1) I want to alert anyone reading or scrolling by that
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1) When you're not the A team.

2) As some have probably heard, Michael Nesmith of the Monkees died this week. I liked this quote from a Rolling Stone article (a publication which would have reviled them at the time), because it's so true about canons generally:

“The Monkees were playing live by this time, and the lyric to this was inspired by that ( Read more... )

1) There's a reason reindeer are who Santa uses, given they're as fast as locomotives, plus many dogs don't care for snow and cats have a tendency to go their own way.

2) A reminder that
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1) Brooklyn 99 has returned! I know it's the final season but it doesn't seem to be a mark of confidence that they're burning off the episodes 2 a week during late summer. Certainly the quality of the show is just as good from the four episodes I've seen. That said, it's also somewhat awkward. ( Read more... )

1) Bad Batch's "Devil's Deal" was the best episode of the season so far to me, so it was noticeable that the main characters had a cameo in this episode. That said, the previous episodes weren't so bad. ( Read more... )

I saw a news spot about the conclusion of Paramount's series of commercials advertising the transition happening to CBS All Access next month.

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What it reminded me of was the old WB commercials where before the start of each season there was a "party" sort of gathering of stars from all their shows, getting people excited for the return of old ( Read more... )

1) A friend gave me a prepaid Visa card for Christmas and I decided that since we needed more bar soap, I'd use it to see what kinds of fandom soap might be out there.


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1) This very trusting hummingbird feeds its miniscule babies, horses enjoy music and fish are curious about our world too.

2) I guess I'm lucky that the recent code push for Dreamwidth didn't affect my feed page at all and the individual post pages in only a minor way. The comment box is certainly much bigger now if I'm writing in post rather than ( Read more... )

1) In today's cuteness roundup, a mama cat who has, perhaps, had enough of new motherhood, a mama bear who is still on the job, and two cats who have had enough of isolation.

2) Over at Pillowfort there's a renewed push by active users to get Staff to make technical and, even more importantly, administrative changes to how communities are created ( Read more... )

1) Animals share a lot of expressions in common with us. Such as:

* when something has gone terribly wrong.
* curiosity
* technical difficulties
* empathy for someone in the hospital
* they like a good tune

2) On a more personal level was this one. ( Read more... )