Something next to normal, that's the thing I'd like to try

So, you should go watch all the Nerd HQ videos, because they're funny and Zachary Levi is my TV boyfriend, but if you only watch one, make it the conversation with Tom Hiddleston because WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK LMFAO.

Things that happen during the course of this Q&A:
- Tom quotes Shakespeare (of course).
- Tom speaks French.
- Zac claims he has never felt more uncultured in his entire life.
- Tom does impressions of Chris Evans and Zac.
- Tom reads a text message (in his Zac voice) in which Zac threatened to personally punch him in the dick. "You have been warned."
- TOM DOES A FULL ON VELOCIRAPTOR IMPRESSION AND IT IS HYSTERICAL.

NO REALLY.



Other linky things:

* I've seen a lot of interviews from Joss, and everybody talks about Agents of SHIELD as his show, even though poor Jed and Maurissa are the ACTUAL showrunners, so here's an interview with them.

* Jennifer Lawrence proves once again she is just as much of a fangirl as you. WHY SO ADORABLE, JEN?

* Dule Hill in a Broadway musical. WHAT.

* The S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show has a new title: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Whyyyyyy do you hate us bloggers so, Marvel? As if the obnoxious periods weren't enough, now the title is 3x longer? Whatever, I'm calling it MAOS from now on.

* New photo and additional details about Captain America: The Winter Soldier. (Sidebar: How did I not notice that Agent Amador from The Americans is Agent Sitwell? Also, the outcome of last week's ep makes more sense now, lol.)

* Yay Linda Cardellini is back on TV! She talks about her role on Mad Men in this interview. I admit, I did a double take when she came on screen. I hardly recognized her in the period costume.

* I was kind of hoping Theon was dead, but he's back on Game of Thrones. That scene where he got conked in the head in the middle of his speechifying was one of my favorites. :)

* A Jurassic Park drinking game, in case the eighty zillion links lately have made you want to rewatch it or you're planning to see the 3-D re-release.

* That XKCD comic from two weeks ago is still updating. You can watch the animated version here. I think they are building Winterfell.

Haven't posted in a while because I am at my parents' house. The original plan was for them to come visit me for Easter, since I would have to go to work today, and the 3 hour drive home would kind of mess up dinner plans. But we handily solved that problem by me getting laid off a week ago!

Fortunately, my unemployment only lasted a few days, as I got a job offer on Thursday (which I'd applied for well before I knew I'd be losing my job). End result: I got three weeks off and severance pay from the old job, which I wouldn't have gotten if they'd just waited a week and let me quit. \o/ This pleases me, since the old job sucked and the people were dicks and I'm glad to be rid of them, and the new job pays a lot more. And since I don't have to work this week, I came home to spend a few days with the new kitten my parents. (The new kitten is SO CUTE. But still a little afraid of me.)

Also? BEST WEEK TO BE UNEMPLOYED, because I watched SO much TV courtesy of Watchathon Week. I've actually made an index post to keep track of all my TV shows. Feel free to leave recs in the comments or just boggle at the size of the list. As you can see, I've now completely caught up on Game of Thrones, and I started in on Girls, both of which I enjoy but don't really feel the need to get all meta about them? Nevertheless, if you have ~feels, let me know. (I have not and do not intend to read the books, so please restrain yourselves and keep any GoT talk to what's aired so far. I'm not super-concerned about spoilers, but it'd be nice to avoid them.)

I did not, however, have a chance to watch this weekend's Doctor Who or the premiere of Orphan Black, but I will get to those this week, I'm sure.

Mini linkspam:

* Clark Gregg talks about resurrecting Agent Coulson for S.H.I.E.L.D.

* David Tennant and Billie Piper are slated to return for Doctor Who's 50th anniversary special. Interesting.

* Natalie Dormer discusses her role in Game of Thrones. I get a very Anne Boleyn-ish vibe off Margaery, but I can't tell if it's the character or just Natalie's Tudors history.

* Every Jurassic Park dinosaur, in order from worst to best. Guess who gets the top spot.



(Related: Why do I not have more Jurassic Park gifs.)

- Aaron Sorkin talks about The Newsroom. I remain cautiously optimistic, but laugh quietly at his apparent lack of self-awareness.

- Christina Hendricks talks about Joan's controversial decision. (The most recent one, that is.)

- Tom Hiddleston does a velociraptor impression.

- Just a heads up: the zombie apocalypse has begun.