FURIOUS nads!

Earlier this hour, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration posted the following to Twitter: “Stephen Colbert has astronaut Suni Williams listed as a guest next week. I wonder why?”

That would fit NASA’s stated timeline for announcing its decision on the naming of ISS Node 3, and whether or not it will be named either for the leading option amongst NASA’s own suggestions (Serenity) or for the leading option amongst the write-ins (Colbert).

Interesting item of note: Suni Williams is the other astronaut pictured here in 2007 aboard the International Space Station with fellow astronaut Steven R. Swanson as he shows off his Firefly and (yes) Serenity DVDs floating in zero gravity.

Who better (if not Swanson, obviously) than Williams to appear on The Colbert Report to break the news that Node 3 will not be named “Colbert” after all? But perhaps Colbert Nation can still get that toilet named after them.

Addendum: The latest: “NASA will announce the name of the newest space station module on Comedy Central’s ‘The Colbert Report’ April 14 at 11:30 p.m. EDT.”

Given the approach of this Friday’s rally in support of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library, take a look back at the results of my own use of the Library’s resources. First, there’s Revisiting the Great Light Way, in which I pulled together everything I’d learned about the illuminated arches which once crisscrossed intersections along SW Third in downtown Portland. Second, there’s my backgrounder on The Finger (scroll to the bottom), a zine published during World War II by Swan Island shipyard workers, which I’d discovered at a local bookstore.