one of my favorite movie bloggers is ms. marya gates who until today was at Rotten Tomatoes but now shes heading over to TCM (congratulations!)

last year on her tumblr she focused some of her writing about films directed by women. i was definitely enlightened.

marya must be a big Jeopardy watcher too because today she wrote something fascinating today that only a real fan would have noticed:

I wrote to you guys about two weeks ago after tracking how often (and by often I mean how NOT OFTEN AT ALL) you mentioned women in your clues. I spent the last few weeks tallying it as well and it has remained horribly grim.

Tonight (3-4) for example you had BOOK SONGS, and all five songs were written by men. You also had NON FICTION, and all five books were written by men.

You did have an entire category on Scarlett Johansson Roles, but the last time you did Movie Roles literally the only woman you mentioned was also Scarlett Johansson. Thousands and thousands of actresses in the history of cinema and the only six questions you’ve done in the last three weeks about women movie roles are all about the same actress?!?!?!?!

I’ve been live-tweeting (@oldfilmsflicker) about this blatant sexism as I watch and I will continue to do so. I hope you improve soon, or this is looking to be a really bleak season for me and for all women and for all men, really. No one is done justice when you ignore the achievements of women.

Jeopardy, you of all shows should be doing better and the fact that you are not does not give me hope for the rest of our society.

something tells me something good will come from this

but i worry because this isn’t the first time the popular game show has been accused of sexism.

(Because he reminds her of me)

pretty girl came over last night but i had to kicker out cuz she kept talking through Lost. not the new lost but the recap that preceded the new episode/season. i was all baby you look good in my pajamas but youre gonna have to peace out if you dont focus up.

she i swear said, wait are you saying that a tv show is more important than this. and she started vogueing. at first i thought she was kidding but she wasnt kidding and i said you have read my myspace and my facebook and even the busblog you know that Lost is my favorite show and ive waited eighteen years to get to season five and all the answers being answered.

long story short i paused the tivo, removed her from my old man pajamas, got her a little bottle of water, and showed her the way to the corner where a cab was waiting for her and clearly i wasnt meant for this world cuz even the cabbie was all dude this girl is all sorts of hot are you nuts. and i was all i pity that you dont get to see Lost in 2 minutes the way im about to.

ran into the house, unpaused and watched the pregame (which was rad) and the new episode and the other new episode and the whole time i was all THANK YOU GOD FOR INSPIRING A FEW PEOPLE TO REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAKE QUALITY TELEVISION!!!!!

i was patient with lost when nothing was happening. i was patient when everyone bailed. i was patient when things made no sense. i was patient because just like watching baseball, sometimes its about the nuances. sometimes its about character development. sometimes its about the journey and not the results.

and last night so many pieces fit together and now we know how a dinosaur and a polar bear got there. now we know why Ben was so important. now we know why this show is so much different than Gilligans Island. its because Anything can happen and Anything should happen and keep watching cuz its only gonna get better.

but what i love the most is rivers cuomo is so vital to all of this and that was a character they gave us like last week! whoooo hoooo!

clay aiken” has been the number one search phrase on Technorati, it’s also been one of the most-tagged phrases in people’s blogs.

lets see what the last few blogs have said in reference to america’s most loved runner up.

… Herschell has played thousands of clubs, bars, and dives all over America opening for acts including Molly Hatchet, Gwar; Culture Club and Clay Aiken. He enjoys water polo, shooting automatic weapons, horror movies, and raising cows.

– myspace.com/blackwatermetal

… As I began to regain my eyesight (and sense of feeling in my upper body) I discovered that the only source of fat, complex-almost-cancerous carbohydrates, and cholestorol thick enough to clog Clay Aiken’s anus was a Swanson Hungry Man Southern Fried Chicken that has been hibernating in our freezer for about 3 equinoxes. So I threw it in our plutonium-powered gamma ray flash-heater: the microwave oven.

– myspace.com/acidtripper

Why dear God are so many people still talking about Clay Aiken???

Why is he still rated so high on all the search engines of internetville, have you seen what he looks like now! I understand that he sings so loverly and stuff, but come on, he hasn’t done an album in like 2-3 years and he showed up on American Idol looking like a really ugly chick. I will never understand the obsession so many people have with Clay Aiken…ok I rest my freakin’ case.

– hollywood gossip whores

If anyone has pictures of Clay Aiken with his sexy longish dark hair, hook me up, cos I love him!

– megyn-rainbow.livejournal

I’ve told you so many times that you look like Clay Aiken. Ok not as gay as Gayken, but similar features and subconscious movements. I realised that since AI2003.

First and foremost – the smile. Look at the loopsided senget smile that Aiken has. This grin if you scrutinize closely from front, left and right look exactly like yours. 2nd, the hair, he has similar hair as yours. 3rd, his laughter or giggle is exactly like yours.
And whatever style he did with his hair, hey man, you have done it too. You had this look when I first met you, didn’t you? And the same slouch and gait. Oh, look at those chubby cheeks.
But Aiken’s eyes are not as deepset as yours. You have more of Toby’s eyes and the chin too. But only those two, for the rest of the features – Aiken is your lookalike.

OMG I’m dating Clay Aiken!

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Kinda random stuff:

but what has happend to my beloved Britney Spears. I was slaaaaave 4 her! But now wtf? Kfed what have u done to her? or should I blame Sean Preston? I want my baby back baby back=(

Is everyone in Europe ridiculously good looking? Yes! Specially in Spain, France, England, Italy, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, I could keep going but Daham, the girls girls girls!!

I still have no mothafokkin clue whats goin on Lost saw the season finale yesturday, also I was a lil upset to find out a gray haired senior citizen won American Idol? Hicks is it? How funny was the Clay Aiken look alike! he almost had a seizure. Hes right though Clay Aiken=pure hotness! O ya-

– myspace.com/ichuckwood

thats what youve been missing.

grace + floorpie + sean bonner + get well leck

or to punish the fools who dared fly out today, the busiest travel day of the year.

why do people travel on the busiest travel day of the year?

next year im driving. actually there might not even be a next year thanksgiving in chicago. i love it and all and i must say that despite the last post, and the fact that my bag was delayed an hour, it was a mostly-pleasant experience.

especially the hot dog.

additionaly LAX yesterday at noon was, dare i say, nearly deserted.

is everyone high?

anyways, next year everything is going to be different. i wont have a book for sale during the holidays, i wont fly anywhere, i wont be in the cold.

i woke and saw the whole Seinfeld cast pimping out their seasons 5&6 dvds. maybe whoring out is the right word. who are these people who get a million dollars a season and then find it necessary to release dvds later of shows that are on reruns three times a day on free tv?

if you need the money so bad how about returning to television where you belong?

kramer looked horrible.

jerry’s hair is thinning like crazy.

i know, takes one to know one, but im not selling 10 year old bits for top dollar.

this Christmas im thinking about driving up through frisco and oregon and seattle and then turning back down and coasting downhill all the way back to LA.

ive never been to seattle and id like to stay in aberdeen and take pictures of the bridge where kurt slept. some reports say that he never really had to sleep in the cold under the bridge, that his relatives and friends let them stay with him, but still, id like to see that bridge.

ive been listening to a lot of nirvanah lately because of this book. yesterday i listened to Dumb and In The Pines from mtv unplugged like five times. i even played it for my mom as she drove me back from the airport.

of course it all depends on if mc marc brown will let me drive through the woods for a few weeks before and after Christmas.

which i guess depends on how successful this Chicago trip goes. which depends on how many people attend the Buzznet meetup at Uncommon Ground on Saturday.

i know its officially a Buzznet meetup, but Bloggers you’re welcome too. in fact these meetups have been populated in good part by Bloggers who weren’t yet Buzznetters and never even considered Buzznet before they came to the meetups.

so yes, Bloggers, even if youre not considering Buzznet, please come to the meetup on Saturday. we’re all friends. and this week we’re all Chicagoians. and i read many of you and i’d love to meet many of you. mostly the Cub fans, but if the rest of you would like to come, i suppose thats fine too.

my mom is gonna have lunch here with me so i can drive her back to work so i can have the car and drive around and take pictures of the town that i grew up in. and hopefully i will be able to upload those pics tonight because im sure youre all omg dying to see them.

this house is so clean. being home reminds you how much of a stank pig you are.

maeko + iron mouth + zona boy + maizzy got stiff!

cbs

tuesdays@9pm, thursdays@8pm, sundays@9pm

now in its fifth season the good people at cbs decided that they needed a little change.

instead of dumping the frigid, unfunny, scarecrow of a host, julie chen, big brother has chosen instead to do away with pretty much any minorities and filling the house with frat boys.

yes there is one black dude.

one.

sort of a sam jackson wanna be who will be voted off within the first few weeks, no doubt.

but, other than the host, he’s your token non-white.

theres a california bleach blonde airhead named holly from hollywood, who last night even got questions about herself wrong.

theres a gay guy who thinks that nobody knows hes gay.

but the best part about this season is that somehow they were able to get two people on the cast who didnt know they were related.

the soft spoken, very kind cowboy from oklahoma, michael, appears totally out of place until we’re told that his long lost sister, the purple haired jennifer, who likes to go by “Nicomis”, apparently because not enough people think that her tattoos make her freaky enough, is standing right next to him.

neither know of the other until the new housemates go around a circle telling each other their last names… for some reason.

Nicomis says that her last name is Deadman.

Michael, who is at times a bit slow, raises his eyebrows and asks her where she’s from. He knows that his estranged father’s last name is Deadman.

When she says that she’s from Texas, you can practically hear the gears in his head begin squeaking into motion.

its fascinating television.

later he went into the house to look at the portraits of all of the houseguests on the wall and could easily see the similarities in their faces.

but that wasnt enough. michael casually asks nicomis more questions about her father.

was he in the army?

why yes, she says, he was in vietnam and he stepped on a landmine and half of his foot got blown off.

michael knows that his father had the exact same thing happen, and soon says that he knows that his half sister is in the hizzy.

87. Howard Owens

88. Matthew M.

89. Mad Mathias

the interesting part comes when he realizes that because he has aligned himself with the frat boys who are cleverly calling themselves “the knights of the round table”, and because he knows that they will most likely vote nicomis out early, he admits to the camera that it might not be in his best interest to tell his new friends about the discovery that she is his sister.

the boy’s slow but not dumb.

what would be dumb is if he looks at the other four chiseled, tall, abercrombie pretty boys and thinks that he is truly part of their clique.

big brother 5, with this interesting subplot has manufactured something new in reality tv with this little twist, but sadly the geeks are outgunned and both brother and sister will fall early along with the other brother, and by august count on a melrose place on cbs.

tina + the coyote’s bark