* Netflix has gone geek-friendly, throwing into the Available For Streaming section the X-Men cartoons (both the 1990s version and Evolution), the old Spidey and Supes cartoons, the more recent Avengers cartoons, FF and Iron man toons, and more. There's still a chunk of DCU stuff missing, most notably JL/JLU and Batman BeyondThey're also making all ( Read more... )

* Most excellent fan vid: 'I'm a Caps fan.' If you're a casual hockey fan, it's funny. If you're a more involved hockey fan or a Caps fan, it's hilarious.

* I subscribed to The Atlantic for years, but gave it up in 2008 because I couldn't stand the notion of my money going toward paying for Andrew Sullivan's insane rantings about the parentage of ( Read more... )

I've not made any secret of my love and adoration of Patrick O'Brian's Master & Commander series. I own all of the books -- yes, even 21, which was a lovely present from prof_h -- and the film version on DVD, which was the first DVD I bought when I finally got around to buying a DVD player ( Read more... )

Non-tornado-y stuff.

* This picture is simply too cute to wait for Friday. Meet Rafi and his chem-light mobile at a clinic in Afghanistan.

* Fourth day of training camp and my hockey team is already going to be without its captain for a month...

* Watched recently: Harry Brown and Batman: Under the Red Hood. Both were pleasant diversions and I ( Read more... )

* The network is down at House of Employ. I'm tempted to run a fic solicit to pass the time; according to the tag, I haven't run one in two months, which seems like it might have been the last time I wrote anything at all. So if you've been threatening to make suggestions holding ideas, maybe be ready to dig 'em out.

* roga has left NYC, as has the ( Read more... )

* After what seems like three straight months of 90+ temperature and very little rain, we've got 68F and days of torrential downpours that required evacuations. And the LIRR, NJTransit, and Amtrak are gakked because of fires. Also, we've got alligators crawling out of the sewers for real. In allegedly unrelated news, roga showed up in NYC right before ( Read more... )

* Tasteful, understated, elegant... the Miss Universe 2010 national costumes photo gallery. Nobody except Canada emerges unscathed (and they only get away with it by flashing a lot of leg).

* It's IDF Week at Casa Porcupina, courtesy of Netflix pulling one of its bait-and-switches. I've just finished The 188th Crybaby Brigade: a Skinny Jewish Kid ( Read more... )

There are these double-decker tourist buses that go around, full of people who want to see the city but not be a part of it. I see them as I take my walk at lunch and then again on the way home, curious and timid tourists peering down from the safety of a guardrail and fifteen feet. It's like they're on safari and I'm one of the wild animals on the ( Read more... )

( Steinbrenner is noun, verb, and and adjective in this city )

As I've griped about in the past, it's not that NYC gets hotter or more humid than anywhere else, it's that it doesn't cool off at night. Especially after a few days of sustained heat, the overnight lows on the weather forecast are mythical, fleeting moments that appear briefly at 4am, if at all ( Read more... )