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Yesterday's rather cryptic entry was a result of seriously slow moving computer, and extreme tiredness. jkb, honey, was it as good for you as it was for me? The AIM, that is.

Those are the panel titles I submitted to MWC. I wanted to make a not of them before I forgot them.

Found this in Salon.
http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/2003/02/26/trek/index.html

"Moreover, Spock was obviously passionately in love with his rug-wearing bisexual WASP jock captain, something not lost on the bitchy, swishy and rather jealous ship's doctor, Bones McCoy, who wasted no opportunity to tease his green-blooded colleague. (For some reason all the male "Trek" medical staffers have been queeny, even the holograms). Interestingly, the stellar love affair between Spock and Kirk, which has its roots in Greek mythology and American literature (e.g., Alexander and Hephaestion, Huck and Jim, Ishmael and Queequeg) seems to have grown out of the clash of Shatner's and Nimoy's planet-size thespian egos: Roddenberry, driven frantic by their on-set competitiveness, was advised by Isaac Asimov, no less, to channel it by strengthening their on-screen relationship. In addition, a "favored nation" clause was introduced into their contracts, stipulating that any benefits accorded to one must apply to the other. In other words, gay campaigners still calling for gay characters in the next "Trek" series are missing the point. "Star Trek" featured the world's first on-screen same-sex marriage back in the '60s. (Little wonder then that a whole genre of female-authored "slash" fan fictions built around the Spock/Kirk love affair has flourished, making explicit what was always implicit.)"


Me, I like the bitchy swishy queen together with the "borderline hysteric" as they call Spock.

Is a good article. Go read. For those without a subscription, Salon offers a day pass. Suffer through a 30 second HBO promo, and you can read Salon for 18 hours!

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Yesterday's rather cryptic entry was a result of seriously slow moving computer, and extreme tiredness. jkb, honey, was it as good for you as it was for me? The AIM, that is.

Yes, it was. :) Though I also was very tired afterwards. I'm not in shape for these marathons anymore. walkerminion and I used to do 5-hour sessions, at the end of which my eyes and neck would be aching and my fingers could barely move. We finally switched to phone calls instead. I don't have the stamina for this kind of thing anymore -- and yet, it was a lot of fun and I wouldn't wanna miss it, especially the part about eating chocolate cake with one hand and typing with the other. We'll have to do it again. :) And thanks again for the great title suggestions! I modified them just a little bit more after we got off chat, and I'm about to submit them.