Yes, I know it's not Sunday, but Sunday was even worse than today (if you watch US news, you know what I mean), and I didn't have the heart to share anything funny. Today, I feel I can share.

Sunday was Pentecost in many Christian churches. Red is the color of Pentecost. Catholic churches in my state reopened for Pentecost, although we're still ( Read more... )

This is from the official Mount Vernon YouTube account. Yes, it was April 1-but it was April 1, 2017, and they haven't taken it down.

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crossposted at Dreamwidth; comments welcome on either!

Apparently this Honest Trailer for the first Star Trek reboot was released before Star Trek: Into Darkness came out, but I only got around to it this morning. It points out nearly every darned thing that bothered me about that movie (but in funny ways instead of ranting like I did). Big fans of the reboot might be offended. Fans of the original ( Read more... )

It's all spoilers, just so you know.

I didn't like the reboot for reasons I won't bore you with outside of a cut (but inside of a cut, it's too dark to see ( I'm happy to list some major objections )

See this entry by bentleywg for a little bit of misinformation accidentally spread by German news.

From executrix, who posted here, on astrogirl2's LJ. She originally found it at http://tiger.coe/missouri.edu/~peace/Blakes7/STvsB7, but that link is broken. I have cut and pasted from the entry (and fixed a couple of typos) so that I can share with others (and will always be able to find it myself!)

( Star Trek vs Blake's 7: )

Actually, Paul Krugman is frequently humorous, but I thought this pithy entry would be of particular delight to some fen.

Dinner interrupted before I could do this part (idea from sg_fignewton of my year-in-fic overview, so I posted what I had and saved the favorite excerpts from each of last year's stories for this entry ( Read more... )

Time for the year-end recap. I'm a little disappointed at my fic writing in 2009, but I had a lot of real life going on, including a lot of academic writing, that made it hard to keep up. I'm doing a sort of mash-up of at least two different versions of the year-end roundup, taken from aurora_novarum and sg_fignewton.

( My stories and my answers to some questions )

Read the Trek movie scene originally written for William Shatner to play older Kirk. (Then you may want to join me in a sigh of relief that they didn't use it, for reasons I'll share if anyone cares.)

Interesting: from Newsweek: "Why Glee's Losers and Mean Girls Are So True to Life". Actually, I find few of the characters more than passingly ( Read more... )