Maybe his head would explode?

Tue, 17 Feb 2015 05:00:26 GMT

I remember when I was younger I used to always laugh at the bits in Sherlock Holmes stories where Holmes would deduce some person's belongings successfully because all the belongings made sense together. I'm sure he could have made lots of deductions about people's bookshelves. I don't know about mine though. Here are all the books just on my bedroom bookshelf, in the order they're sitting in at the moment, from left to right and up to down (which doesn't include all the books of mine in the apartment). What would Holmes deduce about me?:

Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" (Calvin and Hobbes collection) by Bill Watterson

Pogo by Walt Kelly (no title, copyright page says these strips are from 1949-1951)

Transmission of Light by Zen Master Keizan

The Best Illustrated Cocktail Recipes

Don Quixote Volume I by Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote Volume II by Miguel de Cervantes

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

Zebra Three #1 (Starsky & Hutch fanzine)

Zebra Three #3 (Starsky & Hutch fanzine)

Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore

Avengers: The Kree/Skrull War

Five Great Short Stories by Anton Chekov

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Crisis on Infinite Earths (DC Comics)

"Is This Your First Purge, Miss?" (Doonesbury collection) by Garry Trudeau

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Helen's Babies by John Habberton

The Chocolate Lover's Cookbook (why the fuck isn't this in the kitchen...)

Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix by J .K. Rowling

GRE Premier 2015 with 6 Practice Tests

The Complete Works of Beatrix Potter

The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk by Thornton W. Burgess

The Adventures of Grandfather Frog by Thornton W. Burgess

IDK?

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Episode Selections from all the TV Show Fandoms

Sun, 09 Nov 2014 20:03:08 GMT

I recently found in my documents a 1/4 finished entry for a very old LJ meme (at least three years old and probably totally defunct). It asked to pick your favorite TV show fandoms and then answer the questions:

Show Title:
Episode Most Dear to Your Heart:
Episode You Think is Objectively the Best Quality:
An episode everyone likes that you don't:
An episode no one likes that you do:
An Underrated Episode:
The Series Finale: Good, Bad, or Ugly?
First Episode You Ever Watched:
Impression the First Episode You Ever Watched Gave You: Good, Bad, or Misleading?

I decided to fill as many of them out as I could think of:

Show Title: M*A*S*H
Episode Most Dear to Your Heart: Abyssinia Henry
Episode You Think is Objectively the Best Quality: Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen
An episode everyone likes that you don't: No Idea
An episode no one likes that you do: Again, no idea
An Underrated Episode: Sticky Wicket
The Series Finale: Good, Bad, or Ugly? GOOD!
First Episode You Ever Watched: The Light that Failed
Impression the First Episode You Ever Watched Gave You: Good, Bad, or Misleading? I had no idea how much the cast had and would change, so good, but slightly misleading

Show Title: Star Trek: The Original Series
Episode Most Dear to Your Heart: The Trouble With Tribbles
Episode You Think is Objectively the Best Quality: City on the Edge of Forever (big surprise there...)
An episode everyone likes that you don't: I, Mudd
An episode no one likes that you do: Assignment: Earth
An Underrated Episode: Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Series Finale: Good, Bad, or Ugly? There was no finale, but "Turnabout Intruder" was terrible, and "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" was great.
First Episode You Ever Watched: A Private Little War
Impression the First Episode You Ever Watched Gave You: Good, Bad, or Misleading? Slightly misleading. My 11 year old brain couldn't get past the pastel unicorn yeti monster.

Show Title: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Episode Most Dear to Your Heart: Remember Me
Episode You Think is Objectively the Best Quality: The Best of Both Worlds
An episode everyone likes that you don't: Um, I dunno?
An episode no one likes that you do: Rascals
An Underrated Episode: The Wounded
The Series Finale: Good, Bad, or Ugly? A-maz-ing!
First Episode You Ever Watched: Brothers
Impression the First Episode You Ever Watched Gave You: Good, Bad, or Misleading? Good! 'Course, I thought Data was a bad guy for the first half of the episode...

Show Title: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Episode Most Dear to Your Heart: Far Beyond the Stars/In The Cards (sorry can't choose!)
Episode You Think is Objectively the Best Quality: In the Pale Moonlight
An episode everyone likes that you don't: Don't know about episodes, but the arc at the beginning of season 6 made me more irritated than I think anyone else was...
An episode no one likes that you do: The Magnificent Ferengi (and all the other Ferengi episodes and goofy episodes except that one sex change one)
An Underrated Episode: Take Me Out to the Holosuite
The Series Finale: Good, Bad, or Ugly? Simultaneously Good and Ugly
First Episode You Ever Watched: Civil Defense
Impression the First Episode You Ever Watched Gave You: Good, Bad, or Misleading? Good!

Show Title: Starsky & Hutch
Episode Most Dear to Your Heart: Gillian
Episode You Think is Objectively the Best Quality: Sweet Revenge
An episode everyone likes that you don't: Tap Dancing whatchamacallit (except the tag, of course!)
An episode no one likes that you do: Starsky vs Hutch (come at me, bro)
An Underrated Episode: The Specialist
The Series Finale: Good, Bad, or Ugly? Awesome! (see above, duh)
First Episode You Ever Watched: Bloodbath
Impression the First Episode You Ever Watched Gave You: Good, Bad, or Misleading? Pretty bad and misleading except for the partnership aspects.

Show Title: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Episode Most Dear to Your Heart: The Zeppo
Episode You Think is Objectively the Best Quality: Hush
An episode everyone likes that you don't: Prophecy Girl
An episode no one likes that you do: Bargaining I and II
An Underrated Episode: Anne
The Series Finale: Good, Bad, or Ugly? Good...slightly ugly
First Episode You Ever Watched: School Hard
Impression the First Episode You Ever Watched Gave You: Good, Bad, or Misleading? Fucking 100% perfect

Show Title: The West Wing
Episode Most Dear to Your Heart: In the Shadow of Two Gunmen I and II
Episode You Think is Objectively the Best Quality: Two Cathedrals
An episode everyone likes that you don't: 25
An episode no one likes that you do: The Midterms
An Underrated Episode: Stirred
The Series Finale: Good, Bad, or Ugly? Bleh, okay sorta I guess. I don't really consider seasons 5-7 canon...
First Episode You Ever Watched: What Kind of Day Has It Been?
Impression the First Episode You Ever Watched Gave You: Good, Bad, or Misleading? Dude, it was, like, a massive literal shoot-em-up cliffhanger...

Show Title: Doctor Who (New)
Episode Most Dear to Your Heart: The Doctor's Wife
Episode You Think is Objectively the Best Quality: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
An episode everyone likes that you don't: The Girl in the Fireplace
An episode no one likes that you do: Boom Town
An Underrated Episode: Amy's Choice
The Series Finale: Good, Bad, or Ugly? No finale yet!
First Episode You Ever Watched: The Empty Child
Impression the First Episode You Ever Watched Gave You: Good, Bad, or Misleading? Way too amazing

Show Title: Doctor Who (classic)
Episode Most Dear to Your Heart: The Curse of Fenric
Episode You Think is Objectively the Best Quality: Genesis of the Daleks
An episode everyone likes that you don't: City of Death
An episode no one likes that you do: The Happiness Patrol
An Underrated Episode: Warriors of the Deep
The Series Finale: Good, Bad, or Ugly? Pretty good
First Episode You Ever Watched: An Unearthly Child
Impression the First Episode You Ever Watched Gave You: Good, Bad, or Misleading? Great!

Show Title: The X-FIles
Episode Most Dear to Your Heart: Dreamland I & II
Episode You Think is Objectively the Best Quality: Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose or Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"
An episode everyone likes that you don't: Squeeze, sorta
An episode no one likes that you do: All the mytharc ones, I guess?
An Underrated Episode: The Unnatural
The Series Finale: Good, Bad, or Ugly? Whatever. I had kinda thrown up my hands at this point...
First Episode You Ever Watched: The Goldberg Variation
Impression the First Episode You Ever Watched Gave You: Good, Bad, or Misleading?! Pretty good but not spectacular

And that's all that I have the time or energy for right now. I'm also realizing just how many shows I've watched but never finished...

ETA: Added The X-Files at the reminder of wendelah1

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Maybe his head would explode?

Episode Selections from all the TV Show Fandoms