Oh, WGN, I'm sorry. I only watch you for Tom Skilling anyway.

[vulgarweed]

I'd be a lot more sanguine about SPN getting moved back three hours in my market for the big baseball game if the Cubs hadn't gotten humiliated quite so thoroughly.

So if next season is "back to basics," may I suggest an episode in which the Winchesters confront The Billy Goat Curse?

ETA: just hit Wikipedia....Tom Skilling's middle name is

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[vulgarweed]

Apparently it's an old family name. Heee.

The whole reason I love him is that he is such a giant nerd. And I find weather pretty damn fascinating, and I could happily watch it all day, so I wholeheartedly respect that happy-agitated-nerd energy he starts radiating whenever the isobars are packed so tight. And at his age, he still goes storm-chasing.

[silverwerecat]

Well, at least it isn't Teleporno... :p

[vulgarweed]

Hee.

How are you doing, btw? Been watching the news about what's happening in Athens and thinking of you.

[silverwerecat]

I'm pissed and angry and worried, but otherwise safely away from the troubled areas.

Thanks. My torties, especially my three-legged Esmeralda, send purrs to your critter. ;)

[vulgarweed]

Madimi purrs back to your whole clowder. I'm glad you're all safe. I hope the economic fallout doesn't hit you and your family too hard. Feel free to reach out to your global fandom family if it does.

[tears_of_nienna]

I think I wrote that, once--Sam and Dean trying to remove the Curse. They might have been drunk.

...It's probably bad that my first thought wasn't "Wow, his parents must have been awesomely nerdy," but "Elbereth is a girl's name!"

[hsavinien]

My first thought was the same...

[vulgarweed]

Well, I looked up the family tree, and apparently as a family name it well predates JRRT's birth much less his writing.

I will still think of it as a name of a Valie of the sky...which makes it kind of appropriate for a man who's been a lifelong weather geek. :)

[tears_of_nienna]

You know, that is really appropriate. :)

Now I am imagining people adopting Valar names appropriate to their jobs--Ulmo for oceanographers! Aule for geologists! Yavanna for environmentalists! It could be great fun.