Senator Daniel Perrin (Alexis Denisof) has a webpage:
http://www.senatordanielperrin.org/about-sen-perrin/

A Twitter Account:
http://twitter.com/SENDanielPerrin

A Facebook page:
http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Perrin/100000293788095

And a public Email account:
daniel@senatordanielperrin.org

And he is damn sure going after the Rossum Corporation:

He told awaiting media: “There is nothing less than a conspiracy, spear-headed by the Rossum Corporation, to withhold medical advancements, to use radical, illegal technology for undeclared profit, to treat people like guinea pigs and the public at large like cattle.“

Senator Perrin has named it his personal mission to publicly investigate Rossum Corporation to ensure they are dealing ethically and within the law.

Hopefully, he will be able to get it done in just 9 episodes. Fox is not showing Dollhouse until 4 December and then they will show two episodes. Each of the succeeding weeks will also see two episodes on each Friday. It is has not been determined when the last three episodes will be aired, however, Fox has promised to air them. But it appears that will then be the end of Dollhouse.
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Here, along with other tasty tidbits.

Current Mood: Thralled...

Vampires as Gay Men: What's Really Going on With All These Vampires?

From Twilight to True Blood and now The Vampire Diaries, is it vampires that so many American women love... or just gay men?

By Stephen Marche

Forget everything you've read about vampires so far. The current bloodsucking trend, achieving maximum ferocity in November with the release of the sequel to Twilight, isn't about outsiders or immigrants or religion or even AIDS, as critics and bloggers have argued ad nauseam these past few months. There's a much better, simpler, more obvious explanation: Vampires have overwhelmed pop culture because young straight women want to have sex with gay men. Not all young straight women, of course, but many, if not most, of them. Neil Gaiman, sci-fi novelist and geek grandmaster, found out just how many during the shitstorm of pique that covered him from head to toe this past summer after he suggested in an interview that the vampire craze had run its course and should disappear for another twenty to twenty-five years. (Twilight fans took to Twitter in protest.) A foolish hope. The craving for vampire fiction is not a matter of taste but of urges; one does not read or watch it so much as inject it through the eyes, and like any epidemic, it's symptomatic of something much larger: a quiet but profound sexual revolution and a new acceptance of freakiness in mainstream American life.
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In the best-selling Undead series of MaryJanice Davidson, the Queen of the Vampires is a suburbanite named Betsy Taylor. Edward, the romantic hero of the Twilight series, is a sweet, screwed-up high school kid, and at the beginning of his relationship with Bella, she is attracted to him because he is strange, beautiful, and seemingly repulsed by her. This exact scenario happened several times in my high school between straight girls and gay guys who either hadn't figured out they were gay or were still in the closet. Twilight's fantasy is that the gorgeous gay guy can be your boyfriend, and for the slightly awkward teenage girls who consume the books and movies, that's the clincher. Vampire fiction for young women is the equivalent of lesbian porn for men: Both create an atmosphere of sexual abandon that is nonthreatening. That's what everybody wants, isn't it? Sex that's dangerous and safe at the same time, risky but comfortable, gooey and violent but also traditional and loving. In the bedroom, we want to have one foot in the twenty-first century and another in the nineteenth.

True Blood also casts its shadow on the romance between a young woman and a vampire, but unlike Twilight, which is all subtext and love-that-dare-not-speak-its-name, HBO's cult series connects vampirism to homosexuality explicitly. In the opening credits — best opening credits ever? — a passing road sign reads GOD HATES FANGS. The vampires call the humans "breathers" instead of "breeders," and the series opens with a talk-show interview about vampires "mainstreaming," or "coming out of the coffin." True Blood contrasts its vampires' desires for normalcy with humans who are extreme drug users, shape-shifters, and orgiastic maenads, and it's a perfect encapsulation of the American bedroom at this moment: Everyone is a freak, even the people who claim to rail against freakiness.
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Neil Gaiman should take some comfort, though: Vampires will eventually go away. They always do. But only when they've sucked our fear and our longing dry.

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/thousand-words-on-culture/vampires-gay-men-1109

Or maybe it was Ursula K. Le Guin or Captain Janeway?   At any rate a somewhat anti-feminist website called The Spearhead [wasn't that a gay bar in Arizona - or a rebel rock band?] which is currently arguing that women and gays are screwing up science fiction, and that science fiction belongs to men, that is real men, and women should butt out (except as objects of affection undoubtably preferably at the end of the story).  The post begins "Science fiction is a very male form of fiction," and it continues, in part, with the following:

 

The current generation of boys will not have this inspiration from science fiction, at least from science fiction on television and in movies. That’s because there is an undeclared war on real science fiction on TV and in movies. The former Sci-Fi channel, now “Syfy”, is a good example of what has been happening to science fiction on television. In 1998 Bonnie Hammer took over the Sci-Fi channel and declared that “more female viewers were needed”. Over the next several years, the Sci-Fi channel became increasingly feminized losing many of its traditional male viewers in an attempt to go after women viewers. This included making the logos “warmer and more human” because the logos before were “too male and too dark”. The biggest change was in the feminization of the programming shown on the Sci-Fi channel. The re-imagined re-delusioned Battlestar Galactica is a good example. ...

The feminization of the Sci-Fi channel was not limited to Battlestar Galactica.  Over time there has been more fantasy and less science fiction because women are more interested in the supernatural and the paranormal than men are.  Scripts were rewritten to have “more relationships” (more relationship drama) and less “space battles”.  The Sci-Fi channel’s remake of Flash Gordon ended up being a flop because it lost lots of viewers after the first episode where not much actual science fiction happened.  The Sci-Fi channel even changed its name to “Syfy”.  While the issue there was trademarks, this name change effectively represents the death of the Sci-Fi channel.  This season three gay characters will be added to various shows on “Syfy”, one of which will be part of a “communal marriage” with “heterosexual and homosexual couplings”.  This will mean less programming where men actually do things and more relationship drama, driving away even more men from the channel.

 

Also who is at fault for ruining sci-fi in Britain?

Things are worse in Britain. A few years ago Doctor Who was brought back. The man who brought back Doctor Who was Russell T. Davies, a gay man who proceeded to add a recurring character called Captain Jack who comes from the 51st century that was bisexual omnisexual. Yes, omnisexual as in not only is this character bisexual, but he has no problem with having sex with non-humans too. If you read interviews with Davies and the writers they use the term omnisexual to describe Captain Jack. Davies has also admitted in interviews that he believes everyone will be “omnisexual” by the 51st century. Davies had more plans like this for Doctor Who, but there were so outrageously bad and obnoxious that the leftist BBC actually put a stop to him doing that (citing that Doctor Who was traditionally a “family show”).

 

Well!  Wouldn't Captain Kirk have a problem with that?   Wait... what was it with those green Orion women and however would we have gotten Spock?!  

Personally, I think the whole problem when the Sci-Fi Channel changed it's name to SyFy.
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Current Mood: frustrated

15 Billboards which may or may not belong next to each other....

OR 14 & 1/2, two are rather similar.....

It must be July 23rd for frenchani  in Paris....

Joyeux anniversaire, mon Domina.

It's no longer worth the pain.

( Yes! Show me some of that gratuituously firm rugby-player skin! )

Two weeks in the hospital, 105*F+ temperatures, cyst of MRSA on my right leg.... and today I am 5 days out of the hospital and I finally feel 'normal.'

No..... not morel mushrooms.  It's Peanuts!!  No, not the kind you eat; it's the kind you read and take in with your eye and find humor in the little things kids do.   The kind that warms your heart.     Peanuts was (well, it still is, they run old ones as 'Classic Peanuts') a comic strip by Charles M. Schulz that first appeared in 1950 and ran until 13 February 2000, ending the day after the death of Schultz.  But it had a three-year run before that as the strip Li'l Folks that ran in Schulz's hometown paper.  Schulz's main character, Charlie Brown, was an everyman in a the form of a 6 year old boy with a dog (the yet unnamed Snoopy when the strip first appeared).   Now the blog "Roasted Peanuts" is reviewing the strip from the first strips.  It's fun to watch the progression of the characters and see the style of Schulz mature in the minor maturation of his ever-young Peanuts gang, along with a progression of jokes tending from the grown-up to dumb-kid jokes to sight gags.