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[evcake]

Watching: Wall-E, a love story for the ages.

True. Am I the only one that think Eve is the perfect T'Pol and Wall-E looks a little like Trip?

Actually, Eve is a litle like T'Pol. How she conducts a little experiment with everything Wally offers her.

[TPoptarts]

Just watched episode 4 of Time Trax

Rest of them are still downloading

[Linda]

What am I doing? Sometimes I wish I knew. Right now? Avoiding work by skimming through a BBS.

[evcake]

Very wise. Work should be avoided at all costs.

Reading: The Deluxe Transitive Vampire; The Ulitimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed.

And Charlie, by Distracted.

[Alelou]

So is that first one a funny grammar book or a novel or what?

Charlie is definitely an original and memorable tale. If anyone hasn't read it, I definitely recommend it.

[evcake]

It's both, sort of. And extremely funny.

Charlie is indeed a fascinating story, and notable in that Trip actually suggests that T'Pol have sex with another man.

[Alelou]

And now that it's here instead of just a link from TpT, people can start leaving comments and arguing about it again.

[evcake]

An idea both intriguing and meritorious. (It's this book - I can't stop myself)

[justTripn]

I just watched the end of Battlestar Galactica (without watching much of the middle). Are there any women into this series? I don't know of any. But men seem to love it. There were are few nice moments in the two hour finale. I don't want to ruin anyone's fun, so I'll but my criticisms in spoiler code (they aren't really spoilers):

SPOILER!!!:

All along the plots have seemed 1) very contrived and 2) contrived to be dark. Relating to the recent Christianity and sci fi discussion (saviors, miracles, resurrection), those themes were prominent in the finale and I don't think I really like those themes in my sci fi. They seem like a "cheat."

[Aquarius]

Waiting for: my neighbors to come over so we can watch last night's Battlestar Galactica finale!

Regarding grammar books: I like Sin and Syntax, too.

[TPoptarts]

SPOILER!!!:

Hehe we're all half cylons!! How awesome muahahaha

[Linda]

I never could get into Battlestar Galactica. Turning on the TV and coming into the middle of the occassional episode just doesn't work for me. I think I got hooked on Star Trek by coming into the middle of an episode. I wonder what the difference is?

[JadziaKathryn]

Listening to "You're Not Sorry (CSI Remix)." I don't do country, but this was on a preview for a CSI episode with Taylor Swift and I was hooked on this version, where they replaced the country music with what I consider decent music to go with the vocals. As is a habit, I've got the same song on repeat.

Just finished reading The Charm School by Nelson DeMille, which is the tenth of my 10 80s spy novels. (For my 20th century US pop culture research seminar. Now I have to write about what they show about US society and its perceptions of the USSR.) Dang, I'm starting to think people who read these were probably wicked paranoid. I heard some people in the hall talking about CGB, the campus governing board. I immediately thought, "KGB? What?" Too many spy novels! But this was the darkest by far. So, after the US government authorized the killing of 1000 people, including some 300 Americans (if they'd lived it would've been awkward, see), AND decides to turn a chilling Soviet tactic against them - bam, the end. Time for bed. Bad timing on my part. And yet I liked this one better than, say, the Tom Clancy books. Those were all black and white, and you could feel good about the US and sure that the USSR was run by evil despots. However, his protagonist was too perfect. Jack Ryan is a Gary Stu if there ever was one.

I think I need to go read some fluff.

[Alelou]

TEN spy novels? Do you also have to read ten romances and ten general fiction titles? Can you also include TV shows like Scarecrow and Mrs. King" or whatever? The bad guys in the 80s usually were either Soviets or evil businessmen, weren't they?

[Linda]

JK, I think I am in the mood for some fluff right now too! RL is breathing down my neck. Some domestic Trip and T'Pol stories would do nicely!