Day #2: Your favorite character

Yesterday's post, I trust, makes my answer to this question fairly obvious, doesn't it? I suppose it doesn't have to, since there are texts I like in which I don't like any of the characters, and Richard II is one of those plays where nobody who has a significant amount to say is tremendously admirable, but I dunno ( Read more... )

So I have not been commenting on Doctor Who this season, possibly because I don't think my computer can handle the downloads, I'm on the U.S. airing schedule, and thus two weeks behind everyone else. Well, three now, because BBC America decided to do a Who/Trek marathon, to use the term loosely, because although they have seven seasons of TNG* and ( Read more... )

So who is going to see this? (I know lareinenoire is, but there are lots of DC people on my flist.)

You should totally tell me all about it if you do. In particular whether it is as faily as the review makes it sound.

Also I am perhaps unreasonably angered by this:
At the top of the show, director Kahn has inserted material from "Thomas of Woodstock," an ( Read more... )

For I bless God in the honey of the sugar-cane and the milk of the cocoa ( Read more... )

So my decidedly unkingly couch1 did the watch-case or common 'larum-bell -- and you should visualize that being said exactly the way Jon Finch says it in the 1979 BBC version -- thing tonight, with the result that I haven't actually been to bed yet. Well, no, I did go for about an hour, rather pointlessly, and then I got up and actually did stuff. ( Read more... )

IF: I get really mopey and flat-feeling if I don't have any protein
AND: Toast does not contain protein
THEN: I should probably eat something other than toast prior to 6:30 pm.

In other news, quietprofanity has posted, over the last few days, a very thoughtful review of An American Carol and its use of Dickens -- perhaps more thoughtful than the movie, by all ( Read more... )

...as I have seen this meme expressed twice in the last two days. So ( Read more... )