| And here is Super Bowl Senta... |
[08 Feb 2010|10:22am] |
...so, while we have a moment, it is a fun thing to note that SixApart is doing very well with ad-targeting...there are now Teleflora ads everywhere on here...just wish I got paid for them :)
...anyway, here is the Super Bowl Teleflora ad featuring among others Don Rickles and Senta Moses. (If anyone knows any of the other actors in the ad, especially the tall redhead, comment here!) Edit: Just found out her name is Laura Clery...although Teleflora is also misspelling Senta's name (she's a prophet, not a plant!)
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| Countdown to Super Bowl Senta...er... |
[04 Feb 2010|07:44am] |
...so...wait, I already did that joke...
So anyways, Teleflora has a :30 second commercial for the Super Bowl, which I already know Senta Moses is in. They've released a behind-the-scenes spot with the real star of the spot, Don Rickles, reprising his insult-fest from their Super Bowl commercial last year. And here it is, in all its glory:
...now, I only embed this here, of course, for one thing. That starts at about 50 seconds in, with a rather cute little picture. I don't know the name of the other actress in the shot (though she looks familiar as well), but she's either a head-and-a-half to two heads taller than Senta (I'd guess 5'10'' or so, but I'm not that good with height guessing...), or she's on a box, or Senta's just sitting. Either way, it's a nice little pic.
(Hat tips where they're due...this one to AdLand, where you can see previews of lots of the upcoming Super Bowl commercials...but not one of the Census spot, where Senta might be seen in a two-fer...)
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| Really?... |
[27 Jan 2010|12:15pm] |
...so, time for another rant, involving Senta Moses.
Oh, don't worry, it's not about her, or the lovely work she did on Castle this week (even if only for one scene) or The Wishing Well a coupla weeks ago (likewise). It's about someone who's making such an off-the-wall stupid comment I had to respond.
Over on her IMDb page there is a message board, as there is for literally everything over there. A couple of years ago, someone asked if she'd done any nude scenes. Hey, every actress is going to be asked this over there at some time or another; it's the nature of the game. This is one of those questions she's actually answered in other media (the DVD PodBlasts, still available over on the Internet Archive): no, she has not, and probably would not unless she was getting paid major money for it (which, of course, aren't incredible implications when one stops to think about it, but oh well).
Cut to December...when some random IMDb'er...says "PEDOPHILE ALERT!"
...huh?
I had to reply to this goofball, to tell him/her off, because, as is evidenced right at the top of her IMDb page, she hasn't been a teenager for a long time (and if she's reading, sorry if this makes her feel old.)
...s/he replied back with one of the most ludicrous statements I have ever seen on a message board. Basically it amounts to this: If you're an actress who hasn't been a teenager for a long, long time, but could conceivably pass for one (and let's face it, she could; she was playing teenaged roles into her late 20's), wanting to see her naked makes you a pedophile.
...I cannot get over just how ludicrous a statement this is. This means that every man she's ever dated is, by this dumbass' definition, a pedophile. It means pretty much every male fan she has is, again by this definition, a pedophile. And, of course, any filmmaker that seriously put her in any sexually compromising position (like Tony Shyu did in Tequila Body Shots) is, thus, a pedophile.
...and I told this person just how ludicrous a statement this is.
S/he still insists that it is.
...look, "friend". I get that you may not like Senta. But don't out-and-out call people who actually like her and may actually think she's pretty enough to want to see her naked pedophiles. Because most of us are not (though, because of her build, you can't rule us all out; there are episodes of Law and Order where women actually used the fact that they looked 15 at 30 to infiltrate high schools and seduce men there), and it does us, and her, a disservice.
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| New glasses, maybe?... |
[24 Jan 2010|07:58pm] |
...so, Stana Katic of "Castle" was at the SAG Awards last night, and got mistaken for another actress initially. The first comment on the HuffPo article that pointed this out:
not only is she NOT beautiful she is also a very bad actress on a very awful show full of bad actors & actresses. it's insulting to Mischa Barton to say that this ' thing ' looks like her
...buh?...
*cue Picard facepalm*
Call me cynical, but I don't think someone who thinks Mischa frickin' Barton is either beautiful or a good actress has any idea of what either beauty or acting is.
(Link to HuffPo, put here to not spoil the surprise.)
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| A quick Senta update... |
[21 Dec 2009|02:40am] |
...so, in the dead of night, keeping informed of the HCR votes...
...I'll shift gears and give you a little Senta Moses news :)
Let's start with the network one: Senta's going to be in an episode of Castle. The ep is "The Third Man", scheduled to air January 25, a couple of eps after the Alyssa Milano super-hyped episode. Also in Senta's ep is fellow General Hospital ex-pat (twice over) Sarah Brown (she now has a steady job over on The Bold and the Beautiful).
Other upcoming stuff includes mucho commercial work. She has a Wendy's commercial airing during bowl season (no doubt the one she auditioned for with the Struggling Actress who blogged about it below), she has a Teleflora commercial airing during the Super Bowl (and it's not the first she's been in), and she's participating in the big 2010 Census promotional rush. The ads are being directed by Christopher Guest, so that should be a good sign. (Perhaps one of them will air during the Super Bowl as well...)
Finally, apparently the indy feature 10 Years Later has a release date. According to the IMDB it will be released on March 26, 2010. Dunno who's distributing it, and dunno if it'll reach out here in the boonies...
...well, that's it for now. Back to seeing how the loony right will kill HCR again...
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| First, do no harm... |
[17 Dec 2009|05:19pm] |
...so, you already know my stance on the healthcare reform bill, and it has not changed. In fact, it's gotten more resolute.
But, of course, my platform is small. Howard Dean's however, is much larger. Keith Olbermann's is about as large as Dean's.
Both happen to agree with me that healthcare reform is dead in the water.
Here's Keith's Special Comment from last night under a cut:
( No Health. No Care. No Reform. )
The stakes are these, Mr. Reid, Mr. President, all those who've fought for what the people want. It's time to admit defeat, scrap this bill, and attempt reconciliation.
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| A sad week for Beak-fans... |
[14 Dec 2009|03:56pm] |
...so, I better make a little journal entry about this because I just heard.
Mark Ritts died last Monday at 63 from kidney cancer.
I just want to say just how good he was at bringing joy to kids and adults all around the world, and not just as being a guy in a smelly rat suit.
RIP, Lester.
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| Another "fandom" strikes... |
[04 Dec 2009|10:16pm] |
...so, oh Jesus fucking Christ, it's happening again.
Approximately the same pattern as with General Hospital and Winifred is now happening...in a webcomic fandom.
Specifically, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) punch_an_pie.
More specifically, with Heather.
So, a few weeks ago, we transfer back to Heather (because we'd been with Angela for a long while) and almost immediately, the groans start coming. Because, you see, Heather was the bitch in the Heather-Angela relationship for breaking them up. When, of course, Angela went nuclear when she broke it off for basically no good reason, especially after how Angela nearly torpedoed her friendship with Kestrel in the other comic...
...but no, Heather's the bitch because she deigned to not want to be in a relationship where she thought the other one didn't love her.
...fast forward to this storyline. We se she's with Ai--wait, no, she's with Lucy? Of course, she's a bitch for being with anyone other than Angela or Aiden...so, of course, she left him on the side of the road bawling his eyes out, that bitch...he's still calling her and never getting her...so of course it's her fault.
...each and every fucking comic, the "fans" dream up new excuses to call her a bitch...every single one pretty much unfounded. Take the latest one for example...a flashback to six months ago (yes, it's been that long since we've seen Heather). "Oh, she wants to know where she and Aiden are going, and when he brought it up, she said 'So I should leave you?' THAT BITCH!"
...when she wasn't even talking about her relationship with Aiden at all...he was talking about the fact that, a few months after getting her college degree, she's still weaving hair at a zoo. Which is basically how her rift with Angela started...pressuring her to get out of a job she hated, but felt compelled to stay at for the money (yet another reason she's a bitch...she doesn't know what's best for her.)
...oh, by the way, now she's in a dead-end job at an accounting office where she likely will never actually be an accountant, and wondering why she got her degree in the first place. Cue yet another "That bitch" comment, because she actually thought she might actually go somewhere immediately with her degree. Pompous, arrogant bitch!
...but back to six months ago, Aiden says something in the effect of "I thought you'd be moving on" ...unspoken "with your career" in a prodding "you could probably do better than this" tone. Heather answers back, "Do you want me to move on?"
...BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCH!
...Yes, of course, she's talking about leaving Aiden's poor heart to bleed on the side of the road...the same heart that up until that very night didn't have the guts to actually admit that he and she were even in a relationship, let alone talk about it.
...No, it's pretty clear she still thinks they're on the career topic...and actually asked to clarify, "What do you want?" As though--GASP!--she was actually concerned for Aiden! But she can't be concerned for him, she's a cold heartless bitch, everyone knows that. But this was simply another steer into their relationship...and this time, he finally answered...
"I want...to make out."
That's where we are right now. And six months later, she's with Lucy and not returning Aiden's calls. Obviously she was a non-stop bitch in those six months.
Why is this similar to Winnie?
Because "fans" are manufacturing reasons to hate her. If her and Angela's situations were reversed, they would not be saying such dumbass things about Angela. In GH, Winnie was getting heat before she even made an on-screen appearance. And it was pretty much over for them the moment the head writer, who every GH "fan" loathes, praised Senta Moses' chemistry with Bradford Anderson and extended her role...which basically means they went into hating SENTA...for no fucking reason. I have said before that trying to qualify a statement with "I like X, but" is a bullshit move...if you don't like someone, say so.
And PnP "fans" are saying they don't like Heather, in droves...but I still haven't found a good goddamned reason why that could not be applied to Angela. And there never was a good goddamned reason why Winifred should be so hated...at least not one that could not be applied to Spinelli, which I'll give the half that didn't like him a slight pass on, but the side that loves him doesn't have that excuse. They may not like her because she's trying to steal Spin away...but then, multiple men try and steal Maxie away, and they're not universally hated. They may not like her because she busted Spinelli...but then, Mac tried to bust Spinelli multiple times, and he's not universally hated. The worst of all though, were those that decided to hate her because she was a "Spin-clone"...which is bullshit for half the fan base.
Now, to the PnP side, everything Heather does, it's because she's a bitch. I mean, literally every strip there's some anonymous "fan" who posts how the latest strip proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Heather is a bitch. And whenever they point that out, I think, "How can this not apply to Angela?" Sometimes, I feel like saying it, but I know it'll either be ignored, or they'll reply, "Oh, you're not a real fan 'cuz you don't think Heather's a bitch!"
...That's fine, thanks...I'd rather not be a real fan, if that's what real fandom does.
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| A simple disproof of Jesus' divinity... |
[03 Dec 2009|09:24pm] |
...so, many people believe God is untestable, therefore can't be brought under the purview of science. However, there are, in fact, testable hypotheses amongst Christian dogma. Here, I'm gonna tackle the big one:
"Jesus died on the cross for your sins."
Most people wouldn't think it, but this is, in fact, a testable assertion. For it to become a "fact", as many people claim it to be, the evidence for it would have to be overwhelming. Here is a baseline of what historical evidence should point to if this statement were to be true:
1. There was a man named Jesus, born of a virgin mother in Bethlehem, grew up in Nazareth, and died via crucifixion. Most people don't dispute this...despite the fact that the Bible and the Apocrypha (the books considered for the Bible, but were rejected...by popular vote, as if one could vote on facts) are the only texts which mention Jesus at all. Other than one possibly fabricated tapestry that supposedly held the body of Jesus, we really have no evidence he even existed other than Biblical letters many years after the fact.
Now, let's say indisputable proof of all of this is found. That would lead to the second bit of evidence:
2. That Jesus' death allowed anyone who had faith in him to be "absolved" of their "sins". Here, we need two definitions: One of "absolution", which we'll go with the standard definition which gives a person forgiveness for his or her sins. Meaning that a person will not be punished for them. And, since the afterlife is currently untestable, this meaning can only extend to laws in this world. The other is of "sin", which is actually very vague. Many religions tout that you've sinned if you go against them...but Christianity also adds "original sin", meaning you're born a sinner, despite not having done anything. The big problem with both of these is that most of the time these days, state laws are not exactly equal to religious mores; for example, sodomy is a sin according to Christianity, but most states have abolished such laws. Let's go with a generic version of sin; that is, anyone who's broken a law has committed a sin. No matter what.
...okay, this one would then be pretty hard to fulfill. Why? Well, because if everyone is forgiven for committing any crime...then they have no guilt over committing it. This may be okay in terms of traffic tickets and consensual sex offenses...but what about violent offenses? If we're truly "absolved" of our "sins", then Christians should have no compunctions in murdering people, assaulting people, whenever they feel like it. Why shouldn't they? They're forgiven! Yes, this is the same argument that Christians themselves lob at atheists, saying "what's keeping them from killing people willy-nilly?" Well, what's keeping you, Mr. Christian who is absolved of sin by Jesus dying on the cross, from killing other people, other than the fact that the law punishes you still? I mean, you're forgiven of sin because of Jesus...
...in truth, there is no evidence that any government anywhere will pardon someone on death row because of Jesus. That fact alone renders the phrase "Jesus died on the cross for your sins" falsified. Jesus may have existed, and died on the cross--we certainly can't prove he doesn't, but the evidence that he does is mighty weak--but the fact that people are still being prosecuted for their "sins" is proof enough that his death did not absolve anyone of their sins. And before people start to talk about the afterlife, I'll mention again that the afterlife is untestable to science. Since the afterlife likely does not conform to natural law, science, the study of natural law, can't make any judgment on it. It might be true that rapists and murderers are free of their sins in the afterlife, but since science can't test it, it can't come to any conclusion on it. It can only test what's in the natural world, and the evidence points to the falsity of the hypothesis that "Jesus died on the cross for your sins."
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| On the ignorance of time scales... |
[02 Dec 2009|08:44am] |
...so, a few days ago, I came across a Daily Kos diary, paralleling the "extinction" of Republicans to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Something I could probably get behind...
...if the diarist had any sense of the time scale of the science s/he was talking about.
The diarist characterized the extinction of dinosaur species as happening "over a few years -- maybe a decade or two."
Uhm, what?
I left a comment on that diary, just to say that people battling creationist lies aren't helped when people who wholeheartedly support evolution mangle evolutionary history so badly.
But it's pretty much endemic to us as a whole, that the human race, despite being much better at math than all other species, is still on the whole really bad at it. And even worse at realizing time scales.
Creationists argue there wasn't enough time for species to evolve the way they did. They've characterized the Cambrian Explosion as an eyeblink in time, which, in geological terms, it was. But they use that eyeblink to disprove evolution because of that little time.
They fail to realize that the entirety of recorded human history, about 7,500-10,000 years, is much, much less than an eyeblink.
A major creationist video does tell the truth that the Cambrian Explosion happened within a 2 minute period on a 24 hour clock of the entirety of life on earth. What he doesn't mention is that humans arose at 23:59:58 on that same clock. That's right; we haven't been around for even five full seconds on the time scale of life on Earth. Which makes that 2 minutes of the Cambrian Explosion much, much more impressive.
Of course, those two seconds are about 100,000 years, and it's pretty amazing to see what evolution has brought us in that small a time frame. It's brought us the domesticated dog, cat, bovine, pig, chicken, turkey, and horse; many crops cultivated exclusively for human consumption; bacteria that can eat a polymer that didn't even exist a century ago; and probably the biggest extinction event since the Cretaceous extinction that killed the dinosaurs (Which, though it did happen in a rapid geological period of time, took considerably longer than "a few years -- maybe a decade or two"). But still, an argument of timescales within a human lifetime for extinction events, and/or an argument of insufficient time to evolve because we've never seen speciation, are both arguments from ignorance. The latter can be refuted by all of the speciations we have seen (like the aforementioned nylon-eating bacteria), but both can be laid at the feet of insufficient knowledge of how much can happen with millions of years of time. No member of Homo sapiens who ever lived can claim to have firsthand knowledge of what can happen with that much time, and likely none ever will; but the secondhand evidence shows that, with that little time (even on a geologic scale), an incredible amount of evolution can happen.
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| There's a rep for that... |
[16 Oct 2009|10:47am] |
...so, with hat tips from Thinking Meat and Joe. My. God., Rob Tisinai gives us the fully mobile, fully unintegratable Republicans in Congress:
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| B-but I can't be 30... |
[08 Oct 2009|07:43pm] |
...so, hey, might as well update. It's not every day you've just turned 30...
First, after a bit of a drought in Senta Moses news, I got some the other day that she's at least getting out and auditioning for stuff. I know this because another actress did a "Guess who I just sat next to in a commercial audition!" blog with her as the subject. And apparently those auditions pay extremely well...I mean, she has enough to get a freakin' WHITE FERRARI...
Anyhoo, what have I been doing to celebrate my b-day? Not much. But I did watch Keith Olbermann's hour-long special comment on healthcare last night, and I don't care who you are, what political persuasion you are, You. Need. To watch it. Too. If you can't get behind what he's proposing, you're just so far gone in loony-land that I feel scared to be a countryman of yours. (Note: It's October 7, for those reading this after the next one goes up.)
That's it for now. Small update, I know. See you when I see you, and maybe before then.
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| My ultimatum... |
[09 Sep 2009|04:41am] |
...so, it comes down to this for healthcare reform.
Two dozen Democrats have said they'd vote no on any healthcare bill with a public option.
President Obama must call their bluff.
And veto any healthcare bill without a public option.
Anything less is a healthcare bailout. And an overwhelming victory for the bloodsucking insurance industry, corporatism, and domestic terrorism.
This I believe.
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| Farker no more... |
[02 Sep 2009|09:32pm] |
...so, Fark.com has lost me.
More to the point, they suspended me, supposedly for my participation in the "Why hasn't Glenn Beck denied that he raped and murdered a girl in 1990?" meme that blew up in their faces. Sure, it's stupid, but then it's also satire; it's the way the right does it, so let's see how they like it.
I would not be complaining, except that they've left this photoshopped bit of demagoguery up without comment.
For those of you not in the know, the picture (sans Obama PS) was dreamed up by a Brazilian ad agency for the World Wildlife Fund. The WWF rejected the ad. The ad agency put it in a competition for best ad, complete with the WWF's logo still on it. That put them on top of Keith Olbermann's Worst Persons in the World list last night. Today, an architecture student at the University of Cincinnati named Zach Fein (and I want absolutely everyone to remember and demonize this name) replaced the WWF logo with an Obama logo. And plastered it all over Fark. He is not suspended. I, however, am.
So, to be clear: A bit of a jest is a bannable offense, but basic libel/slander is all right with them.
Therefore, I will not be patronizing Fark.com anymore.
Nor will I be patronizing any friends of Fark.
Which means, among others, I will no longer be listening to Bob & Tom, nor reading Wil Wheaton's blog.
That's the price they'll be paying for associating with sites like Fark who condone terrorist messages, and regulate rational (and even irrational) responses.
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| Writer's Block: Two Truths and a Lie... |
[06 Aug 2009|07:40am] |
...so, which of these is my lie?
1. One of my hobbies is crashing Hot Wheels cars.
2. I tried out for the Glassmen drum corps, but was rejected.
3. I've visited a lake in Colorado that is named after our family.
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| My little Twitter project... |
[05 Aug 2009|11:14am] |
...so, I've got a little evil Twitter project that I hope I can pull off.
It's simple: On Saturday. I want Senta Moses in the trending topics.
It's no small feat. It takes a lot of tweeting to get something in the trending topics. However, about half the stuff that's there is obscure to about half the world. That's what whatthetrend is for (and, coincidentally, my trendingexplanation hash. Set your clock by it!) And I, of course, am but one man. Even I would not be able to tweet enough to get her there all by myself.
But that is where those of you reading this who are on Twitter come in. But first, the question you'll be asking, right after you answer "Who is Senta Moses?" by reading my Senta posts: "Why Saturday?"
Well, Saturday is Senta's birthday. Last year, the date was a pretty significant one: besides being the date of the Opening Ceremonies, it's one of those peculiar "same date" dates: 08/08/08. This year isn't as numerogically significant, but then, I didn't have the evil Twitter back then.
Anyway, you come in like this: Sometime on Saturday, just tweet her name sometime in the day. Just a simple birthday wish is fine, though if you want to do more, that'll be great, too. Me? I'll be doing my part by posting links to pictures and videos of Senta, for those Tweeters who are unaware of her (of which there hopefully will be far fewer by the end of Saturday.)
And if you're reading this from my tweet, re-tweet it, and spread the word!
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| The costs of living... |
[20 Jul 2009|08:22am] |
...so, I have this to say about the healthcare plan currently put forth.
People are recoiling at the price tag. They don't want it passed solely on the price tag.
...they don't know the cost of not passing this plan. Nor do many of them care, because "I'm not paying for it!"
...but you are. Every uninsured person going to the ER for the sniffles. Every person who needs a life-saving surgery...that's not covered by their insurance. Every person who doesn't have the money to go to the doctor, so that little cyst turns into a malignant tumor. Every person who goes bankrupt from medical bills.
...you're paying for all of those people. Right now. And I guarantee you that price tag is more than the price tag for any sort of public option.
And before people chime in with the "If they die, they won't be a drain anymore"...I'm not even touching the eugenic aspect of that argument, and I'll just chime in with this: The 30 years of production lost by a single 35 year old who dies of a cancer that is treatable, in and of itself, costs more than the price tag of any sort of public option.
So, if you're recoiling at the price of reform...think more of the price of not reforming.
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| Ahem... |
[18 Jul 2009|02:34pm] |
...so, allow me to step away from my gushing to introduce you to someone.
Meet Jim Robinson and the posters at the Free Republic.
Terrorists.
I don't believe giving publicity to them is giving them what they want. It's giving you a warning. There are already terrorists on American soil. And they frequent Free Republic.
(And no, I'm not giving a direct link.)
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| Another breadcrumb... |
[17 Jul 2009|11:28am] |
...so, this is a Senta Moses post.
Last night, ther was a screening of the movie "Ten Years Later", starring Senta, among others (including Rachel Boston and Jake Hoffman, Dustin's son). Senta, of course, was there...and so were the fine press picture-takers at Getty Images. here's a batch of pictures from the event, and here's another. And the poster looks good, too (Senta's in the upper right of the 0 among the images scattered in the numbers...)
And that's my brief Senta update (but not brief enough for Twitter...though I already got that brief!)
EDIT: ...and she just got a ticket from the fashion police. Which, unfortunately, I happen to agree with. Eee-yikes!
EDIT #2: And the website MaximoTV.com did many interviews of the cast, as well. Here's the one they did with Senta.
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