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babe said:
I see this joy in my dogs, when I open the gate and step out of the way, with nothing to stop them within the four horizons. . . . .
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funny thing is, even so, these dogs who will bounce up and down like maniacs when they see me coming, will follow me around like there's no other place to be.
 
babe said:
funny thing is, even so, these dogs who will bounce up and down like maniacs when they see me coming, will follow me around like there's no other place to be.
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well, some of them, that is. The boys will run, and outta sight sometimes. . . . even some of the girls can do that sometimes. But I was amazed the other day. My two rowdiest girls, whom I had feared to let out. . . . well, when I finally decided it just had to be done even though they have the largest kennel. . . .. didn't have anything to do when they were out except sit at my feet and give me doggie kisses. After some months. . . . they are young pups still. . . . of me just sitting on their dogloo and loving them every time I could. . . translated into a sort of notion that there really isn't anything else to do. . . . .

well, I'll have to work on that problem. Running dogs have just gotta run.

maybe I should run too.
 
babe said:
My children and I are now Whobies. When I come home, and mom goes to bed, the kids come to my room and we watch Dr. Who.

Your mention of "the song?" reminds me of the Ood. Some of the nicest non-people ever imagined by Sci-Fi writers. They have a song of their own.

I think everyone should have a song of their own.
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My daughter will holler out Dr. Who every time we are scrolling through netflix. I usually say "Those are all old episodes and we have watched them more than once." Her response "So?"
 
Speaking of "Movin On", yesterday the cowboys came, in force. Seven horsemen. My bull had them taking life seriously, but they got him on the truck. He did jump on fence, and was looking like he would take another. . . . corral fences six feet high. He jumped from one into another, where he found my eight-foot plywood panels just enough of a bluff he decided not to do it. . . ..

The cowboys were asking if I really wanted to ship him out. . . .

I said I loved him like a son, but I can't afford him anymore because half my cows are his daughters and they're gonna give me hell enough.
 
heyhey said:
My daughter will holler out Dr. Who every time we are scrolling through netflix. I usually say "Those are all old episodes and we have watched them more than once." Her response "So?"
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We haven't seen them all yet.

I expect that same "So?" soon enough.
 
babe said:
My children and I are now Whobies. When I come home, and mom goes to bed, the kids come to my room and we watch Dr. Who.

Your mention of "the song?" reminds me of the Ood. Some of the nicest non-people ever imagined by Sci-Fi writers. They have a song of their own.

I think everyone should have a song of their own.
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You aren't quite deep enough into the Dr. Who counter-culture to recognize that they are usually referred to as "Whovians". My daughter went to Reno's version of comicon, SNAFU-con, dressed as a weeping angel and my son went as the tardis. Pretty decent costumes too. Did you go to the limited screening of the 50th anniversary special at a movie theater near you? My daughter and son went in full Dr. Who regalia. It an get a bit extreme.

I watched the first season of the "new" Dr. Who and found it rather meh for my tastes. I am more of a Star Trek/Star Wars/Firefly scifi fan, I guess.
 
LogGrad98 said:
You aren't quite deep enough into the Dr. Who counter-culture to recognize that they are usually referred to as "Whovians". My daughter went to Reno's version of comicon, SNAFU-con, dressed as a weeping angel and my son went as the tardis. Pretty decent costumes too. Did you go to the limited screening of the 50th anniversary special at a movie theater near you? My daughter and son went in full Dr. Who regalia. It an get a bit extreme.

I watched the first season of the "new" Dr. Who and found it rather meh for my tastes. I am more of a Star Trek/Star Wars/Firefly scifi fan, I guess.
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Firefly was good but it was cut off way too soon. I don't understand why networks don't understand that sci-fis take time to build an audience but when they do they are rabid. I started watching the new Dr. Who on Pbs in the first season,ON PBS, what's it like 8 years later now and it's huge. Give a sci-fi time and it will usually pay off.
 
heyhey said:
Firefly was good but it was cut off way too soon. I don't understand why networks don't understand that sci-fis take time to build an audience but when they do they are rabid. I started watching the new Dr. Who on Pbs in the first season,ON PBS, what's it like 8 years later now and it's huge. Give a sci-fi time and it will usually pay off.
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Sci-Fi will always be a niche phenomenon. . . . no way it can be a true mass culture. When something out of the Sci-Fi genre goes mass, the science is left behind and it becomes more or less pure mysticism. You have to have the science background to follow the subject in it's true. . . pure. . . . form. jmodo.
 
babe said:
Sci-Fi will always be a niche phenomenon. . . . no way it can be a true mass culture. When something out of the Sci-Fi genre goes mass, the science is left behind and it becomes more or less pure mysticism. You have to have the science background to follow the subject in it's true. . . pure. . . . form. jmodo.
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For sure, which is why it takes so long to build an audience. It makes no sense to spend the money for a sci-fi and then give it only 2 seasons. That's all I was saying.
 
My favorite hard(er) sci-fi author is David Brin. He doesn't get deep into the science all the time but a lot of his stuff does presuppose that the reader has some basic understanding of the hard sciences. I am also reading Orson Scott Card's new series in the Ender universe, the First Formic War, about the first alien invasion, and he gets somewhat into the science behind inter-stellar travel in a very interesting way. I was very intrigued by the descriptions of the alien ship and the deceleration process that I frankly hadn't thought about before. I am finding it very enjoyable.
 
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