Thanks to Jenny Lawson, I found out that today is Draw a Dinosaur Day! :) Here is my submission, which may or may not have been successfully submitted to the actual site It worked!


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I can't remember the last time I posted twice in one day, but there are dinosaurs in my near future.

I'm going to try Terra Nova, because DINOSAURS, but I think the premise (as I understand it from watching one theatrical-style trailer and reading no reviews) is ridiculous. And yes, I'm saying this as a fan of a show that regularly brought ( Read more... )

If there's anybody out there who watched Primeval before its untimely demise but hasn't been watching the right places since the announcement of its resurrection, I thought I should mention that IT'S BACK. Like, now! Or, New Year's Day anyway, and that's both in the UK and on BBC America, praise TPTB. Here's information I got from the fine folks at ( Read more... )

A few quiet moments this afternoon! And since the real-life stuff feels like too much to attempt to cover, here's some random Stuff I've been collecting.

* If you thought fandom was the only place where people spent astonishing amounts of time losing all sense of perspective in rabid battles about things that don't really matter when you look at ( Read more... )

The Rani keeps coming up in conversation with my friends around here and it keeps reminding me of this post I've had nearly finished for three months. I finally got motivated tonight. Inside the cut you will find crappy screencaps and considerable capslock abuse of glee. Possible pros: the Rani, Time Lord reunions, dinosaur. Possible cons: Peri.

( 'A well-matched pair of pests, you bring nothing but trouble' )

I'm feeling a little down due to weather-related tragedy and too much oil spill coverage, so here's some happier randomness.

* One of my favorite singer-songwriter/all-around snarky dudes, Jonathan Coulton, has covered his own zombie song "Re: Your Brains"... in French. Re Vos Cerveaux. You can listen and read the lyrics here. Hee.

* Classical ( Read more... )

Dinosaurs: now in color! Scientists can analyze well-preserved fossilized feathers and, by the shape of the melanosomes, determine what color the feathers were in life. They've decided that the most primitive feathered dinosaur known, Sinosauropteryx, was a redhead ( Read more... )

* Susan Enan's album Plainsong is one of Amie Street's top 25 of the year, and it's available there for $5 to download until the end of the year. It's a really pretty album which I've pimped before, but I thought I'd mention it again with the price cut. (ETA - the Great Lake Swimmers' album Lost Channels is also $5* I had my mom listen to this NPR ( Read more... )

* Got my seasonal flu shot! \o/ They gave me a sticker with a lovely peer pressure message on it. (I have no problem displaying propaganda for public health.)

* ( xkcd: There's nowhere I'd rather be... )

New-to-us, mid-evolution pterosaur found in China: Darwinopterus modularis! And of course what I'm most excited about is this art by Mark Witton.

( Look out, archaeopteryx! )