stuff about stuff
aka, the weekly post of random.
* Fleet Week 2010 is upon us! The Navy and Marines roll in to town today. I shall take my usual Memorial Day stroll down Hudson River Park to get a good view of the ships and their contents. This year's schedule.
* Not unrelated: so I was directed by Tom Ricks' blog to a Marine Corps Times article on a baker's dozen of junior officers getting cashiered for cheating on the land nav portion of TBS (why learn how to read a compass when there is GPS?), but he linked to the entire paper, which is where I found the article about the EOD gunny who memorialized his great time in Alaska by getting a palm-sized tattoo of Sarah Palin... on his ass. Which was duly photographed by the MCT and put in the paper. (click to enbiggen). Ah, Marines...
* Eurovision! It is that time of year. Here in the States, we must rely on Youtube clips (search for Eurovision 2010), but it's still some of the most potent crack around. To wit, I present a brief bit of Serbia's entry.
* My first trekreversebang story is done, thankfully, but it has no title, no summary, and no pull quote and, technically, no art, either, because ileliberte hasn't gotten a final draft to me. She's all sorts of useless, let me tell you...*ducks flying fists of a furious Bengali* Anyway, posting is tomorrow, so stay tuned.
* Perhaps not unrelated: I'm trying to decide if Prince of Persia is in the so-bad-it's-worth-seeing-in-the-theater category or if it's just, you know, big and bad. The most stellar example of the former category is Brotherhood of the Wolf, which was so very, very awesome in its badness that it was worth every penny of its ticket, even at NYC prices. You know, the kind of movie where everyone is okay with fellow movie-goers talking back to the screen because it's a shared experience of awfulness. Like MST3K, except with fewer robots.
* Fleet Week 2010 is upon us! The Navy and Marines roll in to town today. I shall take my usual Memorial Day stroll down Hudson River Park to get a good view of the ships and their contents. This year's schedule.
* Not unrelated: so I was directed by Tom Ricks' blog to a Marine Corps Times article on a baker's dozen of junior officers getting cashiered for cheating on the land nav portion of TBS (why learn how to read a compass when there is GPS?), but he linked to the entire paper, which is where I found the article about the EOD gunny who memorialized his great time in Alaska by getting a palm-sized tattoo of Sarah Palin... on his ass. Which was duly photographed by the MCT and put in the paper. (click to enbiggen). Ah, Marines...
* Eurovision! It is that time of year. Here in the States, we must rely on Youtube clips (search for Eurovision 2010), but it's still some of the most potent crack around. To wit, I present a brief bit of Serbia's entry.
* My first trekreversebang story is done, thankfully, but it has no title, no summary, and no pull quote and, technically, no art, either, because ileliberte hasn't gotten a final draft to me. She's all sorts of useless, let me tell you...*ducks flying fists of a furious Bengali* Anyway, posting is tomorrow, so stay tuned.
* Perhaps not unrelated: I'm trying to decide if Prince of Persia is in the so-bad-it's-worth-seeing-in-the-theater category or if it's just, you know, big and bad. The most stellar example of the former category is Brotherhood of the Wolf, which was so very, very awesome in its badness that it was worth every penny of its ticket, even at NYC prices. You know, the kind of movie where everyone is okay with fellow movie-goers talking back to the screen because it's a shared experience of awfulness. Like MST3K, except with fewer robots.