When it comes to Trek, I'm older than dirt -

[kyburg]

I remember when it was just a rumor. A nasty rumor you never talked to him about, because it caused so much distress.

George Takei did spend some of his childhood in a WWII relocation camp.

Yes, I'd go to a Trek convention to see him - but I'd rather go see him here, where we are all members. He has his name on the wall outside - I think as a founder.

And they have one of the tar-papered shacks inside the place, just as he describes.

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You want recipes, huh? Okay. I spent a few extra minutes at home this morning tossing everything into the crockpot for dinner tonight - I wanted to use up some of the CSA boxes from the past couple of weeks, too.

So.

I have the mondo huge variety of crockpot - think one twice the size of what you're used to, and oval. Like a stoneware turkey cooker.

Hey, it was at Sam's Club and cheap. And I needed a pot, so I got it. 9_9

Into it went:

1 lb of pork ribs, boneless, broken into large chunks and browned before adding.
1 qt chicken stock
carrots, summer squash, onions, parsley from the CSA box
I took the corn off four ears of corn out of the box and added it too
salt and pepper, basil, a bay leaf, celery salt and some sherry.

I'm going to bake up some biscuits to go with.

I'll let you know if it's edible when I get home.

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Dr. Levine called me back and gave me the referral. I'm incredibly flattered. I know he talked to the man to make sure it was okay to give out his name. Dr. Levine is one of the top men in his field, and I'm pleased he took Jim on - it was a favor. Jim doesn't need the top nephrologist for his kidney stones, but we love him anyway and I wanted him to take care of Jim. Because, well, I'm very fond of him - and I like what's between his ears.

Who did he recommend? The Chief of Urology at Cedars-Sinai. I'm thinking I've been sent to be seen by Charles Winchester III, and I'm giggling. This is way, way premature - but I'm touched that someone thinks that much of me that he would do this.

Everything is going to be all right. I'm sure of it.

Comments

[auntiesiannan.livejournal.com]

He was in several camps with his family. He goes into the experience in great detail in To The Stars, which is a really wonderful read. He's good people.

[reannon.livejournal.com]

Go to a convention to see him, eh? He's gonna be at ARCHON this year. :P

I'm actually hoping to meet him, and I doubt I'll have the guts to tell him this story. But I did hear him speak about a hundred years ago. He was a guest, along with Michael Dorn, at Shore Leave 13. That was probably 1990. I was 15.

Star Trek VI was due to come out soon. The fans kept trying to get him to say what he thought about Star Trek V. He was being diplomatic and skirting it, but they kept after him. Finally he said that what bothered him about V was that they took the best characteristics of each character and turned them around for laughs. The engineer conks his head on a pipe. The helmsman and navigator get lost in the woods. The female communications officer, always the epitome of grace and professionalism, strips down for a hoochie-coochie dance.

I realized I agreed with him. He made me look at the story in a different way, and it taught me something about respect for character continuity, which is just as important as keeping the gizmos straight. When you completely change a character's abilities and personality for a cheap laugh, you demean the character, the story and yourself. It also showed me that respect for your characters is respect for your fans.

I sincerely doubt I'll get to tell him any of this. Or have the guts to. :)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

My brilliant US history teacher was born at Tule Lake (she didn't announce this to her classes, but indicated such when I mentioned in private that my mom grew up in Alturas). I knew about Tule Lake's camp, and internment camps in general, from early childhood; my mom never, ever let us think that sort of thing was okay. We were Redding's token liberals.

[pseudicide.livejournal.com]

He really did... Wow, that museum looks cool

[cyclometh.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, my father was the Operations Supervisor (2nd in charge) of our local public transportation system. He once went to a conference in Colorado (I think) in the early 1980's that was about transit issues and such like. It was a planning and strategy session, I think.

Whenever he'd come back from these things, he'd often bring me and my brothers some small trinket or something from wherever he'd been. This time, when he got back, he told me that he'd been in the audience of some presentation or seminar sitting next to a man that looked extremely familiar. However, he couldn't place the man. They were talking at one point, and Dad said that he looked incredibly familiar. The gentleman asked him if he'd ever seen Star Trek. Turned out my dad was sitting next to George Takei, who was active in transit issues back then. Maybe he still is.

Anyway, my dad got him to sign a business card for me. It said "To Corey- Best of luck! George Takei". I still have it somewhere.

And not so long ago, I was playing a game called "Freelancer" and recognized Takei's voice as one of the characters. ;)