I had this whole fucking entry typed up and hit backspace and for some reason my computer went back to the previous page and I lost the whole damn thing.

At any rate, Doc Martin was simply amazing tonight.  Martin and Louisa went out on their first official date.  Martin of course fucked it up royally, and through an almost Artistotelian sequence of ( Read more... )

I walked down to town today to buy my friend's daughter a Christmas present.  Her husband is English (even if he has been living in the States long enough to no longer have an accent), so I thought it'd be good to get her a couple of typically English children's books.  So, obviously, I got a Paddington Bear book and another one called That Rabbit ( Read more... )

"As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen."
- Sydney Smith

I read an interesting article today called "Straightening Out Serge Mouret: Confession and Conversion in Zola's La Faute de l'abbé Mouret" written by Wade Edwards.  It appeared in the Fall-Winter 2005-2006 issue of Nineteenth-Century French Studies.  I can upload ( Read more... )

According to the family tree Evelyn made, I'm related to the Right Reverend Edward John Bidwell, who was Bishop of Ontario from 1917 to 1926.  I'm also related to Vice-Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, yes of the Column.  Or, you know, if we want to get technical "The Most Noble Lord Horatio Nelson, Viscount and Baron Nelson, of the Nile and of Burnham ( Read more... )

Holy shit, England beat France!  Out of the three big games today (England v. Estonia football, England v. Sri Lanka cricket, England v. France rugby), we won two of them, so I'm quite pleased about that.  I really was not expecting the rugby team to pull it off.  And now they have.  I had my window open and I could literally hear people screaming ( Read more... )

I didn't make a post yesterday because I didn't do anything worth posting about.

Today, though, I didn't do much more.  I went to confession, not really for confession though as I didn't do anything wrong.  Note that I said "do" and not "think."  I think terrible things all the time.  At any rate, this was more for advice than anything.  The priest ( Read more... )

I went to see Superbad today.  It was hilarious, but had an element of realism to it that I wasn't expecting.  I was expecting your typical teen comedy where everything's brushed up and fake, but this was the most real depiction of high school life I've ever seen.  Other than some of the absurd situations (which you do indeed sometimes find ( Read more... )

I did nothing today.  Well, I did some work-related stuff, nothing very enjoyable.  I did, however, manage to get some new photos up on my DA account (madamtorsion.deviantart.com), which are all available as prints.

I watched another episode of MST3K.  This time it was Prince of Space.  "I have no super powers, but I can skip reasonably well!"  ( Read more... )

Well, I was supposed to go to the pub with Ryland tonight, but that didn't end up happening.  That's alright though, cause I have absolutely no money ( Read more... )