"Get Lex"

Please, tell me that one (or more) of you is entering the WB/Verizon Get Lex contest. I want to read his emails* but lack the requisite phone service. Indeed, at the moment I lack any cellphone whatsoever, having dumped a bottle of water into my bag yesterday, leading to frizzing and buzzing and ultimately a comprehensive cellphone failure.

Anyway, I'd love to hear about the special content available only to those who sign up for the contest. Also, the contest is called "Get Lex." What's not to love? There should be icons.

*My inner censor said, "Is that what they're calling it these days?" after I typed this.

( Lackadaisical reactions to Recruit )

Dispatches from Mundania

Slate suggests that CSI might be the most fanfic-generative show on TV.

Say wha?

I understand the need for a hook for a story, and I have no beef with anyone who does write and/or read CSI fic, but that's just annoying ignorance. (OK, when I checked on ff.net, CSI was a lot closer to the top of the list than I thought it would be, but even assuming ff.net is a good bellwether for overall numbers, Buffy beats it by an order of magnitude, and the Slate story's links to two archives with a total of about 300 stories between them does not help persuade me.) I'd be interested in a story about Grissom's attractiveness, but not a story that has to get its punch by making up an exclusivity/preeminence that doesn't exist.