* No photos tomorrow -- it's been a long week and the DoD hasn't been that exciting.

* That said, most of you probably know about the helicopter crash last week that killed 30 American servicemen, including virtually an entire troop (i.e., platoon) of SEALs from DevGru, along with seven Afghan soldiers and an interpreter. The DoD released the ( Read more... )

* 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... )

* Like the rest of the eastern seaboard, NYC and environs is currently semi-submerged. Warm and dry wishes for everyone else affected.

* Rick Sanchez Calls Jon Stewart “A Bigot”; Says CNN Is Run By Jews To which I can only point out that if we Yids ran the media, neither Firefly nor The Unusuals nor Pushing Daisies would've gotten yanked as ( Read more... )

Well this isn't going to end well...ABC To Adapt British Spy Drama 'MI-5'

An adaptation of the hit British series Spooks aka MI-5 is headed to American television via ABC. ABC Studios has closed a deal for the rights to Spooks, known in the U.S. as MI-5, with Kudos Rights LTD, a division of the Shine Group-owned British production company Kudos ( Read more... )

cofax7 asked for five, but, well, she only gets three. writerlibrarian can claim one, too, if desired.

Three things Ros Myers was surprised by in the Pegasus Galaxy.
2700 words; genfic [Stargate/Spooks]

( Life is nasty, hard, brutish, and short. )

Last week's meme turned into a logistical nightmare, with me blowing past the comment lengths on two of them and, rather than making new entries, I posted to my essentially-defunct Dreamwidth account and linked. Since I'm trying to be better about keeping everything findable, I'm reposting here.

( Spooks/Stargate: Ros Myers and Atlantis )

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... )

Today, I got a project that will essentially be the professional equivalent of filing off the serial numbers and fencing the goods, so we start with the spies...

writerlibrarian asked for Ros Myers (Spooks) in Atlantis, but she sort of gets Ros before then.
572 words

( Short, because OMG, so not ready to write Spooksfic. Or Ros. )

Criminal Minds 5x08-09. ( Spoilers are a big fan of returning guest actors )

If the day before a vacation is a vacation and, in the case of two days off or more in a row, the day before the day before a vacation is a vacation, then the afternoon after a morning of meetings and before the day before the day before a vacation is as good a time as any to open up the request line.

1) Pick a character and get one of: (a) ( Read more... )