It's a mixed bag...

I found two things on my friends list this morning.

One made me feel distinct ill.

The other is funny and makes me happy. The X2 outtakes are here, at the bottom. You can download them from the site, though you do have to register to do it. It's in German, yes, but that's not hard to understand.

I'll let you know how they are later. I need the pick me up from that article. Man.

You have no chance to survive... Make your time.

So, I had an idea last night and this morning.

It is going to involve a lot of reading and that is something I am good at. I am going to do a lot of research and I'll see if I turn anything up at all. Right now, I think I will attempt to recruit someone else in this.

When I have a better working theory, I will be sure to let you all know.

To sum it up as I have it right now: There are issues in society right now that seem to be glaringly problematic. I want to see if I can track down the societal changes that makes these things possible, even acceptable in some cases. I also want to see if I can track down some sort of pattern - things that happen over and over again in different places. I'm going to need lots of books - history books and primary sources of all sorts.

Right now I can trace certain things back to a certain point in history but I need to know more to fill in the blanks and make sure there is enough there to support what I think - and that I'm just not totally making things up. I need an angle of approach and I think it will be women and power in societal roles as a start. It's something I've thought about a lot. And the converse, really. It's all interconnected. But one thing at a time, yes? (Besides, I'd need to find a guy who wanted to be crazy like me to tackle the other side of it. Just to be fair to it I should probably find one anyway.)

I know. I know. It's huge. It's something that I think will probably be something that occupies me .... forever, but that's okay. It will stop my brain from settling into atrophy without a fight.

Maybe I'll actually come up with something that makes sense at some point. I'm not expecting to find anything that makes sense. Maybe I'll start some sort of think tank eventually.

How do you get money for those sorts of things?

Okay. I'm babbling now.

Entertainment things...

(I know I'm posting a lot this morning. So much good stuff.)

From Ain't It Cool about Farscape: "According to a Wednesday TV Guide Online report, Rockne S. O'Bannon and Brian Henson were supposed to have participated in a Thursday press conference to "announce an exciting new development in the campaign to continue Farscape," but that press conference apparently did not transpire.

Much of the show’s cast and crew are expected to attend a big “Farscape” convention here in Los Angeles this weekend, so we’ll likely be hearing something soon."
( Tons more stuff in here )