J's photos on Flickr
PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS
You are here:

Email
Spooky Librarians HQ
The Steampunk Librarian
Meet Cleaver Theatre
Meet Cleaver Theatre episodes on YouTube
Earlier, pre-redesign Folderol archives

 Subscribe to the RSS feed!

Other Spooky People:
The Art of Darkness
Coilhouse
Neil Gaiman
The Human Marvels
Mystery of the Haunted Vampire
Slaughterhouse Studios
Wurzeltod
Other Library People:
Awful Library Books
if:book
It's All Good
Law Librarian Blog
librarian.net
Librarian in Black
Library Stuff
Library Underground
Miss Information
Shelf Check
The Society for Librarians Who Say...
Tiny Librarian
Unshelved
Other Steampunk People
Brass Goggles
Datamancer
ECTOPLASMOSIS!
FreakAngels
The Gatehouse Gazette
Steampunk Empire
The Steampunk Home
SteamPunk Magazine
Urban Oasis
Friends and Other Must-Reads:
ar(C)ommunity
Atlas Obscura
The Awl
Bifurcated Rivets
bjkeefe
Blind Prophecy
The Bourbon Asylum
The Comics Curmudgeon
Dawn's Life
Defective Yeti
Fafblog
iamboey.com
Jimmylegs
Make: Online
mimi smartypants
The Morning News
Ookee
poesy galore
Pop Culture Junk Mail
PostSecret
The Simple Tones of Life
Surviving the World
The Swordswallowers
Topless Robot
Walkoff Walk
Warren Ellis
The Whatever
xkcd
your baby smells like hot garbage

Powered by Blogger
Get blog templates like this one from BlogSkins.com

Tuesday, August 15, 2006
The Graveworm informs me of the upcoming arrival of the Princess-Leia-in-a-bikini model kit. It's a little frightening to realize how many men of my generation were influenced by this costume...

Additionally, to those of us who grew up in the '70s and '80s, HandHelden brings you a wealth of information on handheld video games of that era, when a quarterback was represented by a tiny red dot and Speak 'N Spell was the height of technology. (I never saw the Omni before, but wow, that would have been awesome!)

Is Pluto a planet? That burning issue (along with several others) is being discussed this week.

The newest idea of how to treat depression involves...ketamine. I suppose being in a k-hole might be preferable to the pit of despair every so often, but it doesn't seem like a terribly healthy solution.

New adds to my RSS feed: the Laundryroom Swapmeet (we would have done something like this back in college, if we'd all been on the web) and BookSteve's Library, which is chock-full of great stuff (and is also located just across the river from us, apparently!).


Jinnet @ 8/15/2006 : comments: 4
Comments: 4

6:21 PM  
Blogger Brendan: In defense of the new "action figure," she at least looks somewhat less Barbie-like in shape.

But, admittedly, it's kind of hard to defend something called a "Slave Dancer."

Anyway, I never understood the Star Wars twinkies. Why can't they grow up? Why won't they admit that Lt. Uhuru is the babe and Mr. Spock is the bomb?

Damn it, Jim . . .

8:28 PM  
Blogger Josh Millard: I must have dodged the metalbikinilust bullet; born just at the end of the 70s, I was too young for that initial wave of Star Wars madness to really dig into me.

Now, Wynona Rider in Beetlejuice? Boy was I in love...

And hey, thanks for the link to laundryroom swapmeet, o smirkalot.

8:32 AM  
Blogger Jinnet: You are most welcome, Sir Jesus H. Shatner!

Brendan: So, do you prefer "Trekkies" or "Trekkers"? ;)

8:02 AM  
Blogger Brendan: Heh. I never minded "Trekkies," even though the real pointy-ears would take umbrage to that term, and insist on "Trekkers."

Similarly, I never minded saying I liked "sci-fi," where the tape-on-the-glasses types insisted on "SF."

In both cases, it was more a matter of euphonia.



Post a Comment



Google Custom Search
ARCHIVES
Archived posts
October 2005
November 2005
December 2005
January 2006
February 2006
March 2006
April 2006
May 2006
June 2006
July 2006
August 2006
September 2006
October 2006
November 2006
December 2006
January 2007
February 2007
March 2007
April 2007
May 2007
June 2007
July 2007
August 2007
September 2007
October 2007
November 2007
December 2007
January 2008
February 2008
March 2008
April 2008
May 2008
June 2008
July 2008
August 2008
September 2008
October 2008
November 2008
December 2008
January 2009
February 2009
March 2009
April 2009
May 2009
June 2009
July 2009
August 2009
September 2009
October 2009
November 2009
December 2009
January 2010
February 2010
March 2010
Previous posts
Today seems to be all about visual arts. Photogra...
Today: links from others! Thanks, everyone. From ...
In case you're stuck in an airport terminal for ho...
Travel/spooky link day. We start with travel. Zoom...
Hey, it's been fifteen years since the web went pu...
A random smattering of arty links today... Film: ...
Today: links from others! Thanks, everyone. From ...
Here's a nice cheerful link to start off the day: ...
A week or so ago, I was talking about Death Race 2...
Courtesy of Satori: get your handwriting analyzed!...