how do you get the hang of watching Mission:Impossible? Does it require a huge suspension of disbelief?

You have to get used to doing a lot of front-loading. They don't explain how they're doing stuff as they're doing it, so if you miss the first few minutes of why and even what, well...it takes practice.

This one has too many people that look alike.

But, hey, Nimoy.

Picked up a copy of LA Weekly while waiting for lunch today, and read a really great bit by Sherman Alexie about having his persona appropriated by someone who's just so much more him than he is. I wonder if he wrote it just now, or it's an older piece.

Did you know that Woody Allen guest starred on MASH?

Not a MASH person. And certainly not a Woody Allen person.

I want to get my dad a Cyclone rake. What do leaf blowers do, precisely? Or maybe I mean: what do leaf blowers do precisely? I mean, do they just shove the leaves anywhere else?

They're pretty good for alienating neighbors and freaking out dogs, too.

Leaf blowers are pretty decent for getting the leaves from vaguely over here to vaguely over there. So for places like my parents' town, where you blow the leaves into a big pile in the street next to the curb and a guy in a special truck comes around to collect them, they're pretty good. Getting them into something more specific, like into a container, requires a bit more skill, but it can be done.

So, why is Elizabeth Berkley (of Showgirls fame) suddenly all over my TV? First, she's hosting some dance show on Bravo (as you will recall from the aforementioned Showgirls, she's a DANCER!),and now she's guesting on CSI, which I haven't watched in years and decided to watch on a whim tonight.

BTW, wanna come visit at the end of the month?

FUCK YEAH. But sadly, unpossible. Fucking job and inept testers have claimed those days. Shit, I'm listed to work that weekend (I won't, though.) I'd blow them off, but that it's still early in this position.

(I'd really wanted to do a surprise appearance at the very least, but obviously was foiled.)

And yes, c-section stitches scissors is weird. And sewing them into my coat is weirder. But it is so typically me.

I caught her in an ep of Without A Trace the other night. For some reason (or for that immutable reason) although I swear I stopped watching WaT a while ago, I can't find any repeats I haven't seen before.

I just want to numb my brain, dammit. Is that too much to ask?

Leaf blowers are always on around here, it seems. And I can never find the piles they are supposed to be making.

Beck has a song where he mentions having a job as a leaf blower. And there's a video of him using a leaf blower on stage.

Maybe he's made them trendy.

I once had a job at a theatre for children that required us to use a leaf blower to blow all the dropped popcorn from a perforamce into a giant pile in the middle of the floor, which we then swept up. It got old pretty fast.

Leaf blowers are always on around here, it seems. And I can never find the piles they are supposed to be making.

Probably one guy using the blower and another putting the piles into bags or other containers.

GE Creates Organic LEDs

This is pretty amazing: Early Science Fiction Fanzines: A Cover Gallery Mostly from the '70s. Trek, Dr. Who, Star Wars, Logan's Run, Dark Shadows, etc...

eta: I love this cover: [link]