Monday ramblings

[erilyn]

Happy happy birthday indybrat! Hope you've had a great day.

I had two tests today - Office Tax (open book) and Management Accounting. Both were well-set tests, hopefully I went ok on them.

It's the happiest time of the year! This is the perfect antidote to my annoyance at Christmas stuff already being in shops - Don We Now Our Gay Apparel, the fifth annual popslash Secret Santa, is happening. Watch sesa_discuss for details!

Scans of a very interesting article about BSB here. There's a couple of points that make me wonder about their fact-checking (there's a sex video of Nick and Paris available online? Errr, no. Rumours of one ages ago, yes.). The comment about the Boys spending very little time with each other while on tour makes me sad, though there's an oddly melancholy tone to the whole article. But the image of mathy!Howie fills me with glee, and there's some interesting titbits. Some cute pics too (AJ getting a manicure *g*). I'm sure Leighanne is just thrilled about being called "Pammy-lookalike".

There's a heap of BSB articles, pictures and news that I don't link to, cause it doesn't occur to me as I get most of it from one place - nevergone_news (also, I don't have time to go through a lot of the stuff they link to, I keep meaning to go back to it *g*). Fantastic newsletter community, I highly recommend it.

Something I've been pondering about the Boys (compared to Nsync) is their personal betrayals. None of the Nsync guys had girlfriends or parents write tell-all books about them. No one in Nsync has had a public family nightmare anything like the Carters. There are so many parallels between the groups, but its a big difference that sticks out at me. I don't really have a point or anything (heh, hardly new), it's just a random thought .

I can't believe the download speeds I'm getting from someone on the Hub. Almost ten times as fast as what I'd normally consider a decent speed. And I've got a bunch of stuff queued up to get from her, so yay!

[Poll #587176]

Comments

[pierson.livejournal.com]

Oh, they *are* going to have SeSa again? Good! I sorta wondered about it--no one seemed to know for certain. I've participated for two years now, and wanted another shot at it. I'd thought about participating in the SGA secret santa, but wanted to hold off joining up for that one until I knew for sure about SeSa.

As for your poll, "Shweir" is the worst. Feh. Personally, I can't see any chemistry in that pairing, but I guess a lot of folks do. :-)

[claire.livejournal.com]

McShweir is the worst. Because I said so. And I am the emperor of the world.

Please let me have my delusions, they're the only way I'll make it through this week

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

That's a very interesting article about the Boys, even if some facts are a bit dicey. They spelled Cincinnati wrong, for one thing. And the sequence of tours seems a bit off. I was at both Boston and Pittsburgh, having skipped Cleveland, and I swear they sang Happy Birthday to Denise in Pittsburgh. Oh, well, the idea of Kevin telling Paris to knock it off more than makes up for it.

I adore popslash pariing names, especially the NSYNC ones, but probably because they were the first shmushed together ones, and evolved naturally, and the ones that followed in other fandoms seem a bit forced.

And that's a good point about NSYNC having less personal drama and betrayal than BSB. It seems very true, but then NSYNC doesn't have Jane Carter, so that helps.

[madame-d.livejournal.com]

though there's an oddly melancholy tone to the whole article.

*pouts* I don't like that article. It made me sad *sulks* and *that* makes me want to run and read every.single.piece of loving and fluffy Boy!slash. Because yes.

Were you able to make out what it says at the top of page 5, about Nick stealing someone's cigarettes and being a male Britney Spears?

}:)