Doctors Who and Caligari, body/clothes, Halloween eggs
Brief/surfacey but fun article in the journal Nature about time travel in pop culture: Physics: The time lord and fellow travelers
ETA: Duh, and last night I went to see The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with live score. Much fun. I didn't know much about it other than iconic images and that I ought to have seen it years ago, and that it probably resembled in some preceding way The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Now I can say deep things like German Expressionism is indeed a fascinating if short-lived (but long-influential) genre and Conrad Veidt was super sexy when he was young. (Says the person who loves the same look in aesthetic descendents such as Edward Scissorhands and The Crow.) Ha, and that Kink Bingo-wise, Caligare totally did sleepy/unconscious things to Cesare. Reading some Wikipedia articles revealed what Batman fans probably already knew: that Caligari was the inspiration for Tim Burton's Penguin and that Veidt's role in the later film The Man Who Laughs was the inspiration for the Joker.
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I have felt, for the first time in a long while, well-dressed this week. That is in part because now that I am getting paid again, I've been able to budget for, and told myself it was okay to buy, some much-needed new clothes. That's instead of putting it off until I've lost the few pounds I regained during the moving process after working to lose them in the spring after switching birth control brands. That was a lot of "after"s; sorry. Point is, I have come into possession of the first double-breasted pea coat that has ever looked good on me, a miracle pair of neither "relaxed" (I have no hips and no butt) nor "skinny" (calves make them look and feel ridiculous) but slim-fit black pants, boots with two zippers on them, some sweaters, a tartanesque dress, a hat and three bras (instead of one) that do a proper job of supporting my 34Fs. Because it finally went through this thick skull that it is worth feeling good about this body now even if in a few months I am able to go down a cup size or two. Also on Monday I got a months-overdue haircut.
So. Pulling myself back together.
And about to stop shopping as soon as I find one more pair of shoes I can walk around all day in that aren't sneakers, because living in Boston involves quite a bit of walking.
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Okay, need to peel a dozen eggs to make those spider deviled eggs for Halloween tomorrow. Do you who celebrate have any costume plans?
ETA: Duh, and last night I went to see The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with live score. Much fun. I didn't know much about it other than iconic images and that I ought to have seen it years ago, and that it probably resembled in some preceding way The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Now I can say deep things like German Expressionism is indeed a fascinating if short-lived (but long-influential) genre and Conrad Veidt was super sexy when he was young. (Says the person who loves the same look in aesthetic descendents such as Edward Scissorhands and The Crow.) Ha, and that Kink Bingo-wise, Caligare totally did sleepy/unconscious things to Cesare. Reading some Wikipedia articles revealed what Batman fans probably already knew: that Caligari was the inspiration for Tim Burton's Penguin and that Veidt's role in the later film The Man Who Laughs was the inspiration for the Joker.
.
I have felt, for the first time in a long while, well-dressed this week. That is in part because now that I am getting paid again, I've been able to budget for, and told myself it was okay to buy, some much-needed new clothes. That's instead of putting it off until I've lost the few pounds I regained during the moving process after working to lose them in the spring after switching birth control brands. That was a lot of "after"s; sorry. Point is, I have come into possession of the first double-breasted pea coat that has ever looked good on me, a miracle pair of neither "relaxed" (I have no hips and no butt) nor "skinny" (calves make them look and feel ridiculous) but slim-fit black pants, boots with two zippers on them, some sweaters, a tartanesque dress, a hat and three bras (instead of one) that do a proper job of supporting my 34Fs. Because it finally went through this thick skull that it is worth feeling good about this body now even if in a few months I am able to go down a cup size or two. Also on Monday I got a months-overdue haircut.
So. Pulling myself back together.
And about to stop shopping as soon as I find one more pair of shoes I can walk around all day in that aren't sneakers, because living in Boston involves quite a bit of walking.
.
Okay, need to peel a dozen eggs to make those spider deviled eggs for Halloween tomorrow. Do you who celebrate have any costume plans?