What's up this fine holiday season?

I'm just wondering if anyone has anything fannish either to "crank" or "fangirl" about as the year ends?

Anything particularly getting your goat or floating your boat? :-)

My "Crank of the Day" is something that I've recently posted about on a couple of other Imzy comms.

This being the 50th Anniversary of Star Trek, I have been reading (and, in some cases, rereading) my way through relevant books. I got about a third of the way through this book and couldn't take any more: The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years

It's full of back-biting and axe-grinding, and reads like a tabloid gossip magazine. It certainly isn't doing anything to enlighten or inform me about what I like about Star Trek. Two thumbs down!

And that negative experience took me back to what currently is "floating my boat," as I reread instead the three most excellent volumes of These are the Voyages, by Marc Cushman. Which in turn has led me to begin a year-end project of rewatching TOS in production order (not broadcast order), as I reread the entry for each.

Anyone else?

ksl