In the spirit of "Hi! I'm back! I'm going to post more, comment more, and generally be around more, I promise!" have a silly and pointless tale ( Read more... )

There's an article at the Guardian on why David Tennant's American accent in the US remake of Broadchurch isn't perfect but also isn't that bad. It is just a light little article, and I haven't heard any of Tennant's new American accent so I have no opinion on that, but I must share my thoughts on random snippets from the article anyway.

( Cut for lots of article quoting and ridiculous commentary on American accents )

Sorry I haven't been commenting much. Internet has been a bit finicky at my house and I'm busy wrapping up a dissertation chunk that I'd wanted to have to my advisor by the end of January at the absolute latest yet here it is second week of February. *sigh* I'll try to get the usual weekly radio post up later today and I might be able to go back ( Read more... )

My last real post was whining about my hard drive about to crash. I got a new one and moved everything over to it so good to go on that front, I think ( Read more... )

Y'all know the whole "making fun of Benedict Cumberbatch's name" thing, right? I don't understand this thing, but I acknowledge that it is, in fact, a thing. What I do understand as an academic is the need to over analyze everything! Thus my delight in this post by a linguist doing statistical analysis to determine the rules for goofing with his ( Read more... )

Apparently Harrison Ford and Benedict Cumberbatch were on the Graham Norton Show recently. I haven't watched it and doubt I will as I rarely watch talk shows, but I did see this little article about it which contained the following:
“When I met you in LA at a party we talked and I made a complete idiot of myself,” Cumberbatch told Ford when the ( Read more... )

The weather here has been absolutely gorgeous this week. If it could stay like this all the time, I'd be very happy. The only two minor complaints I have on that front is that it is starting to get dark annoyingly early for going for a run after working for the day and I really should go to the gym for weights and swimming rather than running all ( Read more... )

In the past couple of weeks, there was a 12 day stretch where I had a headache for at least three hours on 9 of the 12 days. Somewhere in there, I finally caved and went to the doctor. I told him I was sure it was all sinus pressure from my stupid seasonal allergies that are really constant not seasonal and just get worse on occasion and I didn't ( Read more... )

I'm just going to keep coming up with excuses for not replying to comments. This one is good: a brief but powerful storm took out power in much of my area so I had no electricity from about 5 last night until about 6 this morning ( Read more... )

Remember my whole, "I've been dying but it's going to rain Friday and bring down the pollen count for the weekend so I'm going to be outside!" post? As hoped, today was glorious!! Here's roughly my schedule of activities ( Read more... )