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[liptonrm_backup]

Still fighting The Plague. Didn't come into work yesterday but there was Drama so came in today. Not Work Drama but Family Drama. The Mum isn't too happy with me at the moment. Drama, drama, drama.

It's hard to focus when I'm feeling this way. Thoughts and ideas don't settle down and my mind is always wandering around dazedly. And people get more annoying. Grrrrr.

Read The Stand this week. It's a fun book, nice and apocalyptic-y. I saw the mini-series when it was first on tv and was happily surprised to discover how accurate to the book it was. The biggest problem of the mini-series was some bad casting and the psychological neutering of the human villains. With regards to the book, I'm not completely sure Stephen King pulled off the Big Apocalyptic Battle. One minute the focus of the story was going one way and then the next minute it was off on a whole new tangent. I'm not sure what it was but something about the ending just didn't work for me, it's never worked for me. It's hard to pinpoint.

You know the best thing about staying home all day? Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. That show is so great. For me it ages better then The Next Generation (which comes on right after). The characters are richer, in some way. Sure Picard is great on TNG but he's the only one that is consistently intriguing. Shoot, it took DS9 to make Worf into a character I could love. I got to watch one of the mirrorverse episodes yesterday with nympho!Kira and rebel!Sisko and the enslaved human race. Great fun. Then there was another episode that had this great O'Brien-Bashir drunk scene and Colm Meaney totally let his Irish accent out to play and that was great because I had watched about half of Intermission the night before.

I have the desire to do something creative or productive but am really out of it so will just sit here and let all of you be interesting for me.

Word Origin of the Day: Annoy - In Latin, odium is the word for "hatred." This developed into anoier in Old French, meaning "to generate hate," before appereaing in Middle English as anoien, the direct ancestor of the modern English word. But by this time, the meaning had softened to imply something less extreme.

ETA: In another life my father was a political operative.

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[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Paramount obviously hates the fans. I mean, look, they kept Rick Berman in charge of the franchise for long enough to kill it off. They must really despise us.

Voyager took all of the worst tendencies of TNG and magnified them by a factor of a million. And Kate Mulgrew is no Patrick Stewart.

That's it, one day we will all get together and watch DS9 and Babylon 5 and Band of Brothers and Firefly and The West Wing and then the world will officially come to an End. =D

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Rick Berman actually gave a talk at my college freshman year - a tech school FULL of rabid Trekkies. I don't remember much of it, but it was kinda interesting. And yeah, they do seem to despise us. Or, use us perhaps? Almost an abusive relationship, really.
(and apparently Bruce McKenna of BoB fame gave a talk at our neighboring college the semester after I graduated - apparently his family is strongly tied to Claremont McKenna college. Go figure :) )

Very true. I don't mind being lectured by Patrick Stewart. But when Mulgrew tries I just want to slug her. I swear her voice made me wince. Plus, I do like TNG. I admit it.

WE WILL! We just have to both make it to Chicago on the same weekend or somesuch. Though I admit to never seeing a single minute of B-5.

[writerj.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's it, you both get the Kate Death Glare *glare*. You don't diss my momma!

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Well fine. *sticks out tongue*

It must be one of the bitchy chick things. *wink*

[writerj.livejournal.com]

I wasn't going to go there, but ... *went there in his head* I do notice certain trends.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

I like TNG too. I don't think it's aged as well as DS9 because it was primarily episodic and not as character based as it's space station counterpart but when it was good it was very, very good. And, dude, Patrick Stewart. 'Nuff said.

Did you know that Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan are doing an updated movie version of The Merchant of Venice that will be set in Las Vegas? I'm really excited.

We will meet, one day. Oh yes we will. The scheduling gods are a pernicious lot but we will find a way to appease them.

You've never seen B5? You totally should. The dialogue's not always that great and some of the actors are less then acceptable but the story is fantastic. Highly recommended.

has NO Sci Fi icon. blasphemy

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

DS9 started episodic and then changed. And sometimes episodic is better cause you can pick it up in random places - yaknow?
Yep. Picard and Data and GEORDI and Ro and Worf and *sighs* it was good.

Did you know that Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan are doing an updated movie version of The Merchant of Venice that will be set in Las Vegas? I'm really excited.

holy crap. that could kill me.

it's true. one day :) we'll just have to take the scheduling gods, twist their arms behind their backs and make them submit (especially since hiyacynth just told me it looks like we'll be missing each other by one week)

Nope. Always thought about watching B5, but it never happened.