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Scenes from Chicago TARDIS Match Game

Captain Jack said "I think my sonic disruptor is broken. Every time I fire it sparks shoot out of my blank."

Answer that matched: butt
Best answer: Torchwood

C2K08 Pix Part 2

Chicago TARDIS 2008 - Day One

Updates for those who don't follow my Twitter stream. The hotel WiFi costs too much for the little I'll use it so I'm not writing it all up yet. I'm using our real camera for better pictures. But check out the tweets to the right and these pics until later.

Homesick, Stephen? Here's My Cure. Take one part Archie Campbell,

one part surprise celebrity guest, mix well, and PFFT!

I've read sadly through his blog -- because that and Twitter are just about the only way I communicate with anybody in my life who isn't family, sleeping with me, or my cat -- that my friend Stephen is unable to go home for Thanksgiving this year.  So I just wanted to send him this little piece of heaven which I hope makes him miss Tennessee a little less:

I've read sadly through his blog -- because that's just about the only way I communicate with anybody in my life who isn't family, sleeping with me, or my cat -- that my friend Stephen is unable to go home for Thanksgiving this year.  So I just wanted to send him this little piece of heaven which I hope makes him miss Tennessee a little less:

Growing up, I hated Hee Haw even though my grandfather insisted on watching it every time we visited. But I always LOVED this part and I'll now be singing this until I fall asleep. It's also really fun to go Pfft in my cat's face.

Not to bring the hilarity down but it really makes me miss my grandpa -- who was totally Johnny Cash.

Obama's Got Back

Michelle that is.¹  And Sunday in the Chicago Sun-Times, a "journalist" decided it was something spilling ink on.  

Though I'm only doing the world more damage by bringing this article up and linking to it, I believe the typically brilliant Stereohyped said it best when they noted:

Congratulations, black women, even if you become the First Lady, people won't stop talking about your big ass.²

I've read and re-read this article, trying to find a way in as a reader that I was missing to discover that the whole thing was tongue-in-cheek, but the only thing I was able to do is laugh at myself for using the phrase "tongue-in-cheek" in this context.³

¹ Barack, though possibly the most attractive president we've ever had, is way too skinny to have trunk junk worth discussing; though you know what they say about tall skinny guys...an urban legend that I've found in my studies to be a fairly accurate statement...and my research hasn't exactly been done with a small sample size.

² While it is true that this is stupid at best and offensive at worst, it also seems like the type of thing at which, behind close doors, that Michelle laughs off and may find funny as hell.  Or that she, at least, is tough enough that she only finds it bothersome in theory because she knows that there are women out there who aren't as strong as she is and who may have problems with things like this.

³ Yes, I'm disturbingly awesome.  There is no denying it.

Map of The Verse

As somebody who has a lot of sci-fi themed "adult" -- that is to say, framed and attractive looking to make it seem less like we live in a college dormitory -- this Fireflyposter is absolutely GORGEOUS and drool-worthy. 

However, the fact that it is a two-sided poster, with both sides awesome, and therefore, damned near impossible to hang up without losing half of it, I am a lot less tempted to make the $27.95 purchase. Still, though, nerd yum.

"I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans"

"What are we all looking at?"

Graeme McMillan at io9 has an amusing (grown) man embedded in the (tween girl vampire-infested) trenches take on the world's most mockable new trend now that the election is over -- Twilight fans. It's a small bit of humor that is exactly why God created blogging.  It starts with

It was, without a doubt, the strangest movie preview I've been to. 

peaks in the middle with: "there was so much screaming and shouting that I wouldn't have been surprised if a fight had broken out, West Side Story-style, with teenage girls jumping over seats in a co-ordinated dance movement, clicking their fingers and seeming like bad news.'

and ends with a comment on what it means for the big picture "the preview screening gave me hope for the future of fandom...I just can't wait for when there's a similar amount of enthusiasm for something good."

Like the youngster mentioned in my post last week/below...

Chicago Protests Prop. 8
Originally uploaded by casey60

I'm back, but not just because I needed to "get away" for a while. Hope you weren't too worried.. I've cleared up my Internet/Typepad billing issue so now I can post again, and I've got a backlog of thoughts, as usual. (No, I wasn't spending all my non-blogging time working on that novel, but thanks for assuming the best of me.)

On Political Topic A that's been on my mind since last I posted though here's a pie chart that says it much clearer than any diatribe I could spit out:

via the awesome GraphJam

What's the Lingo With the Kids Today for...

parentally getting your ass kicked...or at least grounded indefinitely...

Tisha Muentes, the 15-year-old who went missing two days ago and prompted a frantic search and caused me to worry too much when I read the RedEye, returned home yesterday, like it ain't no thing, saying she had taken a bus to Indianapolis because she, “felt she needed to get away for a while." 

I did some stupid ass shit as a kid; in fact, an excuse like this sounds like it's totally from the Mike playbook -- though with me it usually involved excusing what I'd been doing when I'd been looking (unsuccessfully, sadly) for illicit sex for way too long in the bushes somewhere.  But I digress.  

I hope she enjoyed her time away. I think it might be the last "good time" she has for a while.

That said, I'm really happy that she's okay and that all the worry was for naught.  It's so great to have a happy ending to crappy local news stories.  And too rare.

Philosophical Questions for the 21st Century

So let's say a major broadcast network spends lots of money creating, filming, and promoting a television show?  And let's say it you DVR'd every episode but never watched it?  And then it got cancelled.

Did it make a sound?

Why is this a relevant question tonight?

NBC finally got around to cancelling My Own Worst Enemy (even though I could have sworn they said it was the show everybody was talking about just the other day)  and we still have all four episodes on the TiVo.  What to do?