Five series of this.

That could make a great venue for weddings with minimal landscaping and renovation. A friend of mine got married in the ruin of an abbey Henry VIII torched and it was beautiful. Ruin chic.

Vincent and The Doctor is one of the best episodes of any TV show. I mean, who hasn't looked at a Van Gough and wished you could tell him how great he became? It's one of the ultimate time travel fantasies, and they executed it beautifully.

One of my favorite Voyager episodes is the one where the crew discovers a holonovel about a Maquis mutiny, and it becomes all the rage on the ship. Eventually, it was discovered the Tuvok had written it as a security simulation. I think the episode was a direct result of writer frustration that the Maquis/Starfleet…

It was also a kick in the shins to the cast, who were not responsible for most of the problematic choices the show made early on and showed up and did their jobs to the bitter end, and they were basically demoted in the final episode to bit players in service of two TNG cast members.

It was such a shame since the show got decent in its final seasons, and then the last episode came along and just kicked the fans who stuck with the show in the shins. It was such a textbook case of how to make an awful finale.

That idea evolved into the great movie Galaxy Quest, which I still think is one of the best love letters to fandom everywhere. I always think it would have been cool if that script had been made with the TOS cast playing themselves.

There was also the Christmas episode that became a black and white 1950s Christmas show!

They so screwed that up. It would have been 1000x better if we had found out Sam had leaped into Archer's body in order to correct history.

The last episode of Merlin finds him in modern Britain.

Glee is a show that has made a point of writing dialogue in response to fan criticism and commentary about the show. Such as when the students ask for more contemporary songs and Mr. Schuster replies: "There's got to be a journey song we haven't done."

I attended a Star Trek wedding in my friends' back yard. A big part of the fun was finding a mini-dress and go-go boots that made me look like an original series crewmember. The ceremony was performed in Klingon.

I once got de-engaged, and a big part of the reason was my straight groom's groomzillaness. He wanted to put on a big show, whereas I was all like, um, Vegas would be fun wouldn't it? But he wanted to impress his clients (he really didn't have friends). So glad I jumped off that wedding industrial complex conveyer…

When I was a kid, I loved Greek mythology and stumbled upon an uncensored book of myths that included, among other things, Orpheus's life after mucking up his wife's rescue from Hades and the romances of Apollo. In order to remain devoted to his wife's memory, Orpheus only had relations with his male pupils. Apollo…

I was pleased that at the short news conference yesterday the NTSB refused to rule out any possibilities and refused any baiting questions that wanted them to speculate. I get why armchair netizens are speculating, that's what they do, but the people with a direct stake in the crash and investigation ought to keep…

Very smart to take twitter's word, since two people are confirmed dead.

People did get hurt, there are a number of critical injuries. There is also no official word of everyone having been accounted for, only twitter rumors. There actually seems to be a report that two people are dead.

This part of the story creeps me out. I'm not naive about government abuse, but during the Bush era I was particularly freaked out by the outsourcing of security to scumbag firms like Blackwater that basically operated without regulation and mostly outside the law. (I love the anecdote about how Blackwater guys showed…

The guy was doing something called Kundalini Yoga, which isn't so much yoga in that it's a complete and totally fraudulent cult where yoga involves holding your arms up for long periods of time and chanting and sometimes doing calisthenics. I took a few classes, and pretty soon they invited me to a retreat that…