Thursday, December 21, 2000
Wednesday, December 20, 2000
Star Trek On Ice: Be afraid.
Amongst the comics I got this week was the first issue of Ultimate X-Men; it was amusingly entitled The Tomorrow People, and better yet it used the font of the 70s British Television Series of the same name.
It was also pretty good -- clearly influenced by this summer's X-Men, but also a nice start for those of us that like the concepts of The X-Men, but think that the continuity of the last ten or so years have made the mainstream X-titles pretty much unreadable. (Please, Grant Morrison, make those titles good! )
It was also pretty good -- clearly influenced by this summer's X-Men, but also a nice start for those of us that like the concepts of The X-Men, but think that the continuity of the last ten or so years have made the mainstream X-titles pretty much unreadable. (Please, Grant Morrison, make those titles good! )
I see that I'm now on DR. JACK BEVEN LIST of DOCTOR WHO FANS WEB SITES in my new location. (You can check out his whole site as well)
Let me know if you link to me, as I'll put a link here as well.....
Let me know if you link to me, as I'll put a link here as well.....
Menards man shares memories -- one of my favorite memories at Gallifrey One in LA was talking to a bunch of Brits who had received video tapes from the US and were fans of the Menards Guy, as it was amusing to go half way across the country and discuss something so regional as a TV ad spokesperson....
Honest Bias by William Saletan -- This article in Slate reinforces my opinion about biases; and that they're natural, and you have to be careful when you are evaluating anything in life. (And this isn't just governmental political biases -- I think the biases apply just as much in science fiction fandom in its various forms and factions.)
And of course, bias plays in on both sides of any communication -- for example, both the news source and the news consumer. A Rush Limbaugh is going to have a conservative bias -- and you might ignore what he says entirely if you're a liberal, or interpret it in the most negative fashion possible, even when you might occasionally agree with him, or he's presenting a factual story. Same thing when you hear a conservative complain about the so-called liberal bias in the mainstream media....
And of course, bias plays in on both sides of any communication -- for example, both the news source and the news consumer. A Rush Limbaugh is going to have a conservative bias -- and you might ignore what he says entirely if you're a liberal, or interpret it in the most negative fashion possible, even when you might occasionally agree with him, or he's presenting a factual story. Same thing when you hear a conservative complain about the so-called liberal bias in the mainstream media....
9 Types -- Enneagram Personality Dynamics -- another one of those personality test things.... I'm in a three way tie between "Thinker", "Skeptic" and "Peacemaker".
Tuesday, December 19, 2000
Wow. Buffy was good tonight. Angel was fantastic and amazing. Both series are the only thing that can absolutely get me in front of a television whenever there is a new episode. And unlike Star Trek -- which couldn't manage two series at the same time very well -- or Babylon 5, which couldn't manage a spin off. Where Angel is emerging not only as a different series, but has frequently been better than Buffy this year....
Amazing.
Amazing.
Monday, December 18, 2000
and with good reason --- it took me two or three times longer to get home than usual. Ick, ick, ick. Had to shovel the driveway again as well. Why do I live here? :)
I was added to the list of Minnesota Bloggers...so I'm committed to doing this for a while.
Not looking to driving home in the snow....
Not looking to driving home in the snow....
Sunday, December 17, 2000
Last night it was a bunch of Christmas British TV episodes at the MN British Television Viewing Society -- I hadn't seen any All Creatures Great and Small in a while, it was a lot of fun.
The weather continues to be cold and wintery here, the worst I think it's been since I moved back to Minnesota a couple of years ago. Though I don't know, that may be just me.
When I realized that the Vikings were losing to Green Bay, I switched over to VH-1 which was doing a Behind the Music on 1984. It hadn't really crystalized how much that was a critical year for me, and how it's the first year that I look at the popular (especially music) culture as something that I recognize as "mine" -- I saw my share of MTV that year; and it's stuff I got when it came out, or listened to when it came out, and not just as as historical records that I discovered later. Perhaps it is the season, but something like Do They Know It's Christmas struck a chord, since I got that single when it came out.
Perhaps it was because I had seen bits of the 1977 hour before that -- and while I recognize all of the songs from that as well, I don't look at them in the same way; if they trigger memories of a time, it isn't 1977 -- but of a variety of different years afterwards, and the songs aren't a part of their original context.
Another disturbing thing is that someone who was born in 1984 is older than I was in 1984; The Police would be to them like The Beatles are to me -- a band that broke up right when you were born.
The weather continues to be cold and wintery here, the worst I think it's been since I moved back to Minnesota a couple of years ago. Though I don't know, that may be just me.
When I realized that the Vikings were losing to Green Bay, I switched over to VH-1 which was doing a Behind the Music on 1984. It hadn't really crystalized how much that was a critical year for me, and how it's the first year that I look at the popular (especially music) culture as something that I recognize as "mine" -- I saw my share of MTV that year; and it's stuff I got when it came out, or listened to when it came out, and not just as as historical records that I discovered later. Perhaps it is the season, but something like Do They Know It's Christmas struck a chord, since I got that single when it came out.
Perhaps it was because I had seen bits of the 1977 hour before that -- and while I recognize all of the songs from that as well, I don't look at them in the same way; if they trigger memories of a time, it isn't 1977 -- but of a variety of different years afterwards, and the songs aren't a part of their original context.
Another disturbing thing is that someone who was born in 1984 is older than I was in 1984; The Police would be to them like The Beatles are to me -- a band that broke up right when you were born.
