Many of my friends are celebrating birthdays today and tommorrow! Happy birthday wishes go out to 
jasonbsizemore, _snitchbitch, and dannyboy8406, and happy early birthday wishes go out to dracschick and juxiantang. May you all have fantastic days and wonderful years to come!
I have a few quick notes today:
* First of all, congratulations to my husband and his school for the exciting news they shared this weekend: "College to Change Name to Lenoir-Rhyne University."
* Second of all, I am proud to announce that the book chapter "Sexy Nerds: Illya Kuryakin, Mr. Spock, and the Image of the Cerebral Hero in Television Drama," which I had the great pleasure of co-authoring withst_crispins, is now available in the new book Common Sense: Intelligence as Presented on Popular Television, edited by Lisa Holderman and published by Lexington Books. It was great fun to revisit the worlds of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Star Trek, Blake's 7, The X-Files, MacGuyver, Stargate SG-1, VR.5, Buffy, Firefly/Serenity, Numb3rs, and NCIS with st_crispins; moreover, several fans and fan fiction authors on my friends list provided us with terrific quotes we used in the article. (You know who you are!) This piece was almost a decade in the making, so it's a thrill to see it in print at last.
* Speaking of the fabulousst_crispins, I recommend that you check her out (she's the blonde professor/expert with some terrific quotes) on the following clip. Backstage with Larry Nolan, Comcast's entertainment news show, did a piece on the new Man from U.N.C.L.E. DVD set, and they includeed clips from the Fandemonium extra that's among the set's bonus materials.
* And last, for your amusement: Which instruments would the denizens of the Star Wars universe play and why? Here's a guess: Guitar Wars?
"You know deep down this guy thinks he's Johnny Cash." (on Grand Moff Tarkin)
"Dude. He is so Clapton." (on Qui-Gon Jinn)
- Ale[X]-wing fighter at Guitar Wars?
jasonbsizemore, _snitchbitch, and dannyboy8406, and happy early birthday wishes go out to dracschick and juxiantang. May you all have fantastic days and wonderful years to come!I have a few quick notes today:
* First of all, congratulations to my husband and his school for the exciting news they shared this weekend: "College to Change Name to Lenoir-Rhyne University."
* Second of all, I am proud to announce that the book chapter "Sexy Nerds: Illya Kuryakin, Mr. Spock, and the Image of the Cerebral Hero in Television Drama," which I had the great pleasure of co-authoring with
st_crispins, is now available in the new book Common Sense: Intelligence as Presented on Popular Television, edited by Lisa Holderman and published by Lexington Books. It was great fun to revisit the worlds of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Star Trek, Blake's 7, The X-Files, MacGuyver, Stargate SG-1, VR.5, Buffy, Firefly/Serenity, Numb3rs, and NCIS with st_crispins; moreover, several fans and fan fiction authors on my friends list provided us with terrific quotes we used in the article. (You know who you are!) This piece was almost a decade in the making, so it's a thrill to see it in print at last. * Speaking of the fabulous
st_crispins, I recommend that you check her out (she's the blonde professor/expert with some terrific quotes) on the following clip. Backstage with Larry Nolan, Comcast's entertainment news show, did a piece on the new Man from U.N.C.L.E. DVD set, and they includeed clips from the Fandemonium extra that's among the set's bonus materials. * And last, for your amusement: Which instruments would the denizens of the Star Wars universe play and why? Here's a guess: Guitar Wars?
"You know deep down this guy thinks he's Johnny Cash." (on Grand Moff Tarkin)
"Dude. He is so Clapton." (on Qui-Gon Jinn)
- Ale[X]-wing fighter at Guitar Wars?
- Current Music:"Anakin is Free," John Williams
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*giggles* Most excellent. Thanks for that laugh. And congratulations to all (one, two, three!) of you! <3
Thanks so much! :)
And thank you for the details of the book. I now have it on pre-order with Amazon.co.uk. Congratulations to you after a decade of work, I can quite believe it's very exciting.
I really appreciate your encouragement and support. :)
Many, many congratulations to your husband. The new name is delightfully Gothic-sounding, as if I can expect figures to leap from the shadows in order to teach!
He will love that description of the school name. Now that you say it, I can totally see it! Awesome.
Congrats to husband and his college.
As for the YouTube ---isn't that funny? Today Comcast, tomorrow Entertainment Tonight!
It was such a joy to work with you on this! I do hope we get to collaborate on another project in the future. I'd love it.
The video is terrific. I especially love your point about the significance of Illya's nationality, and how the contemporary parallel would be having an Iraqi as a protagonist. That really puts it into perspective. You have a terrific TV voice, to boot! :)
But I'm glad you think I look okay. :)
The chapter looks like it would be a lot of fun. I just added it to my Wish List. :)
Guitar Wars is just silly! I'm pretty nerdy, but I never would have pondered the idea. LOL
I'd never thought of comparing guitars to the SW characters, either. It totally cracked me up!
Guitar Wars. ROFL!
I am STILL laughing at Guitar Wars.
"It looks like it could cut through anything, like, say, your long lost son's forearm." Bahahaa! Excellent. And very timely -- I haven't watched Star Wars in such a long time, so I decided to start watching my way through them again in "chronological" order, starting with the prequels. I just finished Attack of the Clones. Not my favorite.
Oh man, Attack of the Clones was so not the finest hour for Star Wars. *shakes head sadly* But if you're starting with the prequels, you know at least that it's going to get better! :) I need to have a marathon like that one of these days. It's been too long. Enjoy!
I enjoyed that profile you posted up in your most recent entry, too.
And I wonder if you know, the lady that is next to Napolean in the B&W shot while he is explaining what Thrush is (I thought it was a fungal infection), is that Majel Barrett? Cos she looks an awful lot like Nurse Christine Chapel to me.
That really does look like Majel Barrett, doesn't it? I need to research who it is, because she's not credited as appearing in any Man from UNCLE episode. Hmmm....