In other news -

[kyburg]

Jim's home sick. That's what's for the weekend....

And it's official, Mom's not a candidate for chemotherapy or radiation - so when she sees her doctor next week, and he wants to give her a stoma, she's going to ask for a referral. Tada!

She sounds great, BTW.

One big surgery vs. lots of little radiation/chemo sessions. Hmmmm. I'm not complaining at all. Not if Mom isn't.

Going to go in, take care of the things that have to be taken care and playing hooky the rest of today.

See ya!

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Spored By Spock

[bitpig.livejournal.com]

Cringe! Thanks for reminding me of my own years as a gormless, no-hoper Trekkie®. I was te absolute king of the losers during my days with Starfleet®. That sort of fandom is often charming on a fourteen-year-old, but on a grown man or women it's just pathetic. I got a particular hoot out of this passage:

None of my fiction published to date is overtly mystical -- but all of it has solid mystical foundations with deep and complex philosophical themes, (very much as Star Trek does).  In general, I prefer to read fiction of that sort - complex, deep, exploring the Unknown sides of Life, but never letting the abstract overshadow the tellingof a good story.

Oh yeah, that Star Trek! Chock full of “solid mystical foundations with deep and complex philosophical themes”, and “complex, deep, exploring”! Hey, Jackie, when Kirk was shagging robot chicks, space Indians, and Joan Crawford, was it deep and complex or complex and deep?

Anyway, thanks for a laugh, Ky — or maybe I should say a Laugh. I'd forgotten how unintentionally Funny it can be to read Stuff written by People who think Important Professional Writers Capitalize their Words a Lot like The Germans and David Gerrold Do. I've gotta go now — I'm suddenly afraid there's some vestige of my life circa 1978 that I haven't yet burned. It's not that I hate Star Trek® or even dopey, homemade scifi fuc-fic — it’s that those things remind me of how much of a brain-dead social retard I was during the Carter Years. Call it the BitPig Effect.

Live Long and Prosper™,

RADM Bruce Lewis
Chief of Communications
Starbase™ 07

Star Trek® is a registered trademark of Paramount Studios, inc. All Rights Reserved.

Re: Spored By Spock

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

They used to call it "sewing coats onto buttons" - and it was rampant. I think they all did it. Have you forgotten that "Price of the Phoenix" book?

Don't you remember the groups that were reading Gilgamesh and merging it with Trek back then? The whole Alexander clatch? Star Trek was IMPORTANT STUFF YARR back then - *laughs*

I was the only Trekkie I knew, growing up. Everyone else was an hour's drive away, easy. And no long distance calls. NONE.

You did it, Jim did it and I did it too - but I recall being the youngest one in the group - my "captain" was 72 years old, and female. (God, I miss her. There's no chance she's still around, I was 15 when she was 72 - )

Socially retarded - eh. Brain-dead, not a chance.

Lt. Cmdr. Donna Hutt
Chief Medical Officer
USS Yorktown

(And my captain was a Space Cadet.)