I love my shows. I don't know how they all manage to be so amazing.

Lie to Me:

( LTM (2x6, 2x7); cut for length. )

Castle: Equally great, although the three I finally caught up on (2x7-9) weren't my favorites. (ETA: Tonight's was fantastic, though, wasn't it? I was tearing up a little at the end there.)

White Collar: Show, I love you so much. "The Portrait" was TERRIFIC. I loved the end. <3 God, Neal just keeps getting more and more awesome. The whole thing with Kate broke me, though, omg. ):

Legend of the Seeker: I FREAKING ADORE THIS SHOW. CAPSLOCK DOES NOT EXPRESS HOW AWESOME IT IS. "Broken" really was kind of predictable for the most part -- e.g., the second "You don't want to know" came out of Cara's mouth, I remembered what that guy had said in "Denna" and went "Oh, god" out loud -- and yet, they still managed to make it the kind of awesome you can't look away from. And the parts I didn't see coming. Holy. Freaking. Cow. That is all. Already can't wait till next week!

And, Dexter: Holy crap, the end of "Hungry Man". I thought we'd already gotten our twist for the episode! Didn't see that one coming! Omg. Also, I love this show's writers, too. Awkward and creepy Thanksgiving dinner was awkward and creepy, and more-frequently-than-you'd-expect awkwardandcreepy at the same time! Trinity sure is a scary SOB, isn't he. Damn.

( RL and NCT; cut for length. )
Gahhhh. Thank god for Thanksgiving Break. D:

So, I saw one of those "there's a map for that" ads a while back, and thought to myself, "Heh, how long until they get sued?" Well, I have my answer.

The saga:
Verizon removes gloves, begins 'There's a map for that' anti-AT&T ad campaign
AT&T sues Verizon over 'there's a map for that' ads
Verizon takes another swing at AT&T, puts iPhone on the Island of Misfit Toys
And the funniest of them all:
Verizon responds to AT&T's Map For That lawsuit: 'the truth hurts'

I quote:
"Sure, Verizon's doubled down on the 3G map ads in response to AT&T's false advertising lawsuit, but eventually the company's lawyers had to file a response and, well, ain't nobody backing down in this one. Here's the freaking introduction:

AT&T did not file this lawsuit because Verizon's "There's A Map For That" advertisements are untrue; AT&T sued because Verizon's ads are true and the truth hurts.

"Yeah. It's gonna be like that."

Brb, loling forever. XD

Oh, and speaking of random lulz? I was given a copy of that edited-by-Creationists version of Origin of Species today. Heh. Enough said.

So, I spent ages looking for a place to stream last week's Forgotten ep before tonight's aired, only to eventually figure out (after far longer than it had any right to take) that they didn't run last week and "Prisoner Jane" was this week's ep, instead. *facepalm* But the RSA was giving out free ice cream, so I got some of that instead, and "Prisoner Jane" was good, too. :)

ETA: Oh, and was that Aldis Hodge (Hardison from Leverage) playing the bad guy? Nothing on IMDb yet to confirm or deny, but man, I'm having HITG moments everywhere I look, it seems. (And speaking of, Mark Sheppard. I haven't seen his SN ep yet, but according to IMDb? Also everywhere. I mean, WC, BN, and WH13? Seriously. Everyone's everywhere. *boggles*

And to save the best for last: great news on the Listener front: CONFIRMED SEASON TWO in Canada. YESYESYESYESYES. *happy happy dance* (P.S., if you're an American like me (international folks might have other options, I think it's just us folks in the States who got screwed by NBC being stupid and cancelling it) who wants to follow along, I recommend joining cdntvonthedl. That's where I (*cough*) acquired season 1. ;) [And because I'm just that awesome there's no Listener tag in that comm, here's the links (f'locked to that comm, so join if you want them!): season 1 and extras.]

Short version: Still awesome.

Long version: God, Neal just keeps getting awesomer and awesomer. Like, exponentially. I thought he'd hit the zenith of Totally Awesome with the phone-jamming in "Threads", but wow, in "Flip of the Coin", he outdid himself. The coffee. The coin. "What's the statute of limitations?"

A++, would lol again.

I love this show.

Oh, and lol @ Garret Dillahunt playing a bad guy again! 4400, LTM, some other things I'm probably forgetting -- and now here. I hope he at least enjoys being typecast so badly. Poor guy.

That^ was my immediate reaction to the first two minutes of "Baneling". And the end only made it worse -- holy crap, show. "Marked" was pretty good, but this was somehow even better.

( Spoilers for the end of Baneling, LotS 2x2. )

Yeeeah, definitely won't be sleeping for a while tonight.

And speaking of "holy shit": the preview for next week. I might die of anticipation first. Omg.

And finally, speaking of ( Cara, and the episode's best lines. )

Amazing how one episode can make me laugh out loud and cringe back in my seat with horror more than once in the space of an hour. I don't care what everyone else says about this show, it's awesome.

Yeah, I know I've been posting a lot, but I just ran across these and thought other folks might like to know.

ABC axes 'Eastwick,' orders more 'Forgotten' Five more episodes = great news!

Robert Patrick to appear on 'Chuck' I really need to start watching this show, don't I.

'Numb3rs' fans can count on closure I don't want to see it go, but if it has to, then I'm happy with this.

And unrelatedly, but while I'm posting links: the first chapter of Nightlight, the Twilight parody. XD

ETA: And also OT, happy news story: The Pink Dress.

Procrastinating --> LJ post that is probably going to end up being gigantic. Ah well. At least I'll finally be caught up and I can start getting better about making more smaller posts rather than fewer huge ones. Hopefully.

First, as always: TV.

( Cut for Supernatural spoilers. )

( Cut for vague FlashForward spoilers. )

Mentalist, after SN, sure had its work cut out for it. It was no contest, in comparison, but still very good even so. Jane is just awesome.

( Cut for Legend of the Seeker s2 spoilers. )

( Cut for length. )

Aaaaanyway.

( NaNo, plus important news for anyone following my progress on NCT. )

Which will be finished once I say two more things. The first: I got two shirts from ThinkGeek and they are awesome. I Never Finish Anyth, which I've wanted for years; and Enough Social Interaction, which is just plain hilarious. :D

The second thing: more links.
15 Supernatural Crossovers We Want to See
13 Scariest Episodes of Supernatural
Awesomest candidate for TX governor ever
Annoying Food Jingles
BuddyTV article/interview re: the end of FF's "The Gift" (spoilers)
TV Shows Most Likely to be Cancelled
Creepiest Children's TV Shows
'Being Human' to be Americanized (please don't!)

OK, all caught up. Until next time!

Somehow, despite the fact that I only have one class and work, Mondays are always so exhausting. So I thought I'd update LJ while I relaxed.

( TV (see the tags for a list of shows discussed under the cut) )

( More name change madness. )

Finally, three four things:

1. The fire alarm has gone off three times in the past two nights, at 5:30am, 7:30am, and last night at 12:45am. THIS NEEDS TO STOP IMMEDIATELY. DX

2. NCT isn't dead yet! It's coming along, slowly but surely; the notes document (in which I'm including the actual text of the story as I write it, my notes and ideas about things to come that I haven't written actual text for yet, and massive chunks of text copied from (*cough*) websites (*evil grin*) (and in one case, from an interview on the DB site)) is about 9.5 pages long now. Which doesn't say a whole lot about the story itself, given that there's still flashbacks I need to (somehow) incorporate into the present timeline of the story itself, some bizarre tense changes I recently introduced that I now need to deal with by changing the tense of the entire story, and a(n Excuse) Plot I have yet to figure out -- but it's still promising! I have hope, anyway. :)

3. Links:
a) Obama's speech at the HRC National Dinner. <3333
b) Legend of the Seeker on DVD. :D
c) And the comment thread that explains so much about Twilight it's scary-yet-wonderful.

4. I finished "Wizard's First Rule"! Finally! All 820 pages of it. FTR, the show is better, but the book isn't half bad either. I don't think I'll read the next one, though, unless s2 is particularly awesome; books of that length are just too much of a commitment. For now, it's onto "Dexter by Design", and then finishing "American Gods".

Now, time for dinner and then skipping LTM and Castle in an attempt to figure out what on earth we're supposed to do for this Data Structures project. >_< Until next time!

First one is a long one; tagged by obsessed1.

( Q&A meme )

Second, from xturncoatxiii:

( Ship meme )

And thirdly, one from ranka.

( Picture meme (fyi, post is image-free) )

You're welcome to respond to/repost any or all of these that strike your fancy. Have at it! :)

So, today was my court date!

( Cut for length. Lots of length. Because, big surprise, it didn't get any less overcomplicated. )

In short, I am legally Justin James [lastname]. *happy dance*

Screw you, Firefox!!! You're supposed to ASK before you let me accidentally close my window with a million tabs that I've had open for at least a week or two! DIAF.

FML. DDDDDD:

Meme ganked from Alex again. (I think my list must be out of order or something, because very few of these seem even remotely plausible, let alone sensible. :) But whatever, the meme must go on!)

Pick 12 random slashable characters in any order:
01. Carter Shaw [DB]
02. Sam Beckett [QL] Castiel [SN] (I discovered upon trying to slash Sam with anyone else that I really only can do that within my QL OTP of Sam/Al, so I picked a new character.)
03. Sam Winchester [SN]
04. Dean Winchester [SN]
05. Dean Bendis [DB]
06. Josef Kostan [ML]
07. Shawn Farrell [4400]
08. Shawn Spencer [Psych]
09. Patrick Jane [Mentalist]
10. Peter Petrelli [Heroes]
11. Alex Krycek [XF]
12. John Mitchell [BH]

Now answer the questions under the cut. No peeking at them until you create your list!

( Q&A under the cut. )

On Friday, there was less than ten minutes left until I got off my shift at work, and who showed up except Sam, an old friend of mine that I'd hardly seen in ages! When I got off work, we hung out for a while and it was good times.

The funniest thing, though: She'd dyed her hair, so I was having trouble recognizing her, and when I finally found her, I told her so.

...She just kind of looks at me and points out that I'm hardly the one to be saying that.

Oh. Right. >_<

Touche, Sam. Touche.

Finally got around to rewatching the DB sf "Shot in the Dark" last night. Mostly managed to keep my mind on the plot this time, yay for me. (And if I had to consciously drag my mind out of the gutter to do it, well, that just proves how blatant the subtext is.)

Relatedly, I worked some more on NCT, and while I was checking out rounds_of_kink, I found a prompt that gave me another idea for it -- it was a Dean/Jaimie prompt, but I'm gonna borrow it anyway, because it's awesome and it improves what limited Excuse Plot my fic already had. To quote my notes: "Human trafficking is better than drugs." (*g* Yeah, I never thought I'd write that sentence, either.)

Oh, and speaking of DB, ( small spoiler for the DB pilot. )

Now, off to do homework, because I have Stats homework due Tuesday and a programming project due Thursday that's going to be absolutely horrible (not to mention being due the Thursday night after my court date on Wednesday; I'm trying to get an extension, but I haven't heard back yet ETA: Got the deadline extended until Friday night).

(First, for reference, the fic I was talking about before has now got a working title, "Never Can Tell". So I may refer to it that way from now on, rather than "that... fic I'm writing... So Yeah.")

(ETA: Added a ton more links. Btw, every link except the first one, the last one, and the one marked as such link to TV Tropes. So if you want to avoid getting sucked in, you may want to just hover over them instead of clicking. :))

( Dark Blue (spoiler-free due to incoherency) )

TNT's starting reruns next week at 11 pm Eastern; everyone should watch it!

In other news, I just had the biggest Someone Is WRONG on the Internet! moment and I'm too lazy to make an account just to reply to a months-old forum thread, but I have to get it out, so. I was looking for the LotS page on TV Tropes (looks like they just combine it on the SoT page) and I found an old forum thread in which someone complained, "It's a shame everyone has an obvious California accent; it's distracting." Sorry, but you Did Not Do The Research. Bridget Regan is actually the only American. Anyone else with an American accent is affecting it. Watch an interview or something, gah. Fail.

So, it's September. The really-long unexpected LJ hiatus was part forced and then part just that I couldn't find the time, but I'm back now! (Hooray! Right? Right?) Now to get on with the really long update.

First, the TV rambling, of course, to make it easier for those who aren't interested to skip it. ( TV (QL, Mental, Psych, et al) )

Relatedly, I've been all over the place fandom-wise since I got reacquainted with the internets. First, BuddyTV links I've been saving for you guys:
The Five New Shows You Must Watch This Fall
Flash Forward
Lucifer is Coming: How SN Stole Twitter

Oh, and speaking of Supernatural, ( spoilers, and my thoughts on the s5 premiere, 'Sympathy for the Devil'. )
Moving on...

I was also introduced to these Twilight-series recaps last weekend and they pretty much ate my weekend because they're awesome. The basic point is that she's reading the books so we don't have to, because they're that bad. Heh. And they sure sound it. I mean, Edward twirling part of her engine around in his hands while he gives her that little guilt-trip? Drop it in Criminal Minds and it'd almost be great writing. I don't know how anyone can think he's romantic/a good boyfriend/not a sociopath. *shudder* But so as not to offend, that's all I'll say about that, too. (Oh, except that I woke up the other day with a QL/Twilight bunny in my head. I'll just wait till she makes it through Breaking Dawn and then I'll take a crack at that, because boy would it be an improvement. And Sam roundhouse-kicking Edward wouldn't hurt, either. :))

Finally, in the last two three fandom-related things I think I have to say:
1. I think my new Dexter book is here. Tomorrow the post office opens and I can go get my package. Omgyay.
2. Despite the fact that I don't really like the song and am not completely sold on the ship, this vid (NSFW) is without a doubt the best one in the Dark Blue fandom. Seriously. Watch it. You don't have to have seen the show, and this will make you want to.
3. I am in love with both "Wizard's First Rule" by Terry Goodkind (440ish pages/836, and counting), and the TV series, Legend of the Seeker, that was based off those books. We're talking "watched one episode, found the entire series on Hulu on legendoftheseeker.com (go to the 'full archive' tab), and watched the entire 22-episode first season within the space of two weeks" kinds of love. If you need more encouragement than that to watch it: Craig Horner, who plays the MC, looks like the lovechild of Stuart Townsend and Misha Collins. And there's swordfights. Lots of them. I'm serious, guys. (And you have plenty of time to catch up! Season 2 premieres Nov. 7. Go, go, watch and enjoy!)

Onto other things:
( Some news links, some news on how the name change is progressing, and some random. ) Here's the two best vids I've found for LotS, just to give you even more reason to watch and to make sure you don't miss them: one to Breaking Benjamin's "Blow Me Away" and a shippy one to Natalie Merchant's "My Skin".

Okay, that's all. Until next time. Which hopefully will be sooner than, say, NaNo. ;)

ETA: The documentary referred to in this (good) article about a trans British boy is now available on YouTube. Here, if anyone's interested.

ETA 2: Also, ( risking TMI ).

If anyone's curious. It came to a total of 38, counting two different versions of one plot separately, of which I finished 10 and posted 5.

( List under the cut. )

So, this is going to be a huge update full of everything I haven't got a chance to say, yet, as I think of it. Expect random. 

( JuNo )

( TV (Philanthropist, Mental, BN, RP, Leverage, Dark Blue) )

( The Name Change Saga )