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I discovered last night that there is a Whole Foods just minutes away from me at work. *cue ominous music* I didn't do too badly I suppose, though I did leave with some vegan cinnamon rolls (one of which I had for breakfast, yum!), Quorn patties, spinach pancakes (like potato pancakes, only green), a few Morningstar Farms goodies, and my beloved chocolate Tofutti Cuties. Also found some soy based mozzarella slices that I'm dying to try out. Their bakery section is going to be my undoing, though, I just know it. Still, at least now I know where to pick up stuff to take to potlucks and such.

I ended up doing a lot less than I'd hoped as I got caught up in playing around with my LJ layout. It's still not quite what I want, but closer. Caught the Daily Show and once again worshiped Stephen Colbert. Then popped in the Goddess Workout, sure enough I could do the entire thing without breaking a sweat and the shimmy section that once terrified me now makes me yawn. I may have to pass the tape on to someone else and go for her higher level workout. This one's just too basic.

And speaking of belly dance, this is a damn cool sounding show:

Dance 4 Democracy
A Bellydance Benefit for John Kerry
and the Democratic Party
Wednesday, October 6th, 2004

7pm
$15 donation
checks and credit cards only, please
(free raffle tickets for your donation!)

Afghan Oasis Restaurant
2806 Allston Way
Berkeley

Performances by

Suhaila Salimpour Dance Company
FatChanceBellyDance
Shuvani

also featuring
Luna, Frederique, Asata, Zari

Yeah it's the middle of the week, but oh I'm so tempted. Maybe I could come in late on Thursday...


I think the show's got potential, but about 15 too many characters at the moment. I expect the cast will be thinned out substantially in the not too distant future. If anyone would care to place bets on who goes first, please do.

I think I'm already at the point where I'd like to see Dr. HoneyPants wind up a bloody and mangled mess but I suspect he's going to stick around for a while. At least long enough to deliver Inappropriately Dressed Pregnant Chick's baby. And of course to act as love interest for Random Hottie (who, as we see in the previews, strips down to her skivvies at least once in the coming weeks). Dom (Charlie?) is awfully cute when he's all scruffy and I suspect that musesfool is correct when she theorizes he's got a nasty drug habit, hence his popping into the bathroom. If Dom does get to portray an addict going through withdrawal in a very special episode of Lost I'm definitely tuning in.

Did anybody else start a countdown when they found the pilot guy alive? All I could think was, "He'll be dead in 30...29...28..." I wasn't quite right about the timing, but neither was I all that far off either. I suppose one of the two Japanese folks is a criminal and the other a cop (it's implied that the woman is, I think, by the conversation the two have, but it could go either way), and that we'll have all kinds of cute adventures with the little kid. If the series kills off the kid my respect for it will grow by leaps and bounds.

Now what is up with the giant invisible man eating (wait, the pilot was only kinda gnawed, so let me change that), er- giant invisible man gnawing creature? My first thought was "Oh they've landed on Skull Island, cool!" then the big bad attacked the plane and I thought, "No, make that Monster Island, even cooler!" Now that is a series I'd watch, even if they included Godzookie. Perhaps he and the kid could form some sort of bond of friendship and get into all kinds of adorable hijinks together.

Anyway, anybody willing to place bets on the big reveal? Here are a few of my theories:

1) Camoflaged T-Rex, either a leftover from the age of the dinosaurs or they've crashed in Jurassic Park.

2) Very stealthy giant ape which will become fascinated with Random Hottie.

3) Shelob!

4) Mecha-Godzilla!

5) Karl Rove (hey, from some of the stuff I've read about him it's possible and I don't think I've ever seen a picture of him so he could very well be invisible)

If you've got some better ideas please feel free to share.

At any rate it's an ok series so far, with potential to either become incredibly good or incredibly dumb hinging in great part on what the invisible menace turns out to be.

And I'm sorry to say that the DS9 novel "34th Rule" co-authored by Armin Shimmerman is utter drek. It started out ok but stumbled about a third of the way in. Hey, if an author (or authors) makes an amateur mistake that is glaringly obvious to anyone with at least a passing knowledge of the series I get annoyed, if an actor on said series makes such a mistake I want to fling the book across the room. I mean Jesus, there's a sentence along the lines of, "And she gave the book to his daughter, Kira..." Now what's wrong with that? Well mainly the fact that his daughter's name is Nerys, Kira is the family name. It'd be like saying, "And she gave the book to his daughter, Smith..." Gah!

Then the book descended into mischaracterizations of most of the rest of the crew and this incredibly Mary Sue style handling of Quark that generally makes me want to retch. Yes, yes, Quark is just misunderstood, right, got it, for the love of god move on! And the character rape of Kira is just painful. I'll finish it because I'm stubborn, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else.

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I know some of the answers to your questions, having read many articles, interviews with the creators, spoilers, plus what the creators told us at ComicCon. I'll be happy to share in e-mail if you're interested, but not if you want to stay spoiler-free.

Oh by all means spoil me, I doubt I'll remember to tune into this show every week.