It Started with a Journal

51-Year-Old Actor Marries 16-Year-Old Girlfriend

They keep calling him "Lost actor" or "Green Mile actor"... but you know where best I know him from?

He was EUGENE VICTOR TOOMS on The X-Files.

I think this is even creepier than his XF character.

The comments are all like, "She's not 16, look at her." While I'm not discounting the possibility that it's all a publicity stunt, I'm sorry but it is quite possible she is 16 regardless of what she looks like. Have you seen teenagers these days???

There are three reasons I haven't been watching The Vampire Diaries:

1) I rarely watch ANY television during its original airing. I usually watch TV on DVD, so I'm almost always a season or two behind. Shows I love like Mad Men, House, Lost, Arrested Development, Gilmore Girls, Prison Break, Rome, How I Met Your Mother, etc., I watch/watched on DVD. There are a few rare shows that I try to keep up with in real time, like Glee and S4 of Dexter, but that requires watching on Hulu or downloading a torrent, which I am too lazy to do for most shows. It sucks because this means I am more sensitive to spoilers (an entire season could be spoiled), but it's also nice because I can skip commercials AND watch episode after episode of one show and watch events unfold in a less disjointed way.

2) I hate Twilight and am resistant to anything that appears to try and win audiences over because it's trying to take advantage of the 'hot new thing.' I am skeptical there could be quality there for that reason, particularly because the 'hot new thing' it's trying to take advantage of is so low quality to begin with that it's obviously not aiming toward discerning audiences.

3) I LOVED the L.J. Smith book series. I read them as a teenage girl, before Buffy came along and made vampires cool, and it was one of my favorite series. So I was even more resistant to the show based on my skepticism that they would be able to do it well (given point #2) and my fear that they'd ruin something I had really loved. (And my fear that the series itself wouldn't stand up to the test of time.)

However, I've read and seen enough about the show at this point that I think I'm ready to give it a shot. I'm #8 in my library queue for the first season, but I think it's going to take awhile as there's only 1 copy available. Still, I thought it was going to be a show that I'd never watch, so the fact that I will do so eventually is a big step!

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I'm also going to start watching The Shield. I don't actually know anyone who watches this show, but I've heard/read enough critical acclaim about it that I'd like to see it. I've gotten the complete series on DVD; it's kind of cool-looking, actually. It's like a big hardcover book, with little inserts for the discs.

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My BSG Blu-Rays have come! I don't know now whether to start rewatching those or starting The Shield.

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I'm on S7 of XF. It wasn't a bad season but I DREAD what's coming. Why did they attempt to do XF w/o DD?! Greedy fuckers. I mean, XF just isn't XF w/o Mulder and Scully. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT.

The Samantha resolution though, wtf? (The end of Closure is beautiful, however.)

Mulder constantly breaks my heart.

I'm interested in rereading my favorite fanfics from way back when, but I suspect a lot of them won't be available anymore. A lot of people took down their stories after they finally realized that having their real names associated with fanfic might not be such a good idea. I've already gone back to reread a couple, and those unfortunately did not pass the test of time.

I want to go back and rewatch S6. Again. Other than Agua Mala and Trevor it was pretty a much a perfect season, imho. Freaking Agua Mala, I spit on it.

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I still haven't seen Lost S6. Or the latest season of House. Or of course Mad Men S4. OMG so much to catch up on! I have tons of vacation, maybe I should take some time off and just watch TV the whole time. Hey, that'd be a pretty darn relaxing vacation.

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I also want to rewatch Buffy again. Also Firefly, which I also just got on Blu-Ray. Maybe I'll do a Whedon binge after I've watched everything else mentioned here.

Today I went to the Seattle Tilth Festival. Because it was an usually warm September day, people came out in droves. My cousin said that it was usually a pretty empty festival, but today it was packed. You could tell the vendors were totally unprepared for the crowds because everyone kept running out of everything super early.

I didn't do anything but walk around in the sun, but it was exhausting. I'm glad summer's not over, but it doesn't need to be in the 80s. Mid-to-upper 70s will do. I also ate a huge hamburger. In reality it probably wasn't that huge, but I had already eaten other things by then and I couldn't finish. It's too bad, too, because it was a great burger. I got it from Skillet, which is a traveling restaurant. It's an airstream trailer that travels around and you have to go to their site to see where they're going to be next. They're famous for their burgers (using seasonal/locally sourced ingredients) and their bacon jam (tasted like pulled pork to me). I took pictures: here is the airstream trailer w/ people waiting to place their order, and here was today's lunch menu, which is written on the side of the trailer.

I bought a big bag of Bartlett pears, a pint of sun gold tomatoes (they were SO juicy and sweet it was like eating candy. Almost), and most excitingly of all, German Butterball potatoes! Why is this exciting, I pretend you ask? Because those are supposedly the best kind of potatoes to make mashed potatoes from, according to the Zuni Cafe Cookbook. But I've never been able to find them, so I always end up using Yukon Gold (which are good too). Now I have to make those buttermilk mashed potatoes again with these potatoes, to see if there's actually a difference. :D

And now, time for a meme, gacked from jade_okelani.

Pick five of your favorite shows, in no particular order, before you read the below questions, then answer them!

My shows:

1. Alias
2. House
3. Lost
4. Angel
5. Sex and the City

They were almost all one-worders until I got to S&tC, but I couldn't bring myself to exclude it.

( Now we play 20 questions. )

Edit: And since I'm bored, here's another meme, gacked from ceilidh.

( All about my journal personalization. )

The geeky and overly anal chart of "Lost" connections. If you haven't seen the show, yes there are spoilers.

http://www.vanishingscroll.com/random/lost.htm

The connections that can be written off more easily as coincidences (considering they were all on the same flight) are in gray text.

Am I forgetting anything?

Okay, first, does everyone know about propheting's Katrina relief fund efforts? Just want to make sure, because it's such a good cause (and you GET FIC!). Basically, you can bid on D/G authors to write whatever your heart desires, and the winning bid goes to the Red Cross. Most people don't even restrict what they'll write to D/G, so you can get them to write practically any pairing that interests you. Go check it out; some great authors are already up for grabs, so get your bids in (I'm not sure when bidding closes). Jade and I have both volunteered also, so I'll let you know when we're up (should be very soon).

Now on to the frivolous part of this entry.

1) My erstwhile roommates are now gone, and there's always this adjustment period I have to go through when I have company and then am suddenly alone again. There's this jumble of feelings: sadness, relief, loneliness, fear. The sadness and loneliness get canceled out by relief (I really prefer to live alone), and the fear (absent the security that two other people in your house provides) pretty much goes away. Especially as the Brinks people came on Sat. morning and I now have an alarm that could wake the dead when it goes off. My new fear is that I'll forget it's on in the middle of the night, or the morning before I've turned it off, and wander out of my bedroom, setting it off and creating a false emergency for law enforcement people. (And btw, yes, there is a way to turn the alarm on, but leave the motion detectors off. Whew.)

2) Fanart! twiddlekinks drew Draco and Cho from "Playing Dirty"! It's super cute, and brings back some fond memories of the writing of that story. <3 Also, it took me until now to find this beautiful D/G drawing by starlettegurly, which she says was partially inspired by "A Bed Made for One." Yay! I'll totally take "partially inspired" by the mega-talented Kara. And last, but not least, here is the Luke/Lorelai by tiny_q that I commissioned for Jade's birthday. Seriously, is it not awesome? I don't know how all you artists do it.

3) My Lost S1 DVDs arrived last week. I'd never seen the show before, and have thus far avoided all mentions of it on my flist so as not to get spoiled. I was spoiled on something (fairly minor) when I was still watching Alias and would turn on the TV too early, but other than that, I began watching with a fairly clean slate. After Jade and Robbie left, I was pretty much glued to the TV. I've now almost finished all 6 discs, and I think I'm either at the finale or two eps from the finale.

( My thoughts so far... (spoilers) )