Noli Irritare Leones

This one’s for Natalia Antonova, because she says she finds Anton Chekhov hot: A whole page of photos of Anton Chekhov. Readers are invited to offer photos of other long dead eye candy, of either gender, in the comments.

Other links of the day:

Free and reduced cost cell phone headsets.

Since the Obama campaign emailed it to me: Video of Barack Obama’s Berlin speech.

The good news from my daily life: we have full hot water back, and finally have light again in the bathroom (would you believe four visits from two different electricians to fix that?). The bad news: we still have water damage to repair.

In the world of DVDs, I haven’t watched any movies this week, just Star Trek. We are getting toward the end of Voyager (in the middle of the seventh season now). One thing I’ve concluded is that I prefer Voyager’s way of doing within crew romances to Enterprise’s. Each show has its babe character: there’s the Borg babe, Seven of Nine, on Voyager, and the Vulcan babe, T’Pol, on Enterprise. But on Enterprise basically every within ship crush is by a man and directed at T’Pol. On the one hand, this makes for some fun humor, as their versions of fantasy T’Pol get to clask radically with T’Pol’s actual personality. On the other hand, Voyager’s approach is more varied. We’ve had, in the unconsummated crush department: Tom Paris’ crush on Kes, B’lanna’s crush on Chakotay, Harry Kim’s crush on Seven, the Doctor’s crush on Seven, the Doctor’s fantasy in which every woman on Voyager wants him, Kathryn Janeway’s and Chakotay’s mutual crush which eventually fades without being acted on, and Seven’s crush on Chakotay. This feels more realistic, if you’re going to do on ship crushes, than having everyone have a crush on the same person. Also, the Tripp Tucker/T’Pol relationship was kept in a perpetual state of “we’ve broken up, but not really,” as the two would be briefly on again but mostly off while still yearning for each other. B’lanna and Tom Paris, in contrast, get to have a relationship that actually grows over time. (I still like pretty much all the Star Trek Vulcans I’ve seen, though, including T’Pol.)

Here are the random iTunes. #3 is about Sacco and Vanzetti. Joel has sung #10 to me in the car.

1. Beautiful City, from Godspell
2. Anema e Core, by Dad
3. Two Good Arms, by Holly Near
4. Dreamgirls, from Dreamgirls
5. Escape from the Prison Planet, by Clutch
6. We Beseech Thee, from Godspell
7. I Saw a Might Angel, by Lenny Smith
8. Till There Was You
9. Before I Gaze At You, from Camelot
10. Save Me, by Aimee Mann

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