2 posts tagged “writer's block”

Old (like Murder, She Wrote or Hetty Wainthropp) or new (Dexter's sister Deborah in Dexter or Saving Grace), they generally annoy the fuck out of me. They're ridiculous Mary Sues or over-the-top, overly masculinized caricatures of "tough women trying to make it in a man's world." The constant overcompensation: it hurts--it burns! And it grates.

But then, so do male detectives.

The closest I come to liking a detective character would be the thoroughly-pummeled Harry Dresden (in the Dresden Files books & short-lived television series), but Robson Green's tragic and dysfunctional Det. Creegan in Touching Evil runs a close second, nearly tying with Alan Davies' Jonathan Creek and Richard Coyle's John Strange.

Robbie Coltrane's fabulous Fitz (in the original British version of Cracker) was more shrink than detective, as was Robson Green's Dr. Tony Hill in Wire in the Blood. I suppose Dexter is a detective of sorts, and he doesn't annoy me....

Eh. It's good that most of the shows I like have been off the air for years--frees up more of my time for non-televisual activities.

(Of course, it goes without saying that Jeeves and Wooster are permanent perfection.)

I love the Angry Beavers cartoon. Particularly this bit.

Catching fireflies never seems to get old, and neither does going down to the pond or the creek to see how many frogs and salamanders I can find. Oh--and petting toads, when they're amenable to it, remains infinitely neat. But I think it's safe to say that I'm definitely at an age wherein I should be leaving the molestation of wildlife to the younger generations.