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icepixieUgh. Apparently my bad luck with rom-com movies continues, because wow, The Truth About Cats & Dogs was not nearly as funny as I remembered it being. I must have had really low standards as a twelve-year-old.
On top of that, I now have a burning need for Abby/Noelle femslash, and there is almost none to be found online. None! Even though they cry out for mountains and mountains of fic. (Noelle brought Abby flowers! They were holding hands while walking through the mall! They were so much more adorable than either of them paired with the male lead!)
I think it's time to go back to books for the rest of the weekend. At least Salman Rushdie won't let me down.
(P.S. Speaking of Janeane Garofalo, apparently she's now one of the leads in a Criminal Minds spin-off, which I think counts as my biggest pop culture WTF moment of the year. Though I hear her character is supposed to be a vaguely feminist loudmouth, which at least seems less out of character. And IMDB suggests she's been slowly transitioning to dramatic roles in the decade since I last paid much attention to her, so maybe it's not as odd as it seems at first glance. I watched the most recent episode of the show online, but I won't be making that mistake again--I dislike procedurals as a rule, and adding nightmare-inducing scenes of people getting dismembered while alive does not endear them to me any further.)
On top of that, I now have a burning need for Abby/Noelle femslash, and there is almost none to be found online. None! Even though they cry out for mountains and mountains of fic. (Noelle brought Abby flowers! They were holding hands while walking through the mall! They were so much more adorable than either of them paired with the male lead!)
I think it's time to go back to books for the rest of the weekend. At least Salman Rushdie won't let me down.
(P.S. Speaking of Janeane Garofalo, apparently she's now one of the leads in a Criminal Minds spin-off, which I think counts as my biggest pop culture WTF moment of the year. Though I hear her character is supposed to be a vaguely feminist loudmouth, which at least seems less out of character. And IMDB suggests she's been slowly transitioning to dramatic roles in the decade since I last paid much attention to her, so maybe it's not as odd as it seems at first glance. I watched the most recent episode of the show online, but I won't be making that mistake again--I dislike procedurals as a rule, and adding nightmare-inducing scenes of people getting dismembered while alive does not endear them to me any further.)
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Date: 2011-04-03 04:47 am (UTC)Janeane Garofalo has gotten way more serious over the years. She's pretty fantastic. She had a show on Air America for a while and Keith used to have her as a guest on Countdown pretty regularly. So I'm more surprised that she's taken a leading roll in a TV show at all, because I'd sort of assumed she'd moved away from acting to activism.
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Date: 2011-04-03 05:50 am (UTC)Given JG's leftist tendencies (many of which I agree with, but sometimes her particular brand of activism makes me cringe in a "get off my side!" kind of way), I'm surprised she's doing a CBS show at all. And apparently she did a stint on 24, which boggles my mind as well. I first ran into her on one of those stand-up variety hour things circa 1994, and I've always enjoyed her particular brand of humor, so I've always thought of her as a comedian first and foremost (especially since she still does stand-up, like the one filmed last year that's available on Netflix instant now). I'm surprised to see her moving toward dramatic roles. She had, like, eight lines in the episode I watched, and she performed competently enough, but she always shone in things like The Matchmaker (one of my favorite movies) where she got to be funny and witty and a little mean, but still somehow sweet and charming, and these procedurals are all so flat and BLAND. Ugh. The characters get about two seconds per episode to show any personality at all, and the rest of it is just the endless parade of evidence and interviews and whatnot. It seems like a big step down.
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Date: 2011-04-03 10:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-03 05:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-03 04:24 pm (UTC)Yah, she even did a movie here. My friend Mike, was briefly in the movie with her ;).
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