Best V-day Ever

I started Valentine’s day as neutral towards the event, but when I opened my Facebook, I saw that codejill’s status was “will walk V-day to the end of the pier and force it to jump, and when she gets back, we will dance!” and I decided it fit in with my current agenda of declaring war on virtuous things. So I joined that team.

Instead of dancing, MY V-day turned out to be a hot date with a married man and a gay man. We went to a movie (The Visitor–see it!) and ate chocolate, and then had drinks at my favourite bar. It was kind of exciting to watch all of the awkward dates going on around us and cringe while the fun, but still V-day music which was all slow dance love themed played. Another (gay boy) friend joined us, and I tried to convince him to slow dance with me, but he was having none of it.

When I got home, codejill and I instant messaged comparing our respective V-days, and somehow ended up watching these videos, in this order. The first was just randomly posted by a friend, and completely hilarious.

Which turned into watching this one:

Where you might want to note the following:

Bon Jovi flies at 0:53 to about 1:20 (yes, flies)

Guitar solo at about 3:00

More flying at about 3:23

Not that I’m into the music or ever owned an album, but I’ve always imagined a Bon Jovi concert to be the most amazing thing ever. I think codejill and I have resolved to try it if the opportunity arises.

Between going on a date with the least opportunity ever, and therefore the most fun, and cataloguing a Bon Jovi video for exciting things, I think the most exciting V-day ever.

Good Title Award

Some of you may have noticed how much I make fun of big “G” Geography titles. They usually rely on alliteration, and sometimes don’t even make sense (at least not to me). Here is an example of a title that jumped out of the boring titles containing the words “energy”, “productivity” and “growth”. It definitely gets a prize for cheekiness, at least in my books, especially since economists are NOT known for clever titles. Ever.

Blackorby, C. and R. R. Russell (1989). “Will the real elasticity of substitution please stand up? (A comparison of the Allen/Uzawa and Morishima elasticities).” American Economic Review 79: 882-888.

See? So funny and lame at the same time.

what The heLL? Word

Well. Despite my complaints of how bad season 3 was, characterized by bad sex, bad drama, and a depressing story line, I think The L Word has sunk to new lows in season 6. I can’t believe how bad it is. It’s like they hired writers who had never seen the show before, and the actors all forgot their characters. The season started with such a promising premise: Jenny finally gets killed off (sooooo exciting), and Lucy Lawless is the cop (excellent). But that amazing scene encompassed about five minutes, and the rest is downhill. I am wondering if they drew their inspiration from invasion of the body snatchers. For instance, there is NO WAY Phyllis, the chancellor at UC, could be in love with Bette, the dean of fine arts. The fact that the only sex is Shane and Jenny is just scary. So scary. And uncomfortable. And wrong. And gross. Shane has completely lost any attractiveness factor.

The worst part is that Jenny is still a total crackpot, and has become even *more* central to the storyline than before. Is that possible? Ugh. I am deriving very little psychic flux of enjoyment from this.

Given the past month being full of a cold, a wisdom tooth removal, yet addressing all of the issues that came up for me here by being a hard working academic, I was looking forward to the escapism The L Word offers and feeling justified in watching total crap. Not anymore. It really is worse than season 3. And, while in the past I have claimed that the quality of The L Word follows a V shaped pattern (1st and 5th seasons best, 2nd and 4th OK, and 3rd the pitts), I am revising that claim. If you are going to watch, the new L Word quality order is: season 1, 2/4 (tied), 5, 3, 6.  If Jenny actually dies, seasons 3 and 6 could tie too.