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Hi, my name is Lydia, and I'm addicted to tv shows.

I'm pretty sure most of you are, too. I want to know what your favorite shows are because I need something to watch that I haven't seen a million times already. Here is a list of my favorite shows that I absolutely adore, and cannot imagine living without:


- The Simpsons
- Twin Peaks
- LOST
- The X-Files
- Arrested Development
- Cosmos (Carl Sagan's PBS show)
- The Office (BBC)
- The Office (US)
- Extras
- Futurama
- Six Feet Under
- The Young Ones
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- South Park
- MST3K
- Dexter
- Weeds
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- The Daily Show/The Colbert Report
- Mr. Show
- I Love Lucy
- Seinfeld
- The Universe (History Channel)
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force
- This American Life
- King of the Hill
- Pink Panther (60s cartoon)
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- The Adventures of Pete and Pete
- Rocko's Modern Life
- Fringe
- Batman: The Animated Series
- Chappelle's Show
- Saturday Night Live (70s & 80s)
- Black Books


I have also watched all current episodes of "House M.D.", "FlashForward", and "Family Guy", but I don't like them quite as much as the other shows I listed. I also tried watching "Bones" and "Prison Break" and "Dead Like Me", but did not find them enjoyable. And I HATE "Mad TV".

If you know of any awesome shows that I should watch, please recommend them!

And yes, one day I will watch "Battlestar Galactica", I promise. :P

Aside from all of this recommending business, I'm also very curious to know what your favorite shows are...

TO THOSE OF YOU WHO PLAN ON BEING AWAKE AT 4:OOAM EST ON 11/17/09:

There will be an awesome meteor shower, and you should see it if you can!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/16/leonid-meteor-shower-here_n_359076.html


The Leonid meteor shower, one of the most stunning annual meteor showers, will peak early Tuesday morning, November 17, 2009.

NASA is predicting "20 to 30 meteors per hour over the Americas, and as many as 200 to 300 per hour over Asia."

The trick for all observers is to head outside in the wee hours of the morning - between 1 a.m. and dawn - regardless where you live.

In the United States and Canada, eastern observers will be particularly well-positioned for maximum activity, expected sometime between 3:30 and 5:30 a.m. EST, when the radiant of the Leonid shower will be well up in the dark southeastern sky.

Luckily, the new moon is on November 16, 2009, so the skies "will be dark for catching the fainter meteor streaks."

NASA's website has more information on the 2009 Leonid meteor shower. The meteor shower even has its own Facebook page.

I'm definitely staying awake for this thing. I hope it's better than the last one I tried to see.

I picked a bad week to quit weed.


EDIT 1:03PM: I stayed up until 4:30AM this morning, but the clouds took over the sky, and I saw NOTHING. I'm really pissed off, and I hope that at least ONE PERSON I know saw something in the goddamn sky.

(written by Laura Kathleen-Redman, found here)

01. Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

02. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

03. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

04. Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all like many of the principles on which this great country was founded; women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

05. Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of marriages like Britney Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

06. Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.

07. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

08. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.

09. Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

And as far as #1 goes, something like 90% of the world's species participate in homosexual behavior. If that doesn't at least earn it the title of "natural" I don't know what will.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals


I look forward to the day when Americans decide to abandon their bigotry toward their fellow man.

Health Care Reform Bill PASSES House Of Representatives BY FIVE VOTES!!


OMG OMG OMG... Am I still in America? Because I'm fucking HAPPY for once!

VOTES: 220-215!!!

CHECK THIS SHIT OUT:




HOW THEY VOTED:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll887.xml


I know, it's too early to start celebrating, but I just want to take this oppurtunity to say...

UP YOURS, GRAND OL' PARTY WINGNUTS! HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?! (Them +5 apples which have set us on the course into the 21st century.)


I haven't had any alcohol since my Halloween debauchery, but this is a good night to start drinking again! :D

Poll #1482331 Twin Peaks
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

Twin Peaks is the best show ever! Your response:

Carl Sagan's would-be 75th birthday is on November 9th! I love you, Mr. Sagan! I'll drink in your honor, contemplate the 4th dimension, and if I have any weed left by then, I'll smoke some of it in your honor, too! Everyday I wish you were still alive and well. We need you.

I feel like crap. I've been sick on and off for two weeks. I took one tablespoon's worth of NyQuil last night, went into a 14-hour coma, during which I had a really fucked up, vivid dream about living in a castle, and I spent the first few hours of being awake trying to recover from the body buzz, dizziness and general zombification that I couldn't shake. And that's after taking only half of the recommended adult dose!

Goddamn dextromethorphan, seeping into my brain, destroying my sense of space and time.

I've watched 12 episodes of The Simpsons today. I've forgotten what real people look like. You know you've watched too much Simpsons when you look in a mirror and are shocked to see you're not yellow. Zing! I could probably write a hundred of those.

Don ordered another copy of William S. Burroughs' The Adding Machine for me, because I lost the one we had, and I've been really craving that book lately. If you haven't read it, you're really missing out. I've yet to meet anyone who has read that book aside from myself... I don't understand this phenomenon.

I was going to write an entry about how crazy Michele Bachmann is, but I think her antics speak for themselves. Bitch is wack. Almost makes me miss Sarah Palin. Not.


Edit: The commentary on the DVD of Taxi Driver is fucking awesome! Don put the movie on with commentary and fell asleep, so I watched it instead. I'm normally not one for commentary and special features and all of that extra crap, but I learned a lot about Taxi Driver, it was good stuff. Love that movie.



And Robert De Niro looks so good in it. ;)

This is my favorite "proof of god" video of all time. The oblivious sexual innuendo is priceless. Even Kirk Cameron looks slightly uncomfortable, and that's saying something.

Seriously, watch it:

I've been thinking and reading a lot about the scientific theories on end of the universe. All roads eventually lead to this puzzle, if you're aware that you live within a universe and what sort of properties it contains (or might contain). One of my biggest regrets about dying at some point within the next day to fifty years from now is that I won't live to know the fate of the universe. There are still a great many things we do not yet know enough about (such as dark energy, which plays a big role in several prominent theories). I really hope the Large Hadron Collider will be ready to go soon, and that we can acquire some highly-anticipated juicy universal gossip from it, even if what we learn only leads to more questions.


During my internet search, I came across this awesome movie poster from 1964:




I'm curious to know what you think about all of this, if you think the universe will even end or not. I had a rough time wording the answer options to this oversimplified poll, but I decided to include the "I am/I am not a religious person" portion because I think religious beliefs have some bearing on the way people may view this topic. (I'm interested in seeing some sort of correlation, if enough people vote.) Aside from the poll, I'd really like to hear your theories on the universe!


Poll #1475445 The Universe: Finite vs. Infinite
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

Do you think our Universe is infinite?

Ninety-eight days left until the first episode of the final season of Lost airs in America. You, too, can impatiently wait with me!

Dear Jebusgod,


Please don't smite me until after I've watched the Lost finale. In exchange, I shall sacrifice a televangelist upon an altar on your behalf.

And please don't send me any telepathic spoilers, or I shall smite thee instead.


Love,

Lydz

Any excuse to include a Lost meme:

My sister found this at the Vanderbilt bookstore, and bought it for me:





I love this stop motion animation movie, it's my favorite animated short. Until she got this for me I only had it on a burned DVD, but now I have an actual copy! :D

Ugh, Liz Cheney.

Why are you such a crazy, lying cunt?

Oh wait, I just answered my own question -- you're a Cheney.

To paraphrase her primitive mental status: "America now looks less dominant because an American president just won the Nobel Peace Prize."

Wow, look at her logic skills go! (Right out the window!)

This man, first-year Florida Congressman Alan Grayson, is my new hero:





FINALLY, a real Democrat human being, growing some testicles and standing up for what the majority of Americans really think. And I'll be damned, we had to rummage through fuckin' Florida, of all places, to find him.

Alan Grayson's Balls 2016!

President Barack Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize


The announcement drew gasps of surprise and cries of too much, too soon. Yet President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday because the judges found his promise of disarmament and diplomacy too good to ignore.

The five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee – four of whom spoke to The Associated Press, said awarding Obama the peace prize could be seen as an early vote of confidence intended to build global support for the policies of his young administration.

They lauded the change in global mood wrought by Obama's calls for peace and cooperation, and praised his pledges to reduce the world stock of nuclear arms, ease U.S. conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthen its role in combating climate change.

"Some people say – and I understand it – 'Isn't it premature? Too early?' Well, I'd say then that it could be too late to respond three years from now," Thorbjoern Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, told the AP. "It is now that we have the opportunity to respond – all of us."

Jagland said the committee whittled down a record pool of 205 nominations and had "several candidates until the last minute," but it became more obvious that "we couldn't get around these deep changes that are taking place" under Obama.

Obama said he was surprised and deeply humbled by the honor, and planned to travel to Oslo in December to accept the prize.


- full article on The Huffington Post

What was he supposed to do -- turn it down? It's not like he asked for the Prize, for fuck's sake. And he's donating the $1.4 million to charity. If former president George W. Bush had won the Nobel Peace Prize, then we'd have genuine cause to act so shocked and disgusted.

This changes nothing. The Prize is symbolic. All of the rage I'm reading about this is equivalent to banging one's fist upon one's chest and ranting about being afraid of Obama's international acceptance: How dare this man be an influential citizen of the world, yes? How dare he gain Committee recognition for treating Muslims like human beings, after what America has done to the Middle East under Bush Junior! Terrible, isn't it? Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize is just the absolute worst thing that could ever happen, right?

I would be lying if I said I wasn't surprised that this happened so seemingly out of nowhere, but come the fuck on: It's the post-Bushian era. Any positivity deserves a fucking medal.

The more I think about this, and the more research I do about what the Nobel Committee was thinking, the more it starts to make sense. And the Republicans are just angry because their lord and master Ronald Reagan never won a Nobel Peace Prize. (Not that he deserved one -- if anyone from that nuclear stockpile era did, it was former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev. Yeah, that's right, I said it: Fuckin' Gorbachev.)

The fact there's even an issue about this seems so silly to me. It's just a symbolic prize, after all. Americans need to lighten the fuck up. The naysayers are actually agreeing with the Taliban on this, for fuck's sake. The Taliban.


I will say this, though: Mahatma Gandhi never won a Nobel Peace Prize, and that's a crying shame. He's a man who most definitely deserved one, above anyone else.


Here is a list of the people who have won the Nobel Peace Prize, from 1901 to 2009:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_Peace_Prize_laureates




EDITED TO ADD:


Geir Lundestad (the Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee) explains why they chose President Barack Obama:





Get over it, Republicans. In the words of Florida Congressman Alan Grayson, "No one cares about your feelings."

I finally added books to my Goodreads account, and if you have an account on there, you should add me!




http://www.goodreads.com/sister_ray


I've realized that I really enjoy writing short book reviews.

Tomorrow I'm going to see Yo La Tengo for the third time! Their live shows are amazing, because they're all really fucking talented.

We're going to get there early so we can get drunk sooner. But the show probably won't be over until after midnight, which means I'm only going to get a few hours of sleep right before work the next morning.

I'm extremely jealous of my cats because they get to sleep 20 hours a day. Fuzzy little bastards.

The Red Scare makes a shrill return, and McCarthy's corpse is sprouting a boner. The video below is very well made, it is a collection of politicians and talking heads calling Barack Obama and his administration "Communists", with infamous, correlating trials lead by McCarthy spliced in between. If you have any idea what this country went through in the 1950s, you have most likely noticed the deeply disturbing parallels between the hell McCarthy wrought upon the United States of America back then, and the current "Communist" fear mongering trend which the GOP's fundamentalists have been spouting to further poison the feeblest of American minds.

Obviously the modern version of The Red Scare is more diluted. It remains, for the most part, within the twisted fringes of the Republican party. But repeat a lie enough times and it spreads like a dangerous virus.

Barack Obama is most certainly not a Communist. Just like he is most certainly not Adolf Hitler, or Chairman Mao, or Karl Marx, or any other unfounded hyperbolic comparison which has been so rabidly made throughout this tiresome year. I'm pretty sure I would know if he was indeed a Communist, since I am, after all, from a Communist nation myself.


From Crooks and Liars: