So, the thing about Thanksgiving

...is that here in Canada, we did it last month. That does not prevent me from appreciating this footage from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade:

D'uh

Y'know, every time I've watched NCIS, I've kinda looked at Gibbs thinking "...I know you from something else." Last night, I figured it out and just now I confirmed it on IMDb. He was in And Never Let Her Go. He was the brother David Hewlett's character helped sink a corpse in the ocean, and then crumbled under interrogation by Paul Michael Glaser's character.

The guys who play McKay, Gibbs, and Starsky, in one movie. *miniflail*

Marines doing the Cha Cha Slide

I read a lot of SGA fanfic. I've already mentioned that they tend to involve a disproportionately high amount of US Marines for what we see in the show, but another thing is that the Marines tend to get kind of a bad rap. (Not always; soemtimes they are human and rock, like in Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda.) But sometimes they do. It's like some writers think the USMC as a whole are humourless bastards who will throw a blanket party for the first person to deviate from a ridiculously stringent standard of masculinity.

Meanwhile, I've been watching Marines in Iraq doing the Cha Cha Slide. Both videos I linked were taken down while I was posting, alas.

Suffice to say, they're people. They have senses of humour. They do silly dances together!

Let's try this again: