Warning: This is a post all about VM fandom, which barely even exists anymore. But I've only ever used this LJ for VM pretty much, and have gotten all contemplative just now and decided to write this.

It's strange how I can think of Veronica Mars and how much I loved it and be happy, but then something triggers a memory and for some reason I get all sad instead.

I just watched DiG! which was very good. It's about The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. Towards the end they showed The Dandy Warhols playing We Used To Be Friends. This just set me off. I'm not even sure why.

But it just somehow made me miss the whole feeling of community that once existed for me. Not that I don't have various communities in real life and on the internet now, but the feeling that there's one thing that I have in common with so many people is missing. And I really really missed that. It's weird because I have sworn not to get involved with another fandom, because in many ways fandom ruins your enjoyment of whatever the fandom is for. But there's something else that is just so wonderful about fandom that just can't be replicated by anything else.

I will never forget the awesomeness of getting in a car with two people I had only just met in real life (and one of whom I had only just met period) and driving for three hours and talking non-stop about VM. I'm actually about to go meet some friends from inside the computer for the first time this week, and so I've been thinking about Austin and Blowout. I just can't see how this can possibly compare. I'm going to go hang out in Disney World for two days with someone who I genuinely think of as a friend, but I just can't see it being as easy as meeting VM people was.

I'm not sure what my point is other than I miss the VM fandom, as much as I was ever in it. Anyone who reads this, that probably means I miss you, too. I think I miss that more than I miss the show. I actually wonder if I would miss that even if the show had come back. I just don't think the fandom would be the same fandom I am missing right now. It had already changed so much by the end of the third season. Yes, the show was probably at fault for that, and I can't say I blame anyone for hating what the show had become, so this is something that was long gone before the show was even gone.

So, anyway, this is me feeling sorry for myself.

So what do you do? You blip.

It's sorta like Twitter but for movie/games/books/music reviews. You're limited to 160 characters. It's extremely addictive for some reason. And I'm about to get a whole bunch of invites to the beta, so anyone who wants in, just leave your email address here. (Also, it's so new that you can probably still get your first name as your screenname, which will be very cool when this becomes huge, which it hopefully will.)

Also, I can't sleep and need entertainment. Not enough Blipprs up at 6am on Sunday to keep me entertained. :(

So, I'm taking this class this semester called writing for TV, and we have to do interviews. We were told that it needs to be someone that has something to do with media and it's more fun if you get someone famous. So I emailed spectralbovine (thank you again, by the way) to see if he could find out if Rob Thomas was at all willing. And he was.

( Disclaimer: I'm a poor interviewer and a worse transcriber. I sometimes put all the ums and such, but other times did not. But you should get the idea regardless. )

And then he had a meeting so we had to go. It was a very pleasant experience despite the fact that I'm pretty sure I was completely horrible. And that I now have to figure out how to get 1:30 out of this for class. I don't think I can fit a single answer into 1:30.

I thought I'd post a link here to my new site, RiO. http://www.realityisoverrated.net/ It's extremely barebones right now, but I have big ideas, if my brother ever gets off his ass to complete them. Otherwise, I'll have to learn Ruby on Rails myself and that sounds like a bad idea. So right now it's basically just a general tv forum, but I have ideas of it one day being more than that. We'll see. So go on over and register. It needs users to be successful!

OMFG!!! MARK SHEPPARD POSTED ON MY LJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Linkage

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can someone tell me how to change the settings so that all posts made by anyone to a community are flocked? Or do you just have to remind everyone to flock all posts? If I have it set to moderated posting, can I change the flock status?

My nephews.

( Ari )

( Tristan )

Ari was born July 1st and Tristan was born August 30th. I think. Somewhere around those dates. So they're like 5 or 6 months. I guess. I miss the days of my nieces when they practically lived in my house as babies. I never get to see these two. :(

And I discover something I saved a long long time ago, but never posted. It is now more than a year since Marsathon, and I never posted a recap. Crazy. So here is as far as I got, and the panel that I filmed from the second night, which I recently posted on YouTube.

So, finally, I present to you the OMG OMG OMG I WENT TO AUSTIN!!!! I TOUCHED JASON DOHRING!!!!! I HUGGED MICHAEL MUHNEY!!!! I TALKED TO ROB THOMAS AND KRISTEN BELL!!!! post."

( Lambathon )

( And then it was on to Austin )

( First part of the panel )

( Second part )

( Third part )

( Fourth part )

And now my hiatus shall continue.

Look! I'm actually doing NaBloPoMo still! And it's been a whole three days! So I should probably come up with something to talk about. I'm going to go with tv.

( The Office spoilers )

Oh, and according to my brother's friend who works for CW, there's "no way in hell" VM will be cancelled. (She's in sales, so she knows how the ratings are doing and how it's effecting ad sales, etc., so she seems like someone who would know.)

So today is the first day of both NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo. I haven't signed up for either, but I'm at least doing NaBloPoMo, just for myself, with no chance of winning anything. I may take a stab at NaNoWriMo, but I doubt it. I can't get more than 10 words on the page for the one fic I've been contemplating writing. I have an outline and everything, but the actual story won't come out. At least not fast enough. I should probably start in the middle. That might help me.

In other news, I got some very nice anti-anxiety pills yesterday. I didn't tell my doctor this, but I'm really using them to calm my nerves about ratings. My other shrink was going on about why he thinks I'm so nervous all the time, and I failed to mention that I know why. I really should open up to him about VM. But our relationship is in that new stage where you can't just spring this sort of thing on a person.

( Cut for reaction to VM )

I'm now really regretting renewing my paid journal, because I've come to the conclusion that I'm over LJ. I've decided that I'm going to stay far far away from most of the internet. It mostly pisses me off. Maybe I'll finally catch up on the past three years worth of webcomics that I haven't been reading. That will keep me busy for a while. In a completely un-pissing-off type way.

( Cut for spoilers for 3.03, sorta )

In other news, it appears they realized that the Aerie girls suck when it comes to VM, but still have them for GG. I fucking hate the Aerie girls.

( I will post my AIM chat from during the episode )

Also, my dad decided that me refusing to eat yogurt with a fork because it tastes wrong that way means I need to discuss my OCD stuff with my therapist. Whatevs. It's just the majority of food that I refuse to eat along with all the food I'm not allowed to eat. Stupid celiac.

Stole this from afrocurl

And this YouTube video popped into my head:

( Not really a spoiler, ok, not a spoiler at all, but it might tell you something about what I think about a certain character. )

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines

We would like to know who really believes in gay rights on livejournal. There is no bribe of a miracle or anything like that. If you truly believe in gay rights, then repost this and title the post as "Gay Rights". If you don't believe in gay rights, then just ignore this. Thanks.

Crap. Must pay for my LJ and hope all my icons are automatically restored.

Ok, so for some reason I think I know something about ratings and the tv biz. I don't, at least not yet, though that's what majoring in tv is going to change. But anyway, my theory on VM is that CW is desperate for any excuse to keep it on the air. Rob Thomas and his "80% retention" talk is just wrong. VM brings two things: critical acclaim and a cult fanbase. And do you know what cult fanbases are good for? Merchandising. You can't make action figures for just any show. It doesn't work. It has to be a show that people will actually want to rush out and buy them. Calendars are a bit more commonplace, but they're also cheaper to make and sell. But, anyway, the point is, with cult shows, the money is made outside of advertising, so the ratings aren't as important as with other shows. Not that they don't count at all. They do. If VM gets ratings as poor as Runaway, it will be gone. But I'm almost positive that somewhere in the high 2's, or at least low 3's, will be good enough to guarantee a full season and maybe more. Why do I think this? This is where my deluded thinking comes in.

Why didn't CW air Not Pictured on Tuesday after GG? Wouldn't it have been really smart to give the potential audience some background info before the premiere? The answer is because CW wants the season average to stay as high as possible. My theory will prove true if they don't air repeats every week during the hiati, particularly if going up against House once AI starts. Repeats count into the season average, and repeats are always lower than new episodes. So, to help justify a fourth season, they don't want that average hurt by repeats.

And so, it's obvious that I'm correct. :D

Am I the only one who can't get any communities to load?