"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

[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.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!

Oh man, Attack of the Clones was so not the finest hour for Star Wars. *shakes head sadly* But if you're starting with the prequels, you know at least that it's going to get better! :) I need to have a marathon like that one of these days. It's been too long. Enjoy!