March Madness = Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

[sisabet]

March madness is upon us. At work we can wear sweatshirts or T-Shirts today of our favorite NCAA team in the tournament*. It was diplomatically stated in an email - "favorite" team, but this place is a sea of blue, so you kinda know that favorite means UK.

I don't happen to have any UK sweatshirts that I can find - although I did want to wear a sweatshirt today. I mentioned yesterday that I could dig up my LSU stuff and I was greeted with shocked stares and one of the PIP reps pulling me aside and telling me quietly that I probably should not do that. I don't get it - I mean, it isn't like I said I was going to wear a Duke** t-shirt or anything.

So everywhere I look, there are people in royal blue. I've already had two people congratulate me on trying to support the team today - I am also dressed in blue. Inadvertantly, I really didn't think about the color of my sweater this morning - I just like blue. My blue is not quite UK blue, it is more of a cerulean ;) Cerulean blue is like a gentle breeze... and I have bonibaru to thank for putting that phrase in my head, but to be fair, "Pusher" is never really out of my mind. It just kinda hangs around in the corners, pokes it head up occasionally when I need to channel Scully's "You Bastard!" and then goes back to the shadows.

People are in a great mood today - this time of year is like Christmas for so many people. They even brought in Krispy Kreme for us this morning. I'm down with anything that keeps me in fresh doughnuts. Go team! Yay.

*if you are outside the U.S., I don't know if this makes any sense to you. I'm referring to what is basically the National College Basketball tournament - if you live in a town that does not have a pro-sports program, college sports can potentially become very important. In a nice normal town, that is. Lexington is not normal. Hell, this state is not normal. College basketball is extrememly important, even if you don't follow sports, you know what is going on in the SEC at the very least and this freaking town shuts down during University of Kentucky games.

** Okay, it's been ten years, over ten years, and we still hate Duke. Normally, I could care less about this whole UK thing and hell, I probably like University of Louisville more at this point (and I have to be very careful who I say that to at work) but even I can't stand Duke. It's a thing

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[emstardust.livejournal.com]

I grew up in college sports country (Alabama), where murders were committed over the Auburn/Alabama football game. "Sheeyit, them boys played the hell out of that game." I remember where I was when Van Tiffin kicked the 50 yard field goal to beat Auburn in the 80s. Mr. Van Tiffin will probably always be famous in Tuscaloosa. It's weird to live in a place where no one gives a shit about college sports. There's not even an office pool where I work. Sigh.

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

Sorry, dude. I never watched that season of X-Files, so it's all lost on me. I just flash bacl to really bad Spikefic when I see the word.

[wolfling]

I think everyone who saw Pusher has Cerulean blue is like a gentle breeze floating around somewhere in their brains. And you can probably blame the word popping up in fanfics, bad Spikefic and otherwise (also popped up a lot in Sentinel fandom) on Vince Gilligan and that particular piece of dialogue.

Every time I read the word "cerulean" in a fic I flash back to Pusher, which means I'm probably a bit more tolerant of people using the word because that rates as one of my all time favourite XF episodes ever. As far as I'm concerned, Vince Gilligan was to X-Files what Steve DeKnight is to Angel.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

OH!! I wanna play:

Darin Morgan is to the X-Files as Drew Goddard is to Angel.

John Shiban is to the X-Files as ... gee, it just got hard. I can't think of an Angel writer that makes me groan out loud just to see his name.

[wolfling]

Never really been able to wrap my brain around the whole college basketball thing -- I blame that on being raised in a country where basketball is something you do when waiting for hockey season.

Do get sports making people crazy collectively -- it's just usually hockey up here that inspires said lunacy. Like Ottawa just passed a bylaw saying you can't wear Toronto Maple Leafs colours to a Senators game -- unless you make a donation to charity. Apparently when the Leafs play the Sens in Ottawa, the Leafs fans have been outnumbering and outdressing the hometown fans and this is their attempt to fix that.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

If you have never seen Season 3-4 of TXF, then you are missing some of the best television ever made. I am not exaggerating - TXF at the top of its game was incredible. Just ignore the later years when everyone in charge either left (Morgan & Wong) or went insane (Chris Carter).

[wolfling]

Mere Smith? At least if your name is TBQ.....

And of course, the easy one would be Chris Carter is to X-Files as Joss Whedon is to Angel -- they both created great concepts and then sorta lost the point somewhere along the line. Although Joss at least still has a nodding acquaintance with canon reality that Chris seemed to totally divorced himself of.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Yeah - I think it is just the sports thing - and to each place it might be a different sport - but the mass insanity is the same.

[wolfling]

Would that make Morgan and Wong are to XF as Minear (or Greenwalt? But I don't recall Morgan and Wong so obviously panting after the main actress on XF so maybe not) is to Angel?

Or, actually I suppose you could say Minear is to XF as Minear is to Angel, since he wrote for both. ;)

I'll stop now.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Oh God - and Joss never had his leads intro the show with an opaque and WTF-inducing voice-over. Joss far and away eclipses CC, but I am bitter - it's like CC and I had this incredibly horrible break-up and while Joss and I may still be seeing other people, our love is true and pure. I am Miss Analogy today.

Sooooo...who is David Fury's counterpart? Controversial writer some regard as genius and others regard as the devil... can be brilliant or miss the mark entirely?

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Actually, you are on to something - I think Greenwalt might be a great counterpart to Morgan & Wong, however I'm not certain Minear can counterpart himself. Although I enjoyed TXF eps he penned (and that may just be because I am a sucker for Lili Taylor and anyone that brings back Modell) and ...wait - actually - you are completely correct - he is totally a counterpart to himself. Also, you're bloody brilliant for coming up with it.

[wolfling]

The break-up analogy is good. Even when I'm wondering WTF Joss is smoking, he manages a few moments that I like -- it's just the whole that makes me scratch my head and wonder if he actually gets the show anymore. (And having just done a Firefly vid, I'm reminded how great Joss can be when he's working on things other than Angel). Chris Carter got to a point where there was NO good parts left. Of course I bailed several seasons before they finally put XF out of our misery, but the fact it was still going on was like a bad date you broke up with that still hangs around. You can ignore them but there is annoyance in the very fact of their presence.

Ahem.

Hm. As for David Fury is to Angel question, maybe Howard Gordon?

[vonniek.livejournal.com]

> Sooooo...who is David Fury's counterpart?

Hmmm. Morgan and Wong? Responsible for some of the best episodes in the first couple of seasons and came back in the forth with... "The Field Where I Died", which is just so cringy, I can't think of it without bursting into embarrassed giggles even to this day.

Well, actually, Morgan and Wong probably had a higher hit-to-miss ratio than David Fury. Uhm, Marti Noxon maybe? Influential in the shaping of the show, largely derided near the end.

David Greenwalt = Frank Spotnitz.

I'm trying to think who Minear-equivalent would be. I'd have said Vince Gilligan but you already gave me to Steve DeKnight. Huh.

Lol! Well, I'm wearing Black today to mourn my Arizona's early departure

[viola69.livejournal.com]

And also just *waiting* the ribbing at work about it- There is a Fairly good size pool going on here- with 32 participants at $20 each- so now that my team is out- I'm all about either winning money- or cheering for others to lose- cause I'm a bad sport that way.

I have both Kentucky issues- from past tourneys where they beat Az and past Duke issues- dating back to college and BIG Duke-Arizona regular season game- that I still have on tape- and the intro of which 8still* gives me goosebumps. Oh, and then there is my LSU issues dating to Shaq and his defeating of my Az at the tourney. Yes, I have many many issues when it comes to Basketball and teams that have beaten my Lute and his boys.

[wolfling]

It's a very zen thing -- being an analogy to yourself. Somehow that fits Tim. :)

I live for this shit

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

The only weekend better than the ACC tournament is this opening weekend of the NCAA. Games all day, games all night. And whether they're knuckle-biters (who knew Air Force could give Carolina that much trouble?!?) or blowouts (c'mon, Duke, once you're up by 40, you could consider taking out your starting five...), they all feature tall, strapping, muscled young men in silky shorts and tank tops, who hug, hold hands, and touch each other's bottoms with surprising regularity. What's not to LOVE about that!!?!

Gonzaga tends to have the most consistent "cute boy" factor, though since Dan Dickau and Casey Calvary graduated, some of my interest has waned.

Sisabet, I feel your pain re. Duke. Mr. Bone is a Duke fan. We say we have a mixed marriage, as I bleed Carolina blue. Mr. Bone is still bitter, bitter, bitter over a certain regional final Duke lost to Kentucky in St. Pete back in the late 90s. We were there. I had to hide my true feelings and commiserate. It was painful.

Have a Krispy Kreme for me -- original glazed will do, but if they have a creme-filled, snag it. ;)

[moonanstars.livejournal.com]

Hee Pusher was like one of my top 10 XF episodes ever! They should never have done the second episode with Modell and his sister though Ugh!

Not really up on the whole basketball thing, but it must be sort of like me being a Yankees fan living in Atlanta when the Yankees swept the series. I was told politely that I should maybe never ever tell anyone I liked the team.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Oh, I liked "Kitsungari" - but I can see how others wouldn't - especially if you are a staunchly opposed to Modell redemption.

[moonanstars.livejournal.com]

Yeah that was the only part I didn't like. Well ok and them both having the exact same tumor was stretching my willing suspension of disbelief a tad.

Probably stems from the extreme love I had of the Pusher episode I didn't want to see his character change, which is wrong and silly of me I know.

*sigh* now I want to go home and watch all my season 3-5 episodes again.

[elynross.livejournal.com]

At least you'd be wearing blue, if you intentionally chose to support "your" team. I'd have to be a lot more of a sports fan/strong alumni supporter to go around in orange, even if we are on top at this point. *g*

[linzeestyle.livejournal.com]

Cerulean blue is like a gentle breeze...

:covers ears with hands: I can't heaaaaaaaaaar you...

Gah, I love that episode. Sometimes it's nice to think back on times when XF didn't, y'know...suck.

Mem'ries.

Linzee

[linzeestyle.livejournal.com]

Hee Pusher was like one of my top 10 XF episodes ever! They should never have done the second episode with Modell and his sister though Ugh!

I didn't like Kitsunegari, until I saw the molestation of classic XF episodes that was "Orison."

Then again, "Irresistable" is one of my favorite episodes ever, and they felt the need to ruin it by taking the scariest part - that Donnie was *human* - and replacing it with "oh gee golly, no, he's Satan now!" :slaps forehead:

Uhh...end of random tangent. I'm a little bitter.

Linzee, can't think of any sequel eps they did well...okay, maybe "Tooms."

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Maybe Tooms???

Come on - no maybe about it. Tooms is classic.

[linzeestyle.livejournal.com]

Okay, okay, I'll admit - I like Tooms. It wasn't *quite* as good as Squeeze (which is in my top 5, so I'm biased - Mulder with eyeshadow! Purple eyeshadow!), but it was very, very good. Maybe the key was in them being in the same season, as opposed to, y'know, dragging the same bad guy back in 2, 5 seasons later just because they've run out of ideas.

I'm still bitter about Orison though. They shouldn't have messed with Donnie! And yes, I am protective of the fictional rapist/fetishist/serial killer. Is that...odd? *g*

Linzee

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

You are asking me?? I see nothing odd here.

::moving along::

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

Jeff Bell too, one would imagine 8)

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Is this meta?