what kind of fool am I
Thursday 7 September 2006 | 2 cookies in the jar
That I actually kind of want to go to the Browncoat Ball? Oh, if only Mandarin were still in San Francisco instead of on her way to Salamanca! We could dress as Inara and Kaylee (not too hard to figure out who would go as who) and, and, and go be giant geeks who get hit on by the equivalent of the Comic Book Guy.
Oh okay maybe it wouldn’t be that fun after all.
But you have to admit the SF Browncoats have a pretty cool logo. It is, dare I say, shiny.
And it might even be realistic, in a completely made-up kind of way of course, if we didn’t already know that the entire Bay area will be underwater in the future. The very near future, at that. Make that the very near future. Make that before the end of the century, according to the this BBC article.
Still not convinced there’s anything to worry about? I confidently refer entrenched skeptics to this cheery little gizmo, created with the assistance of Google maps and a conservative estimate of a six-meter rise in ocean level; you can see that the Bay Bridge now terminates in…the Bay. So much for Oakland. The real money shot comes when you swivel on over to the Eastern seaboard; see how the Atlantic laps lovingly against the feet of the Capitol? And they say there’s no apocalypse! Burn the land and boil the sea….
Don’t forget to look up your own hometown. We in New Mexico should stay safely high if, hélas, increasingly dry, though probably inundated by millions of refugees pouring in from coastal states. Here’s to Detroit! They’ll be fine, they’ll have bottled water.
Or perhaps you think that because we had a wet year here in northern New Mexico, our water worries are over. Let the Beeb once again disabuse you of that notion. In fact, while you’re disabusing yourself, why don’t you just go look at all the horrifying articles in their series Planet under Pressure. If this stuff isn’t enough to make you start walking to the grocery store…well, then you probably live about as far from the grocery store as I do.
With this return to serious apocalyptic matters, we also hereby announce a moratorium on all things Rowling, Whedon et al., as it’s gettin’ way too dang squee around here. But before we abandon fandom entirely: check out this nice Czech page, which organizes graphical evidence to prove that HP rips off LOTR: Harry/Frodo, Ron/Sam, Dobby/Gollum (though it should be Kreacher/Gollum, Dobby/Sméagol, but never mind), Weasley twins/Merry and Pippin, Hagrid/Gimli, Malfoy/Celeborn,and so forth (though we would have assigned Snape to Gríma, not Boromir—and what about Nazgûl/ Dementors?) (and doesn’t all this sound like the sickest slash ever?). There was a better page, in English, with twice as many comparisons and eerily accurate photographic documentation, but we can’t find it anymore.
And now we draw the curtain on geeky fantasy obsessions forever. Or anyway until next year when the Order of the Phoenix countdown begins in earnest.
Also, we’ve finally figured out a way to get you geezers to comment. To the right, underneath “ABOUT THE UNNARRATOR,” you see a series of pages that have been pretty much dead in the water since our inauguration. Except that now, under “música libre,” you could download three mix CDs we made for Mandarin earlier this summer. We say “could,” because they’re passworded and the only way to get the magic word is to leave a comment. Take that, lurkers! Aw, we love you anyway—it’s just that it gets a mite lonely up here by ourselves, posting away, slaving over a hot CPU to send you our blowsiest dirigibles of verbiage and all. What does that make us? Big damn heroes, sir. Ain’t we just. And now we will stop, before we start quoting Wash.
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Browncoats and no mention of Firefly??? Watched Objects in Space, maybe it was only the second time, the other night. Awesome. Once, I rented the DVD. Now, I’ve used certain means to d/l avi’s of all the episodes.
i got no password. i didn’t leave a cookie because i wanted a password, but now i do want one.