Pingbacks: like commenting, but better

I remembered the third link!

zvi_likes_tv: Pingbacks! Yes!. Does everyone else like pingbacks? Because I do. My only problem is now I know my posts are not in fact being hotly debated and recced in places I don't know about(*) :)

While I'm at it: via fight_derailing, THE CHARACTER OF COLOR YENTA MEME, where you say what you like and people rec tv shows etc with nonwhite characters which are like that.

Finally, since every time I mention it people go "OMG HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THAT??": feminist_fandom. Which, oh look, has two recent posts by me :)

And no, I don't actually think pingbacks are better than comments. But they do make me feel a bit better about reccing more often than I comment to say I liked something.

(*)Being trained to reference by my Phd I link back to myself a lot, so have lots of "OOh a pingback someone linked to me! Oh it was just me :("

Full of love and sugar

So on March 8 1999 I went into unisfa as early as I could and sat on a couch. And waited.
And then the cute boy I'd been kind of flirting with at a party on Saturday came in..and held my hand! We sat there holding hands for..something like forever, and then when it came time for a lecture walked downstairs and he asked "So are we going out?" and I said "Yes, I think so" and the rest is history(*).

(*)Specifically, we made a time for an actual date, and then he got food poisoning from Mother's, and then when that was over this happened and our fate was sealed :)

Oh and I'm full of sugar because distantcam decided we should celebrate by buying a fancy sugary cereal to share for breakfast (Oat crisp, rather disappointing). And then we are going to see Watchmen, and go out for buffet. &hearts &hearts &hearts

True Blood

After being persuaded by this Hoyden about Town post I'm currently 2 episodes in to "True Blood", the TV adaptation by Alan Ball of "Six feet Under" of the Sookie Stackhouse books. After a slightly rocky start I'm really liking it, like the book it tries to actually charcaterise real people and situations which happen to involve vampires and murder in the south rather than being a shiny fetishised cliche like Every Other American Vampire TV Show Ever(*).

They seem to have turned "Dead Until Dark", the first book, into the first season so it's more drama than mystery and goes at a measured, atmospheric pace.

I've heard complaints about the vampire love interest being kind of old looking but I like it: it should feel a bit creepy for a 100+ year old guy to be interested in a young girl, and the actor does a good job of coming across simultaneously as a regular 30ish guy and Very Old.

Oh and it is FULL of sex. Lots and lots. But not in a very sexy way afaict, it's more just..there, this thing people do which impacts on and is impacted by their characters and lives. Most vampire romance equates death with sex, this goes the other way too, so it's all very visceral and bloody and grimy. The credits are intense.

Lot of vampire shows at the moment though aren't there? I still haven't gotten around to trying "Being Human".

(*)The english do a bit better :)