I'm pretty sure it was a fourth grade spelling bee that made me the liberal I am today. I got ousted for misspelling god. Because I didn't capitalize the G.

You do realize that Doctor Who and the Cybermen have been upgrading and assimilating since Patrick Stewart had a full head of hair, right?

A friend of mine saw him at Woodstock. (No. Really.) Beyond the music, she went down to the creek early one morning to get away from the crowd and saw him there, sitting on a tree alongside the water, meditating. She said there was a sense of calm around Richie that she rarely saw any other time in her life.

Last year, he played a festival I work at. There were times when he'd lose the words (even with the lyrics for him), but he never forgot a guitar lick.

So was Burn Gorman (aka Owen on "Torchwood") always a member of the Night's Watch and I just hadn't noticed him? Or did he just show up recently?

During an interview somewhere (DVDs maybe?) Siddig mentioned that he remembered almost nothing about "Let He Who Is Without Sin…" because that's when his and Nana Visitor's son was born. He'd been up all night and still had to be on set early.

I particularly enjoyed the woman who was yawning in boredom.

On the DVD for "Trials & Tribbleations," they noted that when they cleaned up the footage of the original series for one of the scenes, you can see a coffee stain on the front of Spock's shirt. (It's a scene in the hallway, with Dax & Sisko in the background.)

Now, now. Captain Jack Harkness does not pine. He preserves the Doctor's hand in a glass and hooks it up to an alarm system.

Between this and the Leonard Nimoy "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" video, it's like embarrassing music past competition here today.

Aw, sorry to hear, but thanks for all the good reads.

Apparently, there's this whole online fandom related to Hogan's Heroes (with lots of male/male 'shipping because, y'know, prisons, young men trapped together, heroic acts) which I've run across mentions of, but really weirds me out. Only thing personally weirder to me? Bible fanfiction.

Now I'm wondering if random producer from "Hey Dude" who talked about unneeded long exposition should get some kind of thank you for Boyd's "We dug coal together."

To me, the best Rugrats was the one where they did their own version of the Exodus story, in which Angelica is Pharoh, and all the slaves are babies. This is solely because it gives Angelica an excuse — after freeing the slaves and realizing what she's done when there's no one to do anything for her — to cry out:…

But the studio system also gave us Errol Flynn playing George Armstrong Custer. They made no attempt, for the most part, to explain away his accent in an "American" role. (He was playing Errol Flynn, of course. And Cary Grant was playing Cary Grant. Though Cary Grant was better than just playing Cary Grant.)

With Boyd, I don't think it's accent necessarily that makes him and his presence so outstanding. It's more about cadence and word choice — the tendency to use forty words when four would suffice, as his Detroit friends pointed out.

The one I still can't believe — even after hearing his real voice — is the Aussie who played Dewey on "Justified."

"You're the one who put it in me!"

The Lassie remake fromm a few years ago. Apparently.

And let's not forget that the southerners who came north to work at Ford's Willow Run plant gave the nearby town of Ypsilanti the nickname of Ypsitucky.