Rat Creature's Journal

( spoilers for SGA 5x02 )

( reaction with spoilers for ReGenesis 4x13, obviously )

( spoilers for Bones 3x15 )

Aaaah, I was so squicked by this ep, ( spoilers for SPN 3x15 )

( spoilers for SPN 3x13 Ghostfacers )

( spoilers for SGA 4x20 )

Totally unrelated to SGA I learned a new piece of trivia today: I've always been vaguely puzzled by the color name "ivory black" because it seemed contradictory (ivory not being black and all). Then today I happened to look at the label on the back of a tube of acrylic ivory black, one that went into all kinds of technical detail that I have no idea what it means (it has some kind of numbers for hue, value, chroma and codes for the pigments and symbols for opaqueness and lightfastness and so on) but also had a list of ingredients and apparently that black is made from charred animal bones. Hence the name "ivory black".

And I get that historically, though I'd have thought that by now the color would be synthetic. I mean, it's not they are still grinding up lapis lazuli for ultramarine (well, I guess there might be people who are into restoration and such and make their colors themselves from scratch with pigments or specialty producers who still do that, but usually it's synthetic these days). So it's kind of gross that they still use animal bones, but that what the tube says in its ingredient list under the "vehicle: acrylic polymer emulsion" there's "pigment: amorphous carbon produced by charring animal bones". So I'm using the same pigment as my prehistoric ancestors, I guess, only in a prepared polymer solution rather than charring some hunted mammoth's bone myself. Still in my mind "gross" kind of wins out over "artistic connection across millennia of history".

( spoilers for 4x18 Kindred, part one )

( spoilers for SPN 3x11 )

( spoilers for SPN 3x09 )

( spoilers for Criminal Minds 3x13 )

I just watched the final two episodes of this season and as usual with Dexter my reaction involves a lot of *FLAIL!*

( brief, but very spoilery comments on Dexter 2x11 and 2x12 )

I found this an odd coincidence: ( spoilers for the latest Numb3rs and Criminal Minds )

( squee and somewhat lengthy meta-ish thoughts, with spoilers up to 3x10/11 Day of the Black Sun )

( spoilers for Criminal Minds 3x09 )

Is anyone else still watching this series? While I still don't have a truly enthusiastic reaction to the episodes, I've come to care about the characters, and have been liking the later plots more than the first few. So I think it has started to find its feet, and Journeyman has quite grown on me, especially since the time travel plots into the past have intersected more with the plot happening in present day, like ( spoilers up to the latest episode 1x09 )

( spoilers for CSI 8x07 )

Now tv has inter-series crossovers too, that force you to watch the other show you don't know anything about? (I just found out that after I watched this week's CSI that it is a two parter and that the other half is an episode of some series called "Without a Trace" that I don't think I've ever seen. *grump*)

And here I thought only comics did this kind of thing.

( spoilers for SPN 3x06 )

Is it just me, or is Dexter somehow less creepy this season? I still enjoy watching it, but season one felt creepier to me.

( spoilers for SPN 3x05 Bedtime Stories )