| Sunday, September 6th, 2009 |
| 4:32 pm |
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| Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 |
| 3:31 pm |
[WoW] New droood forms...
Me: "Not bad. Not perfect either, but definitely better'n the ones they're replacing, especially the tauren kitty." Small but vocal minority on the worldofwarcraft.com droood forums: "OH NOEZ!!! TEH NEW FORMS ARNT EKZACTLY WUT I WANTED!!!! I R TEH CENTR UV TEH WORLD!!! WTF BLIZZ!!!1!" Me: *slap* Current Mood:  amused |
| Friday, April 24th, 2009 |
| 2:10 am |
I don't know why, exactly, but this picture just cracks me up...  Current Mood: amused |
| Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 |
| 1:22 am |
Wrestlemania thoughts...
Is it just me, or did Steamboat look like he could still go at the age of 50-whatever he is? And boy did I dig HBK-Taker. No gimmicks, no ladders/tables/sledgehammers/limos/dumps ters/etc..., just kick-ass ring psychology, gritty physical performances, and an old-school respect for the emotional 'flow' of a great match. And that degree of relentless energy from two guys older'n I am. Loved it. The rest was "eh...", and just "eh...". Current Mood: satisfied |
| Saturday, March 21st, 2009 |
| 12:36 pm |
An observation of science fiction fans...
I've noticed something from reading reviews of the BSG finale, both in the MSM and on blogs. The casual sf fan, or even the non-sf fan that just likes the show for the story and not for the technological flash, seems to have enjoyed it. A lot of the harder-core sf fans have hated it. I think it boils down to the following: Many "serious" SF fans are some close-minded SoBs. They can take FTL travel and Artificial Intelligence and life on other planets in stride, but put a little God in there and they lose it. "That's impossible!", "What a cop out!", "Lazy storytelling!", etc... FTL drives aren't deus ex machina but a steady spirituality introduced and fleshed out over the entire four year run of the series is? Come on... Mark Perigard of the Boston Globe wrote: "When did my grounded sci-fi show turn into “Supernatural”?" It did in Season One, with the President's visions and the Arrow of Apollo. In Season Two, with the search for the Tomb of Athena and the revelations found there. In Season Three, with the temple on the algae planet and the Eye of Jupiter and an entire star choosing just that moment to go nova in order to show the next step in the journey to Earth. Pretty much all of Season Four, most notably with Starbuck's resurrection. From the beginning with the constant importance of dreams and the unexplained "head Cylons", through the middle with the introduction of the Hybrids and their prophetic visions and the emergence of Starbuck's mysterious backstory, to the end with the rise of religious cults and the point where technology starts to fail, leaving a little Cylon/human girl as the last hope of both races. Hell, go back to the original series and the Beings of Light and even there you'll find a quasi-deified greater power that has looked out for mankind since long before the founding of the Colonies. Battlestar Galactica is and always has been a spiritual show. If you can leave your prejudices behind and look at the finale from an unbiased perspective, you'll see how it all hangs together with everything that has come before it. If you can't get past that personal dogma then I feel sorry for you, because you're not letting yourself enjoy what most people seem to agree was one helluva powerful ending. |
| 2:02 am |
BSG finale redux...
Liked it even better the second time. The end result made the survivors' dogged persistence in the face of four years of soul-numbing despair worth it, and the spirituality that threaded through the whole episode just added a depth that had been teased for the past couple seasons without really being brought to fruition until tonight. I loved all the goodbyes; Starbuck's fate in particular was spot-on, and something I'd been hoping they'd have the nads to eventually do since she originally "died". Loved it. Very satisfying. Kudos. Current Mood: content |
| Friday, March 20th, 2009 |
| 11:08 pm |
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| Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 |
| 5:48 pm |
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| Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 |
| 6:26 pm |
[Cam] Sooooo, soft reset...
I'm kinda "eh" about the whole thing. Not sure if I like it or dislike it, but either way the reaction this engenders isn't strong. Having to redo characters is kinda annoying though, and I'll probably end up officially retiring most of them. Current Mood:  apathetic |
| Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 |
| 12:44 am |
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| Friday, October 17th, 2008 |
| 11:56 pm |
Book recommendation...
I've probably read Greg Bear's "The Forge of God" a dozen times over the past twenty years, and every time I'll still get all misty-eyed at the end of it. The will melancholia stay with me for days, but it's a good melancholia, if you can believe that. The scary thing is that the sorts of events it describes could be happening right now... Current Mood:  awake |
| Friday, September 19th, 2008 |
| 9:59 pm |
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| Friday, May 2nd, 2008 |
| 5:52 pm |
Cam question...
Hey Cammie types, what's going on that has so many folks making "whither the Cam now?" posts today? |
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| Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 |
| 2:11 am |
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| Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 |
| 12:28 am |
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| Friday, February 22nd, 2008 |
| 5:37 pm |
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| Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 |
| 1:13 pm |
I don't know why, but I can't help laughing every time I see this one:  |
| Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 |
| 1:56 am |
[Fantasy Football] Back to the future...
So I've got Larry Johnson in my lovely wife's work league. He's out for a while with a foot sprain. I just picked up Priest Holmes... Starting Priest Holmes reminds me of being a newlywed, still living in an apartment, back when George W. was invincible and people were saying things like "Taliban? That some kinda new deodorant?" |
| Friday, October 26th, 2007 |
| 11:27 pm |
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