The Year in Review

There are fifteen things I need to go back to today. To avoid making fifteen posts, I'm trying to divide them up.

The categories I've assigned them are The Real World, Media, School, Sports, Politics, Updates, and Asking Again.. But several of them bridge those categories, so I'm having difficulties. So I've decided to just do them in chronological order. Those I think deserve friendslocking will get their own entry, out of chronological order, though.

( From February 18, Media and Asking Again (slash) )

( From March 15, The Real World and School )

( From April 6, Sports and Asking Again (icon question) )

( From April 12, Media and Asking Again (Princess Bride) )

Next batch'll go up after I've gotten some sleep.

The Year In Review (Media)

All of these are media related, as I am a fannish creature by nature.

( June 5 (POA premiere) )

A sensible creature would wait until watching her DVD, so as to have the movie fresh in her mind, but no one ever said I was a sensible creature. I thought the werewolf and dog!Sirius looked shitty, but what else is new? Crazy Gary Oldman and Whassername who played Professor Trelawney were fantastic. Remus was a bit...well, gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide. I don't think the actor was right for the part. And that mustache, eugh.

( September 27, Asking Again (fic recs) )

No one ever helped me out at all. I'm a little sad and a little peeved off about that.

I think my aunt is writing fanfiction now, and from what I saw on the screen (it was one when I came in the room and in large font), it's...not very good. Help me give her some better examples, people!

( From September 28 (Brokeback Mountain) )

( From November 26 (Alexander) )

Aaaaand one more. Not media, but sports, which is...pretty much the same thing, I suppose.

( From September 1, Asking Again (gymnastics) )

Apparently, none of you love me at all, because this got zero replies. I'm not picky. They can have all their clothes on. And I have the DVD, so it's not such a pressing concern now.

Oh, and I found out that that Romanian's name is Marian Dragulescu. He is Of the Sexy.

The Year In Review (Last One, I Swear!)

( From April 14, The Real World, Update (axe murderer) )

The gentlemen turned himself in in Salt Lake City sometime this summer. Apparently he saw on the television that the police were searching for him. Didn't know there'd been a fuss.

( From Doomsday, AKA November 2, Politics (The Alabama Constitution) )

The Alabama State Constitution was written in 1901, and is quite fucked up. It is ridiculously long. It is, in fact, the longest constitution in the world. It does not allow for home rule. Say Mobile County wants to have a tax to raise money to promote their shrimp industry. They must get an amendment to the state constitution, voted on by everyone in the state, to do this. And they did, this year. The Shrimp Tax amendment miraculously passed. I say 'miraculously', because the constitution is so fucked up, and so long, that many people vote 'no' on every amendment that comes up, trying to force whoever's in charge into writing a new one. This, along with the citizenry's deep-seated aversion to even the possibility of taxes, is why the amendment that would've removed racist language from the constitution did not pass. Now you know.

That's it, everyone! I'll see you again in 2005!