Happy Thanksgiving! and memeage
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it today!
From pepper_field:
Meme instructions:
1. Reply to this post and I will pick five of your icons
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose if you damn well feel like it.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.
So Pepper asked me about these:
This is a publicity image from Due South. We never heard of the show when it was first on, but we caught part of an episode by mistake one day in '98 or '99, rerunning on cable, and we had to see more of this show. Brilliant Husband and I love Benton Fraser, Diefenbaker (that's the wolf, for those who haven't seen it yet), and Ray Vecchio--the original Ray. Apparently a lot of fangirls go for Ray K., but we couldn't get into him so much; I loved the friendship between Benny and Ray V., and I didn't feel it with Ray K. We never saw all of that last season, but the DVDs went on sale at Amazon, so we own all three seasons now and will watch those last few episodes when we have time (yes, I say that about a lot of things). aurora_novarum calls it "The Mountie Show," which sums it up nicely (again, for those who haven't watched): Benton Fraser first comes to Chicago on the trail of his father's killers--and then can't quite leave. "It's a long story; it takes exactly two hours to tell." I love this show.
One of the times we went to the Stratford (Ontario) Festival, a summer Shakespeare festival, Paul Gross, the star of DS (the cute Mountie!), was playing the lead in Hamlet; he was great, and my ravings inadvertently persuaded two of my friends who had never been to go up just to see him in Hamlet. They were not disappointed.
Paul Gross also starred in and wrote the story for Men with Brooms, "a sweeping epic" about curling, which I have just been discussing with sg_fignewton (the sport more than the movie, but I did have to mention the movie). Paul Gross also starred in Slings and Arrows, a show that went three seasons (of six episodes each) about the rather unstable actor/director Geoffrey Tennant, who suddenly finds himself running the New Burbage Festival, a really thinly veiled but loving parody of the Stratford Festival. His wife, Martha Burns, also stars.
Sorry if that's long-winded, but people who love friendship shows should try Due South, people who love acting or Shakespeare should try Slings and Arrows, and people who love curling or Leslie Nielsen or slightly sick humor should try Men with Brooms. Actually, the "sick humor" bit applies to all these things. I use this icon for anything related to Paul Gross, Mounties, or curling. This userpic has gotten more of a workout than I expected!
Books! I had a photo I took of my own books in my office on campus, but it was really grainy. I finally found this image from the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (original photo here); I have friends who spent a summer NEH program there. The open book is the St. Augustine Gospels, Parker Manuscript 286, a sixth-century manuscript that might have been brought to the British Isles by Augustine of Canterbury. It's really an Eastern style of art rather than Western, but I thought it a good image for an Anglo-Saxonist. I use it most for talking about books. This icon is a bit grainy too, but I really like it, so I've kept it so far.
This one has a whole story behind it, and I posted the story here. I use this icon for music.
Sam! I first got a LiveJournal because of Stargate SG-1, which got me into Internet fandom. I had my Jack and Daniel userpic from early on, which I used for anything SG-1 related, but when I moved up to a Paid Account, I could get a Sam userpic. I looked for a still from "2010" and cropped it, because I think she's most beautiful in that episode. I think that's one of my top ten episodes from that show, too. I usually use it when I'm discussing Sam specifically, but sometimes for SG-1 in general (although Jack and Daniel won my heart first--even before the show--so I tend to use them).
Harriet Jones! I fell in love with Harriet Jones in Doctor Who from the first or second time she introduced herself. I don't know how up to date my friends are on DW, and I don't want to spoil anything for anyone here, but I still love Harriet. It's not much of a spoiler to say that she becomes Prime Minister very unexpectedly, and she's heroic. She later makes a very big mistake, and the Doctor is right to say that she made a mistake, but I don't agree with how he reacted to it. ("That doesn't make you right!" Whoops! Wrong show!) I don't blame the Doctor awfully either, though, for what happened later, because I think it would have happened anyway.... Harriet turns up yet again unexpectedly and proves her mettle once more. She still doesn't think she was wrong about that big decision she made too hastily, and I still disagree, but heck, I'd vote for her over most of the choices I've had in my adult life! I use her in political discussions (which I don't get into often on the 'net). I also find her very reassuring and so sometimes use her when I'm trying to be reassuring, which may fall flat as I'm not sure a lot of my friends recognize her. And sometimes I use her totally at random because I love Harriet.
Thanks for asking, Pepper! I was afraid my assortment of icons would be too boring, but apparently I had a lot to say about them!
Okay: who's next? (And does anyone know an easier way to get the URL for userpics than viewing the source code of one's userpics page and finding the code for the right one?)
From pepper_field:
Meme instructions:
1. Reply to this post and I will pick five of your icons
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose if you damn well feel like it.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.
So Pepper asked me about these:
This is a publicity image from Due South. We never heard of the show when it was first on, but we caught part of an episode by mistake one day in '98 or '99, rerunning on cable, and we had to see more of this show. Brilliant Husband and I love Benton Fraser, Diefenbaker (that's the wolf, for those who haven't seen it yet), and Ray Vecchio--the original Ray. Apparently a lot of fangirls go for Ray K., but we couldn't get into him so much; I loved the friendship between Benny and Ray V., and I didn't feel it with Ray K. We never saw all of that last season, but the DVDs went on sale at Amazon, so we own all three seasons now and will watch those last few episodes when we have time (yes, I say that about a lot of things). aurora_novarum calls it "The Mountie Show," which sums it up nicely (again, for those who haven't watched): Benton Fraser first comes to Chicago on the trail of his father's killers--and then can't quite leave. "It's a long story; it takes exactly two hours to tell." I love this show.
One of the times we went to the Stratford (Ontario) Festival, a summer Shakespeare festival, Paul Gross, the star of DS (the cute Mountie!), was playing the lead in Hamlet; he was great, and my ravings inadvertently persuaded two of my friends who had never been to go up just to see him in Hamlet. They were not disappointed.
Paul Gross also starred in and wrote the story for Men with Brooms, "a sweeping epic" about curling, which I have just been discussing with sg_fignewton (the sport more than the movie, but I did have to mention the movie). Paul Gross also starred in Slings and Arrows, a show that went three seasons (of six episodes each) about the rather unstable actor/director Geoffrey Tennant, who suddenly finds himself running the New Burbage Festival, a really thinly veiled but loving parody of the Stratford Festival. His wife, Martha Burns, also stars.
Sorry if that's long-winded, but people who love friendship shows should try Due South, people who love acting or Shakespeare should try Slings and Arrows, and people who love curling or Leslie Nielsen or slightly sick humor should try Men with Brooms. Actually, the "sick humor" bit applies to all these things. I use this icon for anything related to Paul Gross, Mounties, or curling. This userpic has gotten more of a workout than I expected!
Books! I had a photo I took of my own books in my office on campus, but it was really grainy. I finally found this image from the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (original photo here); I have friends who spent a summer NEH program there. The open book is the St. Augustine Gospels, Parker Manuscript 286, a sixth-century manuscript that might have been brought to the British Isles by Augustine of Canterbury. It's really an Eastern style of art rather than Western, but I thought it a good image for an Anglo-Saxonist. I use it most for talking about books. This icon is a bit grainy too, but I really like it, so I've kept it so far.
This one has a whole story behind it, and I posted the story here. I use this icon for music.
Sam! I first got a LiveJournal because of Stargate SG-1, which got me into Internet fandom. I had my Jack and Daniel userpic from early on, which I used for anything SG-1 related, but when I moved up to a Paid Account, I could get a Sam userpic. I looked for a still from "2010" and cropped it, because I think she's most beautiful in that episode. I think that's one of my top ten episodes from that show, too. I usually use it when I'm discussing Sam specifically, but sometimes for SG-1 in general (although Jack and Daniel won my heart first--even before the show--so I tend to use them).
Harriet Jones! I fell in love with Harriet Jones in Doctor Who from the first or second time she introduced herself. I don't know how up to date my friends are on DW, and I don't want to spoil anything for anyone here, but I still love Harriet. It's not much of a spoiler to say that she becomes Prime Minister very unexpectedly, and she's heroic. She later makes a very big mistake, and the Doctor is right to say that she made a mistake, but I don't agree with how he reacted to it. ("That doesn't make you right!" Whoops! Wrong show!) I don't blame the Doctor awfully either, though, for what happened later, because I think it would have happened anyway.... Harriet turns up yet again unexpectedly and proves her mettle once more. She still doesn't think she was wrong about that big decision she made too hastily, and I still disagree, but heck, I'd vote for her over most of the choices I've had in my adult life! I use her in political discussions (which I don't get into often on the 'net). I also find her very reassuring and so sometimes use her when I'm trying to be reassuring, which may fall flat as I'm not sure a lot of my friends recognize her. And sometimes I use her totally at random because I love Harriet.
Thanks for asking, Pepper! I was afraid my assortment of icons would be too boring, but apparently I had a lot to say about them!
Okay: who's next? (And does anyone know an easier way to get the URL for userpics than viewing the source code of one's userpics page and finding the code for the right one?)