cimorene

i feel acutely my lack of fandom (read: arashi) participation over the last couple of weeks. ohmiya daily has been on hiatus because i ran out of capped ohmiya episodes and time for watching japanese reality tv on my own. i still love arashi! and you guys! and after my exam on monday i'm sure i will have some fandom time again.

in the meanwhile for stress relief i've been surfing delicious¹ and reading stargate atlantis again.

isilya and

wax_jism have heard a bit of half-formed meta stewing in my brain about the phenomenal popularity of sheppard/mckay, which i think can be compared to no other fandom/OTP explosion in the past decade so germanely as to the qui-gon/obi-wan one after TPM (which was similarly popular and also based on a similarly slim foundation of canon).

1. del.icio.us-surfing procedure: click on a "also saved by n other people" link from your own page of bookmarks, preferably from a story you like a lot; the trick is not to pick a story that's been saved by too many other people. the best is one you like which isn't very popular and isn't by one of the authors whom everyone bookmarks; the incidence of their stuff is going to be high in any list of bookmarks, and it's not much use to you obviously, unless you've just discovered fandom this very instant. browse the comments/tags used by the other people who bookmarked it. click on the fandom/pairing tag of one of these users and skim their bookmarks for new reading material.

this week on csi:ny:

hawkes: hi. i'm here investigating the murder that took place in your hospital. i'll need a list of all hospital staff who were on duty.
asshole: sheldon, my boy! i'm insulted as well as condescending!
hawkes: nothing personal, just conducting a murder investigation. it's traditional to check out who was around and -
asshole: did you come here, to the crime scene, after a murder, wearing a CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION SHIRT, to share a civil cup of tea about old times, or to investigate a murder?!
hawkes: ...is this a trick question?
asshole: how dare you police officers go around my hospital investigating things just because it was the scene of a crime!

also, hawkes flashed back to 'nam (his personal nam being the time one guy died on the operating table, even though he didn't do anything wrong and all the other doctors were like "it's okay, there was nothing anyone could have done!"), and then discovered that he was a doctor again. and mac and stella shared the Moral of the Story scene 50/50. grade: A-

this week on veronica mars, veronica had bad hair and worse makeup(--), but the plot was pretty fun. daddy mars struggled morally with his attraction to linda fiorentino (++) and briefly with a blackmail attempt from that other PI (++), who then rescued veronica at the fitzpatricks' bar (+) when she followed the customer of the week into the lions' den. veronica's trust issues were lame (-) and she was an asshole to logan about the alibi in mexico that he was refusing to tell her (--), both before and after he actually told her. that was all very noir though (+). the dean has a gambling problem and might be trying to frame mercer (+), and the professor who luuuurves veronica offered her an internship at the fbi and insisted mysteriously that it's not hush money because he has no reason to worry about people finding out about his affair with the dean's wife (+). sheriff lamb was there! (+) but only for a few lines (-). grade: A! also, + outweighed - by 3.

and house was just as brilliant as everyone else is saying. i was somewhat disturbed by the fact, though, that the elder of the two guest stars bore a strong resemblance to my crazy conspiracy-theorist homophobic racist maternal grandfather. much more cultured accent though.

ooh, the new itunes has a slightly updated interface. i like it.

also, a couple of days ago i pouted until wax agreed to watch a bit of sherlock holmes with me. did you know that "the second stain" is "den andra fläcken" in swedish? it's great that their word for "stain" is the same as their word for "speck". it's one of my favourite film episodes because of the scene involving the titular stain when holmes and watson get ~~my little rat boyfriend~~ lestrade out of the room for about two minutes and holmes frantically examines every inch of the floor in his absence. also, holmes absent-mindedly sets the newspaper on fire at breakfast.