'I'm A Bus And I Hate God.'

[rionaleonhart]

Someone sent me a virtual gift! With a lovely message! And it's one of the gifts that contributes to the Haiti relief effort! This person has therefore managed to be incredibly lovely in multiple ways simultaneously, all whilst being anonymous. Whoever you are, masked donator and day-maker: ♥


In (and indeed on) other news, I just watched the first episode of Charlie Brooker's Newswipe, on mythtaken's recommendation, and... oh, dear. I suppose it was inevitable, really. Charlie Brooker is intelligent, sarcastic and eighteen years older than me; he is, in short, exactly my type. What really worries me is the fact that I only realised I was attracted to him when he said, 'Oh, yeah, these condoms I've been using have really aggravated my AIDS.'

(I find it's generally best never to examine why I find people attractive. Derren Brown is a terrifying sadomasochist. David Mitchell is exactly like me. Whenever I fall for a public figure, it invariably leads to my learning something about myself I didn't really want to know.)

If you have half an hour to spare, the episode (parts one, two, three) takes apart news reporting in a genuinely fascinating way. If you only have three minutes, this clip from the end of the episode, on the way in which mass murders are reported and how that can actually propagate such tragedies, is stunning.


Of course, although the previous clip is incredibly important and interesting, it's not a very positive note on which to end the entry, so have an adorable video of a cat grooming a fennec fox to improve your day.


(Final final note: if Charlie Brooker were a Pokémon trainer, I believe he would specialise in Rock and Ground types. I'm having trouble finding a suitable Pokémon for David Mitchell, though. Thoughts? Perhaps he never quite got around to raising a Pokémon; he sort of regrets it, but he's reluctant to acquire one now because he isn't sure he can trust himself with the responsibility. Then he meets Brooker, who is a Gym Leader. Ridiculous love story in the Pokémon world proceeds to unfold.)

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

'Like a haunted house' is the best description of Charlie Brooker's face I have ever seen. Granted, it may be the only description of Charlie Brooker's face I have ever seen, but I can't imagine the world holds a better.

And it really was a horrifying sequence. The irresponsibility of that sort of reporting hadn't really occurred to me before.

[zeitheist.livejournal.com]

I think Charlie Brooker has variously described his own face as resembling "a wet loaf of bread" and "like a rucksack full of dented bells". I probably stole the "haunted house" description from him, but I can't remember, so I'm claiming that one as my own.

He is incredibly odd-looking. One might also say unattractive, except for moments where he looks sort of... cute? I DON'T KNOW. I have never found him more adorable than in that clip from 8 Out of 10 Cats you linked me to where he's talking about lying to his girlfriend, so what does that say about me?! (Possibly that I should stop clicking on the links that you provide, as your taste in men is clearly contagious?)

I knew the news is heavily biased, and I had rudimentary understanding that they only reported things which fit a current story arc, but I had no idea that... take terrorism, for example, that they only report things which fit the post-9/11 "terrorist stereotype".