I’m a woman who can do the shrill pepper-pot voice in the Spam sketch, very badly. (Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam) People usually ask me to stop.
I could recite entire Monty Python sketches, unless you pay me not to.
So I was happy to learn that Monty Python has started a YouTube channel. They’ve [...]
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What’s on my mind, to keep my mind off buyouts …
Books
Reading Moonseed by Stephen Baxter. A hard sci-fi novel driven by real science. Venus explodes. And not too long after, Earth starts to be eaten away by a contamination of a sample of moondust. It’s up to an astronaut and her geologist ex-husband to put [...]
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A strong, free, funky voice accompanied by guitar fills a posh old theater. A tiny little folksinger jumps to her music, holding tight to her guitar almost like a dance partner. She’s got so much energy, has so much to say about voices, feminism, choices, politics, love and freedom.
I went to see Ani DiFranco, again, [...]
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I’ve been meaning to write what I thought about the first season of Doctor Who, now that it has finished its American run on Sci-Fi.
Fantastic. The Doctor’s tagline sums up how I felt about the series.
Going into the show, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I gave it a faithful fan’s try and was surprised. [...]
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie is something that closely resembles but is not quite like the tea coming out of a Nutrimatic Machine. But at least you don’t spit it out and say it tastes filthy.
See, that’s an in joke. There are lots of in jokes in the theatrical version of what I [...]
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To the question of whether I went to the new Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie is yes, and the question of whether I loved it is double yes.
Am I excited? Yes.
New material mixed in with the familiar. Well worth the stamp of Hitchhiker’s. Not disappointed, not one little bit.
Will I probably see it again?
What [...]
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Several months ago, three separate friends recommended the first book in this series: The Eyre Affair.
It’s a hysterical mix of an alternate future, detective work and literature.
Many of the characters, for instance, have funny names. Like Thursday Next, the heroine of the novel. Or Jack Schitt, a nemesis at Goliath Corporation. Or Acheron Hades, the [...]
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