I'm in my last semester of my MLIS, for archives, and last semester I took the preservation course, and I admire digital archivists and preservationists a lot, but I'm glad I'm sticking with paper. We pretty much understand paper, we know how to keep it going and what kinds of environmental threats there are to it.…

I used to hate beer, in that I hated whatever it was, as a teen, my mom would let me try at family parties. Then I studied abroad in Dublin at 20, enjoying my trial run of legal drinking, and my student budget, and mostly drank Guinness, and realized I liked stouts, rather than watered-down lagers, and am now a big…

Guinness of the two which I can actually find in the US. I was keen on Beamish when I was in Dublin for a summer.

I find a lot of Tingle's statements online, his tweets and his Instagram posts and the like, surprisingly heartwarming and inspiring, and therefore have my head stuck in the sand and hope to never find out who is behind the personage in order to uphold the weird but affirming fantasy in this shitty world.

Wow, what timing, I just finished my binge of Rectify last night (and cried various types of tears throughout the series finale). She was great in season four. Hope s3 of Unreal picks up again to that s1 spark.

I love Indian food, although I say that knowing what I love as Indian food is Westernized and overly simplified, ignoring the vast culinary diversity within the subcontinent (I'm very fun at parties, especially when I break out my medical history facts, by the way). I also love spicy food. Really spicy food. And…

It is entirely possible that they had already made a hard schedule decision about mid-season 'replacement' for Lucifer back when it was only slated to have 13 eps this season (…from my brief googling it seems like they're doing the same to Gotham, with 24: Legacy taking the 8pm Mondays slot for Feb-April, so Gotham is…

My dad has never been a computer guy. He's disabled so he's never had to use one for work, he barely used the internet when it was compatible with the 15+ years old desktop that still takes up space in our house, and that never could handle any internet past dial-up. Still, he used it…for an Axis and Allies game. We…

I figured this would be a hot mess (well, more like a visually stunning mess?), but it is still disappointing, mostly because I've been following it a bit via Kelly Sue Deconnick, who wrote an ep of this, and wished it was a surprisingly good show for her sake, since I'm so fond of her. Alas.

I have! A long enough time ago to dull my memories of it, although it probably traumatized me more than charmed me as I have some serious arachnophobia, even cartoon spider-wise. I didn't say I completely lacked an emotional connection to Debbie Reynolds (I have strong memories of her from the Halloweentown movies,…

God. I don't have the same emotional fan connection to Debbie as I do to Carrie, partly because of my age (24), and partly because my nerd stylings are more sci-fi than classic Hollywood, but this is just so immensely tragic. I'm the same age as Billie Lourd, and I lost my beloved grandmother unexpectedly this year,…

I'm excited! I think the position is "Number One" btw, akin to the title Majel Barret's character was only known by in the original ST:TOS pilot "The Cage". Also that EW article mentions that she's a Lt. Commander "with caveats" which sounds like she may have to step up to function as the acting captain of Discovery,…

This was an interesting read. It really does capture the meme-fication of 2016's shittiness. I've thought about this a lot because 2016 has been bad in the above way. "F*ck 2016" as a sort of sigh, an opening to an online or even irl convo about just how rough things are. But there's also the real, personal elements…

Thanks for mentioning this! I had remembered the experience but not the brand name. My grandmother would bring back the hot stuff for my dad whenever she came back from vacationing in Myrtle Beach, and whenever I tried it, it was quite the punch. Haven't had some in years…

This article started off amusingly nit-picky but fun (and I did wonder about the clothes before. They have to multiples. Good point about the host blood). Then I just devolved into giggles about Vestworld and the mental image of Ed Harris dunking anything (once he took off his hat for the formal wear gala at the end…

Still haven't seen Moonlight, but I desperately want to; perhaps this weekend to escape my last final paper. I'm very happy by the "runner up" award for Best Actress; Christine was so great, and Rebecca Hall was just amazing. Went to a special Q&A screening of it featuring her and was so affected the entire time. Just…

Monk. It was my favorite show when I was watching it as it aired, throughout junior high and into high school. I loved the characters, enjoyed the plotlines, and itched to know the truth behind Trudy's death. I cried my way through the series finale and found peace in the ending. I also found something else thanks to…

I mean, maybe it is a good thing they don't have Dr. Doom, because Mads Mikkelsen would have been wonderful, but they had to use him in Dr. Strange as some rando, so.

It really does seem like nothing gets outright cancelled nowadays, just practically cancelled via no more episode orders, left to kind of just end. Speaking in television euphemisms.

Well, I find this an interest look into what becoming viral means. I livetweet shows a lot (it is fun and I can connect with fans, I love it) and sometimes I can just tell when somethings been RTed by an official show account or actor on the show, as I get far, far many more notifications than I normally do. That's a…