runner-ups: slow club, "christmas tv" / stars, "dead hearts" / childish gambino, "got this money" / taylor swift, "sparks fly" / jeremy messersmith, "tattooine"

heart kind of feels like a country song right now.
sigh.

silence?

the rare day i wish everyone a happy birthday on facebook

wait a second...

the centers for disease control and prevention puts the divorce rate of people who live together before marriage at 12 percent higher than those who didn't cohabitate before marriage. -lori gottlieb, marry him (2010), p. 151. haha?

romans 8

Future Glory

18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. 23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

bones s05e10

saroyan: it is my job to prove to you every day that you are loved in this world, and if doing that makes you angry--

michelle: it makes me furious!

saroyan: well, then that's the price i pay, but you will know beyond a doubt that i can't just let you go flying off and not have it absolutely ruin my christmas. because right now, the way things are, there's no christmas without you.


(hugs)

michelle: i love you too.


-i feel like you're not actually communicating anything.
i feel the same way with jokes.

i've not considered heaven in quite some time, and to have forfeited this eternal perspective has been spiritual death. (arise, o sleeper, and walk)

chuck vs the anniversary in my own living room on nbc. deja vu

solitude and leadership

We have a crisis of leadership in America because our overwhelming power and wealth, earned under earlier generations of leaders, made us complacent, and for too long we have been training leaders who only know how to keep the routine going. Who can answer questions, but don’t know how to ask them. Who can fulfill goals, but don’t know how to set them. Who think about how to get things done, but not whether they’re worth doing in the first place. What we have now are the greatest technocrats the world has ever seen, people who have been trained to be incredibly good at one specific thing, but who have no interest in anything beyond their area of exper­tise. What we don’t have are leaders.

What we don’t have, in other words, are thinkers. People who can think for themselves. People who can formulate a new direction: for the country, for a corporation or a college, for the Army—a new way of doing things, a new way of looking at things. People, in other words, with vision.

...

I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom. It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea. By giving my brain a chance to make associations, draw connections, take me by surprise. And often even that idea doesn’t turn out to be very good. I need time to think about it, too, to make mistakes and recognize them, to make false starts and correct them, to outlast my impulses, to defeat my desire to declare the job done and move on to the next thing.

what a chuck fangirl day

tangled #3

terminator 2 with linda hamilton (and mark christopher lawrence!)

i love you too. finally. i LOVE yvonne strahovski but peter dinklage stole this one... as he often does :)

beautiful.

People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

nice. nice!

http://chuckthisblog.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/thinkling-and-ernies-shiny-episode/

community season 2 episode 11

john oliver as christmas wizard???? EEEE

wow, dead on.

http://castleinanity.blogspot.com/2010/12/mxpw-vs-frea-chuck-vs-intersect-pilot.html?showComment=1291869928717#c1438702598233959944

Ayefah: Sarah's wildcard factor is that once a mission gets personal for her, all bets are off, because she has an utterly vicious temper. And for a while there, she was so out of touch with her own feelings that things could get personal without her even realizing it. (That's certainly what happened in the pilot.) Now she's on a much more even keel...unless you take away her boyfriend/lodestar, in which case it's killin' time.

And yes, I do find that mildly creepy, just like Chuck's security-blanket dependence on Sarah is creepy. (Kidding! Sort of.)

But the real wildcard on the team has always been Chuck, because everything is personal for him, and he always cares more about people than principles. That's why orders slide right off his back. But since he doesn't have a vicious bone in his body, he wears it less scarily than Sarah does, even with 2.0.

hypothesis: if i eat well, i'll feel up to the discipline of reading. if i study diligently and with intent, i'll think, reflect & write better.

time for fish tacos! :D

QED

but i'm still tryin to make my mind up am i free or am i tied up

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-J29SI8rGE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yVspXeMSvI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f0fpF3nXbE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu2-gLoCaO8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YECK66nlUPI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzGLSF4CQ6Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYwSzn4Pc5I


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnLUX9Bh3ec

bones s05e01

the answer [to the question] you are looking for is yes. he knows the truth of you, and he is dazzled with that truth. oh, cyndi lauper

also, yesterday i met a supertaster! love to sit down someday with her and go through a wine tasting and see how she experiences it

hmm, "bones"

been watching bones season 4 on netflix streaming and there are more asian actors in this season than i have seen in all my years of tv. and i don't recognize any of them! (except one)



[maybe story editor janet lin?]

invisible book shelves

how to

oh metafilter. thank you for words when i don't have them

http://ask.metafilter.com/169352/What-gets-you-going-each-day

The thought that if I mess this job up, I might have to get a real job.
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To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.

:0)

the "how to be rich" series by andy stanley is him i think at his best.

joshua radin, "no envy no fear"

Some are reachin' few are there
Want to reign from a hero's chair
Some are scared to fly so high
Well this is how we have to try

Have no envy and no fear
Have no envy and no fear

Brother brother we all see
Your hiding out so painfully
See yourself come out to play
A lover's rain will wash away

Your envy and your fear
So have no envy and no fear

When your sister turns to leave
Only when she's most in need
Take away the cause of pain
By showing her we're all the same

Have no envy and no fear
Have no envy and no fear

Every day we try to find
Search our hearts and in our minds
The place we used to call our home
Can't be found when we're alone

So have no envy and no fear
Have no envy and no fear

signs of aging

just turned down the thermals' "returning to the fold" 80 PERCENT ON ITUNES

not re: ipad but in general

me and impulse control need to be become friends again.

http://ask.metafilter.com/170202/Macbook-or-Ipad

i almost feel in this debate that the ipad not needing to be taken out through airport security is a winner already...

i must decrease.


[for one, i am losing my saltiness]

men of a certain age s01e06, "go with the flow"

spectacular.


ep10 - ami peter pan?

whoa. business cards

CGEYE Doesn't everyone who wants to know Chuck's the Intersect, know?

You've got the leftovers from the first Big Bad, Roark (who probably posted it on his EvilDoers of Evil listserv), the newer Big Bad (who were apparently all double agents of the various intelligence agencies, so their successors probably found out during the organizational cleanup) and Volkoff and his intelligence octopus.

You've got a Buy More that shouldn't have been rebuilt, who in that industry is known for either having the dullest or most cyborg customer service staff, in an open environment that any spy willing to sniff them out can put two and two together. The only reason Chuck is alive is because none of these groups has been able to implement Intersect tech on a large scale -- otherwise, Castle and the Buy More would fall victim to a truck bomb, so the greatest threat to *their* Intersect would be eliminated.

I don't think the writers even care anymore about what the Intersect does, how logically consistent its use is, or even how their main character has been restored to a state even lower than his Beta male status in the pilot, because they've conflated the Intersect with personal power. If they actually gave a damn, they would have rethought motivating Chuck into flashing with fear (which we had AN ENTIRE ARC showing how that doesn't work); they would have shown more of what values Chuck has as a hacker and analyst (so we delink the Intersect with the subtext of impotence -- oh, noes, he can't be with Sarah because he can't perform, and she says, it's okay, dear....); and, at last, they'd give Chuck some other purpose in his life than being a Real Spy capable of lightning-fast violence, when the show always, ALWAYS, poses those gifts as a cheat. If they weren't cheats, they'd never keep revisiting how Chuck, as himself, doesn't deserve Sarah, while Sarah protests that no, she's so damaged and violent and needy that she needs this dweeby man to keep telling her she's worthwhile, honorable and beautiful.

If this were a show capable of being transcendent, they'd run with the concept of two spectacularly lost and hurt people finding each other, with no brave faces but with gallows humor. But then that wouldn't be CHUCK -- but it'd feature more honest characters.
NOVEMBER 30, 2010 AT 3:11PM EST

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