Twitter Has Apparently Stopped Enforcing Its Abuse Policies

Uggh, I've been getting zero hits on my other blog lately, so let me try linking to my latest post from here:

http://sillyfangirl.blogspot.com/2014/07/twitter-has-apparently-stopped.html

It's about the fact that Twitter seems to have all but abandoned enforcement of its abuse policies.  Read it and get pissed.  Someone needs to.

My TV (etc.) Blog

Hey guess what!  I ended up creating a different blog for my TV-related posts.  I'll also post about movies and/or music there if the mood strikes.  I figured since most of my posts are fangirl-related, I should create a blog that actually has the right theme:

Haha You Silly Fangirl

I've got my review of the Covert Affairs season 5 premiere up now.  I'm also still reviewing at GeekFurious.  But for some reason all my non-GF hits are still coming here.  So.  Check out my TV blog if you want to see more.  Pretty please!!  Byee!!

My Strange Trip Through a Balloon Release

So, the other day, a friend of mine tweeted the following:

I don't listen to 30 Seconds to Mars, so I didn't get the reference, and I asked her about it.  The answer: "It's a reference to their Up In The Air record with all the colors and stuff."  O.k., got it ... although the answer doesn't matter so much as the flashback it gave me when I first saw the pic, which is what prompted me to write this blog post.  I've only ever found myself participating in one balloon release, and it was 3+ years ago.  I didn't even know they were a "thing" before that.  Do they normally do these things at sad events, happy events, or both?  I suppose it must be one of those all-purpose activities.

Three years ago, late January 2011 to be exact, my aunt (my mom's youngest sister, Amy) committed suicide.  She was bipolar.  Coincidentally, it's what prompted me to start this blog ... because I was having many thoughts swirling around in my head about it that I needed to get out of my head somehow.  So instead of doing the healthy thing and saying these things to my family, I barfed them all out into the semi-anonymous ether of the interwebs.  As a result, I still get hits on my blog regularly via people using the search term "pros and cons of suicide".  It's extremely depressing and disconcerting.  But, also out of my control, unfortunately.  At the very least, I feel fairly certain that my writings on the matter are not going to provide these folks with an argument for the "pro" side.

Covert Affairs 4.16: Trompe le Monde & Season 4

Well, here we are.  Covert Affairs has finished its 4th season, and we can now look back with 20/20 hindsight and figure out what worked ... and what did not.  The final two eps were filmed in Hong Kong, and were *visually* awesome, as this show always is with all its foreign shoots.  The finale was a fairly solid ep in and of itself, as all the fall season eps mostly were, IF I could have subtracted the Helesa storyline out of them.  The climactic scene (of not just the ep but the entire season) was very satisfying ... another one of those lovely scenes that manage to rise above the clutter and frustrations of the season, at least in those fleeting moments.  I want to put a screenshot of it here but I don't want this post to be too spoilery, so I'll refrain.

Covert Affairs 4.15: There Goes My Gun

O.k. this is super obnoxious ... I always use Amazon HD to get my screenshots for these blog posts, but for some reason, Covert Affairs ep 4.15 is still not available to watch there.  They normally make them available in the wee hours of the morning after it airs.  Not sure what the hold-up is.  Guess I'll just use these pics I got from the show's official Facebook page.  The one below of Auggie fighting the dude in Hong Kong is a real doozy.  It's too hilarious not to use if I can't get the screenshots myself from Amazon.  Heh.

Covert Affairs 4.14: River Euphrates

 

Hahahaha ... is this too mean?  I'm sorry but this is ALL I saw from every single A&A interaction for this entire episode.  10,000 nails on 10,000 chalkboards.  Granted, if I could completely separate this A&A storyline out of the episode, it was actually pretty decent otherwise.  It's just that exactly what I feared would happen with A&A after last week's ep is now playing out just as I had pictured it - in a way that makes every scene with Annie and Auggie just make me feel miserable.  Completely, utterly miserable.  I want to punch Auggie, I want to smack some sense into Annie, and I want to throw my TV out the window during every scene with them together (thank god we only had to endure a couple though).

Covert Affairs: No. 13 Baby a.k.a. The One Where They Ruin Auggie

Dear Covert Affairs,

No.

Dear Auggie,

NO.

From last week: My god, could Helen a.k.a. Helesa BE any effing worse!?

YES.  I mean NO she CANNOT be any effing worse but she DOES GET WORSE.  Soooooooooooo much worse!!!

From last week: Does Covert Affairs have its mojo back?

NO.  O.k. well, kind of.  I mean in the sense of telling a coherent story ... they're actually still doing pretty well.  In the sense of giving me something I actually want to watch, however??  Well, for the first 38-ish minutes, yes, they gave me mostly good stuff.  But then, they did the TV equivalent of putting 10,000 kittens through a huge blender right in front of me.  The took a HUGE EFFING DUMP ALL OVER MY TV SCREEN FOR THE REST OF THE EPISODE.  Hahaha o.k. well not for the whole rest of the episode.  But once they took the dump ... all I could see in my head for the rest of the ep was diarrhea (by the name of Helesa).  I couldn't scrub the diarrhea off.  It was permanently there.  I was just living on Diarrhea Planet.