The voicemail show for the Starfuries vs. X-Wings Smackdown is now online. I won’t spoil the outcome for you, but I will say it was as much fun to record as the regular show.

The Babylon Podcast website now has a post about Starfuries vs. X-Wings that includes a voicemail from my opponent, Trampas Whiteman, on the experience of debating me. It is of course firmly tongue in cheek, but never the less the upshot of it is that I now have a bitch of my very own.

Now for some people this would just be a fun moment, but for me it’s almost a religious experience. After all a bitch of my very own means I’m now just a little closer to the great and mighty goddess Mur. Not that I would ever dare to think I could truly be like the mighty goddess.

The latest episode of the SciFi Smackdown podcast has just been posted. This is the episode in which I functioned as a guest host, arguing for the Babylon 5 Starfuries against the Star Wars X-Wing fighters.

So all my fellow Babylon 5 fans should of course go and investigate this episode, and the podcast in general for that matter. Star Wars fans should probably go as well, though I don’t know if they need bother giving feedback

If listening to it is even half a much fun as recording it was everyone should have great fun with this episode.

I saw Lyta kissing Santa Kosh
By his ship in bay thirteen last night
They didn’t see me creep
Trough the hatch to have a peep
They thought I was in blue five
In my quarters, fast asleep

Then I saw Lyta teasing Santa Kosh
Out of his encounter suit so bright
Oh what a laugh it would have been
If Bester had only seen
Lyta kissing Santa Kosh last night

As with the previous lyrics for Vorlon Christmas comments are of course welcome. Particularly if anyone has a more accurate blue sector level number for crew quarters. The numbers one through ten, with the exception of seven, and the number twelve can all be substituted for the five.

While I haven’t been writing a lot the last few days, as far as fiction is concerned. I have managed to put the finishing touches to something I started in the final days of NaNoWriMo, and adaptation of the lyrics for “Merry Christmas Everybody” by Slade into “Vorlon Christmas”:

Are you seeing Morden’s head up on a pike?
When he smiles and asks you what you’d want or like
Does he poison off Adira
To make Mollari turn his way
Are you looking for a way to make him pay?

Chorus:
So here it is,
Vorlon Cristmas
Got the shadows on the run
Look at the rangers now
It’s only just begun

Are you waiting for the psi-cops to arrive?
Are you sure you’ve got the sleepers by your side?
And does Bester always tell you
That the psi-corps is the best
While he’s searchin’ for some rogue teeps to arrest

Chorus

What can a psi-cop do when he sees that Lyta’s kissing Santa-Kosh? – aha

Are you trying to avenge the captain’s fall
Are you hoping that the first ones hear your call
Do you ride the lock-on signal
White Star heading for the gate
When you find the Vorlon fleet almost to late

Chorus (four times)

If anyone has suggestions on how to improve these lyrics feel free to leave a comment.

I believe I may have discovered the ultimate way to determine the quality of a TV-series or movie. the one problem it brings with it, is that it requires the product to be out on DVD. It happened as I was watching Babylon 5 on DVD. I felt the need to go to the bathroom.

That’s is nothing very strange. I need to go to the bathroom several times a day as a rule, and this need has never yet cared whether I was watching DVDs, or anything else for that matter. What is strange is that I spent the next five minutes pacing, constantly turning my head so I could keep watching the DVD and fighting the need to go to the bathroom.

Which brings me to the ultimate mark of quality I have discovered. I was so engrossed in the DVD that it simply didn’t occur to me that I could pause it and go to the bathroom for those first five minutes. Anything that can make you forget you can pause the DVD, or even just leave and then rewind it, has to be very good indeed.