Bones' Opening Theme

Watching the season opening episode for Bones just now - found it happily waiting on my Hulu home page of most popular currently watched shows.

1. Bones has started up again. Huzzah!

2. Who the HECK said that it would be a good thing to modify/change the opening theme song? Really? What were they thinking? There's no reason for them to have changed it.

One of the things that I've noticed about the most popular, longest lived shows: they kept the SAME opening theme song throughout their entire run. It is a sensory key that links all of the episodes and story lines into a person's mind in a happy memory palace. When something so vital as an opening theme, or the day and time the show airs (if that is one of the sensory data crucial to that particular viewer and they don't use a DVR or streaming service) is changed, it breaks those sensory links and creates a sensory dissonance within the individual.

Okay. Maybe I'm just talking about me here.

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In other news: One of the commercials that keeps coming around in the ultra-short marketing spiels is that new Toyota Prius "family" commercial. My problem is about the disconnect between the happy-happy world of the commercials and the abrupt and condescending manner of all the dealership drones I came into contact with in my ENTIRE STATE. They're all "we have the only car that can do what our car does so you have to pay whatever we tell you to pay in order to take one of our very wanted vehicles home with you" and it made me so sick and disgusted that I disconnected entirely with the marketing pattern and focus. The consumer should not be assumed to be ignorant of the difference between the amount you demand, MSRP, Dealer Cost, etc. I totally walked away from "The Brand" and it felt good and empowering.

I did end up getting an excellent hybrid with nearly comparable fuel mileage (my average lifetime mpg so far with 5.5K miles or so is 42.0 mpg) and a MUCH better service package (completely, absolutely free regularly scheduled maintenance and fancy car washing, vacuuming and waxing of my vehicle whenever I want). In fact, I find myself deliriously happy with my ride and I truly believe that I am happier with this vehicle by far than I would ever have been with a Toyota Prius.

Stranger - Boost the Signal!

Young Adult Gay Character (power to the people!) will be appearing in a book, at a bookstore near you... soon.

As a long awaited update to this post:
http://semiotic-pirate.livejournal.com/257089.html?view=comments

So many of us boosted that signal that the planets and other celestial events have aligned in just the right way for the universe to put its power behind getting this story published and into all of your hands in (hopefully) whatever format you need; both paper and all the multi varied electronic styles. Okay, soon is winter 2014, but that only allows for a full build of excitement and anticipation... and perhaps a bit of pre-ordering fervor. For a christmas present to yourself and more as presents for all of your loved ones!

Want to read a little more about that precious example of fabulous bookishness? Go to where the proud author is blabbing all the juicy details for your delight:
http://rachelmanija.livejournal.com/1075926.html

In that self same post, our happy author also provides us all with a list of existing YA science fiction and fantasy with major LGBTQ characters and a list of YA fantasy and science fiction with protagonists who aren't white.

Get to it! Read on True Believers!

All Hail the Mighty Flying Spaghetti Monster

On this, its sabbath... we shall celebrate with pasta, and sauce, and meaaaatbaaaaaalllsss!

Quinoa shell pasta
Roasted garlic napoletana red sauce
home made meatballs

Meatballs (for two):

preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Pray to FSM that wind storm doesn't knock out power. prepare baking sheet (I put foil on mine then spray with original Pam).

One pound grass fed 90% ground beef
appx 1/2 cup of gluten free italian seasoned bread crumbs (thanks Dee's!)
1 tsp roasted diced garlic
2 tbsp dijon mustard
two generous dashes worcestershire sauce
one dash chipotle tabasco sauce
One truly free range egg (the shell is a bluish green and the yolk is a dark orange color - mmmn, a chicken with bugs in its diet!)

Put all ingredients except ground beef in bowl. Gently mix together until you have a slurry. Add ground beef and squish together with freshly cleaned hands until well mixed. Form meatballs with a 1.5-2 inch diameter; place each one as formed, evenly spaced, on baking sheet. Put in oven when preheated. bake for 20-25 minutes.

Yum. Enjoy.

Until I found out I could bake them in the oven, I had almost declared myself too tired to make the meatballs. Huzzah for baking!