Grab your thinking caps!
First: I’ve written a short story in which the main characters are meant to be gender-ambiguous. Except that sometimes they call each other names, so to speak, and I’ve realized that my names accidentally hint at masculinity/femininity/etc. So, who is up for a rousing game of Gender-Inclusive Insults? Yeah, yeah, I know, your mother was a hamster. I’m looking for single-word type things. So…insult away!!!
(I think I mean gender. I mean gender, right?)
Second: Goodnight Sweetheart = a very good show. My parents just bought the first five seasons on DVD, and if I had my way...well, I'd have watched them all by now. Goodnight Sweetheart starts in London in the early 1990's, but then Gary Sparrow, the main character, accidentally stumbles across a time portal that leads to London in 1940. He meets a few of the locals at a pub, and quickly falls for the landlord's daughter Phoebe. When he figures out that he isn't dreaming, he has to make up all kinds of elaborate stories - he came from America where he dated a woman named Marilyn Monroe, he writes songs (like, you know, Imagine, Yesterday, Satisfaction, and later (in '45) We Are the Champions), and he works for the American embassy, or he's a spy, or something. His story frequently changes, of course, because he can't keep it straight. Meanwhile, he has to deal with his confused, analyst-in-training wife who wants to know why he's so fascinated with world war two, where he keeps going off to at all hours, and more interestingly, why he stole her best silk shirt shortly after making friends with a gay man (sorry to dissapoint 2/3's of you, but he took it for phoebe.) It's jolly good fun, and the acting is noteworthy; Gary is played by Nicholas Lyndhurst, who has been in a lot of very successful Britcoms.
My dad has informed me that in one episode he remembers, Gary ventures up to 1944 Liverpool, and sings Imagine or something in a pup there. One of the guys scoffs and informs Gary that his friend Fred Lennon's son could write a song like that, and he's only four. Of course, secretly I'm hoping that Gary will sing When the Tigers Broke Free or something, because - come on, that's as relevant as they come. But then again, he's looking for uplifting songs, so Waters is right out.
Last time I checked, the first three episodes were up on Youtube, if you search "goodnight sweetheart episode #", replacing # with 1, 2, and 3. Go and watch them.
(I think I mean gender. I mean gender, right?)
Second: Goodnight Sweetheart = a very good show. My parents just bought the first five seasons on DVD, and if I had my way...well, I'd have watched them all by now. Goodnight Sweetheart starts in London in the early 1990's, but then Gary Sparrow, the main character, accidentally stumbles across a time portal that leads to London in 1940. He meets a few of the locals at a pub, and quickly falls for the landlord's daughter Phoebe. When he figures out that he isn't dreaming, he has to make up all kinds of elaborate stories - he came from America where he dated a woman named Marilyn Monroe, he writes songs (like, you know, Imagine, Yesterday, Satisfaction, and later (in '45) We Are the Champions), and he works for the American embassy, or he's a spy, or something. His story frequently changes, of course, because he can't keep it straight. Meanwhile, he has to deal with his confused, analyst-in-training wife who wants to know why he's so fascinated with world war two, where he keeps going off to at all hours, and more interestingly, why he stole her best silk shirt shortly after making friends with a gay man (sorry to dissapoint 2/3's of you, but he took it for phoebe.) It's jolly good fun, and the acting is noteworthy; Gary is played by Nicholas Lyndhurst, who has been in a lot of very successful Britcoms.
My dad has informed me that in one episode he remembers, Gary ventures up to 1944 Liverpool, and sings Imagine or something in a pup there. One of the guys scoffs and informs Gary that his friend Fred Lennon's son could write a song like that, and he's only four. Of course, secretly I'm hoping that Gary will sing When the Tigers Broke Free or something, because - come on, that's as relevant as they come. But then again, he's looking for uplifting songs, so Waters is right out.
Last time I checked, the first three episodes were up on Youtube, if you search "goodnight sweetheart episode #", replacing # with 1, 2, and 3. Go and watch them.