1) In light of my last post, apparently people here on DW who were also on Pillowfort have started a DW community to stay in touch. Anyone is welcome to join
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1) Kitty understands what to do with birthday candles, plus mommy hugs.

2) I've been reading some old Trek tie-ins on my bookshelf in preparation for weeding items. I read The Lost Years by J.M. Dillard which fills in part of the gap in between the Enterprise's 5 year mission and the first Trek film. I thought it did a remarkably good job of ( Read more... )

1) DIY Trampolines don't pan out but pets can ask one another for snuggles too.

2) I'm still only partway through S7 of Clone Wars but Mike and I finally saw Revenge of the Sith. He had never seen any of the first trilogy. I had seen only the first and parts of the second.

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1) A friend recently said, "All of this history is going to make a sensational thriller for a new generation in about 20 years, like WWII is for us now." I personally think that in 20 years, that generation is going to look back in amazement at how we used to live, and how careless we were about health issues among many others. I started thinking ( Read more... )

1) Our NPR station has a locally produced 5 minute segment on our regional environment that runs weekly. It's interesting to hear comments about animals I've been noticing or other related things in our area. The latest I heard talked about the changing season, with butterfly migration at a peak. The segment discussed how many insects would soon ( Read more... )

1) Quite an interesting article overall, but pulling out this quote"On the second day on The Nevers, surrounded by still-blank whiteboards where the narrative DNA of the show had yet to be sequenced, two of us admitted shyly that we used to write Buffy fan fiction. Whedon looked at Jane Espenson, who wrote for Buffy and so many other shows we ( Read more... )

1) Thanks to Petzi, I read this view of a female film critic on how she has largely stayed silent about sexism in films. ( Read more... )

1) I just picked up a number of eBooks this week and went through two of them, KC at Bat and Lonesome Town by Tom Mendocino, in the past two days. I found them a mixed bag. ( Read more... )

1) My LJ stats are rather interesting to compare to my DW ones ( Read more... )

So, I made some Merlin icons, even though this is not what I should have been spending time on this week (or probably any week this month). Snag if you'd like, all caps from gallicka.


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