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Apparently, in the 1890's, the US Dept of Agriculture had a position called "Cerealist in Charge of Grain Investigations". Doesn't that sound exciting?

I Want to Hug Simon Tam. Innocently, for Once

I finally read the teaser to "Dead or Alive", one of the Firefly scripts that was shelved for one reason or another ("production issues". I'm guessing it was too expensive, based on how it starts.) Anyway, between this and Tenth Muse's "Waiting" (not on her site yet, but soon), which was the last thing I read before I went to bed last night, I really, really wish Simon were a real person, just so I could give him a hug. Poor thing! River too, but then I always want to hug poor tormented River. My Simon-thoughts aren't generally so pure.

( The bit in question... )

More Firefly Awards Nominations. Gorram Fox!

I meant to pick on the SyFy Portal Genre Awards nominations when they came out on Saturday night, but it slipped my mind. No time like the present! My biggest issue with them is that Enterprise leads the pack with 13 nods. Not Farscape, not Firefly, not even Buffy. Enterprise? Well I'm boggled, I must say.

( I'm including the whole list, because I want to pick on it. Mwa ha! )

Not a great year for genre media, overall. Some high points, but mostly it's been a long list of "cancelled, cancelled, in its last season, cancelled" with occasional forays into "consistent (consistently dull, that is)".