News about Uranus (huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh)

Twenty-three years ago today, Voyager 2 came within 50,680 miles of Uranus.

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To commemorate this event, Beavis and Butt-head offer a science article at right (from Reading Sucks) all about Uranus—

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—that has actual science information from Daria herself. Click on the article to read it.

Nothing else happened today.


Uranus. Huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh!

Latest non-Butt-head news: Dad Draws Daria Art on Kids' Lunchbags, from Roentgen. Cool! Thanks!

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• The Fall of the Angst Lords, Part 1: Rebels Without a Clue, by Gouka Ryuu (Part 1): With a mandolin in one hand, he awoke late... I guess that counts as practice, per Trent. A bit of faanfiction (spelling is correct) for all.
  
• Long Trek Home, by Ranger Thorne (continued): Jane and Jennifer had practiced the biofilter regimen several times, but it didn't keep the two from being nervous. "That's one," Jennifer said finally.
• Order and Chaos, by Legendeld (COMPLETE!): Maria looked down at the wooden plate in front of her and tried to keep an open mind. Seconds later she turned to Daria and begged in a desperate voice: “Please tell me this isn’t frog!”
  
• Snuffed Animals, by Disco316 (Part 11): Quinn shuddered. “Eeeeew! Vampirism is so gross! Well, except for that 'Interview with Brad Pitt' movie; he’s good in anything.”
• Stacy Rowe, Seeker (Part II), by jtranser (continued): "We have many different enemies, Great Lady, so we must make haste. The stars and planets are approaching the required conjunctions, and there are those who would use those alignments for their own purposes."

Doesn't Play Well With Others

Daria was interviewed eight years ago today in TV Guide, just before the release of Is It Fall Yet?, and her responses had a few interesting bits in them. "Your life has certainly taken a messy turn, romantically speaking," says the interviewer. "Did you ever dream you'd end up in the role of femme fatale?" Daria answers, "With my sensual good looks and come-hither ways... it was just a matter of time." Nice sarcasm. It doesn't seem she likes kids much from her other answers. (Q: "Do your career goals include working with children?" A: "Well, I don't plan to pursue "trapped in a living hell" as a career, so no.")

What famous things happened in history. . . . Voyager 2 went past Neptune today, 19 years ago. I actually celebrated that at a SF writer's home in the Chicago area. Got the NASA booklet and everything. Cool. Nothing Daria related. Dang.

Legendeld has a new Daria-related post on his blog. Go thou, read and respond to it!


FF.net

• Mart of the Dead, by Smileyfax (COMPLETE!): All in all, 10-15 million zombies stood between them and Daria and Jane, if the two girls were actually still alive, which they probably weren't.

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• John Lane 36: Promises, by Richard Lobinske (Part 3): OUCH!!! Brittany's doing the smackdown on everyone these days! OUCH!!!
  
• Jörmungandr, by TAG (Part 2): The truth is out there. Way, way out there. (SFMB)
• Stacy Rowe, Seeker (Part II), by jtranser (continued): Oh, that's gotta hurt. (I hope.)
  
• Unnamed story (Iron Chef: Sic transit gloria mundi), by Angelinhel (COMPLETE!): I won't spoil it. Prime-time Angelinhel, with sharp pointy teeth.

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• Yordundal, by Gum Wars (COMPLETE!): The description says, "DARIA and jane are chatting online in a room called 'lawndale 1'. Jane is going by the name 'rdpaint' and DARIA is using 'glses'....but who is......"
  

Beavis and Butt-head take a close look at . . . Uranus

The English astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus 227 years ago tonight, in a place called Bath. Rather than make crude, childish jokes about this event and insult your intelligence, Beavis and Butt-head (in an essay from Reading Sucks) will do it for me. Just click here. They even mention Daria.





I didn't have anything else to report.





Uranus. Huh huh huh huh, huh huh huh huh . . .