Archive for November, 2007
November 18, 2007 11:25 pm
This was awesome.
I went to the encore showing of the remastered version of “The Menagerie” on Thursday. The theater was about two-thirds full; certainly there were no lines or costumes, although one audience member was handing out DVDs of his fan film! I took one, but I haven’t watched it yet — am planning to save it for Pug’s visit over Thanksgiving. There was lots of laughter for the best lines (often from McCoy), and the digital update of the special effects shots looked really good — but was also unobtrusive. Certainly nothing like the make-over that Star Wars got when it was re-released in theaters about ten years ago.
(Yeah, it really was ten years. Elf, didn’t we go see at least one of them together? I could be mis-remembering, but it sounds plausible for ten years ago.)
Next item, let’s look forward to the next opportunity to see Star Trek on the big screen! I’m talking about the potentially spoiler-icious link posted on Nodwick yesterday. Yes, ladies and gents, behind the cut is Spoiler City…assuming, of course, that the source is actually in the know. Which we don’t know. But just in case, you’ve been warned.
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Categories: Star Trek, movies, television
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November 17, 2007 2:45 pm
So what is it you do do?
(It’s so odd. Normally, I don’t like scatological humor, but that line never stops being funny. Er, anyway…)
I’m an editorial assistant, which means that I do various bits of the support work for the editors. For one, I’ve been doing a lot for the letters to the editor section of the Journal. When letters come in, I verify that they fit our guidelines, organize them, and distribute them to whichever editor handled the article that the letter-writer is writing the letter about. After the editors give their thumbs-up or thumbs-down, I take care of the rejects — mark them as such in the database and send out the rejection letters. (As a writer, that’s got to be bad karma. As an editor, well, it’s got to be done.)
I also handle the inbox that gets all the e-mail in which people write to say that they’ve written a piece on such-and-such or that they’re doing research into something and would we be interested in it? Most of this I forward straight on to the editor-in-chief, who either passes them on to the other editors or gives me a thumbs-up, -down, or -sideways. (Down says “Thanks, but no thanks.” Up says “We’re interested, submit the manuscript, but we can’t make you any promises.” Sideways says “Uh…maybe? Submit the thing and we’ll see.”) So then I send out those form letters. I also get to field the random questions that pop up and throw back the small fish who don’t have an abstract. (Usually they grow an abstract and swim right back.)
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Categories: nine to five
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November 3, 2007 11:02 am
Newsweek’s current cover story (decidedly not a gonzo piece) is a decent stab at explaining current trends in food allergies, covering the statistics, the research, and the social effects of this growing trend. It’s worth a look. Though the last paragraph is wince-worthy, I commend the writer on her attempt to describe the experience of having food allergies and offer a thumbs up for mentioning the fact that a milk allergy is a completely different and rather more deadly thing than lactose intolerance. Our friends at FAAN get a mention, too. Yay for public awareness.
Categories: allergy, in the news
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