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1. I overslept this morning by 30 minutes and I'm still tired. You'd think I'd be less tired. But no.
2. Cousin: Anyone who is worried about a Hurricane hitting them, you're more than welcome to evacuate to Chicago and stay with me!
Me (to my mother on the phone): Is my cousin living a hotel or mansion with multiple rooms?
Mother: No, she lives in a tiny apartment with her son and husband. Also is highly allergic to pets.
Me: So, I'm guessing she's hoping no one ever takes her up on this insane offer?
3. Doctor Who Fan to Neil Gaiman Regarding Gaiman's Love of the 13th Doctor
Neil Gaiman: I just watched "The Woman Who Fell to Earth". That was definitely the Doctor, not that I ever had any real doubts. But it's wonderful to see how much of the Doctor, she is.
Brendan TooGood:Oh so you're a new fan because the Doctor is a woman not a real fan of the show since the 1960s then.
Neil Gaiman: My first episodes of Doctor Who were the first William Hartnell Dalek story. You can read about it in my introduction to the first Doctor Who novelization.
Okay...there's actually someone out there with the last name TooGood, because I'd hate to think they picked that for themselves. And I'm guessing it missed his attention that Gaiman wrote an episode of Doctor Who? I'm new to the series and hardly a true fan of it, and even I know that. Also, I'm not sure why it matters whether you are an old school fan or not, to legitimately enjoy a television show? (Fans = crazy??) I mean, it's sort of cool to be a new fan of a show. Plus you want new fans, or your show will cease to exist, and only be available on scratchy slowly deteriorating videotapes.
And..kudos to Gaiman for figuring out what TooGood said...it was sort of garbled Twitter speak. I mean it could be interpreted as "the Doctor is a woman (that or who) is not a real fan of the series". Punctuation is our friend. You can tell the professionals from the amateurs via the punctuation.
I almost feel sorry for TooGood. I mean, he's now been made to look like an ass on the internet. Granted he has plenty of company, and really has to go out of his way to outdo our idiotic President (not that anyone can, but they keep trying). Apparently being an ass on the internet has become a major sport of late?
And you really can't make this stuff up can you? Well you could, but I'm not sure anyone would believe you. Anyone else miss the days in which we could watch a television show and be oblivious, at least for the most part, what the idiots out there thought of it?
Trying to hunt the original post took me down a bit of a rabbit hole. It also reminded me of why I hate Twitter. (It's impossible to find stuff on it or follow it.) I found this exchange, which is just hilarious for it's stupidity.
HERE
Okay, anybody miss the days with fanboys couldn't fight with their favorite writers in public?
The fight is over whether Neil Gaiman had anything published in comic book form prior to DC hiring him to write and do Black Orchid. Gaiman states he didn't, outside of three short stories. The respondent insists that he did and throws proof at him -- of various independent comics he published prior to the release date of Black Orchid. What the fan doesn't know is Gaiman was most likely working on more than one project at a time, and these stories he'd begun after he was hired by DC.
And they just happened to get published first.
But why the guy felt he needed to do it, I don't know.
4. Am I the only one who doesn't understand the point of Siri and Alexa? I can't get either to do much more than fumble through search engines and find nothing.
5. Mother: Nicki Haley resigned.
Me: Remind me again, which appointee she is?
Mother: The UN rep.
Me: Ah. Interesting timing. Why'd she go? She get fed up finally?
Mother: No one knows.
Me: Is it just me or is the Doofus having troubles keeping the vast majority of his appointees in office? There seems to be a high turnover. Everyone gets upset that they've appointed so and so, then six to eight months later, so and so has flown the coop. I almost want to tell them to just be patient...it will take care of itself.
Mother: Well, this is just before the November Mid-Terms so the timing is suspect.
Me: Okay. (Mother failed to elaborate.)
2. Cousin: Anyone who is worried about a Hurricane hitting them, you're more than welcome to evacuate to Chicago and stay with me!
Me (to my mother on the phone): Is my cousin living a hotel or mansion with multiple rooms?
Mother: No, she lives in a tiny apartment with her son and husband. Also is highly allergic to pets.
Me: So, I'm guessing she's hoping no one ever takes her up on this insane offer?
3. Doctor Who Fan to Neil Gaiman Regarding Gaiman's Love of the 13th Doctor
Neil Gaiman: I just watched "The Woman Who Fell to Earth". That was definitely the Doctor, not that I ever had any real doubts. But it's wonderful to see how much of the Doctor, she is.
Brendan TooGood:Oh so you're a new fan because the Doctor is a woman not a real fan of the show since the 1960s then.
Neil Gaiman: My first episodes of Doctor Who were the first William Hartnell Dalek story. You can read about it in my introduction to the first Doctor Who novelization.
Okay...there's actually someone out there with the last name TooGood, because I'd hate to think they picked that for themselves. And I'm guessing it missed his attention that Gaiman wrote an episode of Doctor Who? I'm new to the series and hardly a true fan of it, and even I know that. Also, I'm not sure why it matters whether you are an old school fan or not, to legitimately enjoy a television show? (Fans = crazy??) I mean, it's sort of cool to be a new fan of a show. Plus you want new fans, or your show will cease to exist, and only be available on scratchy slowly deteriorating videotapes.
And..kudos to Gaiman for figuring out what TooGood said...it was sort of garbled Twitter speak. I mean it could be interpreted as "the Doctor is a woman (that or who) is not a real fan of the series". Punctuation is our friend. You can tell the professionals from the amateurs via the punctuation.
I almost feel sorry for TooGood. I mean, he's now been made to look like an ass on the internet. Granted he has plenty of company, and really has to go out of his way to outdo our idiotic President (not that anyone can, but they keep trying). Apparently being an ass on the internet has become a major sport of late?
And you really can't make this stuff up can you? Well you could, but I'm not sure anyone would believe you. Anyone else miss the days in which we could watch a television show and be oblivious, at least for the most part, what the idiots out there thought of it?
Trying to hunt the original post took me down a bit of a rabbit hole. It also reminded me of why I hate Twitter. (It's impossible to find stuff on it or follow it.) I found this exchange, which is just hilarious for it's stupidity.
HERE
Okay, anybody miss the days with fanboys couldn't fight with their favorite writers in public?
The fight is over whether Neil Gaiman had anything published in comic book form prior to DC hiring him to write and do Black Orchid. Gaiman states he didn't, outside of three short stories. The respondent insists that he did and throws proof at him -- of various independent comics he published prior to the release date of Black Orchid. What the fan doesn't know is Gaiman was most likely working on more than one project at a time, and these stories he'd begun after he was hired by DC.
And they just happened to get published first.
But why the guy felt he needed to do it, I don't know.
4. Am I the only one who doesn't understand the point of Siri and Alexa? I can't get either to do much more than fumble through search engines and find nothing.
5. Mother: Nicki Haley resigned.
Me: Remind me again, which appointee she is?
Mother: The UN rep.
Me: Ah. Interesting timing. Why'd she go? She get fed up finally?
Mother: No one knows.
Me: Is it just me or is the Doofus having troubles keeping the vast majority of his appointees in office? There seems to be a high turnover. Everyone gets upset that they've appointed so and so, then six to eight months later, so and so has flown the coop. I almost want to tell them to just be patient...it will take care of itself.
Mother: Well, this is just before the November Mid-Terms so the timing is suspect.
Me: Okay. (Mother failed to elaborate.)
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Sigh. Misogyny raises its ugly head once again. So, he's an idiot and a misogynist?
Beginning to think the two go hand in hand. Since a lot of the chauvinists and misogynists out there don't appear to realize they are chauvinistic and misogynistic.