I just finished watching it yesterday, and there were some things I really liked, some things I thought were just strange, and one thing that irritated me enormously. Guess what I'm going to talk about?

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My allergy problem segued into a sinus infection problem, leading to several unpleasant days on which my entire face hurt, but I'm better now and feeling mostly human again ( Read more... )

It's interesting that 1x07 of POI uses Nina Simone's "Sinnerman" months before it was used in a similar context in Sherlock. Wikipedia tells me it's been used in every other TV series ever as well, but I either hadn't heard it or hadn't noticed it before Sherlock. So I had thought it was a brilliant, creative choice from Moffat and co. Not so much ( Read more... )

The fourth round of the ACD Holmes Fanwork Exchange is open for signups. I appear to have signed up. How did that happen?

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1) Day off today (I've reverted to my usual work schedule, which means my "weekend" is Thursday and Friday). I cooked (oden, which is a long-simmered Japanese winter stew of fish products--not generally fresh fish but things like kamaboko--vegetables, fried tofu, etc., and I also roasted a butternut squash, and got ambitious and roasted the squash ( Read more... )

Here are my answers for the "tell me a character, I'll tell you one of their hangups" meme.

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Dear authors of fic for Sherlock, the Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes movies, and the Granada series,

Please, please stop tagging your fic at AO3 with "Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle" if it's not really bookverse. If there were no false crosstagging, bookverse might just have qualified for Yuletide this year ( Read more... )