END OF AN ERA
I'm breaking out the chocolate and coffee, and even that won't soothe my anguish. Leonard Nimoy won't be in the next Star Trek movie. http://www.cinematical.com/2010/04/20/leonard-nimoy-retiring-wont-star-in-trek-sequel/

If you're a long time member of the Girls, you already know I'm a big Trekkie fan. As I was grieving this news about Nimoy, I started to think about my own life. I think there is something about things that impacted us as teenagers that help shape us. I married a dark eyed, dark haired man with long slim bones like Nimoy. Except Dave is better looking! :-) But he's very laid back and logical. One of those guys you can totally depend on. All of the heroes in my books have Dave's characteristics too, by the way. He's my Spock. LOL Spock was my first bonafide crush on a movie star. I know you're all shaking your head and thinking I'm crazy to have been so taken with a pointy-eared, green blooded alien, but I've never claimed to be normal. :-)

How about you? Who was your first crush? Did it affect the type of spouse you chose?

Labels: Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock, star trek

TREKKIE NEWS
I've mentioned before that I'm a huge Star Trek fan. I used to refuse to leave the house when I was a teenager back in the day when it was a new series on TV. I had a hopeless crush on Mr. Spock. When I first heard there would be a new movie with new actors, I thought no one could play Spock like Leonard Nimoy. Boy was I wrong. Those actors NAILED the characters. Totally! Kara got it for me for Christmas and it was the best movie ever! I just loved all the character references that harked back to the TV series. But enough of the raving because what I really want to mention is, um, political correctness.

At the end of the movie, the familiar Star Trek mission statement began: These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before. SCREECH. Wait a minute. That's not what the new movie stated. It put in NO ONE in place of no man (it also changed 5 year to ongoing but we won't quibble about that.) It was the only thing that marred the movie. This inclusive language stuff is just getting to be a bit ridiculous. Since when are we too stupid to know that man means mankind? Are we going to rewrite the Bible too and take out any mention of man where it means mankind? Not that I think Star Trek is on a par with the Bible, mind you. I just get so tired of all this kind of thing.

I'm about to brainstorm with some other authors in Kansas City in an annual outing. Last year I mentioned someone in a story was a waitress and I was corrected. It's evidently supposed to be SERVER now. Um, not in my town in the midwest. We still say waitress and waiter. I still chat with my MAILMAN on the front porch and have never thought of him as a mail carrier. If Indiana has stayed behind the times, I'm glad I live here. :-) Let the rest of the world barrel on to all that ridiculous PC stuff while we still help our neighbors and stop to chat in the grocery store. it was interesting to talk this over with Kara. She grew up in a very different world than I did so she didn't even remember mankind was once was referenced as man. I guess I'm just OLD. LOL I love change but sometimes it's just silly. So what about you? Have you noticed this in your area or is your town more like mine where life moves on at a placid course?

Labels: political correctness, star trek