Things are fun today
Left Turn at Westchester is getting back up. Yaaaay! I have decided to try to think of a second character to play. (Because I don't have enough to do.) Not the easiest thing to do when you've only read a handful of X-men comics. Then again, nobody's been hitting me for what I've done to the chars I've played in X-men games so far. (Only for BtVS 'verse games, and I totally deserved that.)
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You know, I first heard about Covert Affairs a couple of months ago. Hearing that Chris Gorham had a new show made me interested. Hearing that Piper Perabo was in it too made me really interested. Hearing that Perabo is a neophyte CIA agent and Gorham is her blind mentor made me WANT TO WATCH IT IMMEDIATELY. But I had to pace myself. Then I learned that Sendhil Ramamurthy is on board. And covertaffairstv are posting sneak peeks that make me squee with joy.
This had better be good, USA, do you hear me? If I reach July and this show turns out to be crappy, you will have lost my trust FOREVER.
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The Diana Gabaldon wank just keeps going. Now she admits to having sent Frazer Hines a copy of Outlander. As many have pointed out, an actor might not entirely appreciate being sent a book in which the character based on him gets tortured and raped. Ouch.
This is by now so bizarre that it's its own kind of entertainment, and I'm just sitting in a corner, giggling.
Also, I've promised to make an "Outlander in 15 minutes" thingy. (Because I don't have enough to do.) Now I'm wondering how on EARTH to fit all of that stuff into 15 minutes of reading. And if I can manage to be mean enough to be funny; after all, I do have a soft spot for that series, id vortex-y that it is. At least for the first few books. The latter ones suffer for the fact that they're still id vortex novels, but they no longer reach the id vortex. Mainly because the author suffers from the delusion that Roger and Brianna are interesting characters.
Anyway. I'll give it a try, see what happens. Just thinking of it makes me gleeful, which is a good sign.
Though I really should try to get something done with that Doyleathon story. I have a (semi-)plot, I've started writing - I just can't seem to give it wings.
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Last fun thing: after months of devouring the blog En man med ett skägg (a man with a beard), I finally bought said blogger's book, Människor det varit synd om (People worth your pity). For those of you who are Swedes, and who enjoy silly humour about known and lesser known real people, do pick it up! It's cheap in paperback and very funny. (Sometimes in tragic ways, such as the chapter about how Ingmar Bergman convinced a doctor to tell Gunnar Björnstrand that he was really, really ill, so that Gunnar Björnstrand would look appropriately gloomy and doomy in Winter Light. WTF ethical breach!) It's a bit like reading cracked.com lists - informative, insane and fun all at once.
For those of you who aren't Swedes, let me share a list from the chapter on Astrid Lindgren, roughly translated by me just now:
Astrid Lindgren's most common themes:
A child 1) takes ill, 2) dies, 3) takes ill and dies, 4) dies twice, 5) is paralyzed, 6) has to move to an orphanage, 7) is very, very misfortunate in some other way, 8) lives with a monkey.
:-D!
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You know, I first heard about Covert Affairs a couple of months ago. Hearing that Chris Gorham had a new show made me interested. Hearing that Piper Perabo was in it too made me really interested. Hearing that Perabo is a neophyte CIA agent and Gorham is her blind mentor made me WANT TO WATCH IT IMMEDIATELY. But I had to pace myself. Then I learned that Sendhil Ramamurthy is on board. And covertaffairstv are posting sneak peeks that make me squee with joy.
This had better be good, USA, do you hear me? If I reach July and this show turns out to be crappy, you will have lost my trust FOREVER.
***
The Diana Gabaldon wank just keeps going. Now she admits to having sent Frazer Hines a copy of Outlander. As many have pointed out, an actor might not entirely appreciate being sent a book in which the character based on him gets tortured and raped. Ouch.
This is by now so bizarre that it's its own kind of entertainment, and I'm just sitting in a corner, giggling.
Also, I've promised to make an "Outlander in 15 minutes" thingy. (Because I don't have enough to do.) Now I'm wondering how on EARTH to fit all of that stuff into 15 minutes of reading. And if I can manage to be mean enough to be funny; after all, I do have a soft spot for that series, id vortex-y that it is. At least for the first few books. The latter ones suffer for the fact that they're still id vortex novels, but they no longer reach the id vortex. Mainly because the author suffers from the delusion that Roger and Brianna are interesting characters.
Anyway. I'll give it a try, see what happens. Just thinking of it makes me gleeful, which is a good sign.
Though I really should try to get something done with that Doyleathon story. I have a (semi-)plot, I've started writing - I just can't seem to give it wings.
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Last fun thing: after months of devouring the blog En man med ett skägg (a man with a beard), I finally bought said blogger's book, Människor det varit synd om (People worth your pity). For those of you who are Swedes, and who enjoy silly humour about known and lesser known real people, do pick it up! It's cheap in paperback and very funny. (Sometimes in tragic ways, such as the chapter about how Ingmar Bergman convinced a doctor to tell Gunnar Björnstrand that he was really, really ill, so that Gunnar Björnstrand would look appropriately gloomy and doomy in Winter Light. WTF ethical breach!) It's a bit like reading cracked.com lists - informative, insane and fun all at once.
For those of you who aren't Swedes, let me share a list from the chapter on Astrid Lindgren, roughly translated by me just now:
Astrid Lindgren's most common themes:
A child 1) takes ill, 2) dies, 3) takes ill and dies, 4) dies twice, 5) is paralyzed, 6) has to move to an orphanage, 7) is very, very misfortunate in some other way, 8) lives with a monkey.
:-D!
This entry was originally posted at http://katta.dreamwidth.org/489919.html and has
comments there.