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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Overdoing it on SciFi

I think I may be overdoing it on the sci-fi lately. It seems every where I look, I see Star Trek influences. (Darn you Gene Roddenberry, darn you!)

When watching the Next Food Network Star, all I could focus on was how much contestant Liza Garza's hairdo was bugging me, because she looked like a Vulcan and/or a Romulan. ESPECIALLY when she had a headband on, or had some hair tucked behind her ears.

Don't believe me?

Here's her p.r. shot from the show:


Here's a link to various female Vulcan hairstyles.

Then there are the communication devices. All those little earpieces/cellular hands-free devices that make people look like they are communicating with the Enterprise, begging to be beamed up. We're becoming more and more Borg-like. Put down the electronic equipment and step away from the devices.

Finally, there's this apparatus (shown below) that was quickly assembled--and then removed--from the local construction site across the way. Forgive me, but does it remind anyone else of the early mobile transporter devices from Star Trek: Enterprise? (Or am I the only one who actually tried to watch the first few seasons of that show?)

Look closely -- You've got the "laser beam," the "force field," and the ubiquitous redshirts.

See!?
I don't care if it's a surveying device. I swear the aliens are here!

Hi. I'm Auntie Nettie, and I need a sci-fi intervention. But frak it, just not until after the Series 4 Doctor Who finale on Friday. (That David Tennant is yummy!)

Thanks.

Live Long and Prosper.