Monday...

[fajrdrako]

Watched Leverage with commodorified, fairestcat, random, raynedaze and auriaephiala. The best episode yet this year: 3x05, "The Studio Job". John Schneider played the villain - and it took me a while to recognize him. I did recognize Alona Tal, though I had to look up her name on IMDb; turns out she has a name that sounds like someone from The Legion of Super-Heroes, though I knew her as Jo on Supernatural. Even more interesting, she was the second choice for the role of Veronica in Veronica Mars. Kristen Bell was perfect in that role, but Alona Tal would have been almost as good.

I was so tired I almost forgot to do my arm exercises while watching Leverage.

Though I am not, I repeat, not doing NaNoWriMo, I signed up for 750 words, which looked like fun. Challenging, but fun. I started with a Daken/Black Cat story. The idea amused me.

Comments

[cleverthylacine]

It's Alona, not Anola; and it's not superhero, it's Hebrew. She's Israeli.

[fajrdrako]

Woo, I must have been tired last night; I knew it was Alona because I wondered if it were a form of Ilona. Apologies to her for mangling her name.

No reason a 30th century name can't be Hebrew. Lots of names in DC comics originate in Hebrew names, I'm told, starting with the famous Kal-El.

[cleverthylacine]

There's no reason a superhero name couldn't be Hebrew in origin; what I object to is the notion that Hebrew names sound so 'weird' they have to be superhero names...?

[fajrdrako]

I didn't mean it was weird, I meant it was delightful.

Though I'm sure most Hebrew names would sound unusual and exotic to me, because I've seldom heard them - I only know the Biblical forms, and not so many of them.

[cleverthylacine]

Well...I wish you'd said exactly that, then.

Tiferet is Hebrew, too, btw.

[fajrdrako]

Another nice name. What does it mean?

My name, "Elizabeth", is Hebrew as well, I believe. (Or possibly proto-semitic?)

Is there a Hebrew translation for "fire dragon", I wonder?