Over in the UK they ran a contest for children to submit scripts to "Doctor Who" and one would be chosen and filmed. Here is the result (why can't American TV do something similar?):



Now for a look at the making of it:



Speaking of the Doctor, Matt Smith carries the Olympic torch for some of the distance in Wales at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18217568

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I read 384 words per minute which makes me 54% faster than the national average. Years ago, when I was into them, I could read a Harlequin romance in less than 2 hours. I tend to read fiction fast (if I'm interested) and take longer reading non-fiction.

Which Star Wars Jedi/Sith are you? Yoda Dynamite in a small package, and long-lasting, like the Energizer bunny. While you are wise and calm, you are able to call on your killer instincts and be kick-ass. Some may call you a ‘sleeper’. With such great power comes some arrogance, but you are quick to return to humility and fix your mistakes. You have certainly left your mark on the world, in good and bad ways, and it was kinda sad to see you go. But no need to worry, you have gained immortality even though you can’t wield your toothpick of a lightsabre anymore.

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I always liked Yoda though when you think about it the Jedi were just as stupid and gullible as the rest of us.

Love, love, love this and I love the mix of women and men of all ages. It's part of a protest in front of the Capitol building in Colorado. The scary thing is that if we don't watch out it the song just may come true *sigh*

I came across this the other day. I found it almost impossible to believe that half a century ago there were places in Afghanistan that could pass for Smalltown USA and now look at it *sigh* Women walked around in European clothes without burkhas; there were co-ed college classes; there were modern textile plants...we (and the Russians) destroyed that Afghanistan and I fear it will be decades, if ever, for the country to be as it once was. Oh the waste of lives and hopes and dreams of those people in those photos - I can't see how any of them could foresee the horror that life would become in the decades after those photos were taken. 

A science fiction writer named Eric Frank Russell once wrote a short story titled "Dear Devil" which contained the following:

Weep, my country, for your sons asleep,
The ashes of your homes, your tottering towers.
Weep, my country, O, my country, weep!
For birds that cannot sing, for vanished flowers,
The end of everything,
The silenced hours.
Weep! my country.

It so fits what has become of Afghanistan of which we bear much of the blame.

I've never been hip and I'm always the last to know what is going on in the realm of what's popular. Lately I've been hearing a lot of buzz about an ebook, now a bestselling paperback, called Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James which started out as fanfiction set in the Twilight'verse. I know can't help wondering how many other books started out as fanfic and if any fanfic I have read has, or will become, a published book.

My new favorite superhero is Super Mamika. I want to be just like her when I am 91 *g*

We might need her as there is a credible threat to computers on July 9th. Read the story here and make sure you take the test to check if your computer has been infected. Gah I hate people who want to make problems for other people just because they can ;(

I haven't posted in a week or so because not much is happening and I'm just so pissed off at what the Rethuglicans are doing to us women. bill_sheehan wrote a great post on the subject last Sunday putting forward a compelling explanation why these so-called pro-life restrictions are so wrong. Why can't they understand that a woman's body belongs to her?

Speaking of pregnancy here is a fascinating look at the mystical pregnancy trope in science fiction TV shows (check out all the other links too) where often the pregnancies are forced upon women. There is so much wrong with this trope and I hope eventually Hollywood will come to understand this and it will fade away.

It's not just the Rethuglicans who can be scary. There's an app out there called "Girls Around Me" that can locate people (not necessarily just girls) in your vicinity that can be frightening if the user is a stalker or rapist. Read about it here.

Now for something completely different: a map of the winds blowing across the US in realtime - it's almost hypnotic.

Lovely photo essay of a young man's journey from believer to atheist that has many similarities to my own journey.

Love this post on 21 Cats Imitating Art - my favorite is the Grande Odalisque.

ON Sunday I was watching "The Good Wife" then changed channels to view an old ep of "Law & Order" and by sheer coincidence the 1993 episode featured a  young Juliana Margulies as a witness to a murder being interrogated by Chris Noth, her future "husband". I wonder if they joked about it when they were cast for TGW.

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Ha! Can you figure out the answer to today's Final Jeopardy question: What island is 22 square miles and had a population of 1 million by 1880?
( The Answer )

Jimmy Carter has left his church over their policies regarding women. Read about it here (the author was shocked that there was no media coverage...and this was in 2009!). I always thought he was too good for us. Now 3 years later it's even worse for women; I hope in November men and women will remember what the Rethuglicans have done or tried to do and show it at the polls.