My Ears! My Ears! or "there's no place like home"

In just a few minutes I'll be heading home, and boy, do my ears need the relief.  Three business days of "talk radio."

OH. MY. God.  If I hear one more self-described "no spin," "straight shooting," talk radio host this week I will spontaneously combust!  I cannot believe how wrong, Wrong, WRONG the majority of what comes out of their mouths is.  And they're constantly going on about how awful the "media" is, with their hidden agendas and spin-doctoring.  Hello.  Have you looked in a mirror? YOU ARE part of the "media."  Ergo, you are part of the problem.  Pot, may I introduce you to Kettle?

Just earlier, I had to listen to this guy going on and on about how we can't tell Mexico how to fix their socio-economic problems, but we do have to stop illegal immigration (with draconian measures no less).  So, we can't tell other countries what to do?  Then what the hell are we doing in Iraq? Hmmmm?  And, in the same segment, he's telling the people of Virginia Beach they need to fire their mayor and sheriff.  So, it's bad to tell other countries what to do, but it's perfectly fine to tell people in other cities what to do.  WTF?

Earlier in the week, I had to endure a guy (I think Paul Harvey-I'd recognize that self-important monotone anywhere) droning on about how stopping the legalizing of marijuana is a good good thing because:  "Pot today is not the same as the pot from before.  It's twice as potent and it causes all manner of neuroses, psychoses, and schizophrenia."

In lieu of an ear sporking, I settled for reading Pr0n during my breaks.  Right here in the very same trailer with the radio. ::snicker::  It did me good to imagine what their faces would look like if they knew what I was up to.  Not just any old pr0n either.  The slashy good stuff.  And dammit.  Bone made me read SPN/FNL!  I don't want or need another fandom, let alone two!  At least they were short - but whoa, they were scorchin'  I will link later because Bone is the first slash author ever I ever read, and she holds a dear spot in the depths of my porny little heart.

Semi-Insta Rec: Bone

 

thisisbone is the first slash author I ever read, lo those many (7?) years ago.  She brought us the delightfully eye-opening "Two-Player Game" starring Danny Rydell, Casey McCall (SportsNight) and Stacy Kerr (volleyball fame).  It was a lovely first-time story for a first-time reader, and it still fills my heart with love and glee.  I remember thinking, "of course they'd be together."  She totally sold me on Dan/Casey.  Also, this is actually the only story I've ever saved to my hard drive permanently. 

Then, when being pimped into Due South, I learned that Bone had already been there.  Well now.  Benton Fraser and Ray Kowalski and her collaboration with Aristide on  The Better Angels (something I found myself rereading frequently for awhile).  Or, even better:  The Course.  Yowza!

Then there was the thing with the pudding cups (SGA) which isn't even her best work, but it's hilarious and then it warms up. ;)

And now!  dammit!  I have resisted SPN (Supernatural) for a very long time, but today I needed a break, and Bone was happy to oblige.  She's been throwing a series of snippets at yin_again for her birthday, and all I can say is, go here if you're at all in the mood to melt your brain.  She crossed SPN with Friday Night Lights (neither of which I watch).  Two sets of brothers, and the older of one pair gets together with the younger of the other, who turns out to be Dean's "latest, youngest, and apparently greatest lay."  Not nearly 'nuff said about that, but I'm just a;llsdjasdijdk over here.

 

Another thing I'll say about Bone - for the longest time I was convinced she was one of those rare male slash writers.  Her men are really men.  They aren't stupidly or artificially feminized. They are believable men.  Not even when she indulged in that genderfuckery in SGA did she lose the very male flavor of her writing.  I've got a lot of experience with men in my life, and I guess Bone does too, because her guys are familiar.  I like that alot.

She also likes college basketball and Ace Young ::hee::  Go, Tarheels!