Two more bellydance shows down, two more to go in August. Nicole pandoras_chaos is drumming with us now. She had her first official rehearsal with us today, and it was good. She was very patient with waiting while we bickered about choreography. She also drummed a little impromptu performance with us last Sunday at Faire. The cruise two weekends ago was disorganized as expected, but still...

trek_news brings you all the Star Trek-related LJ content every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. If you'd like to help, contact us at trek.watch@gmail.com - see the community profile for more information. NEW COMMUNITIES kirkspockuhura , a community dedicated to the Kirk/Spock/Uhura relationship DISCUSSION General Star Trek herm_weasley is looking...

trek_news brings you all the Star Trek-related LJ content every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. If you'd like to help, contact us at trek.watch@gmail.com - see the community profile for more information. DISCUSSION General Star Trek major_kusunagi1 would like to know what you'd like to see in a 2009 Trek track at GMX . narniadear is seeking convention advice...

Closer and closer... Today we inspected the condo and building. We used Speaker of the House ( meryddian 's referral) and he was GREAT. Insanely competitive price, extremely thorough, very helpful. He kept saying thing like, "See this here? Normally this is where I drop the bomb on you, but this looks fantastic." Or, "Really, this building is a structural cream puff. I've never seen one like...

So I am re-reading the DVD-Roms in chronological order in parallel. The five series I am doing are: Avengers Daredevil Fantastic Four Spider-man (Amazing, I may add Peter Parker when it steps in, you know in 10 years) X-men I am really digging the Fantastic Four stuff and the Amazing Spider-man is getting better and better. I can really see why Fantastic Four just took off; the characters are quite...

trek_news brings you all the Star Trek-related LJ content every Monday and Friday. If you'd like to help, contact us at trek.watch@gmail.com - see the community profile for more information. R.I.P. Ricardo Montalban . [ via meryddian ] DISCUSSION General Star Trek peacelovefandom links to an article about John de Lancie . timsinister wonders which...

tipped off by meryddian CHICAGO TEMPERATURE CONVERSION CHART 60° F: Arizonans shiver uncontrollably; people in Chicago sunbathe. 50° F: New Yorkers try to turn on the heat; people in Chicago plant gardens. 40° F: Italian & English cars won't start; people in Chicago drive with the windows down. 32° F: Distilled water freezes; Lake Michigan 's water gets thicker. 20° F: Floridians don...

This is pretty awesome. Text size: increase text sizedecrease text size Chinook salmon running again in East Chicago Associated Press 11:55 AM CST, December 1, 2008 EAST CHICAGO, Ind. - Workers at the city's wastewater treatment plant in this northwestern Indiana city face a unique challenge: chasing off fishermen. That's because chinook salmon spawn inside the plant. What makes it even...