Memage

[selenite0]

Interesting meme from telophase:

I love looking at people's icons, but I don't always *get* them - I often wonder stuff like, "Who's that guy?" or "Where's that quote from?" but I tend not to ask, for various reasons. So come on, here are my icons. Pick one (or more!) you're curious about, and I'll try to explain it. Or at least explain what I like about it.

Comments

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

The "Shiny" one, please? What's that one about?

[selenite.livejournal.com]

I urge you to run, not walk, to your nearest source of DVDs and get the "Firefly: the Complete Series" set. It's a wonderful science fiction show about a ship's crew trying to earn (or steal) whatever it takes to keep flying. Think of Guppy and his fellow Jacksonians operating on the fringes of inhabited space.

Oh, they're making a movie out of it, coming out this September.

One of the slang terms in the culture is "Shiny!" It's the same as "swell" or "cool" or "dope" in their day, meaning "This is good!"

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

I have the set but have been rationing it carefully, allowing myself one episode at a time at long intervals. Sigh.

The darn film is DONE but studio business hangups have pushed all Universal releases back six months, so it comes out in September rather than the originally-scheduled April. Or maybe they got cold feet about opening in the same season as the last Star Wars, Batman and Harry Potter.

Another slang usage I appreciate is "rape" instead of "the f word", which makes awfully good sense to me. The simple sex act is not an intrinically bad thing, but rape certainly is! And the world "rape" is not [yet] prohibited by FCC potty-mouth language rules.