I am addicted to Silk's Seasonal Soy Milk Flavor Pumpkin Spice. I put it in both my morning chai and my afternoon coffee and everything becomes spicy and warm ( Read more... )

I have a giant crush on Nana Visitor. I have had this crush for many years, ever since the premiere of Deep Space Nine, when Kira walked into Sisko's office and I went, "Oh my." Recently I've been reminded of this crush by Dark Angel - Nana Visitor plays Renfro, Liedecker's competition for Evil Dictator, and she swaggers and she is cruel and ( Read more... )

I'd prefer to be spending today in bed, reading wry essays about farming (currently, The $64 Tomato - I seem to have a weakness for tomoatoes similar to my weakness for wild turkeys), but I have to head out into the world to process late fees and pull holds.

I am so lost in Dark Angel right now that I can't even. I watched Meow yesterday, and the ( Read more... )

I've been trying to write this post since at least Thursday, and various tiredness and distraction keeps leaving me with too many paragraph breaks and random lists of unfinished thoughts.

I finished reading The Moor, and this book is one of the funniest in the series. It's nothing about the plot or the circumstances Russell and Holmes find ( Read more... )

I am rereading The Moor at the same time I'm listening to O, Jerusalem, which produces a wonderfully incongruous impression of Russell and Holmes simultaneously married and holding back even the most subtle gestures that would reveal their true feelings for one another. The rescue of Holmes from enemy hands is coming up in O, Jerusalem, which is ( Read more... )

There have been many Dark Angel season one episodes these past few days, and I just watched Rising, which was, by far, the best of the bunch. It had subplots, it had a theme - transformation, and the change it can affect - that also involved the secondary characters. It had a disturbingly sexual - and romantic - transfusion of blood. It had the ( Read more... )

The audio version of O, Jerusalem offered up another wavy hands moment - it was more of a shrieking laughter moment, actually, and it's all because of the narrator's perfect Holmes' voice. Russell had just demonstrated her willingness to defend Ali and Mahmoud was expressing his surprise. Mahmoud says, "But women do not fight." Russell quickly ( Read more... )

The Max/Logan chemistry has taken a flying leap from subtext to longing gazes and unspoken conversations. I just watched 411 on the DL and OMG. Their scene at the end of the episode was incredible, with the rain and their reflections, and their - was that banter? Add to that Logan trying desperately to turn off the answering machine when his ex- ( Read more... )

I got distracted this morning flipping through a magazine I'd picked up a few weeks ago on architecture in coastal New England homes. I neither have a coastal New England home nor a limitless architectural budget, but I wouldn't object to having one or both sometime in my life. The real reason the magazine distracted me this morning, though, is ( Read more... )

I finally watched Speak, the movie inspired by the book, and I enjoyed it much more than I expected. Speak is one of my favorite books, and I was hesitant about seeing it translated into a bad movie, or misread, or somehow just made into something awful. But I thought the Jessica Sharzer had a fantastic eye for details in the books, picking up some ( Read more... )