Pictures of real-life military super-puppy breeding programs should not be viewed directly after watching trailers for movies about fictional government super-spy breeding programs. Just saying.

I admit to going long stretches forgetting that NCIS is on and then I catch an episode like last night's and... seriously? What the heck was that? Was ( Read more... )

Dear CBS,

Recycling is nominally supposed to be good for the environment. Not so much for serialized television.

NCISes

( the hazards of low expectations )

* It'll be a couple of weeks before we find out why Derek Boogaard died, but... I hope it's something simple and natural and not anything to do with either the consequences of his profession or the reasons he was seeking treatment away from the team. He wasn't in NY long enough to be loved, certainly not like he was in Minnesota, where hundreds of ( Read more... )

* Mandatory bitching about the weather: it's currently at the daytime high of 15F (-9C) with a wind chill of 9F. And, like most folks who live in the outer boroughs, I have an extended ride on an elevated subway, which means fresh gusts of cold wind every two minutes. Also, it's going to storm on Wednesday (again), snow/sleet/rain TBD ( Read more... )

The baseball team had two off-days and a day game this week, so... thoughts on the opening of the 2010-11 television season:

The new stuff ( The Undercovers, Hawaii 5-0, Terriers, Blue Bloods )

As I was sorting through all of the old requests, I found this one from l_blue: You explained how Lorne convinced his team to join the Prodigal mission, and the involvement of O'Neill, Sheppard et al. is obvious, but I've always wondered how Gillick and Dr. Esposito got pulled into the plot. Particularly since Gillick appears to be the sacrificial lamb ( Read more... )

* My hockey team lives another day. Depending on tonight's Montreal-Toronto game, tomorrow could be a death match -- any kind of win and they're off to DC for a rematch of last year's agonizing playoff round; any kind of loss and they go golfing and I go cry in my soup. (Which will probably be leek soup, just for the record.) If Toronto manages to ( Read more... )

* trekreversebang sorting has commenced. I know who I've got because I recognized the style, although that was not my driving motivation and it was actually a near thing because I reversed my claims order at the last moment. There was some truly stunning art that I could never have come up with a quality story for, so I made my choices on what I thought I could ( Read more... )

QH17 has crossed the 8K word mark, but even if I finish it in the next 36 hours, it's not getting posted, so I think I can safely call it a year production-wise.

January-June

July-December
* Shooting the Moon (Star Trek 2009) My first (and thus far last) Kirk-POV fic.
* Five Ways It Didn't Go (SGA) Sheppard, Weir, McKay, Lorne, and Ford didn't ( Read more... )

Another pair of short ones, since work and after-work have been exceptionally busy this week. A couple of NCIS crossovers, after a fashion.

1) Several people asked for Criminal Minds' Penelope Garcia, but auburnnothenna asked for Penelope and NCIS's Abby Sciuto: ( hooray for writing characters for the first time. )