01.23.07
All Up In The NPR Jeezy
Well, naturally I would manage to say that nothing interesting was happening yesterday. Quite frankly it was all before I had listened to this week’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. So I could be excused for missing the fact that Weird Al Yankovic was the guest for the “Not My Job” game. Sadly, Al played it straight for the majority of his time on the air, but it was still pretty good.
Of course, this is more than made up for by the fact that in the very next segment, there was a clip of House of Representative member David Wu, in all honesty and sincerity, using the phrase “…there are Klingons in the White House. But unlike the real Klingons of ‘Star Trek’ [...] Don’t let faux-Klingons send real Americans to war”. As an added bonus, a coup de nerd, the line was also delivered in a manner suspiciously similar to the Chewbacca Defense. I think this is the geekiest moment in politics since British Defence Secretary Denis Healey was called a Dalek.
Firefox’s spell-checker claims that I have misspelled “Klingons”, “Defence” (perfectly acceptable as the British spelling, which is why it’s Defence Secretary Healey vs. the Chewbacca Defense), and “Dalek”, yet does not bat an eyelash about “Chewbacca”… well, all right, it didn’t as part of the link, but once separated out Chewie is listed as orthographically incorrect. Curiously enough, “Klingon” is OK, but “Klingons” are not. Man, do I love me some spelling silliness.
Inconsequential Update: 72,000 words, I’ve triggered thinking on one of the subplots that had me stuck, and there are 24 scheduled scenes left. I realize I’m going to have to have a professional read over this mess and see if it’s possible to get it into a publishable state, but I honestly don’t think there’s much work that would really be needed. I’ve tried to stay consistent internally and tried to make the story interesting and amusing. And yes, there are plenty of inside gags for hardcore otaku. We’ll see how things progress.