Good news ( good cat news )

I got my Yuletide assignment and yay! I'm very pleased about what we matched on, and my recipient also asked for a fandom I almost offered this year but chickened out of offering, so I feel like I have lots of good options. :) And as usually happens, I look at my recipient's nice, clear, enthusiastic optional details and wish I'd been as nice, ( Read more... )

I finally put up a few snapshots from the trip I took last October/November with my family. We went to London, Paris, and Brussels, with a side trip to Brugge and Gent. Brugge was the highlight for me because I had never been there before. Even in the pouring rain it was beautiful and scenic. Another highlight was eating my first real Belgian ( Read more... )

For the Star Trek: TOS fans out there ( Read more... )

Watched:
Antique (thanks to margueritem!), the Korean movie version of Fumi Yoshinaga's manga, Antique Bakery. Highly recommend this. It was funny, sweet, enjoyable, a little surreal, and pretty close to the manga, though condensed for movie-length. Closer to the manga, imo, than the Japanese TV series version (though that had its own charm ( Read more... )

Inspired by lamardeuse's big-ass picspam of Hollywood hunks here, I uploaded some of my favorite b&w photos of classic gorgeous males. Tyrone Power (6), Montgomery Clift (4, counting 2 framegrabs from Red River), Stewart Granger (2), Gary Cooper (1), Dirk Bogarde (1), Ivor Novello (1), Robert Donat (1), Errol Flynn (1), Cary Grant (1), and, uh, Joe ( Read more... )

I watch too damn many Asian movies, this is true. It's an addiction! Some recent ones (all are subtitled except for the first):

Soredemo boku wa yattenai (a.k.a. I Just Didn't Do It) (Japan; 2006) starring Ryo Kase and Koji Yakusho. Realistic legal drama about a young man arrested for groping a teenager on a crowded train. ( Read more... )

End-of-year time on my hands: reading Yuletide stories, watching DVDs, snagging images for the Asian pretty.

But first, baby!Nicholas Tse (from a 1982 rice commercial):

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I got sucked into watching a Chinese historical drama airing here (薛仁貴傅奇 a.k.a. Legendary Warrior) because I liked the look of the lead guy. Finally broke down to find out who he is: Shanghai actor Bao Jian Feng 保剑峰 (b. 1975). ( see more )

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