( I meant to write something brief, and this post got away from me a bit; it's mostly personal reflections on Leonard Nimoy's death. I'm cutting it for those who've already had as much as they can handle, in whatever way, of this sort of thing today. (And there are a few links at the end, because that's apparently what I do.) )

Four-day weekends are things of beauty, even if I'm already having trouble remembering most of what we did. The weather was unseasonably warm (scruloose says the temperature broke records) and gloriously sunny on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday mostly involved hanging out and going for a walk with bosonator*, but yesterday was busy: we went to the nearby Anglican ( Read more... )

Dear world: Tom McRae's new album is out very, very soon. The actual release date is less relevant to me than I'd like, since I ordered my copy through his website and therefore have to wait for it to arrive from the UK. (But I think it's shipping from there tomorrow?) Happily, there're two songs and a b-side available already (or whatever b-sides ( Read more... )

Having what feels like the beginning of a cold (hello, sore throat and headache) sucks. However, if one has to be in this situation, it seems to me there're worse ways to begin the day than by sleeping for 12 hours, during the latter three of which your husband and a good friend go to the farmers' market and bring back, among other things, ( Read more... )

Via cofax7: Apparently girls in Star Trek fandom are a new and poisonous development. Who knew? (The post is annoying, but the comments are something else.)

This thread is particularly priceless: "Ones [new female fans] who didn't care about Star Trek at all until they stuck a bunch of explosions and "hot" boys. They are the ones we are complaining ( Read more... )

I don't self-identify as a sci-fi geek, which is kind of funny given a lot of the shows I love. I think it's a holdover from when I got almost all of my stories in novel form, when I read a bit of soft sci-fi here and there but mainly read fantasy of many stripes. And possibly as a result of my self-labeling as a fantasy geek, or possibly just ( Read more... )

I don't know why I have such trouble finding icons I really like for live-action shows*. Anime or manga, no problem. Maybe people use different effects? Or maybe I've been spoiled by having had so many icon-makers in the Fruits Basket fandom whose work I really like. All I can say for sure is that I'm up too late** looking for Star Trek iconage ( Read more... )

We finally caught up on Criminal Minds last night, which involved making a lot of faces at the screen (there were some good moments in the finale, but mostly it was a WIDE variety of "you have got to be kidding me"), and then possibly some blank staring at the end. The finale was such an episode (if not a great one) that I kind of forgot it was the ( Read more... )