Day: February 5, 2008

“With a hunk like John Barrowman, a girl likes to dream,” notes this letter to Sci Fi Weekly.

Oh man, is she going to be disappointed.

Then again, she’s living in a weird alternate universe where Torchwood is only just starting to be about sex, so maybe Barrowman isn’t gay in that dimension either.

I guess it makes sense — her character has been ridiculously under-served this season and a poor fit in her current role since day one — but I think I’m still disappointed that Amanda Tapping is leaving Stargate Atlantis.

She’ll stick around as a special guest star for several episodes, but then so will Paul McGillion, and his character was killed off last season. It’s disappointing because, on paper at least, Tapping seemed like a really interesting fit for the show. Not necessarily a good fit, of course — at least not in the way the writers eventually envisioned it — but it could have worked. It was certainly high-profile enough within the fan community, but now it just feels like miscalculated stunt casting. Tapping has barely even been on the show this past year. (Seriously, compile all her scenes and I doubt you’d even squeeze together one episode.) I kept thinking what they really needed was an episode that focused on her and her specifically, but I guess we’re not likely to get that now.

Which is a shame. Because the Stargate SG-1 Samantha Carter was pretty cool.

Oh, and yeah, I went with the lame pun in the title of this post. This is Sci Fi Channel news, after all.

Via Minor Tweaks, I learn that:

Two men are accused of burning down the birthplace of the woman made famous by the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”

Yeah, you know, old…whatshername? Okay, so “famous” is maybe a relative concept.

I learned more via CBS News:

They are scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in connection with the Aug. 12 fire that destroyed a vacant house in Sterling where town officials say Mary Elizabeth Sawyer was born in 1806.Sarah Josepha Hale reportedly published a poem in 1830 about Sawyer, as a child, bringing her lamb to school with her. Other accounts, however, claim the original writer was a young man who was inspired by the incident.

First Robert Frost’s home was vandalized, now this. Which poet’s house will be next, I wonder? These things always happen in threes, don’t they?

Dear internet,

Thank you.

There were lots of football fans in the city this morning for the big ticker-tape parade. What I’m wondering is, don’t these people have jobs? Shouldn’t these kids be in school? I mean, I’m all for honoring New York’s own for a job well done this past weekend. Even if I didn’t watch the big game, and even if they are, technically, from New Jersey. But seriously, there comes a point when…

The football fans who stayed in the city all day after the parade, drinking, though…