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This year is not a leap year. Leap years have an extra day after the 28th of February. A February 29 every four years keeps the calendar year in sync with the actual year, rotations of the earth, seasons, and other more traditional indicators of time. Easter is supposed to be celebrated on the Sunday [...]
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Don’t want to slack on the naughtiness here at Sexy Fandom. I think I’ll share a couple of Water Bondage galleries with you this week. In keeping with the whole water nymphs theme. Check out Crystal Frost. I love her fantasy swords and sorcery sounding moniker.
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Wait a minute. The Starbucks business books out there describe their logo chick as being a siren, but I think she is actually a melusine or nixie. Given the two tails thing and all. In European legends and folklore, Melusine (or Melusina) is the name of a spirit of fresh waters, in sacred springs and [...]
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A mermaid is a legendary creature with a female human head and torso (if it’s male, it’s called a merman) and the tail of a fish, which inhabits the water. Some sailors claim to have seen mermaids; what they actually saw are probably manatees. A freshwater mermaid-like creature having two tails is a melusine, or [...]
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In Greek mythology, the Sirens or Seirenes were sea nymphs who lived on an island called Sirenum scopuli which was surrounded by cliffs and rocks. Approaching sailors were drawn to them by their enchanting singing, causing them to sail on the cliffs and drown. They were considered the daughters of Achelous or Phorcys. Their individual [...]
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What exactly is that on the Starbucks logo? It looks like some fantasy femme we ought to be lusting after, but it is unclear what sort. Many people mistakenly believe that the Starbucks chick is a mermaid. She is not a mermaid. She is a siren. Early versions of her had two visible tails, rather [...]
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There are people who assume that Starbucks Coffee was named after the Lieutenant in Battlestar Galactica. There is apparently even a scene in a Starbucks in the revamped new version of the series. The coffee, however, did not receive its name from a science fiction serial. There are also people who assume that Starbucks Coffee [...]
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Too many fervent masturbators have written academic treatises about the homoerotic undercurrents in the relationship between Richard Hatch’s Apollo and Dirk Benedict’s Starbuck, but did the Sci Fi Channel really have to thwart their fantasizing by turning Starbuck into a girl? I’m all for feminism, but I don’t understand remaking things when the object is [...]
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Science fiction fandom button makers everywhere would have made fewer sales had Hunter S. Thompson never written the immortal words, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” I am so sad that this brilliant writer took his own life. It seems right that he chose the firearm as his method of self-disposal, but [...]
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Peeved I suppose at being outgrossed at the box office by Battlestar Galactica, George Lucas and the Star Wars folks had to sue Glen A. Larsen and the Battlestar Galactica people. Never mind that much of Star Wars was a knockoff of Flash Gordon and that Lucas would have done a Flash Gordon movie instead [...]
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The original Battlestar Galactica had trouble deciding if it wanted to be a film or a television series. There are very real budget and story structure differences between the two, under normal circumstances. Battlestar Galactica pretty much kick-started the whole mini-series thing. The miniseries lies somewhere between traditional episodic television and movies. Without Battlestar Galactica, [...]
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Both Flesh Gordon and Star Wars were inspired by Flash Gordon. Which was inspired by Buck Rogers. Flash Gordon was a science fiction comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond, first published on January 7, 1934. Although created to compete with Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon had much more sophisticated art and outlasted its inspiration. In [...]
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