Eliyes

I know I have at least two hardcore fans of DeForest Kelley and his portrayal of a certain Senior (Star)Ship's Surgeon, so for you -- I share this YT find:

A little while back, it occurred to me that it would be a good idea to start using post-it notes to leave reminders and notes to myself again. Once, back when I was in my first year of taking Japanese, me and a housemate who was also taking it labeled pretty much everything in the house. It was very useful. My usual place for post-it notes is on my computer monitor, and I'm noticing that I seem to be establishing purpose zones or something. Right now, all the notes at the top are things I need to do (the time and place of my classes has central prominence -- and yes, I am completely capable of forgetting this stuff from one week to the next), and it used to be that the bottom was for phone numbers. However, I got an address book for Christmas (a very pointed gift from my grandmother), so now the bottom is... not.

Currently it's filled up with tiny yellow rectangles crammed with notes about characters played by either David Hewlett or Joe Flanigan. I am apparently gearing up to write a number of Hewligan crossovers. We'll see if this actually comes to pass; meanwhile, have an awesome McShep vid:



Save The Day - Switch

So, I've been watching a buttload of NCIS lately. Bouncing all over the seasons, too. There was an episode -- "Frame-Up" -- that I really wanted to see but all I could find online was the same two clips.

Guess what episode of NCIS played today? :D I was not disappointed. :3

In celebration, here's an awesome video someone made of Tony DiNozzo to a song about Inspector Gadget~



Yesterday I watched the episode "Under Covers", in which Tony takes out an assassin while tied to a chair. Awesome!

((I need to find out in which episode McGee says "I'm not gay, Tony." And in which episode is Ziva reading Tony's email from Naomi over his shoulder?

Ziva: I didn't know your nickname was "Honeybuns".
Gibbs: *just walking in* Only Naomi and I call him that.
Tony: I didn't think you were going to say anything about that, boss.

I need to find them, and I need to watch them.))

I remember the first time I had poutine. I remember the place that made it. I remember the feeling of revelation -- THIS! This is what my fries and gravy had been longing to become!

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:

I want you to watch this video.

Here's the transcript, for quoting purposes.

Finally tonight as promised, a Special Comment on the passage, last week, of Proposition Eight in California, which rescinded the right of same-sex couples to marry, and tilted the balance on this issue, from coast to coast.

Some parameters, as preface. This isn't about yelling, and this isn't about politics, and this isn't really just about Prop-8. And I don't have a personal investment in this: I'm not gay, I had to strain to think of one member of even my very extended family who is, I have no personal stories of close friends or colleagues fighting the prejudice that still pervades their lives.

And yet to me this vote is horrible. Horrible. Because this isn't about yelling, and this isn't about politics. This is about the human heart, and if that sounds corny, so be it.

( The rest here )

This is the second time in ten days I find myself concluding by turning to, of all things, the closing plea for mercy by Clarence Darrow in a murder trial.

But what he said fits what is really at the heart of this:
“I was reading last night of the aspiration of the old Persian poet, Omar-Khayyam,” he told the judge. "It appealed to me as the highest that I can vision. I wish it was in my heart, and I wish it was in the hearts of all: So I be written in the Book of Love; I do not care about that Book above. Erase my name, or write it as you will, So I be written in the Book of Love.”

( Some comments from me )

Everybody that can lay a claim on him, is. Meanwhile, I'm amused that band that wrote this are called "Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys".

Who steers the ship through the stormy sea?
If hope is lost then so are we

While some eyes search for one to guide us
Some are staring at me

But I'm no hero
Though I wish I could be
For I am just a boy,
Too young to be sailing
I am just a boy,
And my future is unveiling
And I'm so frightened of failing

While some eyes search for one to guide us
Some are staring at me

But I'm no hero
Though I wish I could be
For I am just a boy,
Too young to be sailing
I am just a boy,
And my future is unveiling
And I'm so frightened of failing

( music in video form embedded under the cut )

This is really pretty. The reccer's notes said it was 'House' style. As I have never watched House, I wouldn't know.

(Don't look so surprised, the display for the jazz festival is still up at work, even though the rest of the street has switched over to rainbows for Pride Week.)

( Are you tryin' to quit me, baby, but you don't know how? )