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I have lately been on a Queen Victoria kick.
( The cut is not amused. )
The real question become will I leave this as is or later go back and put all the Wikipedia links in?  YOU DECIDE.

You have to appreciate the irony: the first time in the history of the British monarchy that it has not mattered what the sex of the first baby was, and it's a boy.( Cuts for my thoughts and prattling. )
And there you have my thoughts!  A busy few days for us royal watchers. :D

ETA: I'm seeing lots of "one day he'll be George VII!" NOT NECESSARILY.  The precedence is that British Monarchs can choose any of their names to reign as.  I highly suspect that Charles will choose George, and be known as George VII.  The baby could choose to rule as either Alexander or Louis.  There's no guarantee in this! 

I thought for sure the Royal Baby would be born by now (I really suspected the July 13 date to be a red herring) but I was wrong.  You'd think that would prevent me from going ahead and making my name predictions (amongst other things) but I've never allowed being wrong to get in my way of pedantry before, so let's do it.

( Because I care that you might not care. )
I feel badly for them because this birth is already a shitshow and they haven't even started labor yet, that I know of, but regardless of whatever else I hope it's an easy delivery and a healthy child and I hope the paparazzi leave them alone as much as possible.

Tomorrow is a big day for us Royal Watchers, since Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands is formally abdicating in favor of her son, Prince Willem-Alexander.( Details and schedules and background, oh my! )

If you want to follow along or just get some info, the Royal Order of Sartorial Splendor is a good place to start.  It's a blog dedicated to the fashion and jewelry of the royals, but it's a great site- it's about more than just "oooh, pretty dress."  They've been doing a month-long run up to the inauguration and they'll be covering all the events tomorrow.  And there's always the Official Dutch Royal House website, too. 

I have a million things I need to be doing, but I'm taking a half hour to talk about something that's been making me nuts since Monday morning.  It will be better for my mental health for me to get it off my chest.

Most of you will have heard that the body of Richard III was found after an archeological dig in a car park in the city of Leicester, in Great Britain.  This is great news- it's terrific for the archeologists and historians who worked so hard to make it happen.  It's also making me fucking insane, because the media and the internet are abuzz with it, and there's SO MUCH misinformation and and people who have no idea what they're talking about, and other people talking about how wonderful Josephine Tey's novel "The Daughter of Time" is, (AND IT'S NOT) and so many of them are just WRONG.  So I'm going to have my say.  :P

( Now in list form! And you will have no idea what I'm ranting about! )

I get that there are people out there who believe that Richard III has been somewhat maligned through history- I know that without proof beyond a reasonable doubt there will always be questions about his involvement with the death of his nephews, and I get that not everyone is going to be a Tudor fan.  But for the love of GOD, can we get some facts up in this?  Can we leave Josephine Tey and her fucking terrible book out of it?? 

I absolutely would love comments on this- PLEASE feel free to disagree with me. 

Internet, fannishly I'm all over the place these days. There's a lot of toe-dipping.

- I have been watching obscene amounts of "Arrested Development" on Netflix. Like, A LOT. I keep thinking that maybe when I log in there will be an episode that I HAVEN'T seen yet, but alas. They can't make the new ones fast enough. But I won't be confident we're getting them until I see pictures from the set.

- I didn't watch any of the Golden Globes last night. I had to get up at 4:45 again, so I knew that if I got started I would probably keep watching and be up until all hours. I even logged out of twitter early so I didn't get caught up in it.

- I want to spend most of my time watching Chris Evans and Colin Firth movies, but I am being foiled by them. I got very angry at Red Box yesterday when it told me that "What's Your Number?" wouldn't be available until February 7th. What the hell! I also discovered that while I'm willing to pay $1.50 to watch that movie on the tv, I'm not willing to pay $4 to watch it on iTunes.

(I'm having to be very legal about my media, since I keep getting notices from my service provider that I've been illegally download UFC fights. I'm NOT, but someone clearly is, and whatever the mistake is I'm afraid that if *I* download something illegally my service will be cut off and I won't have any recourse. SIGH.)

Following UP with that, I can't believe that Nanny McPhee is not on Netflix streaming! What the hell, part 2! Thwarted at every turn!

- I'm going to watch the first season of "Downton Abbey", but I'm waiting until after next week's football. There's NOTHING good on tv during the weekends after that (at least until Spring Training) so it seems like a good time to sink my teeth into another show.

( Here is a ridiculous rant about The Hunger Games )

- I miss "Community" very much, but I am SO GLAD that "30 Rock" is back. Last week's episode was hilarious- I laughed out loud about three or four times. I loved Parks & Rec, but I didn't laugh quite as much as I did at "30 Rock." And the rest of the lineup was pretty good too- even "The Office" was better than it had been for a while.

Who else is at work? I am feeling for you. I hope you are making time and a half. I'm not.

I love brooklinegirl more than words can say. So much so, that when I found this story this morning, I actually TEXTED her about it. Yes, NBC is thinking about bringing back "Wiseguy." I ruminated on that for a while, and this next bit seemed to come naturally.

Because Garett is going to get up early and take a piss and then amble out into the living room in the dark to get on the computer. He's ready to dial in when he's body slammed to the floor, and there's Ken looking strung out and wild, "you can't use the modem! We have to keep the phone free! I can't miss their call!"

Garett thinks Ken is having another one of his episodes (and internally vows never to allow another aerosol can in the house again) but Ken lets him up off the floor (which is good because there's an empty can of Schlitz digging into his kidney) and is thrusting a piece of paper at him.

"KEN! I bought that toner special so I could print out some more headshots and resumes! I told you to stop printing off shit from the Hooters website!" Richard promised to send at least one resume to someone at CBS, and Garett was going to hold him to that. Richard is a good friend.

"No," rasps Ken "look- look! It's finally happening!" And Garett glaces down at the paper.

"Google alerts? I didn't think you knew how to use that?" Because Garett is constantly getting interrupted by Ken needing his help navigating to his own FORUM, for Chrissakes.

"One of the gals in the fanclub set it up for me. READ it, though!" Garett finally reads the headline.

"They're redoing Wiseguy?" he breathes, and it seems overwhelming at first. "Holy shit, Ken."

"I know," says Ken grimly. "And there's no Wiseguy without Ken Wahl." He leans back until he's sitting against the couch, surrounded by empty pizza boxes and old issues of Hustler. Garett sees that the princess phone has come down off the wall and is sitting on the floor next to him. "They'll call soon. Today, probably."

And Garett will back next to Ken, listen to him light up a cigarette and won't even bring himself to complain about Ken smoking in the house again. "They're gonna call," he'll echo, as the pink light of the new day sneaks through the curtains. "They're gonna call."

Internets, I have- perhaps briefly, perhaps not- fallen into Avengers movie fandom.

(This entry should be prefaced by my explaining why it's all movie- based, sadly, since I cannot read a comic or a graphic novel for the life of me. And it's not because I think they're bad, or something- I really don't! I tried so hard with "Watchmen," but I think it's something about how I read vs the medium of a graphic novel. My mind just does not work that way- I can't read AND look at pictures at the same time. So I'm not shitting on comics! It's my personal inadequacy. /disclosure)

All of this is because I decided that I wanted to rent "Thor" this weekend- I used Redbox for the first time! It was very very exciting. I have no idea where my desire to see this movie came from- I wasn't interested in it when it was in the theaters, ( Thor is a movie that ABSOLUTELY should not work, and yet somehow does. )

Needless to say I am looking forward to the trailer release at some time (later) today. This is what I'm into right now- let's see how long it lasts.

In conclusion,a final reason why I'm looking forward to said trailer



ETA; Trailer is OUT!!

And this particular thing has been confusing me for a while. Help me out, internets.

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Does it still count as a hump day if it's only a four day work week?

If you're a "Community" fan and you're not reading the massive four part interview with Dan Harmon over at the AV Club, then you're insane. INSANE. It starts here and they've got two of the first four parts up.

They go through the second season with him, episode by episode, and he talks about a LOT of stuff- including women in the writer's room, his problems in writing for Shirley, his favorite and least favorite episodes, and a TON of other stuff. He's honest and critical and occasionally douchey and I LOVE it.

Go! Read!