Is that ice cream cone big enough? Um, its delicious enough!

[geebs]

One of my pet peeves/quirks is when you're exiting the highway on a ramp that's two lanes but merges into one, and some dickwad behind you is taking the exit at 90mph in order to overtake you, even though you're already doing 70. My urge (as more than a few of you have experienced) is to accelerate and try and keep the guy behind me, even though we're about to exit onto normal roads. Its not like I'm going slow, what's with trying to overtake me? I guess I shouldn't take it so personally.

Here's another unreasonable pet peeve of mine. Even though I'll talk about stupid and inane crap all the time, it does bug the hell out of me when I'm dismissed to my face. I mean, even though I put my nice face on and deal with everyone else's stupid and inane crap, kissing their frakkin' ass and acting all interested all the frakkin' time, other people aren't required to. If you don't want to listen to crap, shouldn't you be all, I don't want to listen to your crap, instead of standing there being overly polite and listening and acting like you care about something you don't? Mebbe if I did that more, I wouldn't feel like punching people who did that to me in the face.

I was thinking today about the variation of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon game where you try to see how many degrees of separation are between you and some famous person. Obviously, the correct way to do it is to figure out who you can use to connect to famous people, and go from there, rather than starting from the particular famous person and working back to you. For me, I think these are the connections I could use:



- My big high school crush was on an ep of the Sopranos, and also in Kids, which of course had such starlets as Rosario Dawson and Chloe Sevigny before they hit it big.

- Another St. Francis Prep alum who was there the same time I was was Peter Facinelli. I'm pretty sure I met him once (even though the school has like three thousand students), because the first time I saw Can't Hardly Wait, I was all, "Wait, I know this guy!" Anyways, he has a pretty good list of credits (though is Fastlane his biggest work?) and is of course married to one of my childhood crushes, Jennie Garth.

- Bridget Moynahan was clevemire's babysitter. She has a decent list of credits (she was one of the Coyote Ugly chicks, made out with Heather Graham in Grey Matters, and was the woman John Cusack was about to settle for when he thought he lost his chance with Kate Beckinsale in Serendipity), though I guess she's most famous for getting knocked up and left by Tom Brady.

- dholliday was classmates with Brittany Daniel (and her twin sister), of Club Dread and Joe Dirt fame. And Swan's Crossing, where SMG got her start before joining All My Children and then of course Buffy.

- one of 7500centfish's classmates took Melissa Joan Hart to their prom.

- another cousin dated David Boreanaz's agent and knew him. Someone told me she also dated someone from Saved By the Bell. Obviously, she didn't date Zach, Slater, or Screech, so unless she dated that Ricky kid from the Hayley Mills years, I assume it was someone from the New Class? Of course, she also has some vague Hollywood job (agent? something with the Fox Reality channel?).

- I think there are a couple of connections I can get from isabel79, but she would know better.

Thursday night TV commentary:

Tonight's ep of Smallville was one of those that reminds me of what a self-centered prick Clark Kent is. So, Lex pulls a Locke's dad and defenestrates Lionel. And somehow Clark makes it all about him, all "Lionel died protecting me, all of my father figures are dead!" WTF?! Wasn't he pissed and distrustful of Lionel not a few hours before and wanted him out of his life?! (And yeah, Clark did get Lionel killed by casting him aside so he was all mopey and vulnerable to Lex's machinations!) But he was also all, "Jor-El died sending me to Earth!" One, doesn't he hate Jor-El? And two, Jor-El died because Krypton blew up. Sending Clark away didn't have anything to do with him dying!

And Clark pulling the whole "I tried to be your friend, but you were too interested in power!" even though Lex's arguments were factually correct. Friends trust each other, and Lex got tired of Clark lying to his frickin' face the whole time.

And wait, who the hell killed that Gina chick? I was thinking it might be Lex, since she was a loose end, but I was thinking if it was, they'd show a scene later in the ep where he was listening to his voicemail, and hearing she knows who the Traveller is and him being all "CRAP!!" because he killed her before she could tell him. Then again, it should be obvious now that Clark is the Traveller. There's too much evidence pointing to Clark. Plus, he knew his father was protecting the Traveller, and its like, gee, what figure with mysterious happenings always happening around him does my father hang out with all the time?

Ha, is the whole Jim is gonna eventually proposed thing a gimmick they're doing to keep the whole Jam thing fresh? I'm sure thousands of shippers across the country squeed when Jim got down on the one knee. But it was a big fake out! I think it would get old and piss a lot of people off it he kept doing that, but the one time was amusing.

In any case, I don't think its too weird that he bought an engagement ring a week after they were dating. I mean, its not like she's a total stranger to him, they've been practically together for years now.

But ha, this ep was hilarious in terms of how prickish Michael could be. "Would she capsize a rowboat?" "Its like talking to the nice old lady on the bus?" What an a-hole!

Heh, despite the insane number of hours I've played SW2 and XL, I can still be an idiot. You know this whole time, I didn't realize there were special combos you could do on horseback?! I though there was just the square attack, and the triangle attack. I didn't realize there were ST, SST, and SSST combos! I would to be a fool. And I was playing as Gracia today, and I just realized, I could put her shield up first, then do her super beam attack, as the shield would protect her from getting hit out of doing the beam attack! I mean, its so obvious, yet I'm only now realizing it?! Its like, do I even know how to play this game?!

Comments

[clevemire.livejournal.com]

Bridget Moynahan was in I, Robot, the Recruit, Sex and the City, Sum of All Fears, and a bunch of other stuff. Just from her, I'm a 2 to Will Smith, Shia LaBeoiueiiuaiuef, Zefram Cochrane, Wash, Bilbo Baggins, Al Pacino, B-Fleck, Robocop, Morgan Freeman, Jack Dalton, the incumbent city councilman that Woody ran against, Sabretooth, and Chris motherfuckin' Noth.

I also went to the same church (same high school too, but she's older enough that it wasn't at the same time) as her, and she has a bunch of random credits making me a 2 to Sam Jackson, Adam Sandler, Jack Black, NPH, Lumbergh, Antonio, and Scott Evil. And google image search, at least at one point, revealed some lovely pictures, a couple of the not safe for work variety. She's probably been tabloid-ized more recently (see below) so it may have changed. I hung on to this one (sfw, more or less).

She also married Kate Hudson's brother, so does that count as making me a 2 to like Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell? Or would that be cheating like using Letterman to connect between celebrities who have been on his show (basically everyone).

On Smallville, all I could think was how stupid they've written Lex. Even if Lex hadn't been suspicious of Clark dating back to the car wreck in season one (remember he had that supersecret room filled with evidence to try to prove that Clark had super powers?), it's moronic not to make the connection.

And I think it's probably going to turn out to be some kinda traveller cult people who killed whatshername. Is an asthma inhaler a good way to kill someone like that btw? Seems like the spray is too directed and short, you could almost hold your breath and wipe your face off unless it was something so poisonous that trace amounts would do you in, but if it was that bad the guy killing her would probably be in trouble too. I'd think the handkerchief chloroform technique, which may or may not really work but it's a tv/movie staple so there's existing suspension of disbelief, works better, since it's stuck there and eventually you're going to have to breathe.

[isabel79.livejournal.com]

My college roommate was classmates with Mia Tyler and saw Liv and Steven pick her up from school a few times.

I went to medical school with a guy who was in a movie with Michael Douglas, a soap opera and a bway show with Nathan Lane.

Paul Scheer went to HS with TC and I. TC actually knew of him. I was a frosh when he was a senior.

I though Charisse dated the guy from the older show who I guess was the lead before Zach came. I hear he's an NFL referee or something now.

[isabel79.livejournal.com]

Oh and a HS classmate of mine was in some Lonely Girl 15 spin off or something. Spencer? Dunno if that really counts, but I thought you might be interested since you watched that "show," right?

[geebs.livejournal.com]

Heh, whenever I see her name (since I've looked her up several times before cause I'd see her in the various shows she's guested on all, "she's cute, I should look up who she is on imdb"), I always think she's one of Martin Sheen's daughters.

But heh, even you refer to her husband as "Kate Hudson's brother". As I've said before, I only recently realized he was Kate Hudson's brother even though they have the same last name. I guess its like Julia and Eric Roberts, the chick is so famous, its like, you don't fathom that this B-list actor is her brother. In any case, she was the chick in Felicity whom Ben cheated with that prompted Felicity to get all pissed off at him and complain to Parkman's wife (not his wife from Heroes, his character on Felicity's wife, who was also Marshall's wife on Alias), who accidentally cast a spell and sent Felicity back to the past.

About the asthma pump thing, yeah, you could try and hold your breath, but I would think if you were suddenly surprised, you wouldn't think to hold you breath to avoid getting sprayed. And I think the shock of being surprised might even cause you to take a big gasp and breathe it in even faster before you even realized you were being sprayed with poison.

[geebs.livejournal.com]

Heh, he wasn't on the spin-off, he was on LG15 for a while. He was there for the series of events that lead to Lonelygirl15's death. But, he didn't return in the later "seasons". (yeah, the thing still goes on even though the original chick was killed off).

[isabel79.livejournal.com]

Never saw the show but stumbled on "his" youtube account LAlabrat.

Haha... I don't even remember if we had any classes together, but he was definitely one of the drama kids, lead in everything. Questionable... If you know what I mean...

[mike-b.livejournal.com]

Which character in which Sopranos episode?

[geebs.livejournal.com]

It wasn't anything big at all, she was like a waitress in a scene with one line total.