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Born in Denver, came back after the fall of communism in '91. Journalism/comm teacher in Tallinn, Estonia, and a meat Popsicle 6 months out of the year. Winter is ALWAYS Coming ...

I live in Uus Maailm, which translates as "New World", and is the hippie district of Tallinn. I freelance in the local publications on culture, media, and current events from time to time.

My main achievement this year is getting through a liver transplant in late October, seemingly with flying colors (I had two different genetic disorders conspiring to result in this solution), but I'm back to work. I'm only in my early 40s, and I have plenty of castles I still want to storm. I've started my own company for my freelancing. If you ever need a media availability on events in this part of the world, contact me.

If you are ever in town, drop me a line. I'm a hospitable local and guide. A couple Ricocheters have already taken me up on that offer.

Twitter: @EstoniaKat

Skype: @EstoniaKat (tell me who you are first, and only for media-related stuff. I don't add people I haven't met)


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EstoniaKat
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EstoniaKat
Hometown:
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EstoniaKat

Logged off again just before this post. This time, had to enter my data in. Good I could remember my password.

EstoniaKat

You can play it on Spotify. In fact, it seems to have several different recordings.

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Same problem on Windows.

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And many more. Palju õnne!

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Simon Templar

News article here. · 5 hours ago

Reading that blog post, it sounds like Sweden is going through it own process of "Finlandization" in the media - don't publish anything that would offend, and try to keep the gauze over the real problem (in the Cold War, the Soviet Union).

I don't go to Sweden that much, but I do know a Swede who lives here. When I asked him what the population of Sweden was, he broke it down in terms of native population and immigrants, which I thought was telling.

I actually was quite surprised that the Eurovision song contest was held in Malmö, where most of the muslim immigrants live. Eurovision is notoriously a gay mecca (every journalist that I know who has covered it has been gay), but it seemingly went without incident.

Edited 18 hours ago
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~Paules:  What's Swedish for "Quisling?"     · 3 hours ago

Quisling.

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Joseph Eagar

I wouldn't gothatfar.  Just because the two movies share a common plotline (an attempt to start a war) doesn't mean they are at all the same.

A war - against the Klingons - using Kirk has the bait? Seems pretty similar to me.

EstoniaKat

"The great Steyn waxes eloquent about "Waterloo", the ABBA breakthrough hit, still to this day, the only really monster recording to arise out of the now totally corrupt Eurovision song contest."

LIES.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUmE-tne5U

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Sabrdance

Far better if McCoy had been investigating the recovery of the girl at the beginning and figured it out just in time, or figured it out earlier, or if they had been injecting the blood in the blind hope that it would revive Kirk.

That's a brilliant fix (and a shout-out to Mickey from Doctor Who for blowing up Section 31). The third movie show-runners would be good to tap into the Ricochet nerd intellect to avoid a crap movie next time (not that it was crap, but it could have been MUCH better with a few tweeks).

Star Trek should have a position on the movie set, such as "Professor of Canon", or "Plothole Repair".

EstoniaKat

Nice, Amy. Never heard of Chekov's Gun before. I've got a new phrase. And it's not "nuclear wessels."

EstoniaKat

Maybe I'm more sensitive than most, because I'm usually posting when the majority of members are sleeping (I'm Central Time +8). Still, I would urge The Man to keep us flying monkeys abreast of developments.

EstoniaKat

That plot twist was telegraphed an hour away from the finale.

EstoniaKat

Right now it's alerting me to two different threads that I read hours ago.

EstoniaKat

I've had problems for the last 8 hours or so.

I've lost a top-level post (the whole thing) when I tried to send it.

I lost two comments.

It's getting to the point where I copy my text before I hit send, just in case.

Richochet's instability is becoming less of a joke and more of a reason to not renew my membership.

EstoniaKat

Joseph Eagar

A bit reactionary, are we?  I'd say this film is a vindication of the DS9 writing staff's vision of Trek: less utopian and thematically pure than Roddenberry's vision, but not as bland or insultingly simplistic, either.

Roddenberry is the Bible when it comes to Trek.

As far as the plot of this movie, it's no more than Star Trek 6 blown up on a larger scale. Federation Admirals plotting for war with the Klingons; Kirk getting in the way. after his original reluctance.

Love me some DS9.

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