Point, meet counterpoint.
Why, yes. This site’s been up and down rather more frequently than something that competes professionally on the going-up-and-down-frequently circuit. The fine folks at Dreamhost insist they won’t rest until the mystery is solved. Presuming you can read this, I thought I’d alert you to Tim, who, in comments, is disputing certain allegations of the “wear your own body armor and we’ll cut your death benefits” story; also, I thought I’d point you to this essay by Emma Bull, whose opinion on the new Battlestar is, shall we say, against the grain.
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Dreamhost, feh. Yeah, it's cheap but very flakey. Come on over the Dean Allen's Textdrive at http://www.textdrive.com.
Emma Bull is a wonderful person, and in this instance, wrong.
Lisa, I love Dean, but when I get everything up and running that I think I’m going to get up and running, I may need more bandwidth than I can afford there for the moment. We’ll see. But another day like today happens anytime soon, and I’ll be that much more likely. —Maybe I’ll have ironed out WordPress to my liking by that point, so it’ll be time to learn Textpattern.
Patrick: oh, indeed. But wrong for very interesting reasons. And I gotta admit: I didn’t watch the miniseries when it first came out because the ads pushed very similar buttons—and that first scene? It really is dumber than fucking dumb. Took way too many kicks in the ass from people less snooty than myself to get me to give it the shot it needed.
OK.
I've ordered the DVDs. I just hope I can survive the dismal news that Lucifer isn't even in the series now . . .
Somebody needs to start kicking me, then, because I saw a couple of episodes in the middle, and couldn't see what all the fuss was about...and actually, found myself rather detesting the whole series. And for different reasons than Bull's.
I thought about writing about my complaints, but felt I'd have to watch a few more episodes to be able to do that properly and honestly, and I couldn't bring myself to do it. And then, of course, there was the problem that if I sat down and watched more with a mind to writing a critique, and then ended up liking the silly thing, it would destroy my whole reason for watching it.