HealthI made it through today without a full nap! I had to rest for a bit, bit no actual nap. That's a first since the kidney infection really hit late Saturday. The pain is pretty small now, mostly a tightness and low ache in my right back. Keeping heat on it seems to help but trying to find a position in which I can type that is good for my ( Read more... )

When I'm doing dissertation work that requires a little brain power but not a lot*, I have a tendency to listen to the interviews at globeplayer.tv/museoffire of various actors, directors, etc. sounding off about Shakespeare. The project began as two guys doing interviews for a documentary, which I have and quite like, so some of the interviews ( Read more... )

LifeNothing new and major has gone wrong lately! In my world in 2015, that really is something to celebrate. My grandma still isn't doing well after the late May car accident. From everything I've heard, I will be somewhat surprised if she makes it to the end of the year, but I'm trying to keep that kind of in the back of my mind since I don't know ( Read more... )

More pictures from the Lego convention. This post is just random geeky stuff. It includes Batman, Ghostbusters, Video Games, Harry Potter Quidditch, Simpsons, Munchkin, Thriller zombies, and whatever else I've forgotten. There are more pictures than last time ( Brit Comedies post here) so I've posted smaller sized ones here but you should be able to ( Read more... )

I'll get more Lego pics up, hopefully tomorrow. Tonight I went to see Only Lovers Left Alive, which came out ages ago but never came to a local big theatre and just came to my local artsy theatre. For those who don't know, Only Lovers Left Alive is an atmospheric, moody film about a vampire couple living in modern Detroit and Tangiers with Tilda ( Read more... )

I'm working my way through the Lego convention photos. I started with Brit Comedies as it was a smallish set. Winchester Tavern from Shaun of the Dead, apartment from Spaced, Fawlty Towers Hotel, and a Monty Python's Holy Grail diorama. You can click on any pic to embiggen ( Read more... )

I might have a new favorite movie, y'all! It's called History of Future Folk and it's about an alien who comes to Earth to kill everyone so his people can take over because their own home planet is going to be destroyed by an asteroid. When he lands on Earth, he falls in love with music and starts performing as a folk musician with songs with sci- ( Read more... )

I went to the NT broadcast of King Lear this weekend. I really enjoyed it. Lear is my second favorite of Shakespeare's tragedies - my ranking is basically Hamlet on top, Lear half a step below that, and everything else that I know so far below them that it hardly matters to rank them - and Simon Russel Beale unsurprisingly did a wonderful job in ( Read more... )

I'll try to get the BBC Radio post up later today. It's almost done but I've got papers to grade eating into my time. For now, have a couple of "reviews" of some local plays I went to recently ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, maybe, BBC announced they'd be doing a second round of their Hollow Crown adaptations of Shakespeare's British History plays. I just watched the first round and enjoyed them very much so I'm pretty excited about this. They did Richard II, Henry IV 1 & 2 and Henry V last time and will be doing 2 of the 3 Henry VIs and Richard III ( Read more... )