This horrible horrible movie’s plot: Angelina Jolie weeping/ pleading/ cowering/ being tortured. Unwatchable. Offensive. Solely for those who get off on watching women suffer.

I hope that Little Ben is Really Dead. None of that Magic Healing Island bullshit. The show hasn’t taken any real risks lately. Like infanticide.

In case anyone needed any additional proof of my nerdiness, I give you… me, wearing this gorgeous/ridiculous Great Gatsby t-shirt i got for cheap at Urban Outfitters.

Maybe I need distance. Felt like a betrayal of the show’s heart. Campy, happy, easy, packed with cliches. Maybe I’m not handling my grief well.

Exciting day today - I helped organize this phenomenal direct action…

“This morning, homeless people and community allies took over a vacant building in El Barrio/East Harlem. The target was a beautiful two-story building at the corner of Madison Avenue and 116th that has been vacant for decades…”

Blog entry:

http://picturethehomeless.org/blog/node/84

Flickr photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27985255@N05/

Article in the Indypendent:

http://www.indypendent.org/2009/03/19/east-harlem-residents-and-housing-advocates-rally/

All photographs are from the Flickr stream, and were taken by Camilo Rayo.

The new issue of flashquake is out, complete with a short-short story of mine! Read “Midnight Psychology” at:

http://www.flashquake.org/fiction/midnight-psychology.html

“Me and Steve were drunk. Sober, we’d never listen to a show like that. Some late-night thing where women call in to talk out feelings. I’d been flipping through the channels and everything was country music and that Jesus guy with the high voice, and after a while my arm got tired and I settled back into the seat. Midnight Psychology came at us like the snow against the windshield, something mere drunk mortals like me and Steve could not hope to tamper with. And anyway the lady had a sexy voice.”

Oh my gods oh my gods oh my gods oh my gods oh my gods oh my gods oh my gods it’s here. [Sam sobs]

Love how fast it’s moving. Neat villain. On BSG, Tahmoh Penikott plays a brave simple grunt. Here, he’s the smartest on the show. Love that.

Fresh intriguing premise; big deep themes & concepts present but not obnoxiously so. Lots of BSG references. Need to see more sexy shirtless boy “actives.”

Cavil doesn’t want Hera! He wants the Five! [sobs] After the show ends, I’ll burn myself on Starbuck’s funeral pyre. There’s no life after BSG.

One of the million little things that makes the American version of The Office so special is the incredible expressiveness of John Krasinski’s face.

He grimaces, he is terror-stricken, he is confused. He is lovestruck. He has fifty different smiles. There’s the wide open pure joy one, or the smiling bravely through barely concealed anger one. And several times an episode, he turns his face towards us and makes a face meant for us alone.

In the British version, the documentary-slash-reality-show style aesthetic made a lot more sense - men with cameras were following everybody around for a BBC series. That might have been the idea initially, with the American one, but by now there’s no explanation or purpose for these people to have their day-to-day lives filmed by a whole crew.

And yet - it gives Jim a reason to turn to us, whenever something happens, and make a face.

There’s something almost Shakespearean about it - the aside, the wink at the audience, the personal acknowledgement that lets the viewer know that he/she is part of this wonderful world, where soul-numbing corporate life is made liveable by love and comedy, where bosses are clueless but harmless, where suffering in silence is only a temporary condition.

That he’s handsome as hell doesn’t hurt.

Jamie Bamber, who plays Lee “Apollo” Adama on Battlestar Galactica, is appearing nude in a new series of PETA ads, as part of a campaign against the use of bear fur in military uniforms. This gives me an opportunity to lament the following things.

1. Apollo is a punk. Self-righteous, supercilious… thinks he’s all that… i want to love him, because he is so damn hot, but the character just makes me want to throttle him. And not in the hot way.

2. Apollo is straight, even though Bamber is gay… which means my #1 wet dream fantasy of seeing Helo frak that bitchy bottom Apollo senseless on the series finale is unlikely to come to pass…

3. Bamber’s stardom means he probably won’t have to stoop to a gay porn career.

Cylons are some deceitful bitches! Starbuck’s a hybrid! Roslin’s down! Does anyone else feel like this show is going to end with absolutely everyone dying?