Just a post to keep my name active.

Hey all! Didya miss me, like, at all? I been busy, and tired, and busy, and did I mention I've been exhausted ( Read more... )

I found this limerick written on a pencil sketch I did at a convention back in the mid-80s of my friend Holly dressed as (Tom Baker's) Dr. Who. I'm pretty sure I wrote it:

Doctors Watson and Who were both beckoned
To a spot where a murder was reckoned.
But which came on time
To the scene of the crime?
Why, Who was on first, Watson second!Hee! ( Read more... )

The Favorite Thing Ever site just put up an entry on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and now I feel like I gotta get a Kindle. I never felt that way before, but I'm sold.

Pan Books published the novel as a paperback in October 1979 after the BBC turned it down, and it sold 250,000 in the first three months ( Read more... )

Elisabeth Sladen, a.k.a. Sarah Jane Smith of Doctor Who and her own spinoff, The Sarah Jane Adventures, passed on this morning. She was 63 and had been ill with cancer. Who knew? She looked marvelous and did not seem ill at all ( Read more... )

I have Syfy's Ferocious Planet, starring JFlan, on Tivo. I watched two minutes of it, then realized that when ComicbookMan gets home, I'll be forced to watch the movie all over again, so I stopped. I suspect a nice glass of wine & someone to snark it with should make it quite an enjoyable viewing experience.

( MY REVIEW OF THE FIRST TWO MINUTES, NO SPOILERS! )

Over on my LJ, on an entry dated a few weeks back, called Feed the Rich, Starve the Worker: That's Bullshit... from Madison, neuralclone commented:

What bamboozles me is the way ordinary people are supporting the corporatists. Economics 101 - can't they understand that by reducing people to a subsistence level they're going to destroy the consumer economy ( Read more... )

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I know terrible things are still happening in Japan, but it's also important to remember what's at stake in Wisconsin, too. I hate the idea that there are politicians and corporatists heaving a sigh of relief that the tragedy in Japan is the perfect distraction from their happy dismantling of the US middle class. It's not like attention the ( Read more... )

From The ESET Threat Blog: http://blog.eset.com/2011/03/11/japanese-earthquake-inevitable-seoRead more... )

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