Just the start of it all

Here is a random list of things I want to say, in one big chunk in your flist rather than six separate spammy little posts:

( cut for length; it includes my (lack of a) reaction to the Who news, but that's not why I'm cutting, because goddammit It Is Not A Spoiler )

Outside the cut, but still flist-related, I just added a couple of you, and would like to draw your attention (and that of anyone who missed it) to this flocked post about filters.

I wish reality would stop making me want to live in the WW-verse because, really, it's not as though that place didn't have enough issues of its own. And also I end up remembering how skeevy Studio 60 was.

(OK, so this is skirting right up against my promise not to talk about the US election again. But in particular I want Hawkeye's speech at the end of the Religious Test Episode in S6 to have somehow been internalised by the US electorate.)

(and only not yaoi because everyone's already linked that blog entry written by the feminist going through Slash Shock)

( very meandering tl;dr that's sort of about the economy and sort of about LJ )

( Politics: Aw, bless, the Lib Dems )

( Doctor Who etc., inc. spoilers and one image from the IDW comic #1 )

( Best. New Comics Day. <s>Evah.</s> Since I started buying comics on release. )

Not appearing in this spampost

I'm behind on Torchwood despite the attraction of it being a PJ Hammond one (I've decided to re-synch myself with terrestrial now that Martha's gone for the sake of getting enough sleep, and I could do with an extra week to get the aftertaste of Something Borrowed out of my system) and as of tonight I'll be two weeks behind on Ashes to Ashes, and don't find myself caring that much. Mitchell and Webb are far preferable; it probably means I'm massively middle class that I like them as everyone seems to hate on them, but I love almost everything they do, most especially Numberwang which is so clearly Mornington Crescent with the serial numbers filed off. (I'm still taping A2A and will catch up at some point. But it's not compulsive the way LoM was.)

(Hmm. People on the flist seem to think PJ has done a shit one, judging by cut text and such. :( )

And finally

Anyone know when Big Love S2 is going to hit Five? Or have I already missed it months ago?

This is a short guest column by David Cameron in the Times{*} in which he variously tries to imply that he likes Radiohead (Gordon waking up to the Arctic Monkeys is plausible in comparison), position himself as some sort of Obama-like Vehicle of Change, pretend to want to reform party funding, and introduce the idea that the Conservatives have a flist now.

No, seriously.

There's a "Friends programme". Basically, you pay any amount of money at all (this is where Radiohead come in, with the whole pay-what-you-feel-like thing, which dear old David doesn't seem to have noticed is very much a subversion of traditional capitalism) and you become a "Friend" of the Conservatives, rather than a member. Because apparently you might want the Conservatives to beat Labour next time round but not want to sign on with the whole swivel-eyed bring-back-hanging Eurosceptic brigade that still makes up the bulk of the rank and file.

Anyway. The social networking overtones just feel really weird. I suppose you could just about claim that it's like being one of those "Friends of [Local Worthy Thing]" organisations, but I doubt it. I think they're rebranding for the Internet.

Oh god.

I just braved going to conservatives.com (don't worry, I am not going to link you). And, er, I was right. They say: "JOIN US as a friend, member or donor ... or show your support on these social networks:" and then the icons of MySpace, bebo, and iVillage. Now, apart from the "thank fuck, LJ's above/beneath/outside their notice" element:

Is anyone on bebo old enough to vote?

I genuinely fear what's going to happen when the generation that have never known a Conservative government starts being allowed to make decisions. Not to say that New Labour haven't been appallingly awful on many levels, but ... well, the Conservatives are really, really bad, OK, kids? Vote Lib Dem.

{*} I was only on their site to print off the Sudoku, O KAY? They tricked me into clicking the link with the sheer WTFery of the Cameron-Radiohead combo.