RTBTCKI (T minus 4 edition)

Doonesbury is hitting a little too close to home for me this week. It has been a number of years since I was downsized but the sting is still there. My sympathies to everyone else who finds this cartoon a slice of their lives.

Crappy sleep at night recently hasn't been helping me get stuff done. It's not the coughing which I seem done with along with the sinus pressure, but the weird and often scary dreams that keep waking me up. Some would honestly make a good horror movie or murder mystery. My mind is trying to sort something out at the expense of my sleep pattern.

It is nice, however, to be most over this last illness. I am only coughing in the evening really with no more than normal sniffing for me.

I am debating whether to attack the room I have been avoiding or cleaning the room I am sitting in. Either way, a room will be cleaned today.

Plaxico Burress is an idiot. A gun in the waistband of his sweatpants? I have to agree with Jon Stewart that you should at least wear jeans or slacks and a belt if you are going to tote iron. And the bouncers let him in with it. They knew that he had it. It was a fricking Glock. Why was he at a club where her felt he needed semi-automatic heat and why did he bring his team mates with him? I hope that his suspension is upheld. The sad thing is that even if the Giants can dump the rest of his contract, after he gets out of jail, he'll find a team that wants him to play for them for an absurd amount of money. Think Pacman Jones. I also find it sad that in the NFL human life is held in less regard than an animals. Shoot a Bouncer, serve your time and get another team. Fight dogs (which I think is wrong on so many levels) and you are blacklisted by the NFL.

Off to get Caroline ready for School.

I am grateful for not waking up with coughing fits.

LJ Idol 5.10 You're so Vain You probably think this entry is about you

OK Fan Geek, come over here.

Right here. That's a good fan.

Sit down at this desk. You comfortable?

Sound F/X WHAM WHAM THUMP

Aww your head hit the desk at I hit you with this clue by four that I have in my hand.

Why? Why am I inflicting this on you?

Because it seems the only way to get you to shut up and listen and get a fricking clue.

I am so tired of hearing the whining about how you feel that your favorite author has "ruined" their world that THEY created. How they didn't do what you wanted in the final book/comic/manga and now the whole series is ruined. Clue phone is ringing. Most of us like how things ended and thought that the author did a good job tying up the loose ends that had been created in the other books. B*tching to the rest of us is not endearing you to us at all nor is that dreadful fanfic you have been begging us to read.

Here is something else that you need to hear. THE MOVIE DOES NOT RUIN THE BOOK! If you hate what they did with the movie or who they cast in the films or how it was directed, go back and read the book. The book has not changed. The movie did not move the words around in the book so it now reads like the movie. The original text will always be there. Stopping bending our ears about all the things wrong with the film. You have beaten that dead horse into the ground and almost all the way to China.

Your favorite TV series has been cancelled. Yeah that really sucks but this happens all the time. Wishing for it to come back is not happening. The actors have contracts with other shows or they are doing a film. The sets are destroyed with a number of the props sold off at auction. Trying to convince everyone that we can convince the PTB to bring the show back is getting beyond annoying and is now boarding on the pathological. And the next time you bring up "Cupid" I will reach through my screen and strangle you. I don't see Jeremy Piven in it and oh look they even changed the name of the series. Bringing up "Serenity" just damages my calm. The series is gone, deal with it.

Your favorite actor/author/famous person said something mean about fans? Have you seen how some fans treat them on the Internet? If they comment or try to defend themselves, you come back that the VIP is picking on you and how dare they. How dare they? How darn you think it is OK to rip another human being. Does it make you feel better that you have slammed someone you have never met? This goes double if you don't have the guts to sign your REAL NAME to the insult. I am willing to bet BstFan4vr is not your real name.

You need to stop and think for a moment, that which you fan geek has a soul and feelings. And maybe you should count to 10 and really think about how what you are going to say is going to affect others on the Internet and in Real Life. I know you would not behave this way in Real Life in Public. Because right now you are clueless about how your behavior is affecting others.

And remember I have a large Clue by Four with your name on it. Don't make me use it again.

This has been my entry for this week for the LJ Idol and stems from some current frustration I am having with certain section of fandom