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

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.)

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You have the weirdest taste in men.

I think I might be a bit in love with Charlie Brooker. I don't like to think why, either. I find it slightly relieving that someone hates the world more than I do, mainly.

Also, agreed on Brooker being a rock/ground trainer. It's the perma-scowl. David Mitchell would have a normal type which would disobey him constantly and wreak havoc and make his life a misery.

You have no idea how much I want you to write that fic.

After reading that Ernst Rohn had five, on a regrettable impulse, Mark went out and BOUGHT a hitmonlee. It being an outsider, and Mark having no badges (he wrote to Brock asking if he could perhaps exchange one for Wheetabix tokens, but never heard back), it of course never obeys him. He keeps it hidden under the ben out of fear that Jezz will chalenge him to a match with his Gyarados. What he doesn't know is that it's a L6 Gyarados that only knows 'splash' after Jezz's Magikarp inadvertently ate some pills that'd been stashed in his bottom draw.

You need to watch marina hyde interviewing Charlie. It's on the Guardian's website. It's just AMAZING. He is AMAZING.

Have you seen the newswipe about Jade Goody yet? Genuinely fascinating.

I... I may or may not also have a crush on Charlie Brooker. Which is utterly ridiculous, because the man has a face like a haunted house.

That sequence in Newswipe where that guy was explaining how mass murders are reported was chilling. Nothing I didn't already know, but still genuinely unpleasant.

I haven't let myself look too closely at Charlie Brooker yet because he seems distractingly awesome and I feel I don't need any more distractions in my life right now. His book Dawn of the Dumb is on my to-read list though, so that probably won't last long.

There are no words for how much that cat video made my day. I was enjoying it and then I realised the meows were part of the music. And the resigned look of she's at it again oh god on the fox's face. <3<3<3<3

That fennec looked so adorably disgruntled! 'I shall ALLOW you to lick my ears, but I am out of here at the first opportunie moment... *flees*'

Another, rather serious, reason to love Charlie Brooker (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/16/stephen-gately-jan-moir).

David should have a Magikarp. He'd be all right with it until it becomes a Gyarados, and then he becomes genuinely scared of it.

I deny that it is inappropriate to find Charlie Brooker hot! Or if it is, I don't wanna be appropriate. Tall, dark and grumpy... mmm. (Clever and funny help too.)

intelligent, sarcastic and eighteen years older than me; he is, in short, exactly my type.

WHY HELLO, SELF. seriously, riona, get out of my head fjkghefdgjhd.

I completely approve of your taste in public figures! I don't know much of Derren Brown, but what I do know is that his Stewie Griffin impression (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Cc6Bof2_0) is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.

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.'
Hee! See, there is that (and this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESQy3twMGKY#t=4m56s)), and then there is his amazingly lovely Oliver Postgate tribute (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KIoOopWquI) (which makes me CRY) and how can you not crush on a man who is capable of both?

I will stop linking things at you now.

I was reading Charlie Brooker's Dawn of the Dumb this afternoon (for about the hundredth time), and came to the conclusion that he is pretty much my perfect man.

i'm sure i had something intelligent to say. but then there was a fennec fox! WITH ITS HUGE EARS! being cleaned by a cat! AND DOING THAT RUN-AROUND-IN-A-CIRCLE THING! EEEEE!!!

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