I've had it in the back of my head that at some point this year I would write about 2014 being my 20th year in online television fandom. I don't remember exactly how or when it happened, but I signed up for AOL in 1994 and somehow stumbled upon the TV Gossip section and its Melrose Place bulletin board, where I found a community of like-minded folk ( Read more... )

I'm not nearly as interested in the Oscars as I used to be, but I still feel compelled to make note of and comment briefly on the Academy Award nominations that were announced this morning. I'm just going to go down the list and see what jumps out at me.

• Hey, I've already seen one of the Best Picture nominees! I think the last time that happened ( Read more... )

A few days ago I mentioned that I have a season job working at a calendar store at the mall. Well, that's a bit of an oversimplification; there are actually two calendar stores at the mall; one is an inline store that sells calendars, games, and toys, and the other is a freestanding kiosk at the other end of the mall that just sells calendars. They ( Read more... )

Nine defunct TV shows that have wall or desk calendars available for purchase at your local calendar retailer and one currently in production that doesn't:

1. I Love Lucy
2. The Twilight Zone
3. Star Trek
4. The Andy Griffith Show
5. Buffy the Vampire Slayer

It's Dawn Wells's birthday! She's 75 today, and still pretty good lookin' if I may say so.


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The controversy I was apparently alluding to in the 2007 post I quoted yesterday was so earth-shattering that it has its own section in LiveJournal's Wikipedia entry:

In May 2007, LiveJournal suspended approximately 500 accounts and communities, causing what news.com referred to as a "revolt" from "thousands of LiveJournal customers", after a ( Read more... )

May 1 is Loyalty Day, a special day for the reaffirmation of loyalty to the United States and for the recognition of the heritage of American freedom. I do so reaffirm and recognize! Specifically I recognize my freedom to post this outrageously communistic image once again:


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Back in 2002, I went to California to visit spend a weekend in Los Angeles with some friends I'd met via the Television Without Pity Buffy the Vampire Slayer forum, and to attend the San Diego Comic-Con. I had some time to kill between the Buffycon and the Comic-Con, so I hung out in L.A. for a few days. On one of those days, I went to the offices ( Read more... )

I spent three hours earlier today volunteering with a group of people from my church at Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin. Second Harvest acquires and distributes food to more than 225 partner programs in 16 counties in this part of Wisconsin; since most of their donations are in bulk, groups of volunteers like ours usually work at ( Read more... )

Last night before choir rehearsal, my director asked me what was the big deal about the picture I had posted on Facebook that morning:


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