I’m not much of a TV person (which is to say I haven’t owned a TV in 10 years or so), and I’m not much of a Joss Whedon fan (which to say despite the persistent recommendations of people I trust and I admire, and repeated viewings I just couldn’t get into Buffy), and I’m not much fond of Westerns (which is to say that I took an American West class in college with a required attendance Wednesday Nights Westerns screening, so while I can appreciate the subtleties of the genre frankly I preferred Calc homework), and yet I just started watching Firefly, and it is good, very good. Recommended. (and I’ve got the damn theme song stuck in my head)

Additionally, has anyone done work on the tendency of geeks to use frequent and sometimes deeply nested parenthetical statements? I wonder if it is a byproduct of our deep familiarity with the expressive power of punctuation, or an attempt to reclaim the hypertextuality of our many of our preferred writing environments?