I tried to do that tv meme with the bolding and the italizing, except I was too disturbed by the fact that it was alphabetized by first letter only (rather than first proper noun), thus grouping all the shows beginning with "The" in the T section rather than with their respective letters. Yes, I'm completely serious. WORKING IN THE LIBRARY FOR A ( Read more... )

Oh, and because I am the world's biggest geek and not terribly ashamed of this, I finally ordered this fantastically awesome shirt because, let's face it, Busted Tees owns my soul.

eta: GUYS YOU CAN BUY BUSTED TEES WALLPAPER FOR YOUR CELLPHONE

OMG, snarkhunter. In 2000, Mystery! did a production of Lady Audley's Secret (yeah, WEIRD) and George Talboys was played by...

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JAMIE. BAMBER.

APOLLO IS GEORGE TALBOYS.

eta: Does anyone remember that USA Network production, "Helen of Troy"? Yeah, Menelaus = Gaius Baltar.

eta 2: Why isn't Michael Hogan considered a regular on Battlestar Galactica? ( Read more... )

DUDE. Not only did Benjamin Sisko go to Rutgers, HE BECAME A TENURED PROFESSOR AT MASON GROSS in 1993.

!!!!! AND ACCORDING TO IMDB, HE MIGHT STILL TECHNICALLY WORK HERE (though I can't find him on the Mason Gross site ( Read more... )

Guys. Next semester, the Classics department is offering a class that's entirely about Cleopatra. Entirely. Not to mention the return of Philosophy and Ideas in Science Fiction, which is sadly on a Friday but is something I WOULD TOTALLY GET UP FOR... this also making Friday truly "SCIFI FRIDAY".

(In other developments: I think I'm opting out of ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention that today, in Greek Civilization, we were discussing the timeline of political change in Athens during the seventh and sixth centuries BC*, and the second point on the timeline was an attempted coup for tyranny by a guy named CylonI just, you know, FOUND THAT REALLY SORT OF INTERESTING ( Read more... )

I forgot to post my favorite line of Shakespeare! Actually, it's not actual prose, but rather a stage direction. But it is clearly the best stage direction that ever directed action on a stage.

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EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR.

From The Winter's Tale.

(Oh, Sparky.)

Tell me that I'm not the only one who has ever heard Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop's parody of The Nutcracker. (Also, notice that I refer to them as two seperate people.) I can't have been the only dorky small child ( Read more... )

1. I don't know if I mentioned how much in love I am with Rome. It's fantastic! And that's partially because it's set much earlier than I was expecting, which makes it more like the prequel to I, Claudius instead of something trying to do outdo I, Claudius (which, frankly, will never happen -- CALIGULA OMG. SOME IMAGES WILL NEVER LEAVE MY BRAIN). ( Read more... )

( A full compliment of this semester's book, just because I'm weird and enjoy making such lists. )