Movies:

Checked off "see latest Disney movie" with Redbox and Frozen. It was cute, but I would have liked this a lot more at a different point in my life, or with small children for movie night company. Or maybe if I hadn't heard "Let It Go" a few dozen times first. Idina Menzel is to be saluted for making what I hope is a pile of cash on the ( Read more... )

To stave off the worst effects of unemployment, I picked up a part time job with one of the car-sharing organizations operating in San Francisco. It's good skills-expanding experience for me, with useful fringe benefits, but being on my feet for hours and days in a row is grueling. This afternoon featured the reappearance of the Thursday slump that ( Read more... )

I am trying to finish dad's Deep Space Nine DVDs before making a play for his dSLR, but I faded a bit in early season seven. Apparently I saw more late-run DS9 than I thought, or absorbed several episode summaries. So I popped out an episode with a mad Vorta and Another Ferengi Trading Scheme, and popped Babylon 5 S2 in. The special effects are ( Read more... )

One good thing to come out of last week was my imagination throwing up the image of a Singularity novel written by Octavia Butler. It would not be told by the victors, or the new elite. It would be told by the people whose bodies and minds were altered, not always by their own desire, and the patterns of oppression and community-building in a ( Read more... )

While I'm waiting for Photoshop to recover from a resize command gone horribly awry...

B5, S5, eps 1 - 4. The season we almost didn't get. ( Irrelevent, irrereverent commentary. Implied and direct spoilers for all eps possible. )

Watching (and screencapping) B5 fifth season episodes. I wish I knew if there were some sort of B5 compendium, because I'm getting an irrational urge to look up all sock references.

(For the record, the subject is a Garibaldi quote. "The Paragon of Animals", 3m 3 sec. See "Babylon Squared" for reasons this sends me into fangirl giggles.)