Heroes: First, Sulu. Now, Uhura

From TVGuide.com: 

Tim Kring's hailing frequency remains open to Star Trek crossovers. Having recruited George "Sulu" Takei to portray Hiro's father during Season 1, the Heroes creator has called upon Nichelle Nichols, aka USS Enterprise communications officer Lt. Uhura, to fill a short-term role.

Nichols, an NBC rep tells TVGuide.com, will be playing Nana, the New Orleans-based grandmother of Monica (the new hero being played by The Nine's Dana Davis).

Majel Barrett, you are now on deck.

Heroes: First, Sulu. Now, Uhura

From TVGuide.com: 

Tim Kring's hailing frequency remains open to Star Trek crossovers. Having recruited George "Sulu" Takei to portray Hiro's father during Season 1, the Heroes creator has called upon Nichelle Nichols, aka USS Enterprise communications officer Lt. Uhura, to fill a short-term role.

Nichols, an NBC rep tells TVGuide.com, will be playing Nana, the New Orleans-based grandmother of Monica (the new hero being played by The Nine's Dana Davis).

Majel Barrett, you are now on deck.

Heroes: First, Sulu. Now, Uhura

From TVGuide.com: 

Tim Kring's hailing frequency remains open to Star Trek crossovers. Having recruited George "Sulu" Takei to portray Hiro's father during Season 1, the Heroes creator has called upon Nichelle Nichols, aka USS Enterprise communications officer Lt. Uhura, to fill a short-term role.

Nichols, an NBC rep tells TVGuide.com, will be playing Nana, the New Orleans-based grandmother of Monica (the new hero being played by The Nine's Dana Davis).

Majel Barrett, you are now on deck.

Top Chef

Last week's Top Chef  episode featured a QuickFire Challenge*  featuring Cold Stone Ice Cream.  The challenge was a to create a new mix-in flavor.  Anyway, having been so distracted by the description of one contestant's flavor as being "White Chocolate Cauliflower Foam"  (Yes, you read that correctly), I didn't bother to keep track of the other ingredients (yes, there were more!).   Reading the full description in TWOP's summary doesn't make it sound any less disgusting.   It looks like Hung used...

Candied pistachios, white chocolate, mint, tempura flakes, tamarind brown butter sauce, cauliflower, and white chocolate espuma (aka foam!)

What the frell???


* Quickfire Challenges are basically the quickie  immunity challenges at the start of the episode that usually involve egregious product placements.

Top Chef

Last week's Top Chef  episode featured a QuickFire Challenge*  featuring Cold Stone Ice Cream.  The challenge was a to create a new mix-in flavor.  Anyway, having been so distracted by the description of one contestant's flavor as being "White Chocolate Cauliflower Foam"  (Yes, you read that correctly), I didn't bother to keep track of the other ingredients (yes, there were more!).   Reading the full description in TWOP's summary doesn't make it sound any less disgusting.   It looks like Hung used...

Candied pistachios, white chocolate, mint, tempura flakes, tamarind brown butter sauce, cauliflower, and white chocolate espuma (aka foam!)

What the frell???


* Quickfire Challenges are basically the quickie  immunity challenges at the start of the episode that usually involve egregious product placements.

Top Chef

Last week's Top Chef  episode featured a QuickFire Challenge*  featuring Cold Stone Ice Cream.  The challenge was a to create a new mix-in flavor.  Anyway, having been so distracted by the description of one contestant's flavor as being "White Chocolate Cauliflower Foam"  (Yes, you read that correctly), I didn't bother to keep track of the other ingredients (yes, there were more!).   Reading the full description in TWOP's summary doesn't make it sound any less disgusting.   It looks like Hung used...

Candied pistachios, white chocolate, mint, tempura flakes, tamarind brown butter sauce, cauliflower, and white chocolate espuma (aka foam!)

What the frell???


* Quickfire Challenges are basically the quickie  immunity challenges at the start of the episode that usually involve egregious product placements.

I'm Waiting for Trees to Spontaneously Combust

From AL.com:

Alabama broke a record Monday with an eighth straight day of 100-plus heat (it hit 105 degrees.) A day earlier, streets steamed at 106. The state had seven-day hot streaks in 1990, 1954 and 1881. Pinson, Ala., hit a record high of 105 (and Tuscaloosa hit 106), according to the weather service.

The average high in August is 92.

"Ninety-two. Hell, the way things have gone this week, 92 is fall weather," Frank Matthews of Millbrook told the Montgomery Advertiser.

(They also need to update.  It's currently 101 102 degrees outside, with most of the afternoon still to come.  We're expecting it to hit 103 (again) today.  

Hell, the forecast for the week:   Wed - 104, Thur - 103,  Fri. 101, Sat. 100,  Sunday (a break!) 99.  It doesn't help that we've been in a stage 3 stage 4 drought with water restrictions since June.)

I'm Waiting for Trees to Spontaneously Combust

From AL.com:

Alabama broke a record Monday with an eighth straight day of 100-plus heat (it hit 105 degrees.) A day earlier, streets steamed at 106. The state had seven-day hot streaks in 1990, 1954 and 1881. Pinson, Ala., hit a record high of 105 (and Tuscaloosa hit 106), according to the weather service.

The average high in August is 92.

"Ninety-two. Hell, the way things have gone this week, 92 is fall weather," Frank Matthews of Millbrook told the Montgomery Advertiser.

(They also need to update.  It's currently 101 102 degrees outside, with most of the afternoon still to come.  We're expecting it to hit 103 (again) today.  

Hell, the forecast for the week:   Wed - 104, Thur - 103,  Fri. 101, Sat. 100,  Sunday (a break!) 99.  It doesn't help that we've been in a stage 3 stage 4 drought with water restrictions since June.)

I'm Waiting for Trees to Spontaneously Combust

From AL.com:

Alabama broke a record Monday with an eighth straight day of 100-plus heat (it hit 105 degrees.) A day earlier, streets steamed at 106. The state had seven-day hot streaks in 1990, 1954 and 1881. Pinson, Ala., hit a record high of 105 (and Tuscaloosa hit 106), according to the weather service.

The average high in August is 92.

"Ninety-two. Hell, the way things have gone this week, 92 is fall weather," Frank Matthews of Millbrook told the Montgomery Advertiser.

(They also need to update.  It's currently 101 102 degrees outside, with most of the afternoon still to come.  We're expecting it to hit 103 (again) today.  

Hell, the forecast for the week:   Wed - 104, Thur - 103,  Fri. 101, Sat. 100,  Sunday (a break!) 99.  It doesn't help that we've been in a stage 3 stage 4 drought with water restrictions since June.)

Sex in Fic Poll

Okay, so I'm somewhere between half way and two-thirds finished with my (very, very rough) first draft of my Spuffy ficathon fic (which will have to be majorly re-written in second draft). Anyway, it struck me last night that, though I had always had in mind "work in a Spuffy love scene if you can", thinking about my plans for the last half(?)/third of the story, I'm seeing less and less chance that I can work in a love scene.

So, the question is, how important is a love scene? Is it something that I should work to incoporate into the fic? Surely there must be some way to do it. (I know there have been stories where I'm left feeling that I need consummation.) Should I focus on the organic story and if sex works, it works. If it doesn't work, that's the way the cookie crumbles? Is it okay to put it in the epilogue even though it might be superfluous to the focus of the fic? And, finally, today I floated the idea of simply writing the scene as a separate ficlet taking place at some point after the conclusion of the Spuffy fic.

Anyway, how important is it to have sex in your romance? And which might be the most preferable solution?

[Poll #1039389]

Sex in Fic Poll

Okay, so I'm somewhere between half way and two-thirds finished with my (very, very rough) first draft of my Spuffy ficathon fic (which will have to be majorly re-written in second draft). Anyway, it struck me last night that, though I had always had in mind "work in a Spuffy love scene if you can", thinking about my plans for the last half(?)/third of the story, I'm seeing less and less chance that I can work in a love scene.

So, the question is, how important is a love scene? Is it something that I should work to incoporate into the fic? Surely there must be some way to do it. (I know there have been stories where I'm left feeling that I need consummation.) Should I focus on the organic story and if sex works, it works. If it doesn't work, that's the way the cookie crumbles? Is it okay to put it in the epilogue even though it might be superfluous to the focus of the fic? And, finally, today I floated the idea of simply writing the scene as a separate ficlet taking place at some point after the conclusion of the Spuffy fic.

Anyway, how important is it to have sex in your romance? And which might be the most preferable solution?

[Poll #1039389]

Sex in Fic Poll

Okay, so I'm somewhere between half way and two-thirds finished with my (very, very rough) first draft of my Spuffy ficathon fic (which will have to be majorly re-written in second draft). Anyway, it struck me last night that, though I had always had in mind "work in a Spuffy love scene if you can", thinking about my plans for the last half(?)/third of the story, I'm seeing less and less chance that I can work in a love scene.

So, the question is, how important is a love scene? Is it something that I should work to incoporate into the fic? Surely there must be some way to do it. (I know there have been stories where I'm left feeling that I need consummation.) Should I focus on the organic story and if sex works, it works. If it doesn't work, that's the way the cookie crumbles? Is it okay to put it in the epilogue even though it might be superfluous to the focus of the fic? And, finally, today I floated the idea of simply writing the scene as a separate ficlet taking place at some point after the conclusion of the Spuffy fic.

Anyway, how important is it to have sex in your romance? And which might be the most preferable solution?

[Poll #1039389]