I don’t know what a distract attorney is (is that sort of like a confounding lawyer?) but I do know that in order to answer your question I have to break it down by show (because, as I’m sure you understand, it would be silly to imagine that one can compare the roles on SVU to the players of Criminal Intent). Here we go:
LAW AND ORDER (THE ORIGINAL) Senior Detective: Lenny Briscoe (anyone else would be blasphemous) I agree. Junior Detective:While I’ll always hold a candle for Chris Noth’s Det. Mike Logan, my all time favorite is definitely Det. Ed Green (played by Jesse L. Martin). He was always kind of a bad ass, not quite chauvinistic like Logan but not sort of a pussy like Det. Rey Curtis (Benjamin Bratt). I also like that he was into punk rock, and had a penchant for Rolexes. The only thing that sucked about him was that he was a vegetarian. Police Commanding Officer: I think I love Captain Cragen and Lt. Anita Van Buren equally, but I can cite Cragen for SVU so obviously I’ll go with Van Buren. Did you know she played a victim’s mother on an early episode of L&O? (I’m a loser). Executive Assistant Distract Attorney: There were good and bad here (I hated Claire Kincaid). I think my fav was Serena Southerlyn, because she was principled, super smart, a bit of a feminist, and at the very end, revealed to be a closet lez. Assistant Distract Attorney: Jack McCoy, hands down. Distract Attorney: I really loved Adam Schiff because he was way old school. Arthur Branch was always a little uber-Republican for me.
LAW AND ORDER: SVU Senior Detective: My favorite detective here is John Munch. He’s super smart, cynical, and really into conspiracy theories. I also like his banter with Fin (Ice-T). Plus he’s against the prohibition of drugs. Assistant Distract Attorney: I liked Casey Novak best. She’s a tough cookie.
LAW AND ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT Senior Detective: This is my favorite L&O, mostly because I love Robert Goren so so so much. (He actually might technically be a junior detective). He’s extremely intelligent, an accomplished criminal profiler, loves whiskey (I think Glenlivet specifically) and veal parm, and he is well versed on arts and sciences. Junior Detective: Eames is the go-to, but I actually really liked Nola Falacci, who was paired with Mike Logan for a while. Police Commanding Officer: Deakins.
I hope that was sufficiently nerdy/boring.
xx, Yasi
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I see from previous posts and also from being a fan of ynot?’s photo blog(Is it flog? I never know) that you have begun showing your face around. Anyhow, I was wondering: are you done being the anonymous exotic beauty that we all know and love and are you going to resort to a life of internet fandom and lunacy? Please let me know.
I’m not quite sure where you got the idea that it is just recently that I have begun “showing my face around.” Just because I wasn’t constantly prancing around in front of ynoT’s camera lens doesn’t mean I was holed up my house watching tivo, leaving only under the comfort and cover of a voluminous burka. That’s not to say that I am going to stop dressing up in elaborate costume for this blog, because, well I enjoy doing that and it has less to do with anonymity than with theatrics. But to answer your question, while I did long ago resign myself to a life of lunacy, “internet fandom” is not on my agenda. I am of the antiquated mind-set that I’d only like to be famous for doing something, and even then I don’t think I’d like it very much at all. So until I write my Pulitzer winning novel and/or my Oscar nominated screenplay (and am forced to make a recluse of myself, Salinger-style) I don’t think I will be courting internet fame anytime soon. Infamy, maybe. But that’s another chapter in a whole different story…
xx, Yasi
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So there is this guy who goes to my school who sometimes hangs out with me and my friends. I’ve known him for like 3 years now and in those three years we have constantly been flirting on and off with each other. He has even told me he likes me. The only problem is that he is a total player. He has had a his share of girlfriends during those 3 years too but still pays attention to me. P Keats is right girls do crave attention and since he gives me that I just can’t seem to get over him. I thought with time this would go away and i could just forget and get over it but I can’t. I have never felt this way about any guy before. I know he is everything I should stay away from but lets face it even though girls say they want a good guy what they really want is a bad boy. Changing a person is impossible if they don’t want to change, but what can I do to take me seriously and stop talking to other girls while he is talking to me? And if I can’t do that how can I forget him already?!
I don’t know that how much validity there is in saying that girls say they want good guys but really want bad boys (plus it sounds suspiciously like a line of dialog from a porno). I think what everyone wants (timing, circumstance, and sanity permitting) is a partner. Like Goren and Eames on Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Or Kobe and Gasol. Or Dr. House and his malcontent. But you know, a partner you have sex with. I think I lost myself in my own metaphor imagining Kobe and Gasol in compromising positions…Anyway, I can relate to your problem but not your idea of a solution. Short of turning to voodoo or elaborate hoax (see “The Art of Seduction”), you can’t make someone like you. And even if you could, would you really want to procure love through sheer force of will? I’m no hopeless romantic (ok, maybe sometimes) but that just seems unpalatable to me. Like flan.
Unfortunately, there’s also no surefire, 3-easy-steps, guaranteed-to-work-or-your-money-back way to get over someone. Actually, that’s not entirely true. Meeting someone else usually works (usually, not always, sometimes they turn out to be a lunatic who writes you unnecessary vainglorious emails. um, not that that has ever happened to me).
I think maybe instead of trying to force it or forcefully get over it, maybe you use it to try to learn something about yourself. The only positive quality about him you mention in your email is that he pays attention to you. Three years is a long time to stick around for attention. (Getting a pet might be easier). However, I suspect there is more to it than that, maybe things you haven’t even thought through about what draws you to this person. May I suggest making a list of all the things you like about this player (or is it playa? I can never get that right), as well as all the things you don’t like (such as “inability to keep his anatomical sword ensheathed”).
When you’re done with that, realize that you sort of have to make a decision here. One of my favorite e.e cummings lines is “what’s beyond logic happens beneath will.” Normally that would make an excellent argument for dreams and hope and blah blah but in this case think of it like this: emotion-based decisions are sometimes not indicative of what you really want, objectively. You can love someone and know that you cannot be with them. But putting that knowledge into practice may be the hardest thing you can do. Just remember, we easily break, in spite of the best overseeing.
xx, Yasi
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I don’t have the presence of mind to answer a question today but I just wanted to remind everyone how wonderful Love Actually is. Below is a clip from the film. Enjoy. I’m going back to watching rom coms and eating Fage with Tapatio now.
