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Before I get my ass in gear this morning, I just had to post about this.

If you were a trekkie back in the seventies, and you remember the animated series (which the Guy just DLd), do you remember reading or buying Alan Dean Foster's novelizations of that series? I bought it when I was a kid. I had all ten books. And then I grew out of my Star Trek fanaticism (so I thought) and traded them all off to Annie's Book Swap in Wellesley, MA when I was in High School.

I kick myself now, because those were some damn fun Star Trek stories. Foster really outdid himself on some of the stories. When I finally had a chance to watch the animated show (in the eighties?) I was so disappointed in it.

But anyhow. I am now doing a service and letting everyone know that you can acquire, or reacquire in my case, the reprints of the Star Trek Logs 1-10 in a reprint edition of five books. The publisher condensed the books from 10 into 5 paperbacks. I don't much like the new covers, but hey. What can you do?

Log 1 and 2



You can hop over to the other four books from that page.

Happy reading, y'all!

Book Swap!

Instead of selling my books, the ones that I want to get rid of, I joined Book Swap instead! I posted 16 books up there last night after I joined, and five of them have already been claimed by people who *want* them! I do have to schlep the books to the Post Office tomorrow though, after I buy some packing tape. And then in about 10 days or so, I'll start receiving credits so I can ask for books/audiobooks/DVDs to be sent to me!

There's also a DVD swap. I have to tread carefully there; my kids are attached to DVDs they haven't watched in a while. And who knows, in a few years they might have fits of nostalgia and want to see that show they remembered way back when when they were five, and laugh at them. Hmm.

You can also buy credits instead of relying solely on exchanging books or CDs.

Picky Eaters, All Growed Up

Here's an article in the Washington Post online paper. Makes me soooo thankful that for the most part, my husband and I have roughly the same palates and love most of the same foods (with the exception of lobster and scallops, yech, I can't stand them).

We have a friend who was like most of the picky eaters in this story. He had a child's palate. I've heard that he's since started expanding it a bit, which is good, because he's getting married. But it seems to me that many of the picky eaters have had their choices politicized by their mates, and have dug in their heels, or have gotten to the point where they absolutely refuse to try anything new even if they wanted.

Also, the possibility of any of these people, like the woman Ashamalla, (I love that name!) might have sensory issues that have gone undiagnosed wasn't mentioned. She seems the likeliest candidate for that. I personally couldn't imagine not wanting or being eat anything more than the ten things she'll accept. I nearly went nuts in Korea when I was there, because there was simply no selection of foreign foods there to vary the tastes. There was one little tea shop that also served curries, a pizza place, a McDonalds, Chinese food slanted to Korean tastes (nothing like Americanized Chinese food), no Thai food, nothing of that sort.  Anyhow, Ashamalla probably has sensory issues or perhaps is very sensitive to texture.

Even Zeus Carver and John McClane agree,

That Michael Weatherly on Dark Angel is freaking HOT. 

I caught an episode on late night television last night, and saw the one where Jessica Alba's character (not such a good actress but very pretty) helps some mutant children escape from somewhere, and gives them weird names.

His character (at least in that episode) reminded me a lot of early Daniel Jackson. You know, scruffy, glasses, had the same type of look to him, and the character had a similar feel to him, too.

However, that does not mean I'm fangrrling the show, because from what I've seen of it, it's somewhere on the level of Earth Final Conflict, or Earth Two in quality and depth of characterization. Or late Stargate.

And there's just something incredibly cheesy on creating a stupid virus tailored specifically for one man, through one infected woman, that is totally a weak plot device and worthy of cliche fan fiction, where the cliches run around like mice. Does every woman have this virus? Or only Alba's character? It would be much more angsty if the Weatherly character couldn't get near ANY woman, let alone superherochicky in Dark Angel. He'd have to live like a monk. But then, the show would be much more about him than her (because that's how it goes in a show when a man is denied his female reward/s).