This is the height of absurdity. The mayor of Batman, Turkey, is claiming he’s suing Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. for royalties because they used the name of his city without permission. Sue Bob Kane while you’re at it, too. Jeez, how ridiculous.

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Archaeologists discover a 4,300 year old pyramid tomb at Saqqara. I’ve been an archaeology fan since I was a kid, and an Egyptology nerd for ages, and this find is SO exciting. Also, I love Zahi Hawass and his Indiana Jones hat. :D

Two teams of astronomers capture first visual images of extrasolar planets. National Geographic has another image of a multi-planet system. Pretty soon, we’ll get images of that big satellite array orbiting Vega.

And in more nerd news, there’s some kind of weird aurora around the south pole of Saturn. It surrounds that strange hexagonal storm. I’m convinced there are aliens lurking beneath the clouds, and they’re doing this stuff just to mess with human astronomers. ;)

Kimber An at Young Adult Science Fiction blogs about Sanctuary, SciFi’s new original series starring Amanda Tapping with dark hair and an English accent. Both of which serve to make me shake my head and go, “Bwuh? Is that Major Carter?” I’d like to watch this, but I don’t have SciFi (or TV at all, ack!) and haven’t had time to check it out online. Has anyone else watched?

And… I’d better wrap this up because someone is working on the side of my house, and I have no idea who it is. o_O Would be nice if the landlord let us know about these things beforehand!

Good morning, dear readers. I’m kicking back with a cup of Irish Breakfast tea, watching some documentary about The Queen Mary 2 (it came on after a documentary on Easter Island…), and thinking about getting up and getting ready for work. You’ll notice that I’m not watching The X-Files.

This is unusual, you see.

I started watching The X-Files in 1995, during the summer between seasons 2 and 3. I caught a rerun of “Die Hand Die Verletzt”, and it scared the holy crap out of me. It was awesome. I caught as many reruns as I could, then dove headfirst into season 3. I watched regularly through season 5, and because I was living in Germany during season 6, I watched those eps as a friend sent me videotapes. Unfortunately, season 7 started to lose me, and by the time 8 rolled around, I’d given up.

Like many fans, I watched the show not for the convoluted mythology or the monsters-of-the-week, but for the interaction between Mulder and Scully. When David Duchovny left for (theoretically) greener pastures, I lost interest. Not that Doggett wasn’t a good character (I refuse to say anything about Reyes), but… the show had lost the witty interaction, the tension that Mulder and Scully brought to the screen.

Years went by, rumors of a second film floating around the dark corners of the internet… and suddenly they weren’t rumors anymore.

Cue me doing an ecstatic fangirl dance. And spending way too much money on X-Files seasons on DVD from Amazon. Hey, I can’t keep watching old videotapes forever, can I? ;)

After helter skelter watching, I’ve settled down into a serious rewatch of seasons 1 through 6 (with Mulder/Scully shippery highlights in seasons 7 and 9, heh). If you’re curious, you can check out my rewatch commentary here.

The new movie is coming out in July, and I’m trying to stay as spoiler-free as possible, though the urge to run out and look for new pictures is sometimes overwhelming. It’s so exciting, to have a reunion looming on the horizon. Here’s hoping the movie is as awesome as, say, season 5.