The Power of Song

So, I don't have too many of those songs where when I hear them they take me back to a certain time or place or whatever.

But there are a few. For example, when I hear YMCA, I see a certain young man dancing on a picnic table at midnight in my mind. (Oh, Tyler...you lovely, lovely boy.) And Dragon*Con 2009 forever cemented a memory with Journey's Don't Stop Believing.

This year, that happened again. I didn't know this until I heard the song in question twice on the radio in the past week. One of my receptionists likes to put on the oldies station, and when "Sha-na-na-na, Sha-na-na-na, Hey-hey-hey, Good Bye!" comes on now, I can only hear Robert O'Reilly and J.G. Hertzler, dressed fully as Gowron and Martok, sing it in Klingon, or at least partially so.

"Sha-na-na-na, Sha-na-na-na, Hey-hey-hey, Q'Apla!"

Command Decisions Word Cloud

Snurched from roboticonograph and Wordle.

This was a fun and mindless way to kill a bit of time after a pretty miserable day at work.

Since so many of my fics are short, I chose to do this on Command Decisions, my big beast. At 52K words, I thought it only fair. The result?



Go, team, go! This made me giggle a lot. I played around a bit, and found that depending on fandom, I say things like "Mal" and "Remus" and "Mac" a lot, but I'm especially fond of the ones that come out like this:

( There really aren't that many, but...sigh... )