"You know deep down this guy thinks he's Johnny Cash."

[eldritchhobbit]

Many of my friends are celebrating birthdays today and tommorrow! Happy birthday wishes go out to jasonbsizemore, _snitchbitch, and dannyboy8406, and happy early birthday wishes go out to dracschick and juxiantang. May you all have fantastic days and wonderful years to come!

I have a few quick notes today:

* First of all, congratulations to my husband and his school for the exciting news they shared this weekend: "College to Change Name to Lenoir-Rhyne University."


* Second of all, I am proud to announce that the book chapter "Sexy Nerds: Illya Kuryakin, Mr. Spock, and the Image of the Cerebral Hero in Television Drama," which I had the great pleasure of co-authoring with st_crispins, is now available in the new book Common Sense: Intelligence as Presented on Popular Television, edited by Lisa Holderman and published by Lexington Books. It was great fun to revisit the worlds of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Star Trek, Blake's 7, The X-Files, MacGuyver, Stargate SG-1, VR.5, Buffy, Firefly/Serenity, Numb3rs, and NCIS with st_crispins; moreover, several fans and fan fiction authors on my friends list provided us with terrific quotes we used in the article. (You know who you are!) This piece was almost a decade in the making, so it's a thrill to see it in print at last.


* Speaking of the fabulous st_crispins, I recommend that you check her out (she's the blonde professor/expert with some terrific quotes) on the following clip. Backstage with Larry Nolan, Comcast's entertainment news show, did a piece on the new Man from U.N.C.L.E. DVD set, and they includeed clips from the Fandemonium extra that's among the set's bonus materials.

Watch on YouTube

* And last, for your amusement: Which instruments would the denizens of the Star Wars universe play and why? Here's a guess: Guitar Wars?



"You know deep down this guy thinks he's Johnny Cash." (on Grand Moff Tarkin)
"Dude. He is so Clapton." (on Qui-Gon Jinn)
- Ale[X]-wing fighter at Guitar Wars?

Comments

[euclase.livejournal.com]

"This guitar just looks like you need a beard to play it."

*giggles* Most excellent. Thanks for that laugh. And congratulations to all (one, two, three!) of you! <3

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to your husband.

And thank you for the details of the book. I now have it on pre-order with Amazon.co.uk. Congratulations to you after a decade of work, I can quite believe it's very exciting.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

Well, shoot. That book just went on my Wish List. :-)

Many, many congratulations to your husband. The new name is delightfully Gothic-sounding, as if I can expect figures to leap from the shadows in order to teach!

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

Yay for our article! The book is finally out. You were a great, angst-free collaborator and I'd do it again in a NY minute. Hope there are other opportunities in the future.

Congrats to husband and his college.

As for the YouTube ---isn't that funny? Today Comcast, tomorrow Entertainment Tonight!

[re-animating.livejournal.com]

Congrats to your husband!

The chapter looks like it would be a lot of fun. I just added it to my Wish List. :)

Guitar Wars is just silly! I'm pretty nerdy, but I never would have pondered the idea. LOL

[estellye.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the latest publication! The video was great! It would be worth picking up those DVD's I would say.

Guitar Wars. ROFL!

[abbie (from livejournal.com)]

Congratulations all around!!

"It looks like it could cut through anything, like, say, your long lost son's forearm." Bahahaa! Excellent. And very timely -- I haven't watched Star Wars in such a long time, so I decided to start watching my way through them again in "chronological" order, starting with the prequels. I just finished Attack of the Clones. Not my favorite.

[dracschick.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the birthday wishes!

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Much exciting news, indeed! Congrats to your husband, you and st_crispins; I look forward to reading that chapter :D

I enjoyed that profile you posted up in your most recent entry, too.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_snitchbitch/]

Thank you :)

[witchcat07.livejournal.com]

Okay, was Crispin the one that told her students to say Ilya Kuryakin?

And I wonder if you know, the lady that is next to Napolean in the B&W shot while he is explaining what Thrush is (I thought it was a fungal infection), is that Majel Barrett? Cos she looks an awful lot like Nurse Christine Chapel to me.