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January 29th, 2012
 | 09:57 pm - My first Hamlet
I remember sitting up late trying to watch Christopher Plummer do the deed on a little B&W TV with a 10" screen. I was trying to watch because this was seriously back in the day - no cable, no color and MPT was UHF channel 67 and could barely afford an antenna. All I saw was shadows through a snow globe but it persuaded me that Shakespeare was da bomb! In the intervening years I've wondered if it still existed. Now, at last, the BBC has finally condescended to release it on DVD. Shortly to be mine: Hamlet at Elsinore. [Plummer was my first Iago, too. Thank God that was live.]
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| 05:05 pm - Drabble: Sherlock (TV): What Sherlock Said When Mycroft Started to Gain
What Sherlock Said When Mycroft Started to Gain
Don’t act surprised. You, of all people, could never convince me that you don’t notice the way the ministers and members react to you. They can’t help it. It’s unconscious. Use it. Because, truth is, it suits you. It suits your position. It gives you the right gravitas. It says Churchill and bumbershoots and old whiskey in good crystal and…I like it. I like slipping my arms around you and not embracing a bag of bones. It’s comfy, an extra eiderdown at night. I feel I have something to lean against. Believe me; I was not suggesting a diet.
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January 25th, 2012
| 01:55 pm
Went out and paid the required social dues this morning and in the course of accomplishing found one of the damn study phone at the bottom of my pocketbook. I'll toss it in the mail later, right now I've Dunnett's Queen's Play on the Kindle and am going to take a nap.
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January 24th, 2012
| 09:56 am - Home....
After an exhausting long weekend in Alexandria, taking Murray the Dog on forced walks, being spoiled by ![[profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) lizlj and watching the Ravens blow it. I have returned with amazingly edible gluten free spaghetti--from Safeway, for those interested -- and full of vim, vigor and the will to win!!!
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January 23rd, 2012
| 08:57 am - Chris Dodd and the online petition
An article that points up Dodd's position and his comment:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2012/01/sopa-saga-continues-with-online-protest-over-dodds-remarks.html
The petition referred to in the article is now over 16,000 signatures: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petitions
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January 22nd, 2012
| 06:15 pm - I don't even like Football!
I'm never watching another game as long as I live!
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January 19th, 2012
| 11:29 pm - The Megaupload Debacle
I read over the indictment. My take-away is what Fandom's been knowin' all along: Thou shalt not reap thy profit by flogging another man's ass ;)(And don't be too cool for school.)
Brandy and milk are in order.
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January 17th, 2012
January 15th, 2012
| 10:52 pm - OH! Unmodified Rapture!
The Artist won!!
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January 14th, 2012
| 07:41 pm - Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore!"
I took myself out to Trader Joe's; it was a madhouse of long lines, full carts and desperate people waiting to grab an empty one. And then there were the people wandering around with their little basket full of one pork chop, and we were all looking at each other, going, "Is it going to snow? Have you heard? I don't want to stand in that line..." And none of us knew the answer, until I got up the checkout and asked the clerk. He said, "No, but that would make it a perfect storm, wouldn't it?" You can tell who wasn't a fan...Football. Homegame. Playoffs.
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January 13th, 2012
| 10:50 pm - A strong hint
Someone who loves me could make me icons of Ackles and Lea in hats and I would be very happy.
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January 12th, 2012
| 04:44 pm - I meme
Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.
"The first of these memorials was the inspiration of Mr. W.T. Rabe, organizer during World War II of the Old Soldiers of Baker Street."
That's not very promising; the second sentence starts out better: "Mr. Rade was instrumental in securing the erection...(!)"
But it finishes "of a plaque at the Rosslei Inn, in Meiringen, Switzerland, in the immediate vicinity of the Reichenbach Falls."
What can you expect of "The Annotated Sherlock Holmes?"
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January 11th, 2012
| 01:32 pm - Hounds of Baskerville: What Sherlock should have said
"Lestrade! Come immediately! Bring a gun! Be prepared to hallucinate and shoot at whatever you hallucinate."
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January 10th, 2012
| 01:45 pm - GoS or BBC?
GoS - at least Holmes only experiments on the dog (and the dog has the option of biting him).
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January 9th, 2012
| 10:56 am - A very interesting post by Kate Elliot
On Re-reading and the Experience of narrative...
I don't want to raise the subject of fanfic in her journal and my thoughts about the communal nature of fanfic producing communal pleasure and a sense of personal power are tangential to her post.
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January 7th, 2012
| 09:19 pm - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy... and oops!
Tripping lightly down the stairs on my way out to meet unovis_lj at the Charles to see "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy", I missed a step, twisted my ankle and landed on my hip. Determined that I was shaken but not stirred, I soldiered on and saw the movie, which, by the way, I highly recommend. It is simply a cinematic tour-de-force in showing not telling -- it's possible this film is better than the book. Granted it's been decades since I read the book but I recall being generally annoyed with LeCarre's opaque passages of exposition -- here the info's packed in glancing moments that are so well paced that you take it all in as if you had all the time in the world to watch. And, despite being set in the late 60's-early 70's there's a timelessness to this movie - you really don't have to know all about the Cold War, only that Issues were Great and Important were being contested, and, yes, the technology was a bit different (damn, I hated those phones) and One Very Young may wonder how a teletype machine worked (I could code one of those things) but, what it did is perfectly clear. The cast - dear God - it opens with a close up of John Hurt's face! Gary Oldman is brilliant and Colin Firth does nothing but get more and more wonderful. Oh, yeah, there's some guy named Benedict Cumberbatch in it -- and his hair and a couple of songs are the subtle clues that outside, somewhere, England was swinging like a pendulum do!
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January 4th, 2012
| 01:23 pm - Color me amused....
Picked this up from the MSNBC website and I'm sure it's making Dan Savage's day: http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/04/9948356-want-to-learn-about-santorum-you-might-not-want-to-search-the-web-at-work
In the interests of full disclosure, I like a good train wreck as much as the next girl and read DS's column on Wednesday's in the local City Paper.
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January 3rd, 2012
| 11:27 am - Fanish Narbling....
As ever, your millage may vary and behind cut for possible -- no for definite spoilers for both "Game of Shadows" and "A Scandal In Belgravia." You have been warned.
It's unlikely that I'll ever be fanish about the BBC Sherlock...( Read more... )
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January 1st, 2012
| 09:50 pm - I've seen the new Sherlock
Kitty approves of this offering.
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| 04:12 pm - Best gift to myself
A couple of years ago, on a hot August morning I walked out of the house to go to work, got about a 100 feet and passed out - actually I caught myself crashing into a parked car. The short version is Good Friend+Union Memorial+IV fluids. I didn't have a clue that I was dehydrated because I didn't feel thirsty and it turns out that - attention! - a little known fact' is that, as you age, at a certain point, you stop feeling thirsty! In fact it happened to me in my early 30s, I just didn't think it was a problem - most people don't and that's why they get into trouble. Since then I've been trying to force fluids esp. water and B'more used to have good tasting water - recently it's started to smell strongly of chlorine and not taste so good and about 4 months ago, locally, it kinda turned color - not rusty - just off (and it stained things) and that made drinking it even harder - best disguise has been Crystal Lite's pink lemonade - so when lizlj gave me an Amazon Gift card for my birthday. I used it to order the largest filtered water pitcher Britta makes. It's purple. I love it.
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