My thoughts, exactly.

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Paid to be a geek!

WOW. I've been asked to collaborate on a Space: 1999 novel for the small press that has the franchise license. I am in shock. I hardly thought my writing breakout would be in prose, nor that the show I worshipped as a kid would provide the opportunity to write, get paid, and have fun. Don't get me wrong, I realize Space: 1999 had multiple flaws as a television production (not the least of which is a physics faux pas at the root of the show's premise), but it captured my imagination when I was seven years old, as it did for many. In most ways, the books are more intelligent than the show ever was, deepening the characters and exploring things that let's face it, ITC didn't have a budget to create in 1975. I am honored to be a part of that universe, and I am excited to take on this challenge.

Thanks to Silas216 @ Flickr

Frak the Frak Pak

We looked into KFC's "Frak Pak" advertised during BSG. Initially I thought it was like a 6-pack of chicken (aka the "Fuck Bucket") but apparently it's a sweepstakes you have to enter and if you win you get a whole bunch of BSG and KFC stuff. What a disappointment! Here I thought I could roll up to the KFC drive through and order me a Frak Pak of chicken. Not that I even like KFC, though Bizarro does. I just thought it would be cool to order, and I would totally save the box if it said "Frak Pak" all over it.

Oh, Felgercarb!

Frak Pak

Last night's return of Battlestar Galactica was... well... frak me. SPOILER ALERT! If you don't watch the show and don't care, then don't read. If you do watch the show and somehow haven't seen last night's episode, be forewarned.






1. We're all Cylons? So the 13th Colony was FROM earth (not going TO earth) and they were Cylons. Which means... the humans are really all Cylons?

2. The final 5 aren't resurrected like the other 7 skin jobs - they're special. Older? Originally from Earth and they created the other 7 along with the Toasters?

3. Ellen Tigh is the 5th Cylon - so is she coming back? Maybe the Final 5 are actually reincarnated, rather than resurrected, which would mean she's a 3 year old running around somewhere.

4. Starbuck died when she found Earth. I think everyone is in agreement that she was brought back to life by The Ship of Lights (from the original show's mythology). She's some kind of crazy-ass angel, IOW. But still frakked up because she doesn't know what she is or WHY she is.

5. People go crazy when every scrap of hope is yanked out from under them. Espcially the women who USED to be strong. Laura Roslin cries and burns the Book of Pythia; Deanna decides to stay on radioactive Earth, wait for the other Bad Cylons and die; Dualla shoots herself in the head? WTF?

6. Who will be the "Count Iblis" of BSG? (again from the original show's mythology - good vs evil borrowing from Judeo/Christian Mythology). And how does Baltar's monotheism fit into all of this?

IO9 did live blogging last night and put it all together for you to read. BSG Live Blogging.

I need me a Frak Pak from KFC.

Tron 2.0

I am so excited there's a sequel to this awesome computer animation classic, with original cast as well as a few younger faces, including Olivia Wilde (hubba hubba!). Read all about it.

Bring on the light bikes, grid bugs and those scary Recognizers (aka "stompers")! I dare you to derezz me!

More Tron goodness here.



For years I've wanted to walk into my classroom an announce, "Greetings, Programs!" Now I'll be able to and someone might actually know what I'm talking about.

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You are not of the body!

I've decided. My favorite Star Trek episode is "Return of the Archons," where Kirk & Co. find a planet that is being controlled by a computer that calls itself Landru. This episode's got everything - zombies, mind-control, dystopia masked as utopia, turning logic against a computer to destroy it, rape & pillage in the streets, menacing dudes in hooded cloaks, and Kirk in a waistcoat and tie.

Horno Tostador

Holy shit I am SUCH a nerd! I just re-read my last post and realized that I really do sound like a total geek. Oh well. If the tennis shoe fits... (oblique reference to the 10th Doctor's choice of footwear). Damn, see? There I go again.

My students had to write a detailed description of someone or something or someplace for their first paper. The first paper off the stack I read was, in fact, a biography of Vincent vanGogh. How do you say "HUH?" in Chinese? But it's okay; we had our conference today and she gets to rewrite the entire thing. She did have some description of a few of his paintings, but 85% of the paper was about how he got kicked out of everything because of his problem with authority, and how he went nuts, and how he cut off his ear, and how he shot himself.

Oh well. Whaddyagonnado?

Tomorrow we go to the campus museum (which isn't bad for what it is). Had to give them a crash course in art appreciation, which I didn't appreciate because you cannot teach someone how to appreciate art in 3 days. Not only are they supposed to understand what they're looking at, then they have to write a paper. I am not down with that. At all. But it's not my call. *shrug*

Even with teaching a class and four conferences and a trip to grocery store, I was still home by 4:30 today. This is a schedule I can live with.

Didn't sleep well last night, though. Insomnia and multiple wake-ups during the night. Don't know why. I'll be hitting the hay as soon as I am well-entertained by Chip Coffey and his Psychic Kids tonight.

But first, dinner, laundry, and to finish the book of short stories I've been reading, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li, which apparently has been made into a movie of the same title.

P.S. We bought a new toaster oven yesterday. The box is in English and Spanish (today's title). Finally, after being married 3 years, we're starting to replace all the old and busted bachelor/bachelorette stuff with grown-up stuff. The only downside to eloping is not getting the cool wedding presents.

Pass me my silver jump-suit

I just laughed so hard that my nose is running. And yes, I'm still up. I keep getting distracted and then my husband sends me THIS.

They don't include two important style items from the Sci Fi multi-verse: the dress uniform disco capes from the original Battlestar Galactica, and the elephant-pant-legs and platform shoes of Space: 1999.

Blingdom

O Mighty Isis (Isis...Isis..Isis)!

An Old Obsession

As you know, I am a huge fan of the mid-70s space drama "Space: 1999." I recently rediscovered it and ordered the first set of DVDs from the first season, which is the only season I really care too much about. Second season was okaaaayy but wasn't as well-written. Anyway, when I was a little girl I had a huge crush on the pilot, Alan Carter, played by Nick Tate. Blond hair, blue eyes, rough and tumble, funny, brave, and the Aussie accent didn't hurt, either. I thought he was the bee's knees. Still do, in fact. Now Nick is 65 but he's still acting (stage and screen in U.S. and Australia) and doing voice overs for movie trailers (one of 5 guys in Hollywood with "the voice," you've heard him do Jurassic Park among others).

Damn, I am a Nerd-Queen.


Nick Tate as Alan Carter in "Space: 1999" YUMMY!

Why I am the way I am...

This was from an episode of Space: 1999, which I watched religiously as a kid. The video you are about to see sent me flying behind the easy chair because it was SO DAMNED SCARY. Remember, I was 8.

Nick at Knight

This past weekend I allowed myself for the first time in months to completely shut out the real world and just chillax in my pad. Me and Bizarro sat down to watch the entire first season of a show called Forever Knight, a cult vampire show from the early/mid-90s. I remember staying up til 1 in the morning to watch it with my Mom. She had a nickname for the evil bad guy of the show, LaCroix: Blondie. The main character is Nick Knight, a vampire with a conscience who works as a Metro homicide detective while his coroner gal pal concocts a program for him to physically regain his humanity. That shit lasted 3 seasons! The stories were campy and fun, the acting was often awful but it worked within the cult campiness of the whole arrangement. And when I was 24 I had a crush on the actor who played Nick, Geraint Wyn Davies, as well as his vampire love Janette, played by Deborah Duchene.

Ah, those were simpler days... staying up until 1:00 a.m. to watch syndicated cult TV shows.

Nerd Queen for A Day

Pretty accurate.

Kitteh Trekk

Brain and Brain...

What is BRAIN?

More Than Meets the Eye

With the upcoming remake of The Transformers has come much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Old Schoolers.

I'd rather watch this: