Okay. 

I got my watch buddy onboard and we sat down Saturday afternoon and binged the hell out of The Winchesters.

And, you know what?  It was a damn fine show.  I mean it's all  LOL, canon -never heard it  but you know, I'm a Whovian.  I can deal.

I respect that it's total fan service while being also being nevermind about SPN enough that you can jump into it with almost zero knowledge of 15 ponderous years of lore.  Even personally watching almost the entire run - and even rewatching parts of it - I'm fuzzy on some points because Fifteen. Years. Of. Lore. Because unlike, say, The X-Files  where you got either MotW (monster of the week) eps or  LORE TIME MOFOs, SPN  first gave us Dad's Journal (TM) and with a side of You Just Thought This Was a Throwaway Line, along side the Plot Arc(s) from (literal) Hell.

I also respect that the gore level is more along the lines off later SPN rather than the early eps.  Because early SPN really pushed the limit for me.  

Spoilers below

So I'm gonna wrap up a month of silly posts with my silliest fandom.

Marble racing.  It got a boost during lockdown because of John Oliver, but ha, I was watching it way before then thanks to YT deciding so you like domino knockdowns? Then watch these marbles loser.

And, I mean, it was totally right. ( And yes, I did say domino knock-down vids. But to be fair as a kid  I was using my domino sets to to knock down more than I ever used them to play. )


So I'll take you back to the early days when Greg Woods first started with his commentary.  He started out as fan and ended up an integral part of the channel.  It's all much more polished and pro now, but there's something charming about the early vids.



And since I mentioned it, if you want dominoes watch Hevesh5 and Flippycat.

So Wednesday Adams, Girl Detective is a thing now?

I've only seen parts a few eps as DH is watching, but I'll probably end up watching later.   Even though, I baffled at how creepy child/teen Wednesday has become a thing. 

It occurred to that it's almost more fanon that canon at this point.  The original strips don't really lend themselves to that and the first adaption in the TV show was everything the movies aren't.  From what I've seen, it's basically the only sitcom of that time period where the parents are actually competent without being a walking cliche, the parents actually like each other and family isn't all about "what will the neighbors think."

I guess it just annoys me how the newer versions took a warm, happy family and made them just another goth cliche.  

I mean this ep is one of my favorites and it's pretty much the opposite of Wednesday-as-creepy-child-trope.

Okay so, I'm awake too late on a work night and feeling agitated (and very dyslexic, you should see how I tried to spell agitated just now. phew) so I guess you're getting some random Reviews of Things. Which I suppose belongs on my fandom blog.

WELL IT DOES NOW, I guess.


I've always had a passion for libraries. And it had nothing to do with the fact that I had an academic librarian parent growing up. Well yes that's a lie. Despite my dad's Librarian-is-a-profession-not-a-lifestyle mantra (which he only adopted because people's "so, do you read a lot?" inevitable question annoyed the hell out of him. And for the record. Yes, yes he did. He had a wall of books, I had a wall of books. And he always dragged home the latest old version of the unabridged dictionary, sets of old encyclopedias and anything else "fun" that ended up on the discard pile.) I grew up with a whole academic library as my occasional playground, he taught me enough Dewey decimal so he could send me off to the stacks to amuse myself while he caught up on whatever work he needed to do while childminding and I had my first library card when I was three years old.

Back then our county library was seriously awesome. They were well funded, (this was before Prop 13 Ruined Everything) and had plenty of cool things. Like Puppet Pals. If you were a really responsible (child) book borrower you could get a sticker on your card that would let you check out a puppet for a week. I can still recall the spinner display with a couple dozen puppets in clear vinyl bags and the hard choice every week. (Because I was a very, very responsible borrower. The very idea of losing or damaging a library book still gives me the shakes.)

But the best thing was the Bookmobile.

When I was kid I lived in the boondocks. It was early suburban sprawl in our littleish town and it was a wasteland of homes with nothing but a Kmart and large hardware/craftstore/lumberstore close by. So because we were so far out of the downtown library branch, or even the east end branch beside the college my dad worked for we got the mobile library. It was just a converted school bus, painted a bright blue with the words Bookmobile in big bold letters, but to me it was magic.

And better yet because our house was at the edge of the subdivision and had a weirdly long, thin yard we ended up with a long unbroken stretch of curb out front, perfect for an oversized vehicle like a converted school bus to park for several hours in the afternoon every week. When you can run out the front door and into a library without really leaving your yard, you know you were blessed by the book gods. I checked out half a dozen books every single week. (I think they upped my limit because 1) responsible borrower 2) they knew my dad 3) they, ya know, knew where I lived.) They would also ask my mom and I what types of books we wanted them to pick up from the main branch since the selection was small, and we were their most loyal customers. They even taught me about the wonders of inter-library loan.

And when one of the librarians retired when I was a teen (long after the bookmobile had been budget cut out of existence) we were invited to party.

But then with highschool and college taking up my entire brain and life happening after that, I sort of forgot about libraries or read much of anything. I would read occasionally, I still had the wall of books. And I still added to the wall when I had the money.

But it wasn't until the e-libraries that I really got back into borrowing books. Or reading more books than reasonable. Except, not all new releases are easily obtainable from libraries. And the county library had to cut back on the number of apps they contracted with.... But then, as tradition, a county librarian let me know that the city library, in the next town over, gave cards to anyone who lived in the county.

And then I found out that other cities in the county have separate libraries. And well, I'm up to four cards now. Still can't get all the new releases, but two of the libraries you suggest books and I definitely do that.

And my point was? Do I have a point? Yay libraries?

/rambling

Here's my favorite bit of Thanksgiving dark humor from 1978.

Annoyingly I had too much to do today to do any fangirling.  (I mean I did watch AFV while waiting for workmen to arrive, but only because no thinking is required for home vids).

I can rec  a Doctor Who podcast, by Stephen Willis of Doctor Who Fan Orchestra fame.   It's basically a rewatch of New Who, (for him) with a first time viewer of the show.  So might be fun for fans.  It called  About Time and the first ep is up.  Give it a try.  I found it entertaining.

Nothing interesting fandom wise to post. But I was rereading my romcom post and now I'm half-tempted to start watching/re-watching romcoms and livebloging them a la my Doctor Who rewatches, lol.  It would at least be fun to log trope stats and rate how annoyed I am.  Do I really want to do this to myself? Time will tell.

So I basically have a dysfunctional relationship with romcoms.  I watch them obsessively while at the same time kinda hating them? There are some tropes that just drive me bonkers. (The run to the airport being one. UGH.)

But some of my favorite romcoms are now not movies but books.  So I've been reading tons of romcoms via the four libraries I have cards for.  So, even though I've got a hate on for reality TV, I've been reading a baking show themed romcom series and I had the newest book on request from a library.  And today - the day I needed to bake for a pot luck we are going to this weekend- the book became available. 

So I'm baking and reading about baking... it's all very meta.

Anyway so this is the book .

Because I'm still totally blaming time change for all the tireds.

So I should probably make a post about an obvious  fandom I don't think about, and that's all the dang books I read. I usually set 100 books on my goodreads challenge and generally read about that many each year.  (So if you're psyched to know what I'm reading DM me and I'll friend you over there, lol.)  But, yeah too tired for that.

So I'll just post the music I'm squeeing over.  (Remember when LJ had that extension where it could grab the music on your media player and plug it into your posts?  Before you could just stream on YT or where ever.)

Anyway, so (speaking of Youtube) the almighty algorithm served me up the first single from the first Album Darren Hayes has done in 10 years and I suddenly remembered how much love Savage Garden and then I somehow followed him on Insta and now I've somehow downloaded 2 solo albums I couldn't buy back then because poverty and now I have entire playlists on my phone with one artist and no I'm not obsessing you are.

So wanted or not, I'm embedding some of my fav videos









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So I finally saw the ending ep of She-Hulk .. and it was completely bonkers.  Utter chaos.  I approve.

The first ep did not grab me at all. I was surprised it was supposed to be a comedy.  The second was better, but the eps were a bit uneven and it seemed to have trouble with that comedy-drama line.  Marvel is clearly experimenting with form (and maybe resigning themselves to a universe where Ryan Reynolds/Deadpool exists, lol) and maybe this will lead to better things down the line.

And Slight spoiler if you care:

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