As Promised: Too Hot for TWoP

The computer is working pretty well again, although I have no idea why. I turned it off for a few days to give it time to think about what it had done and then when I turned it on, the battery charged easily and it stopped randomly shutting down. Hooray!

Share in my happiness by watching the video that TWoP said "wasn't what we were looking for" in a "man on the street" piece and was also "an insurance risk." Since they won't put it up on their site, I'll put it up on mine -- with all references to the site cleverly removed. djb filmed and edited the piece and did an awesome job making me as un-annoying as possible, which is no easy task. Hope you like it!

You Can Read Me Everywhere But Here!

I did a guest blog over at Trashionista the other day -- go check it out, especially if you're an Enid Blyton fan.

I've also updated the "Read Me" section of the sidebar. Now there's links to Soap Opera Digest and Ugo.com, where I've been updating the TV Blog three times a day since last week. Meanwhile, you're lucky if I can update this blog three times a month. What can I say? One pays and the other doesn't. Also, the world of TV is much more exciting than the world of me.

And, of course, you can still read me at Television Without Pity, if you can find the recaps on the redesigned site. They seem to have been pushed to the bottom while new content like the video gets the spotlight. I actually did a video for TWoP but they said it was "too much of an insurance risk" to put on the site. Hee hee hee. I'm so badass. I'll put the video up here as soon as I can figure out how to do it and my computer stops randomly shutting down while I'm in mid

Short Update

My laptop is breaking down slowly but surely. I had the same problem with my last iBook, where the logicboard goes bad and somehow this makes it so I can't charge the battery. I'll plug it in and the little battery/plug icon will toggle on and off. I got this laptop from a friend to replace my ibook that died after a little more than one year because I couldn't afford to replace the logicboard or send the computer away for the repair and not have a computer for two to four weeks. And now it looks like I'm faced with the same choice here. I don't want to put $300 worth of repairs into a 3 year old iBook but I can't afford a new Macbook either. And if I could, I want to wait for the next redesign (I'm thinking the next ones will be aluminum, be 25% faster, and will be released in June). I don't know what to do, but I have a bad feeling it's going to involve me and a cheap PC craptop. Although, given Apple's track record with me (3 laptops: 1 stolen [not Apple's fault] and 2 with logicboard failures [entirely Apple's fault and has been the subject of class action lawsuits]), maybe going back to a PC isn't such a bad idea.

Enough complaining! This entry is supposed to be plugging my latest article in Soap Opera Digest, on stands this week!!!!! I'd include a picture of it but my battery meter just turned red.

CRIME OF THE CENTURY!!!!

No, it's not the time my apartment got broken into, although that certainly comes close. This is something far worse: I went to Jamba Juice yesterday after a way-too-long absence only to find that my favorite smoothie, the Citrus Squeeze, was NO LONGER ON THE MENU. And to make matters worse, my second-favorite smoothie, the Orange-A-Peel, was also NOT ON THE MENU. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS. Now there are no choices on the menu that combine my favorite smoothie flavors -- orange, strawberry, and banana. There's some blueberry-banana concoction that probably tastes like ass and some kiwi-strawberry crap, but nothing that combines them all. Peach Pleasure can Peach Piss Off and Mango-A-Go-Go can Mango-A-Go-Go-To-Hell! I WANT MY CITRUS SQUEEZE AND/OR ORANGE-A-PEEL!

People out there, please tell me: is this a nationwide thing or specific to the West Hollywood Gateway Jamba Juice? Because if it's nationwide, I have a protest rally to plan.

I Hate Russian Television

So it turns out that the walls on my new apartment are not made of paper after all -- we just have a deaf Russian lady for a neighbor. She watches Russian television all day long at an incredible volume. Like, it's so loud that I don't know how the speakers on her TV haven't exploded yet. And the stuff she watches! Horrible songs, horrible singing, horrible sound effects! Horrible, horrible! Why can't she watch Russian PBS like old people are supposed to? Why does she watch music videos? Shouldn't she hate that kind of stuff?

I don't know why the other neighbors haven't complained about this yet, but they haven't, so I had to. But first I had to be nice. I went by her place and rang the doorbell, which was some special Sonic Alert thing for deaf people. BECAUSE SHE's DEAF. WHY IS SHE WATCHING TV IF SHE'S DEAF??? DOES CLOSED CAPTIONING NOT COME IN RUSSIAN?? Anyway, she answered, and when she opened the door she let out a blast of sound waves that almost threw me backwards into her neighbor's door. So this woman is both deaf and Russian, which makes communicating with her really difficult. But I managed to do so by pointing to my ears and then making a "turn the volume dial DOWN" motion with my hand. And it worked! She turned the volume down to slightly more acceptable levels and that was that.

But now it's the next day, and the bitch has turned her TV back up. Am I going to have to go to her apartment every day and tell her to turn it down? Should I go looking for pamphlets on hearing aids with Russian translations and slide them under her door? Or should I just sneak out tonight and destroy her Russian-TV-giving satellite dish? There is a fourth option, which my roommate suggested, of waiting for her to die, but she seems pretty stout and healthy so that probably won't happen any time soon.