WonkyLemur's mental randomness.

Geeky hijinks and saving the world...

 

So happy that the tee I geeked out and splurged on is helping to help others!

 

From Hijinks Ensue:

 

In MUCH MORE UPLIFTING news, Olmos Productions Inc. has donated their share of the profits from the “Team Edward [James Olmos] Shirts” to Doctors Without Borders. The first donation was $1153 and their will be more donations to charity as long as we continue to sell the shirts. I am so happy that creating that silly T-Shirt resulted people in desperate need receiving life saving help, even if it was just a small amount.

 

Team Edward is awesome. 

 

So say we all!!

 

xoxo

~Elizabeth

Thoughts on the "Twilight Mom" Phenomenon

Or Twi-moms, or whatever the hell they are.  I haven't been sucked into the vortex myself, so pardon me if I'm not all down with the lingo.

First off, yes, I think it's ridiculous.  I admire the beauty of virile youth as much as anyone, but I prefer to keep a lid on it and admire quietly.  Just sayin'.

So there was a picture on a blog somewhere, most likely one of the offspring of I Can Has Cheezburger, that showed a bunch of grown women going all Beatlemania over Twilight.  I assume it was a showing of New Moon, or an appearance of the male stars thereof.  The text added below the photo stated that if this were a crowd of 40-year-old men screaming for a 17-year-old girl, someone would call the police.

At the time, I laughed. "Oh, guffaw, 'tis funny because 'tis true!"  And a rueful headshake at society and its silly double standards.

I've come to feel, however, that there is a reason that society has these double standards.  By and large, women are a prey species.*  A 40-something woman is far less likely to have the urge** or the ability to rape a teenage boy, beat him to within an inch of his life, and leave him for dead in a ditch.  This difference, for me, at least, adds a frightening underlying aspect to men--especially in "packs"--ogling women that just isn't there when the roles are reversed.  It's a group of Thompson's gazelles stalking a male lion.  Not that threatening, perhaps kinda cute, and certainly silly.

So.  Just a mentally random, randomly mental, thought for you today.

xoxo

~E

Now obviously my own experiences (which do not include being beaten nearly to death and left in a ditch, thankfully) have colored my perceptions.  I only have my own perceptions to work with, hey?  It's how these things work.

 

* Yes, I know that some women could kick the shit out of a man if necessary, whether they are larger than he is or not.

** No, I do not believe that all men everywhere have to constantly suppress the urge to rape and/or pillage.

Sorry, no witty title for you today.

Last night I had a dream that I was trying to expose some criminal scheme of a former classmate (one whom I never interacted with, so it's weird that my brain picked him) without being caught, or without letting him know that it was his girlfriend who had tipped me off, or something.  Then Sawyer was hitting on me.  All very strange.

Halloween was pretty disappointing this year, I'm afraid.  We only had about 20 kids, so the whole night was pretty dead.  I'd been expecting a lot more, being in the suburban wonderland that we are.  My absolute favorite was the astronaut (totally homemade!) with Link a close second.  Way too much candy left over, although that doesn't bother my husband very much.

Even worse than the poor turnout was the Ghost Hunters Live show.  For me, the disembodied voices and Amanda Tapping actually managing to look even more adorable than usual just couldn't make up for the technical snafus and...The Miz.  Seriously--The Miz?  What a complete asshat.  I kept hoping that something would drag him screaming off into the darkness, but alas.  I gave up around 11:00 and went to bed.

On an Amanda Tapping note, I'm afraid I gave up on Sanctuary.  It's not easy for me to stay up late enough to watch the whole thing (getting old) and I'm afraid that it just wasn't worth the effort for me.  If it weren't on so late I'd probably still make an effort, since there were some things about it that I enjoyed.

Guess that's all I have for now.  Time to get dressed so I can go grocery shopping in and clean up my gardens for the winter.

Because my life is that exciting.

Ta!

Thoughts on SciFi's Sanctuary...

...can probably, unfortunately, be summed up with:  "Meh."  This makes me quite sad, because I'm a fan of Amanda Tapping and was excited to see the show.  I didn't dislike it, by any means, but there were some things that distracted me:

• The daughter was annoying and, to me, not particularly multi-dimensional or believable...and, sorry to be so freaking female about it, but I really hated her haircut.  I'm ashamed to admit that I clapped when she got punched in the face.
• The male lead (apparently the successful result of a lab experiment combining the DNA of James Marsters and Daniel Radcliffe) had some superficial resemblances to Michael Shanks/Daniel Jackson that, while on their own would be purely superficial, when placed next to Tapping were just a wee bit too distracting in a sort of "oh, here's Amanda Tapping co-starring with a sexy bespectacled geek again" sort of way--maybe just lose the glasses?
• The "mysterious offer in the rain" bit was definitely too Stargate (film) for me.
• Some of the CGI work was a little too obviously CGI work, and jolted me out of the story.
• I was utterly confused by the ending with the Big Bad--"what just happened, and, um, why ?"

However.  This was the first episode, and every show has growing pains--characters change and develop and grow as writers get their bearings and actors get more comfortable together.  Star Trek: TNG was/is one of my very favorite shows, and that took, like, three seasons to really start getting good.

Good things!

• Amanda Tapping in black leather, with firearms and general bad-assery = awesome and win.
• Did I say anything was wrong with a successful lab experiment combining the DNA of James Marsters and Daniel Radcliffe?  Oh hell no.  :grin:
• The steampunkish aspects totally rocked my socks.
• Definitely dig on the concept of the show.

So, while Sanctuary gets a "meh" from me, it is an open-minded "meh", and I will definitely try to tune in again.