Tweets & NPR

I never really do twitter. Is it because I can’t access it from work? Yes. And perhaps because I haven’t downloaded the app to my phone because I find myself doin’ alright without it. Hmm, I’ll have to consider this.

Speaking of twitter, there was a great joke about the tweeting on “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” on NPR the other day. Have you ever listened to that? It’s like a current events game show on the radio with special guests & the ability to call in & participate. I think you’d like it. I download them on iTunes & listen when I can.

TV Pruning

I've never watched Ghost Whisperer. Good? Although, yes, I don't need to add anything else! I watch my TV slowly but steadily. I've had to drop a few things, but it was worth it. I've dropped Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice, just not worth it, and I've postponed The Office. That was an accident, but I missed so much that I'm just going to watch the whole season this summer or something. I did watch the episode where the baby is born, though.

Okay, yes, I remember reading that Adam Baldwin is on Chuck. His Firefly character is really funny. On Firefly, he's not really bright, but he's the muscle and force. Plus, everyone on that show says funny things, him included.

Another Brent Spiner thing. I started following him on twitter recently, and it's amusing. He has a weird relationship with his fans, and he's very dry. I don't try to tweet him or anything, but it's fun to read.

More About TV

Also (!), Casey from Chuck was on Firefly and he is probably my absolute favorite character (which, from what I gather, is very similar to the spirit of his Firefly character). His name is Adam Baldwin and I think the connection between the two is his gun-lovingness.

I’m still barely able to get in the TV I want to see now and I don’t like to be sitting in front of a show if I can’t be fully engaged in it, so I tend to save good TV for times when Clark is gone, busy or sleeping. Instead, I watch reruns of Ghost Whisperer.

Chuck is on my Netflix also. Nerd goodness, but not scifi, right? I have such a long list, but I love how TV has evolved into this thing where you can do all of it as you're ready. I also think that TV is at a place where it is much, much better than the movies in general. The level of skill, storytelling, all that, is just so far above what you get at the movies.

BSG, the new one, is just amazing. There are slow moments, nothing's perfect, but wow. Firefly had enough good moments to keep me going through the whole series, and I really enjoyed it, and Nathan Fillion is my crush, but I can still see why it got cancelled. It just wasn't quite tight enough or something.

I don't know about the new Dune that you reference, but I have gathered that it spawned lots of follow-ups. You know me, I'm a bit purist, so I'm starting at the beginning with originals. I can tell you that the original book is good and I look forward to picking it up every time.

I try not to read much about Dune online until I'm done with it, but I came across some people who think that Star Wars is a ripoff, more than just influenced by Dune, and I can see what they're saying, but it still is totally a different story, and Lucas still had to come up with the characters and everything. It's more like the setting is the same with different names. The tones are different as well. I was a little disappointed that the Star Wars universe itself isn't original, since that's the backbone of a sci fi piece to me, but still, SW has its own merits.

Television Nerdhood/Greatness

Ok, I haven’t really done Battlestar Galactica yet, but Frankie knows the old one. Love Lost, watched a few episodes of Firefly back when it was on (liked it). I was okay with Buffy, but we both really liked Angel. I remember watching Threshold back in the day. (I had a “wishlist” on my Tivo that recorded anything with Brent Spiner in it.) I watched the occasional Stargate, but remember loving the movie. I know absolutely nothing about Babylon 5, though.

I watched the new Dune a few years ago, but wasn’t too into it. (I was watching it with/for Frankie) I had no idea it was related to Star Wars, but now that I google it, I see that Lucas acknowledged it’s influence on his work. Good to know.

I also don’t know too much about comics. I know about the movies and Frankie fills me in on the connections that are hinted at or behind the scenes in movies. In that vein, though, we really love Chuck. It’s nerd/spy goodness: Chuck embodies a lot of the things that Frankie is/loves. It’s good times.

SciFi Goodness

I knew, I was joking!

Yes, I totally remember! I still pull the Starfleet Academy tee out of my closet every so often, but it's not working at my current weight. I'm saving it in case. Remember when I called that my Saturday shirt, though? I wore it all the time there for a while.

Dude, that would be fun! I started looking for conventions in Texas, and there are some cool things that happen. They're more combo conventions with lots of scifi stuff, but that would be cool. And I don't know about celeb appearances at those. I've started to embrace scifi more, and I'm finding that there are more things I really like. LOVE Battlestar Galactica (re-imagining), Lost, Firefly was good, and that has led me to check out Buffy (Joss Whedon), but I haven't jumped off into that. I have some other things lined up, Threshold (Brent Spiner), the Stargate universe, maybe some Babylon 5, we'll see. My list is long!

I'm reading Dune right now, and I'm absolutely amazed. It's very good, and I just read about 10-20 pages at night before I go to sleep. Plan to watch the movie when I'm done. I've always heard of Dune, but I didn't realize that the Star Wars universe is taken from Dune, based on Dune, whatever. Star Wars takes place far in the past, though, right? Dune is far into the future, but that's a small point really. Are the Star Wars humans supposed to be related to us?

What about comic books, though? People who like the movies/TV that I like seem to be really into that, too, and I haven't found an interest yet. Is there something really good that I should start with? Have you read any?

I'm so into entertainment. Is that wrong?

I meant that I didn’t have words for how funny that was.

When we got that free trip to Vegas a couple of years ago, I purposely scheduled it for the week of the convention. We didn’t go to any of the “convention” things but we went to the casino that hosted it & there was Quark’s bar & lots of people dressed up & a shop. Remember? I bought myself (and you?) a Starfleet Academy tshirt.