in my head, though, so we shall see.

[evil_plotbunny]

Also, regarding the Amazon thing, while I've been doing some retweeting, I've tried to choose my sources carefully and only link sites with facts and coherent commentary. Personally, I'm reserving judgement until this is fixed, but I also believe that a noise of some sort needed to be made so that it would be fixed and not ignored. It's a knee-jerk response to being a Young Adult librarian and knowing how much damage could be done given the state of Amazon's database (no matter how it happened). I'll probably post a longer, more cohesive discussion on my lj later.

[jigglykat.livejournal.com]

Had I been there, I would have gotten it!

[evil_plotbunny]

:) I'm sure there were plenty of people there who would have got it. It just happened that the one person I mentioned it to was too young to remember the song.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

*mibble* Sorry!

[evil_plotbunny]

*snuggle* This wasn't a value judgement, just an observation.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I'm stuck at "knock four times before your reeeegeneraaation..." Seen one crack at it, but it's in a locked post.

[jigglykat.livejournal.com]

Ever since the line "you will knock four times," I've been struggling to write a regeneration filk to "Knock Three Times." Someone has got to do this!

I kept singing that yesterday and my friend wanted to smack me because "THAT'S NOT HOW THE SONG GOES".

[flaviarassen.livejournal.com]

& didja notice that the one commenter over at
catvalente who is saying "Gee whiz, you all
are taking this too seriously" is named "Tony"?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but the significance is flying over my head.

[fyrdrakken]

I'm guessing her point is that the individual who doesn't think rape is that big a deal is apparently (unsurprisingly) male.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Ah. I thought it had something to do with the show - which it might; I haven't really paid attention to character names.

[fyrdrakken]

The names I've noticed have been Joss engaging in his usual unusual names (or non-standard variants on common names, e.g. Xander and Oz -- the geek who does the actual wiping and rewriting of personalities is called Topher, which funnily enough is what we used to call my cousin Chris to annoy him, though we pronounced the first syllable like that in "toffee" whereas on the show they're pronouncing it like the first syllable of "tofu"). Anyway. "Tony" is too generic a name to figure for a fannish handle.

[stoplookingup.livejournal.com]

Oh my Doctor,
Knock four times on the Tardis, it's the Master,
Don't let him in, can't you tell something's strange?
Oh my Doctor,
Knock four times on the Tardis, leave the door closed,
Uh-oh, too late. Now the Doctor will change.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

*applause and laughter*