Bringing Party Favors to Hell

Y'know that very poppy song "Ula Ula" on the Target commercials? It's performed by an Argentinian group called Illya Kuryaki & the Valderramas. I am highly amused. ;D

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Man-UNCLE-Complete-Series-Press-Release/8152

::sniffle::

I guess I will just have to hope it shows up on eBay at some point...

I just finished a new Man from UNCLE story. Clocking in at around 44000 words, it's novel-length (sorry folks, I gather from recent meta that shorter is preferred, but as a fan of longer works, I tend to write that way, too.) It's NS/IK, and eventually NC-17 (though it took them forever to get there!).

The story is called Lost & Found and you can find it either at my site here: http://kellie.mrks.org/fic/mfu/lost&found.htm
or at the Chrome & Gunmetal Madhouse: http://www.chromeandgunmetal.com/chrome/archive/2/lostfound.html

Brief synopsis: Sometimes you find something you weren't looking for, and it turns out it was what you needed all along.

I've just posted a new Man from UNCLE story. It was originally begun for muncle Theme Challenge #34 but as always, not finished in time. :-)

Title of work: Knights of the Umbrella and Bundle
Author: Kellie Matthews

You can find it at:

http://kellie.mrks.org/fic/mfu/umbrellaknights.htm
and at:
http://www.chromeandgunmetal.com/chrome/archive/2/knightsof.html

Brief synopsis: All in a day's work.
Webposted 03/26/05. Appx. 95 KB.
Rated NC-17 for graphic m/m sexuality

According to Amazon.com, the 1983 MFU 'reunion' movie The Return of the Man from UNCLE is going to be released on DVD on 30th November, 2004. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00062J076/qid=1097221982/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-1702141-0419830?v=glance&s=dvd

Go pre-order. Yeah, I know the reunion movie was lame but if there's enough demand maybe it will tip the scale for DVDs of the actual series. :-)

Question: what ep is it where we see Napoleon call Illya "IK"? I was trying to remember, but they all kind of blur together-- I have a sense that it was a season-one ep and that the scene might have involved an elevator, but I can't remember for sure. I just know that I did see it, and it surprised me because before that I thought it was fanon. :)

As many of you know I work in academe-- though not as faculty. I'm a lowly peon (aka staff person). As I was walking down the hall earlier today, I could hear a professor in a classroom ask: "Who knows who Karl Marx was?" There was a loooong pause, and someone tentatively offers: "He was a sociologist... I think." The professor assures her that she is correct, and goes on to ask "And what was he best known for?" Dead silence. The professor prompts. "Anyone?" More silence. Finally, clearly annoyed, the professor answers her own question. "Marxism. He wrote the Communist Manifesto with Fredrick Engels."

I have to say it kind of boggled my mind that no one in the class knew that. I guess that proves I'm a child of the Cold War.

And speaking of the Cold War, as I was looking up the proper spelling of Engels' first name to do this post, I ran across a picture which made me double-take because it looked SO much like Illya in disguise in "The Project Strigas Affair" episode of Man From UNCLE. So tonight I played around in Photoshop and made this Separated at Birth pic to share with y'all so you could see why I double-took. :) I'm sure I'm not the first person to remark on this, but it amused me, all things considered. Wanna see? Go here: ( Read more... )