"...and then, Edith Keeler was run over by a bus. The end."

Why the original "Star Trek" still matters

"A person interested in those things was, prima facie, not interested in Donny Osmond or "Happy Days," had conceivably read a book not required by teachers and furthermore could plausibly have access to decent weed."
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/05/13/star_trek_original/

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From various places around the flist: "Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes."

1. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

2. An Edge of the Forest - Agnes Smith

3. The Hundred and One Dalmatians - Dodie Smith

4. The Pushcart War - Judith Merrill

5. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury

6. D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths -

7. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

8. Watership Down - Richard Adams

9. How to Draw Animals - Jack Hamm

10. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

11. Animal Farm - George Orwell

12. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells

13. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome

14. Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics - Fred Schodt

15. World War Z - Max Brooks

Oooooo!

http://tiltshiftmaker.com/

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Good God. I went out at lunch and bought a Self-Pity Special (latte w/a shot of syrup). I haven't done that in 10 years.

If I die, I want y'all to fight out in the backyard for my stuff.

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It must be me! It must be my fault! Me, with my shrewish way of calling him every two or three days and asking how my car is in that nagging tone! Oh, curse my harpy-like temperament! Why can I not be kind and logical and patient???

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Shatnerquake arrived! This is the BEST DAY EVER!