Ooops, I was supposed to be gone now.

Cooked pasta (yes, I know this only involves putting a pot of water on to boil and emptying a packet into said pot, waiting twenty minutes and then adding a sauce, but it's more co-ordination than I usually have in the mornings) and I'm listening to Triple J. The last song? Hadn't heard it before and the line that kept being repeated was "Sometimes I wake up with your dick in my hand". *shrugs* Suddenly even my morning music is smutty.

Hannah has pointed out a freaky WW similarity. It's amusing me greatly.

MissWindy points out why reality television is the spawn of the devil killing off my genre shows. Damn, I remember a few years ago thinking that reality TV was bad for programmed shows, but also being pretty sure it was just a fad caused by the rumoured organised strike of writers and actors in hollywood. These days, I'm glad my main obsession has already been killed by network execs and is always waiting for me on DVD.

It's a good day...

Bad: didn't get into work early.
Good: got in at 8.30am (and when I technically start between 8.30 and 9am, that's pretty good for me).

Bad: haven't got all the filing done
Good: got most of it done, and managed to waste the first 80 minutes of my day filing with music
Really good: No-one's realised I changed the radio station out the back, so it's still got Triple J playing! (I feel so subversive! *g*)

Oooh!

I know the SN icon I want. I even want it enough to possibly make it when I get home tonight.

"My fandom is out of the mainstream"

I need to check "Bells and a Siren" to be sure of the quote, but Dan says it to his publicist (re: Felicity's timeslot).

(Of course, the reason I remember this episode has nothing to do with that, and everything to do with Casey's little rant about the French. Him and Dan are sitting, waiting to start the show, and Dan mentions that he's going to a French restaurant that night.

Casey, to Dan: "I like the French. I like their toast, I like their dressing, I like their fries. I like their maids. I like their kissing."
Dan: [can't remember the exact quote, but it's something like...] Right now, the image of you doing that is the last thing I need before I go on-air.)

But, the thing that amused me enough to post this entry was an old interview with Aaron Sorkin. Interesting interview, and basically the stuff I already knew (apart from the fact that he was writing S2 SN and S1 WW at the same time. That's interesting, and sounds like a really heavy workload.). But, still, a couple of things made me laugh.

There was a very well known, much awarded and justifiably awarded television director, probably the most well-known television director. ABC wanted him to direct the pilot and I met with him and clearly his instinct was also, "Well this is great, but it needs to be more like a sitcom. These two guys, these two anchors - one of them needs to be the neat guy, the other one needs to be the sloppy guy. One a gay guy, one a straight guy; one the fat guy, one the thin guy. It's got to be like that. And I said, "God, I don't know anything, I'm not in television. You're an incredible success and I'm sure you're right, but I'm not going to do that." And the network got very upset with me, that I had sent him packing.

Okay, I'm appreciating that Sorkin didn't try to go that route of extreme contrast, but still, the Pilot does set them up into easy to understand stereotypes (for very practical reasons), which tend to ease off as the show continues. Dan doesn't keep doing the show in his shorts, Casey stops being so up-tight (although, that was caused by tension from the divorce, so it's not as if it was a sudden change).

It's just a case of if you're looking at the Pilot, and dividing Dan and Casey into neat guy and sloppy guy, it's easily Casey and Dan, respectively. Likewise, for one gay guy and one straight guy, Casey's divorce, and hugging Dana, makes it kinda clear where he'd be. Then there's the mentions of "I don't need a cruise director" to Dan, Dan's love of "The Metropolitan Opera", Dan's loyalty to Casey and his mini-rant against Lisa ( That I'm going to quote because I found the transcripts )

It's just interesting that if you looked at it in that light, you could see it coded that way.

The other bit of Sorkin's interview that made me crack up?

"I pursued many of the offers - well, okay, I pursued one of the offers to revive "Sports Night" on HBO... The reason why I was interested in HBO was that I felt that HBO would give me a number of things that would be great - creative opportunities that we didn't have on a broadcast network. In other words, the full range of language and situations was going to be available to me on an episodic budget in which we could do a really good show. A network that already had a reputation for doing very good and innovative stuff, and that was getting the attention of critics and the public, and a thirteen episode season as opposed to a twenty-two episode season - in fact that would fit in nicely with the hiatus of West Wing. I would be minimizing the overlap time between the two shows and I would be doing as good a job as I possibly could on both of them."

Sports Night. On HBO. I'm sure a lot of you are smirking with me about this idea.

ETA: Since Genie asked about it a while ago, the "Peppy Casey" (*points to icon*), comes from Casey's annoyed griping in the Pilot:

"Dana, did you come in here to give me a pep talk? 'Cause if you came in here to give me a pep talk, can we assume that it already happened, that it worked and that I'm peppy?"

Hee!

I am sitting at my desk with my head down, sniggering over 12 reasons why gay people should not be allowed to get married.

Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

Bwahahahahaa!

Okay, quick question to the grammar geeks on my FList:

*hugs the grammar geeks* Because you're sexy in an articulate way.

When you address a letter "Dear sir/madam", should the "sir" be capitalised?

People keep saying it should, and yet to me, it feels that it shouldn't. It's not a proper name (it's more like a terminally un-capitalised pronoun). Am I looking at this from the wrong light? Is it a title and therefore should always be capitalised?