Mary's LJ

Wow, yesterday was my 6th year LJ anniversary! I obviously don't take the old girl out for a spin the way I used to, but I can't ever imagine abandoning her forever. After all, LJ is responsible for about 2/3 of my real life best friends! I can't forget that.

December was my SEVENTH anniversary of falling in love with Green Day and discovering that magical place known as fandom. I still love you guys, you are the band of my heart forever! (God that sounds ridic, but it's TRUE!)

Today is the 68th bday of the first musician I ever stanned, even though that word hadn't been invented. Happy Birthday to Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin! You changed my life when I was 15 years old, honest to god, and the repercussions are still here.

And finally, next month is the third anniversary of the first time I ever heard this guy sing on this tacky reality TV show and stood up and said "Who the fuck is that? He sings like Robert Plant!" Adam Lambert's new single is out this month, his album is out in March, and he'll be doing Leno and Ellen on TV next week. I am as excited about hearing him sing now as I was three years ago. I honestly remember being glad that the finale of AI was coming up in May 2009, because I thought I would get my life back. Nope, didn't work out that way!

This has been your fandom update! LOLOLOL

I feel incredibly out of sync with my new fandom. When I was all "Woe Is Me, Gale will never get better," it seems like everyone else was "Oh yay, those vague comments sounds great."

Now I'm finally convinced that he is really, actually, truly improving, and half the posters are "I don't trust this, I don't believe this, it's not from the hospital."

Well, if I were prone to wank-generation, I would tell them to Google HIPPA to discover why the hospital won't be giving out any information on Gale's condition. And bitching about his publicist? Guess what folks, they release what he gives them permission to.

And the woman who has been kind enough to pass along some emails to Desperate Housewives staff about Gale's condition, which honest to god was the only info we got for days? That apparently isn't good enough for some people either. One person claimed it must be a hoax because a TV producer would never talk like that. WTF? Another example: One email mentioned Gale's parents (who are divorced and live east of the Mississippi) will be visiting this weekend. Some people actually claimed that this proved the emails were false because there's no way his parents would have waited until now to visit him. Wow...Holy Jump to Conclusions Batman! I can't even start with all the logical fallacies inherent in that one statement. They want a personally addressed telegram?

My favorite posters are the ones who feel the need to chide every other poster for speculation, then proceed to pull the same out of their own asses.

I guess the point of this rant is that Wank is to Fandom, as Death & Taxes are to Life.

And this is what happens when I feel the urge to post to LJ at 3:30 in the morning.

I am thankful that Gale is improving... my speculation is that he was closer to death than we'll ever be aware. There's my contribution to stirring the pot. :-/