Speak Stiltedly and Wear a Yellow Shirt

Another Rear-Ending on the Green Line

Jemima Pereira — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:09:00 +0000

Somehow I avoided yet another rear-ending on the Green Line at Boylston yesterday, not to mention the one there a year ago and the fatal one in Newton. I guess I did my time in the rear-ending I didn’t avoid at Arlington way back when.

The Charge: RPS

Jemima Pereira — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:58:22 +0000

From the our-pron-is-erotica files: a British slash writer is up on obscenity charges for “a kind of splatter-core horror-porn tribute to a British girl band who can’t sing in tune without digital processing.” Hide your Twincest, fellas…

Season 7 Firefly

Jemima Pereira — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:39:06 +0000

I almost started reading Pavane, a well-known alternate history novel, today. Instead, I stumbled across this review of the season 7 Firefly premiere, filled with all the character-assassinating, plot-twisting, Joss-moonlighting, don’t-turn-into-a-snake-it-never-helps pain that never was. Or as a commenter put it,

So, even in your fantasy, Joss fails you for several seasons of Firefly? You are way too cynical!

Stargate: Voyager

Jemima Pereira — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:58:41 +0000

I wrote a Stargate/Voyager crossover once, but GateWorld has news of a much bigger project: Stargate Universe.

Sarah Palin Facts

Jemima Pereira — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:17:25 +0000

This one’s for Seema… Sarah Palin Facts: Little-Known Facts About the Alaska Governor. Here are some samples:

Sarah Palin uses French Canadians as bait to catch giant king salmon.
When Sarah Palin booked a flight to Europe, the French immediately surrendered.
Sarah Palin knows who was on the grassy knoll.
Sarah Palin’s finishing move in the VP debate will be pulling Biden’s still beating heart from his chest & taking a bite.
Russia sold Alaska to America because Sarah Palin would not bow to autocracy.
Alaskan wolfpacks give Sara Palin first dibs on their kills.
Sarah Palin will give birth to the man who will lead humanity’s war against the machines.

Endless Septembers

Jemima Pereira — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:50:07 +0000

Bill at Switchback explains how September starts early on the T.

It’s not clear whether the real Endless September is still going on, or whether the internet has reached an equilibrium of newbie stupidity vs. BOFQ mortality. My guess would be that the net is just so big now it’s impossible to take an average, know a subculture, and write the manifesto.

Can’t Stop the Flashity

Jemima Pereira — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:48:46 +0000

I’ve added two new (or at least newly revived, betaed and uploaded) episode additions to the Firefly page. Whupping and Catalyzer leave only four episodes and the movie to go.

The Ballad of Saffron

Jemima Pereira — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:40:11 +0000

She Said Her Name Was Saffron, a filk by Marc Gunn, is briefly free at The FuMP.

Free Firefly Comic

Jemima Pereira — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:28:04 +0000

You can find Serenity: The Other Half on Dark Horse Comics’ MySpace page. The browncoats at FireflyFans.net recommend that you read page 5 very carefully.

When Lightning Strikes

Jemima Pereira — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:37:37 +0000

Although it seems like just my kind of T accident, I wasn’t on the B line last week when lightning struck it.