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[gwydion]

* True Blood is back! Yay! Looks like they are introducing the fairy politics plot in a completely different way. I'm okay with that, as the faeries are still dangerous. I think I love Tara even more! Awww! Sam has a peer group! I see they are doing the witch plot in a really different way. I have concerns about how it will play out, but am willing to wait and see. It makes me happy that LaFayette and Jesus are still together. I'd guessed about Sookie's house. I approve of them edging up the creepy on Eric. I'm okay with them shifting the vampire politics given the changes last season.


* Friendly cats in need of a home, San Fransisco area: http://psybelle.livejournal.com/639607.html

* Ooo! Leverage is back too. I hope I didn't miss any episodes. This is my excitement over Parker's break through. Aaaw! Parker's learning to be human! I love the conversation where Elliot gets really close to the truth about him and Parker.


* I'm already loosing patience with Falling Skies's sentimentality.

* Remembering the Tulsa "Race Riot" (Massacre would be a more appropriate title I think) 90 years later: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/us/20tulsa.html

Three hundred people were murdered and 8000 left homeless when whites burnt an African American community to the ground. No compensation of any kind was paid for all that was lost and no one punished for the murders and property damage. Only 40 survivors are left, and if anything is to be done, it really needs to happen soon.

* 17 million year old hominoid tooth; http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110622072744.htm

* Otzi's last meal: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-scientists-iceman-otzi-meal.html

* More bones from a 5000is year old tomb in Orkney: http://www.scotsman.com/news/Charnel-house-gives-up-its.6786940.jp

* Seventeen victims of a medieval English pogrom found in a well: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13855238

Only six were over the age of 15. The youngest was two. Damn.

* Celtic Princess burial; http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/pictures/110621-celtic-princess-tomb-gold-amber/

* Coconut genetics and human migration; http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110624142037.htm

* 9th century viking remains in Dublin: http://www.irishcentral.com/news/9th-century-Viking-skeletal-remains-found-in-Dublin-124154204.html

* I have decided I'm done with balsam in scent blends.

* It was one AM, when I realized I hadn't even touched tomorrow's paperwork for the neurologist. I am also likely seriously hosed, as I have another appointment 45 minutes after the neurologist and that office has loooong appointments. fingers crossed.

* Geek wedding cakes: http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2011/06/sunday-sweets-geek-wedding-cakes.html

* An interesting discussion of Lady Gaga's use of inappropriate words in "born This Way:" http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/964645.html

* The Clutch:

Comments

Re: Falling Skies

[blackdjinn.livejournal.com]

It broke me in about 15 min... largely by being really stupid on the Military Science front. WTF? You folks are marching: in column, in the open, in daylight; while the enemy has SATELLITES and AIR SUPERIORITY? Really? REALLY? The fact you are all still alive indicates that your enemy is far too stupid to develop interstellar flight.

Re: Falling Skies

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

It's the only thing currently in it's time slot.

I was a bit alarmed by that too. I know the internal explanation was in the pilot where they said something about the invaders only attacking groups of certain sizes, and that the group sizes keep getting steadily smaller, except they don't fit the small unit actions we've seen or the abductions into that properly. I was vaguely hoping for better explanations later, but we are reaching the point, I'm not sure if I can sit through much more saccharine.

Re: Falling Skies

[blackdjinn.livejournal.com]

The only explanations I'm coming up with that fit are cliche 1950s SF movie tropes. "They want our children to make into those walker-mechs" leads the pack. Which is moronic given the technological level. Growing brains in vats would be more efficient, assuming you can't use, you know, your computers to do it.

If you are only interested in large groups why leave small ambushes at places like the armory?

The real answer is that the writers had ideas about what situations they wanted, and just wrote them in without really thinking them through. I can accept only so much of that.

Re: Falling Skies

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

I wish they'd made a show out of John christopher's Tripods books instead. so much more fun.