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Trekkie Question
Nov. 1st, 2010 07:34 pmWould/Could Spock know about Klingon Opera?
Folly at a booksale
Oct. 27th, 2010 11:21 pmSo...I bought a book at the library booksale called Spock's World.
I swore I wouldn't do it--buy Star Trek novels, that is. (I think it's a novel.) But it was only ten cents...and...and...well, I do read fanfiction...and...
I'M DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I also bought 93 other books not about Star Trek. At ten cents a book, I really REALLY can't help myself)
I swore I wouldn't do it--buy Star Trek novels, that is. (I think it's a novel.) But it was only ten cents...and...and...well, I do read fanfiction...and...
I'M DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I also bought 93 other books not about Star Trek. At ten cents a book, I really REALLY can't help myself)
Folly at a booksale
Oct. 27th, 2010 11:21 pmSo...I bought a book at the library booksale called Spock's World.
I swore I wouldn't do it--buy Star Trek novels, that is. (I think it's a novel.) But it was only ten cents...and...and...well, I do read fanfiction...and...
I'M DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I also bought 93 other books not about Star Trek. At ten cents a book, I really REALLY can't help myself)
I swore I wouldn't do it--buy Star Trek novels, that is. (I think it's a novel.) But it was only ten cents...and...and...well, I do read fanfiction...and...
I'M DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I also bought 93 other books not about Star Trek. At ten cents a book, I really REALLY can't help myself)
From Havergal to Sherlock?
Oct. 17th, 2010 10:39 pmI really am going to get from Havergal to Sherlock, and it will be a logical progression. But that means this post will be really rambly. Just bear with me.
We sang this hymn by Frances Ridley Havergal in church this morning. I love it so much. Not, perhaps, as poetic as some (I LOVE YOU, COWPER!!!!!!) but simple and straightforward:
( Take my life )
My favorite line in the song is "Take my intellect, and use every power as Thou shalt choose." On the one hand it's a scary thought--giving up something I treasure as much as my intellect--but on the other hand, but on the other, it's a wonderful reminder that being a Christian is not giving up your intellect period. It's using it for God.
Anyway, I was thinking about that line, and I remembered this wonderful letter from William Pitt the younger to William Wilberforce, after Wilberforce was converted to Christianity, and seriously considered leaving politics, and living his life out in retirement. I am posting the whole thing, because it is a wonderful letter (why does no one write like that anymore? WHY?) , and because with my kindle, I was able to copy the whole thing out of a book, instead of typing it...which would have taken too long, and because there is something so charming (to me, anyway) in the notion that an 18th century soon-to-be Prime Minister of England called one of his friends "Bob." The only really important quotation is the lj-cut text: "If a Christian may act in the several relations of life, must he seclude himself for all to become so? Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple, and lead not to meditation only but to action." But if you love old letters, as I do, you can read the whole thing below it.
( If a Christian may act in the several relations of life, must he seclude himself for all to become so? Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple, and lead not to meditation only but to action. )In the movie Amazing Grace, the directors dramatized the meeting Pitt asked for in the letter, and he says that line "Surely the principles..."
I said this would eventually ramble it's way around to Sherlock, no? Well, if you watched Amazing Grace, you might know the connection already. Hehe. Benedict Cumberbatch played William Pitt the younger in Amazing Grace and he plays (to my mind the BEST EVER) Sherlock Holmes in the new BBC TV series, Sherlock. (and Ioan Gruffudd played Wilberforce. *sigh* SO MANY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE IN THE SAME MOVIE!)
You know, that's not the first time my fangirlishness has managed to worm its way into church. I was sick at home one Sunday a few weeks ago, so I watched the church service from my home church, which they started streaming live recently. One of the pastors grew a goatee, which I hadn't seen, of course, since I'm away at school. There was only one thing that came to mind when I saw it (so I had to print-screen it):
Tell me he doesn't look like Mirror!Spock with that goatee!
It was sooooooooooooooooooooo distracting.
Oh well...
We sang this hymn by Frances Ridley Havergal in church this morning. I love it so much. Not, perhaps, as poetic as some (I LOVE YOU, COWPER!!!!!!) but simple and straightforward:
( Take my life )
My favorite line in the song is "Take my intellect, and use every power as Thou shalt choose." On the one hand it's a scary thought--giving up something I treasure as much as my intellect--but on the other hand, but on the other, it's a wonderful reminder that being a Christian is not giving up your intellect period. It's using it for God.
Anyway, I was thinking about that line, and I remembered this wonderful letter from William Pitt the younger to William Wilberforce, after Wilberforce was converted to Christianity, and seriously considered leaving politics, and living his life out in retirement. I am posting the whole thing, because it is a wonderful letter (why does no one write like that anymore? WHY?) , and because with my kindle, I was able to copy the whole thing out of a book, instead of typing it...which would have taken too long, and because there is something so charming (to me, anyway) in the notion that an 18th century soon-to-be Prime Minister of England called one of his friends "Bob." The only really important quotation is the lj-cut text: "If a Christian may act in the several relations of life, must he seclude himself for all to become so? Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple, and lead not to meditation only but to action." But if you love old letters, as I do, you can read the whole thing below it.
( If a Christian may act in the several relations of life, must he seclude himself for all to become so? Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple, and lead not to meditation only but to action. )In the movie Amazing Grace, the directors dramatized the meeting Pitt asked for in the letter, and he says that line "Surely the principles..."
I said this would eventually ramble it's way around to Sherlock, no? Well, if you watched Amazing Grace, you might know the connection already. Hehe. Benedict Cumberbatch played William Pitt the younger in Amazing Grace and he plays (to my mind the BEST EVER) Sherlock Holmes in the new BBC TV series, Sherlock. (and Ioan Gruffudd played Wilberforce. *sigh* SO MANY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE IN THE SAME MOVIE!)
You know, that's not the first time my fangirlishness has managed to worm its way into church. I was sick at home one Sunday a few weeks ago, so I watched the church service from my home church, which they started streaming live recently. One of the pastors grew a goatee, which I hadn't seen, of course, since I'm away at school. There was only one thing that came to mind when I saw it (so I had to print-screen it):
Tell me he doesn't look like Mirror!Spock with that goatee!
It was sooooooooooooooooooooo distracting.
Oh well...
From Havergal to Sherlock?
Oct. 17th, 2010 10:39 pmI really am going to get from Havergal to Sherlock, and it will be a logical progression. But that means this post will be really rambly. Just bear with me.
We sang this hymn by Frances Ridley Havergal in church this morning. I love it so much. Not, perhaps, as poetic as some (I LOVE YOU, COWPER!!!!!!) but simple and straightforward:
( Take my life )
My favorite line in the song is "Take my intellect, and use every power as Thou shalt choose." On the one hand it's a scary thought--giving up something I treasure as much as my intellect--but on the other hand, but on the other, it's a wonderful reminder that being a Christian is not giving up your intellect period. It's using it for God.
Anyway, I was thinking about that line, and I remembered this wonderful letter from William Pitt the younger to William Wilberforce, after Wilberforce was converted to Christianity, and seriously considered leaving politics, and living his life out in retirement. I am posting the whole thing, because it is a wonderful letter (why does no one write like that anymore? WHY?) , and because with my kindle, I was able to copy the whole thing out of a book, instead of typing it...which would have taken too long, and because there is something so charming (to me, anyway) in the notion that an 18th century soon-to-be Prime Minister of England called one of his friends "Bob." The only really important quotation is the lj-cut text: "If a Christian may act in the several relations of life, must he seclude himself for all to become so? Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple, and lead not to meditation only but to action." But if you love old letters, as I do, you can read the whole thing below it.
( If a Christian may act in the several relations of life, must he seclude himself for all to become so? Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple, and lead not to meditation only but to action. )In the movie Amazing Grace, the directors dramatized the meeting Pitt asked for in the letter, and he says that line "Surely the principles..."
I said this would eventually ramble it's way around to Sherlock, no? Well, if you watched Amazing Grace, you might know the connection already. Hehe. Benedict Cumberbatch played William Pitt the younger in Amazing Grace and he plays (to my mind the BEST EVER) Sherlock Holmes in the new BBC TV series, Sherlock. (and Ioan Gruffudd played Wilberforce. *sigh* SO MANY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE IN THE SAME MOVIE!)
You know, that's not the first time my fangirlishness has managed to worm its way into church. I was sick at home one Sunday a few weeks ago, so I watched the church service from my home church, which they started streaming live recently. One of the pastors grew a goatee, which I hadn't seen, of course, since I'm away at school. There was only one thing that came to mind when I saw it (so I had to print-screen it):
Tell me he doesn't look like Mirror!Spock with that goatee!
It was sooooooooooooooooooooo distracting.
Oh well...
We sang this hymn by Frances Ridley Havergal in church this morning. I love it so much. Not, perhaps, as poetic as some (I LOVE YOU, COWPER!!!!!!) but simple and straightforward:
( Take my life )
My favorite line in the song is "Take my intellect, and use every power as Thou shalt choose." On the one hand it's a scary thought--giving up something I treasure as much as my intellect--but on the other hand, but on the other, it's a wonderful reminder that being a Christian is not giving up your intellect period. It's using it for God.
Anyway, I was thinking about that line, and I remembered this wonderful letter from William Pitt the younger to William Wilberforce, after Wilberforce was converted to Christianity, and seriously considered leaving politics, and living his life out in retirement. I am posting the whole thing, because it is a wonderful letter (why does no one write like that anymore? WHY?) , and because with my kindle, I was able to copy the whole thing out of a book, instead of typing it...which would have taken too long, and because there is something so charming (to me, anyway) in the notion that an 18th century soon-to-be Prime Minister of England called one of his friends "Bob." The only really important quotation is the lj-cut text: "If a Christian may act in the several relations of life, must he seclude himself for all to become so? Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple, and lead not to meditation only but to action." But if you love old letters, as I do, you can read the whole thing below it.
( If a Christian may act in the several relations of life, must he seclude himself for all to become so? Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple, and lead not to meditation only but to action. )In the movie Amazing Grace, the directors dramatized the meeting Pitt asked for in the letter, and he says that line "Surely the principles..."
I said this would eventually ramble it's way around to Sherlock, no? Well, if you watched Amazing Grace, you might know the connection already. Hehe. Benedict Cumberbatch played William Pitt the younger in Amazing Grace and he plays (to my mind the BEST EVER) Sherlock Holmes in the new BBC TV series, Sherlock. (and Ioan Gruffudd played Wilberforce. *sigh* SO MANY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE IN THE SAME MOVIE!)
You know, that's not the first time my fangirlishness has managed to worm its way into church. I was sick at home one Sunday a few weeks ago, so I watched the church service from my home church, which they started streaming live recently. One of the pastors grew a goatee, which I hadn't seen, of course, since I'm away at school. There was only one thing that came to mind when I saw it (so I had to print-screen it):
Tell me he doesn't look like Mirror!Spock with that goatee!
It was sooooooooooooooooooooo distracting.
Oh well...
Sound familiar, o Trekkies?
Oct. 11th, 2010 03:50 pmFrom Bewitched, Season 2, Episode 18:
Darren: You know, Endora, sometimes you can be almost human.
Endora: This is no time to be insulting!
Actually...Endora and Spock would make a very interesting couple. They have an awful lot in common...and then an awful lot NOT in common... (Cracky Bewitched/Star Trek crossover, anyone? BWAHAHAHA! The girl who played Janice Rand was in the Pilot...)
EDIT: The nurse in this episode (the one where Tabitha is born) totally looks like Chapel. She isn't Majel Barret, but she really REALLY reminds me of her!
Nurse Kelton: I've been a nurse for twenty years, and I know there's a logical explanation for everything that happens.
SERIOUSLY! This is a Star Trek episode in disguise...a few months early--1/13/66 according to hulu.
Darren: You know, Endora, sometimes you can be almost human.
Endora: This is no time to be insulting!
Actually...Endora and Spock would make a very interesting couple. They have an awful lot in common...and then an awful lot NOT in common... (Cracky Bewitched/Star Trek crossover, anyone? BWAHAHAHA! The girl who played Janice Rand was in the Pilot...)
EDIT: The nurse in this episode (the one where Tabitha is born) totally looks like Chapel. She isn't Majel Barret, but she really REALLY reminds me of her!
Nurse Kelton: I've been a nurse for twenty years, and I know there's a logical explanation for everything that happens.
SERIOUSLY! This is a Star Trek episode in disguise...a few months early--1/13/66 according to hulu.
Sound familiar, o Trekkies?
Oct. 11th, 2010 03:50 pmFrom Bewitched, Season 2, Episode 18:
Darren: You know, Endora, sometimes you can be almost human.
Endora: This is no time to be insulting!
Actually...Endora and Spock would make a very interesting couple. They have an awful lot in common...and then an awful lot NOT in common... (Cracky Bewitched/Star Trek crossover, anyone? BWAHAHAHA! The girl who played Janice Rand was in the Pilot...)
EDIT: The nurse in this episode (the one where Tabitha is born) totally looks like Chapel. She isn't Majel Barret, but she really REALLY reminds me of her!
Nurse Kelton: I've been a nurse for twenty years, and I know there's a logical explanation for everything that happens.
SERIOUSLY! This is a Star Trek episode in disguise...a few months early--1/13/66 according to hulu.
Darren: You know, Endora, sometimes you can be almost human.
Endora: This is no time to be insulting!
Actually...Endora and Spock would make a very interesting couple. They have an awful lot in common...and then an awful lot NOT in common... (Cracky Bewitched/Star Trek crossover, anyone? BWAHAHAHA! The girl who played Janice Rand was in the Pilot...)
EDIT: The nurse in this episode (the one where Tabitha is born) totally looks like Chapel. She isn't Majel Barret, but she really REALLY reminds me of her!
Nurse Kelton: I've been a nurse for twenty years, and I know there's a logical explanation for everything that happens.
SERIOUSLY! This is a Star Trek episode in disguise...a few months early--1/13/66 according to hulu.
