Happy Birthday Leonard Simon Nimoy

May you live to 120!

Tonight's the night

It's the midpoint between the birthdays of Kirk and Spock. Talking about it that way almost makes it sound like an equinox. The midpoint where Oak King and Holly King meet as equals. When the stars turn in their appointed rounds and face each other across the firmament, and stargazers rejoice in their combined splendor.
It just started storming like hell outside. No chance of seeing the stars twinkle tonight!

Physics and Logic, according to Spock

Happy Birthday to William Shatner!!1!

Enjoying the view, Spock?

LN in jail

5pack yo

everybody needs a little glitter
painting by Karracaz

Some young people, asked why they risked their lives this way, said it was because of “tufush,” a colloquial Arabic word for boredom whose meaning is said by some to derive from the gestures made by a drowning man. Drifting, which tends to attract poorer, more marginal men, has also been an unlikely nexus between homosexuality, crime and jihadism since it emerged 30 years ago. Homoerotic desire is a constant theme in Saudi songs and poems about drifting, and accomplished drifters are said to have their pick of the prettiest boys among the spectators. Drugs sometimes also play a role. But a number of drifters have also become Islamic militants, including Youssef al-Ayyeri, the founder of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, who fought in Afghanistan and was killed by security forces in Saudi Arabia in 2003. | NYT

Drifting is 30 years old. hmpf. And I thought it was something new.