Is it not Friday?Follow

I have so little planned for this weekend, I feel like a slacker. Most likely it will involve a lot of card playing, lounging about, thinking for a bit, loafing, staring nonresolutely into the middle distance, then a bit of intense couch potato-ry. I bought season one of Star Trek: the Next Generation with just this in mind.

Aside from some of the classic orgignal episodes, early Next Generation is the best of Star Trek imo.

Yoga tonight, then catching up on Season 1 of Flight of the Conchords.

Saturday: Football in the morning, and then a pic-nic in Hyde Park, or maybe Holland Park, with beer, weed, and some nibbles. Maybe watch a bit of the FA Cup Final.

Sunday: Will spend the day praying for Varrus' soul, or trimming my fingernail with a chainsaw, whichever is more practical.

I love watching the pilot and the first few episodes just for Troi's hilarious accent.

Yeah there's a lot of awkwardness in the first few episodes. They seem to find their stride fairly quickly though.

Worf looks terrible though.

Pat Quinn. Pat. Quinn. Pat...Quinn?

Just dropped my SIL at the airport and took the kidlets to watch some planes from the Observation Deck. Gonna work in the yard this weekend, clean house, go to the gym, take Mia to see the new Pixar movie and lounge around wit mah baby.

Looking forward to some chill time.

A friend of mine and I called the pilot and much of the first season "Jersey Girl in Space". Although her accent was more of a Bronx thing, really. Hard to quantify.

And yeah, Worf's head couldn't decide how big it was supposed to be for a while.

I mock because I love. None of this kept me from faithfully watching every episode, you understand.

He makes gravel in his spare time.

Edit: yes, I misspelled a two letter word. Suck it.



Edited, May 29th 2009 7:28am by Samira

Important person is important. I have to figure out what sort of system he's going to implement and go through the entire roster to see where each player fits.

I can't wait!

Jesus Christ I can't wait until Tasha Yarr dies. That woman was the worst. How many references to "rape gangs" can a futuristic space exploration show possibly have?

I just watched that Utopia Planet one last night.

Edited, May 29th 2009 9:37am by AshOnMyTomatoes

For a show that theoretically featured a feel-good future where there's true equality of the sexes, there sure was a lot of misogyny in the writing. The repeated rape gang references (and honestly, on a planet where law and order has broken down and there's total chaos, can roving gangs think of nothing better to do than rape, like, say, finding food and shelter?) Troi being raped impregnated by a glowy ball of light, and who can forget the geeky-fanboy's-wet-dream episode "The Perfect Mate" which is all about a woman specifically bred to become exactly what her husband needs her to be.

Don't get me wrong, I loved the show, but looking back on it from a more mature perspective than I possessed when I watched it originally back in high school, oy!

Must be Friday. Tree fell on my car.

The tree was dead and I was going to cut it down eventually. Did not know it was in imminent danger of pulling out by the roots, but there was more rain overnight that softened it up. It was so dead and rotting that when lifting it off another four feet broke off the top and bounced down the rear windshield.

The roof was crushed in but most of that got pushed up from the inside; there is only a small creased dent left. Part of the tree broke off on impact and knocked the glass out of the driver's side mirror.

I lost the same mirror on my last car also - backed the van into a garage support pillar and ripped the whole mirror off. Guess I'll be duct-taping again for now...

edit: fixed link

Edited, May 29th 2009 11:50am by Debalic

Delete the trailing slash and the link works.