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This premiere was a romp… So, I'd seen teasers of it while watching other shows on Hulu, and added it to my Watchlist for when it should come out.

So, starting out, I had concerns it would leave me feeling not-so-good about it like that Jeffery Donovan show Shut Eye did. With that show, I'd only watched the premiere and didn't continue. This one, with all the sex to begin with, I don't know if it was to get it out of their systems or to try and entice people into their world.

Granted, if this were a bunch of good-looking men having relations with each other, I'd probably be feeling another way.

It took them about 15 minutes to really get it out of their system, and I'm glad they'd brought in more of the clever humor they'd more lightly interspersed with the sex scenes. Still, I suppose it is rather historically telling: these things more than likely were what this side 18th-century London had to offer. Including the not-so-aesthetic men.

I found myself trying to learn their names, which is a good sign. I can't help wondering what a gay black dude in this time would've had to resort to, though.

Let's see what next week brings (and I hope there's a gay guy to add something else to this menagerie).

Nine More Airports To Get Body Scanners

The Associated Press - March 5, 2010: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124362553&sc=17&f=1001

This country is way too prudish. Every time there's something that makes just a few people just *a little bit* uncomfortable, people light their flames and say "it's a privacy invasion". People need to see the entire framework: there are people who care nothing for anyone. The only things on their minds are getting a body count and using that body count to spread fear, distrust and discord.

How many times do people have to worry about the TSA perving off their bodies?! The machines have no storage capabilities, you're not identifiable, and there's only the faintest hint of mammary outline. No one will see your vag, your labia, or whether you'd forgone getting a bikini wax. No one will see that you decided just this once have gone (or even that you always go) commando just for thrills.

Get a clue.

Mattel introduces Computer Engineer Barbie

Barbiemedia.com

This article is hilarious. I'm still chuckling at this, partly because it's still such a male-dominated field, and I think the girls (and the odd boy) playing with this Barbie version will be thinking she's a stay-at-home mum, an operator, or an Administrative Assistant rather than a computer engineer.

Way to try an equalize things, Mattel, but I don't think this one will quite jive the way you want it.