I Love Christian Kane

I just wish he was on better shows.

After finishing Leverage, I've been watching the episodes of Angel he's on and that show is of ... uneven quality.



He's great on it, though, especially once they give the character more to do and less clothes. I need to finish that, but I am on the S5 episodes and S5 is just sort of awkward and bland.

I'm also watching The Librarians and as much as I love John Rogers (who was a creator/developer/head write on both Leverage and The Librarians) I struggle to get into it. I love John's writing and his habit of casting Christian as one part of a m/f/m trio of tightly bonded characters, but it's a bit too cartoony for me most of the time. Also, the third ep was a Christmas ep and that is a weird pull for a show still finding it's feet.

Leverage and The Librarians have a lot of the same talent/production on both shows but I love one and the other I only enjoy because having both Christian Kane and John Rogers involves makes me want to like it.

I still haven't gotten through all of Almost Paradise.

I adore him, his music, his stage fighting skills as a lot to the shows he's on, but damn he is on some shows that are either not great or not quite my vibe.

If you've never seen him perform or him talking about castmates this video is cute. Also, the annoying person getting in the way of the shot sometimes with a camera is me.

So I feel bad complaining since some in PDX have been without power for 5 days and counting

And other places like Texas are getting hit hard. I am trying to keep myself from explaining things like 'cotton kills' on twitter ... I have no engagement and like only 2 real people followers so no one would see it anyway.

There is was one grocery store open in my area last night and it was well raided. Bread shelves were empty. I wasn't able to get chicken. I walked a mile in semi-frozen crunchy slush to resuppply and mostly came home with protein bars. More is melted today, but it's still an icy mess. Most people aren't even trying to walk on the sidewalks here, they are just walking in the road because that's clear.

So it's Yoga Week here! I'm going through Yoga with Adrienne's channel and finding more routines in my ability level. I may or may not try again at a supply run tonight.

One grocery store in another part of town was open because they were on generators. But, the generators broke and rather than donate the food they started putting out palettes of cheese in the parking lot and had police officers guarding it to ensure it all became waste and went in the dumpster and no one could snag any. Like, there was no place to BUY food in that part of town when Freddie's also closed.

People are angry at the PPB, but it's more likely they were privately hired. I don't know if this is the case other places, but here cops can moonlight. When you hire them privately they wear their police uniform, gun, etc. So if you see police here you don't know if they are working for the city or if they are working for a corporation for $50/hour.

I am usually pretty >.> about non-homeless people 'snagging' food. There is a big culture here of trying to eliminate waste in ways that usually make me go on about food safety and liability, but Freddie's didn't actually have a liability here as far as I could tell and seeing it blow up on twitter that there was a place to get cheese and pickles to get through the storm ... some people are in bad shape here and worse shape elsewhere. It's scary, yo. And also the local food banks could 100% have safely and quickly taken at least some of those supplies in if the management wasn't so dumb. Oregon Book Bank is literally set up to take in unexpected food overflow, including stuff that needs refrigeration.

Fun fact, I know both about the PPB moonlighting thing and food bank response capability from working conventions.

This post got longer than I expected. I guess I am still really pissed at seeing police force food to become waste in an emergency situation when it 100% could have legally, safely helped people.

[Edit] Police have clarified it wasn't a police response. As I assumed, it was cops moonlighting for $50/hour in uniform. News is also reporting it as spoiled food rather than a store shut down due to a generator failure.

It feels weird to defend this because I am usually on the other side of these conversations, but that's not what happened and the real news story should be how many people were scrambling for food and how badly FM management fucked up. The Oregon Food Bank gives tours to people in event running to make clear how capable they are to scoop up food. They paid a lot of money to make sure that food became waste.