UPN released details of the upcoming back-to-back series-ending episodes of its canceled Star Trek: Enterprise, which will air in May. UPN released details of the upcoming back-to-back series-ending episodes of its canceled Star Trek: Enterprise, which will air in May. I have fallen out of the habit of watching Enterprise – even though I think it’s really started to pick up energy and better writing and so on, I just… got bored with the endless Xindi storyline. And also, even though I like Scott Bakula’s work a lot and admire his approach to the character of Archer, I also lost…
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Amazing Race stuff! Yeah! Okay, the recap for last week’s episode brought back searing memories of far too much fly-blown, seared meat, organs and glands. Gah. But it was funny, so go read it. I just can’t quote it here, or I’ll have to go find a charming Argentinian bucket. This week: another very, very short leg. One internal flight, with – AGAIN! – spoon-fed air schedules. There’s never been a season of TAR where the teams didn’t start to do their own airport “work” so late, as far as I know. What’s the dealio? Half the comedy and drama…
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AKMA wonders: If there ever was a story destined to ornament the weekend NPR news quiz, this must be it. Margaret has been sending me snippets (“ ‘Our insides were just bubbling,’ said Darlene Turner”) and updates all morning. She wonders, does Accordion Guy have a line on this one? More to the point, is humorist, WWDTM panelist and blogger Adam Felber even now working on making this story just ridiculous enough to fool a contestant into thinking it’s a ringer during the “fake news” segment? I’m just bubbling inside thinking about it.
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My recent trip gave me a chance to see some actual scrimshaw up close and personal, rather than the sort often seen at Gus’s or Nelson’s blogs. Hey! I’m about to get my copy of that book wot Gus wrote (with the kind assistance of some ghostwriter guy since Gus is a wanted man in Venezuela and several small, independently fiesty Caribbean island nations). Gus thinks they moved up the publication date. Smart of them, since the book has been selling fairly briskly in pre-sales. Pirates of Pensacolaby Keith Thomson Thomas Dunne Books Sales Rank: 30211 Pub Date: 01 April,…
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I’ve found a new music website – Accuradio.com. Ineresting – very configurable webradio. Got there via the rather stupid Windows Media radio tuner. Will probably connect directly since their tuner is way cooler. It’s got gobs of Celtic channels and sub-channels, and it acts like a gigantic CD changer, with nice fast connections to Amazon pages for each CD. I’ll probably use it a lot at work. So far, I’ve heard some great music: The Bold Privateer, by Eliza Carthy Old Blind Dogs A self-released album called “Myxolydian” by Mark Saul The Palace Theater, by Seven Nations Boot Scootin’ Woman,…
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After last week’s kick-ass TAR7 episode, we get this week’s suck-ass TAR7 episode. Although there was much, much, much that was great, well done, well edited, well raced about this week’s entry, a new kind of play has been introduced: “Bend Ze Rules.” Rob and Amber continue in their quest to be the most polarizing team in Race history: once again, half the fans at TWOP and half the people in my office (the show has finally become a workplace hit) thought Rob’s use of an obscure rule to get out of doing an unpleaseant eating Roadblock task was smart…
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This post is going to be a little like a Steve Martin monologue from the 70’s – a lot of pickin, grinning, and ra-a-a-a-a-m…blinnnn. And bad fashion. Just so you know. I haven’t been terribly productive around the house for, oh, a little over a year now. Which is just about exactly when I started the blog, coincidentally, but never mind about that now. Really, it started before that. No, wait, I’ve never been terribly productive around the house. I was more productive when Stuey (who now inhabits the Memorial Tea Caddy on the mantelpiece) was around, because I kind…
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This post is going to be a little like a Steve Martin monologue from the 70’s – a lot of pickin, grinning, and ra-a-a-a-a-m…blinnnn. And bad fashion. Just so you know. I haven’t been terribly productive around the house for, oh, a little over a year now. Which is just about exactly when I started the blog, coincidentally, but never mind about that now. Really, it started before that. No, wait, I’ve never been terribly productive around the house. I was more productive when Stuey (who now inhabits the Memorial Tea Caddy on the mantelpiece) was around, because I kind…
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Today, so many have popped up – pledging support of everything from people with diabetes to victims of the Asian tsunami – that some find the trend laughable. “Putting a ribbon magnet on your car is an empty gesture,” said Jay Barnes, the author of AntiMagnet, a Web site devoted to ridiculing the trend. “It’s prepackaged sentiment for a profit.'” Jeff Poirier joined with friends to launch Support Our Ribbons, which offers magnets displaying messages such as “Support Our Ribbons,” “I Support More Troops Than You,” and “One Nation Under Ribbons.” “Ribbons support many causes,” said Poirier, 25. “Isn’t it…
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James Tiptree Jr. Award Winners: Joe Haldeman and Johanna Sinisalo The award is “presented annually to a work that explores and expands gender roles in science fiction and fantasy…” James Tiptree, Jr was actually Alice Sheldon. She wrote a memorable book that featured not only gender-role swapping, but complete body and consciousness and species swapping called Up The Walls Of The World. It’s at least 15 years since I read it, and I still remember the intriguing, liberating, and disturbing issues she raised and the characters that played the story out. Tiptree/Sheldon was an amazing writer, and she led an…