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shadowkat1. Another bitterly cold day, actually worse than yesterday. Woke up to no hot water in the shower - per the Super, the pipe had froze. Apparently the folks in the apartments on the 6th and 4th floors barely use the hot water (they must be very stinky?) and the 5th is now vacant.
Me: What happened to the new tenant in the 5th Floor apartment, did they leave already.
Super: They passed away.
So they took heaters up to the 5th floor and 6th and got the hot water working. Apparently the 4th is fine. (I'm annoyed I was dripping the hot water - and had even taken a hot shower at 11 pm). Their solution is to put another radiator in the bathroom (I already have one in there) and close the door - apparently this worked on the 5th and 6th floor. And open the hot water valve.
They also decided to turn on the radiator in my bedroom. Because 64 degrees in the bedroom, with the windows covered and the cracks patched up, is too cold. The building code is 70 degrees.
After all that work to get the radiator turned off in the bedroom - it's back on again, because the temperatures decided to go below 0 this weekend.
So, how's your Sunday going so far?
Some church services were cancelled. Mine wasn't - I'm watching it on Youtube on time delay (I kept pausing it to deal with the Super). And no it wasn't done virtually - they are actually there having service and live-streaming it. People came from Chinatown - for the first time. Now, that's dedication.
2. Speaking of dedication? Found this via brithistorian yesterday....
"The rule: In order to prevent ski jumpers from going full flying squirrel with their suits, they undergo a 3D body scan, which determines the dimensions (and hence the surface area) of their suit.
The allegation: It has been alleged that some ski jumpers are having their penises injected with hyaluronic acid to make them bigger and thus net them extra cloth in the crotch of their suits. It's not a lot, but given the tight margins of victory in some Olympic competitions, it could make a difference.
The ruling: WADA (the World Anti-Doping Agency) has said they have no definitive evidence that this has ever been done, and in fact they aren't even sure that this would fall under the definition of doping, but they do say they'll be looking into it."
Now, assuming folks are actually doing this? That's dedication. It didn't say what the women ski jumpers do - but yes my mind went there.
[Personally? You couldn't pay me enough to do ski jumping. I don't ski. Tried that, won't do it again. It's a real good way to permanently injure yourself for no good reason - which is why my father refused to ski - he considered it an expensive, cold, dangerous sport with no point.]
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3. Watching Angel S4 and Buffy S7 back to back or together kind of hammers home how impossible it is for Angel to be redeemed. That shanshu was never going to happen. People were deluding themselves. Also, I figured something out? The writers came up with the Cordelia/Connor exit storyline by using something from S1 - when the demon hijacks Cordy's visions and drives her insane and resurrects Darla. That demon had a maggoty face just like Jasmine. The scroll, the shanshu, the prophecy about Connor, Skip, Cordy's visions post S1 - all surround that event, and Lilah makes it worse - when she hires another demon to hijack Cordy's visions, and then we have Skip who successfully temps Cordy into becoming part demon to keep the visions and be important and become a higher being. The part that doesn't quite work in all of that - is Greenwalt's decision to have her be redeemed and become a higher being. Angel has bigger plot holes than Buffy does.
I can also understand why both David Boreanze and the network were about to call it quits at the end of S4. Angel has no character arc. He's the only character outside of maybe Drusilla (who doesn't count) - that doesn't. He's the same as he was when he was first introduced, just not as pretty.
The actor stated in various interviews that he'd gotten tired of the role and bored. They were definitely going to cancel that series - if Marsters hadn't agreed to come on board as Spike in S5 - Angel would have been cancelled one way or the other. Angel doesn't start to change and get interesting until S5 - because Spike challenges him in ways no one else did. He also challenged David Boreanze, who has stated in various interviews that he would have liked to have had more episodes and seasons exploring the Spike/Angel relationship and how Spike opened up a lot of the characters. So it's not just me who saw it - the actors did too, along with the writers. They were kind of stuck with character of Angel - they couldn't redeem him, they couldn't change him, it was a circle - so the characters around him got more development and focus as a result. It's why Spike is actually better developed, changes, and is in some respects closer to redemption than Angel - they could do it with Spike. Angel they'd written into a corner repeatedly. It's part of the reason, Boreanze isn't all that interested in returning to the role and got tired of it. He had better character arcs on Bones and Seal Team.
Now, I'm kind of watching Katee Sackoff and her husband watching herself play Starbuck in BSG, they've never seen it. (This is a thing, now? Actors watching themselves in iconic/popular 25 year old television series in podcasts. And you get to watch the actor freaking out over the show, and their own acting, and realizing, wow, this was a great show.) Sackoff is kind of similar to Juliet Landau, because both know filmmaking, and they are doing it with another person.
This is just making me want to rewatch Battle Star Galatica and I have enough shows in my to watch queues without adding re-watches. Stopped.
Me: What happened to the new tenant in the 5th Floor apartment, did they leave already.
Super: They passed away.
So they took heaters up to the 5th floor and 6th and got the hot water working. Apparently the 4th is fine. (I'm annoyed I was dripping the hot water - and had even taken a hot shower at 11 pm). Their solution is to put another radiator in the bathroom (I already have one in there) and close the door - apparently this worked on the 5th and 6th floor. And open the hot water valve.
They also decided to turn on the radiator in my bedroom. Because 64 degrees in the bedroom, with the windows covered and the cracks patched up, is too cold. The building code is 70 degrees.
After all that work to get the radiator turned off in the bedroom - it's back on again, because the temperatures decided to go below 0 this weekend.
So, how's your Sunday going so far?
Some church services were cancelled. Mine wasn't - I'm watching it on Youtube on time delay (I kept pausing it to deal with the Super). And no it wasn't done virtually - they are actually there having service and live-streaming it. People came from Chinatown - for the first time. Now, that's dedication.
2. Speaking of dedication? Found this via brithistorian yesterday....
"The rule: In order to prevent ski jumpers from going full flying squirrel with their suits, they undergo a 3D body scan, which determines the dimensions (and hence the surface area) of their suit.
The allegation: It has been alleged that some ski jumpers are having their penises injected with hyaluronic acid to make them bigger and thus net them extra cloth in the crotch of their suits. It's not a lot, but given the tight margins of victory in some Olympic competitions, it could make a difference.
The ruling: WADA (the World Anti-Doping Agency) has said they have no definitive evidence that this has ever been done, and in fact they aren't even sure that this would fall under the definition of doping, but they do say they'll be looking into it."
Now, assuming folks are actually doing this? That's dedication. It didn't say what the women ski jumpers do - but yes my mind went there.
[Personally? You couldn't pay me enough to do ski jumping. I don't ski. Tried that, won't do it again. It's a real good way to permanently injure yourself for no good reason - which is why my father refused to ski - he considered it an expensive, cold, dangerous sport with no point.]
***
3. Watching Angel S4 and Buffy S7 back to back or together kind of hammers home how impossible it is for Angel to be redeemed. That shanshu was never going to happen. People were deluding themselves. Also, I figured something out? The writers came up with the Cordelia/Connor exit storyline by using something from S1 - when the demon hijacks Cordy's visions and drives her insane and resurrects Darla. That demon had a maggoty face just like Jasmine. The scroll, the shanshu, the prophecy about Connor, Skip, Cordy's visions post S1 - all surround that event, and Lilah makes it worse - when she hires another demon to hijack Cordy's visions, and then we have Skip who successfully temps Cordy into becoming part demon to keep the visions and be important and become a higher being. The part that doesn't quite work in all of that - is Greenwalt's decision to have her be redeemed and become a higher being. Angel has bigger plot holes than Buffy does.
I can also understand why both David Boreanze and the network were about to call it quits at the end of S4. Angel has no character arc. He's the only character outside of maybe Drusilla (who doesn't count) - that doesn't. He's the same as he was when he was first introduced, just not as pretty.
The actor stated in various interviews that he'd gotten tired of the role and bored. They were definitely going to cancel that series - if Marsters hadn't agreed to come on board as Spike in S5 - Angel would have been cancelled one way or the other. Angel doesn't start to change and get interesting until S5 - because Spike challenges him in ways no one else did. He also challenged David Boreanze, who has stated in various interviews that he would have liked to have had more episodes and seasons exploring the Spike/Angel relationship and how Spike opened up a lot of the characters. So it's not just me who saw it - the actors did too, along with the writers. They were kind of stuck with character of Angel - they couldn't redeem him, they couldn't change him, it was a circle - so the characters around him got more development and focus as a result. It's why Spike is actually better developed, changes, and is in some respects closer to redemption than Angel - they could do it with Spike. Angel they'd written into a corner repeatedly. It's part of the reason, Boreanze isn't all that interested in returning to the role and got tired of it. He had better character arcs on Bones and Seal Team.
Now, I'm kind of watching Katee Sackoff and her husband watching herself play Starbuck in BSG, they've never seen it. (This is a thing, now? Actors watching themselves in iconic/popular 25 year old television series in podcasts. And you get to watch the actor freaking out over the show, and their own acting, and realizing, wow, this was a great show.) Sackoff is kind of similar to Juliet Landau, because both know filmmaking, and they are doing it with another person.
This is just making me want to rewatch Battle Star Galatica and I have enough shows in my to watch queues without adding re-watches. Stopped.
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Date: 2026-02-08 11:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-02-09 01:18 am (UTC)Marsters and Landau did - and often did it together with other cast and crew at Juliet's house.
But most don't. I know Gellar and Charisma didn't.