This week that was
It's been a week. For me, it's mostly been a week of unending phone calls and frustration as I tried to deal with what should have been two simple things, and was faced with a Customer Service swirling vortex of recursion I couldn't seem to get out of.
BUT! Escapade is next week! I managed to grab some alt programing space to talk about Vikings (Friday at 11am! Please stop by!), and my boss is back from two weeks out and I can get some things off my desk (and get re-buried with her stuff).
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I'm assuming all have seen the sad news about Leonard Nimoy. It's not surprising--he'd been ill, and he was 83--but still sad to lose another figure that was such a large part of my childhood. And my adulthood, let's be honest.
Nimoy as Spock is, of course, what I remember most. My mother has always been a huge feral fan and Trekkie, and there was rarely any time when the show wasn't on when I was growing up, and the pro novels were my first introduction to any kind of fanfic.
The thing is, Leonard Nimoy is also indelibly linked in my mind from my childhood as the voice of In Search Of.... It had all of these strange places and ideas, and as wacky as much of it was, I don't think any other show led me to check out more books from the library when I was between 5-10-years-old.
RIP, Mr. Nimoy.
I'll be over here, watching Dante's Prayer, and crying.
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Still having thoughts about this week's Vikings and PoI, all good. Was going to post about the season finale (hopefully not series finale, though I am presuming it will be renewed) of Agent Carter, but mostly I just want to go \o/, so there you are. I'm also looking forward to the return of AoS, and interested to see where they're going as we near the premiere of Avengers: Age of Ultron.
I did miss a movie recap from last week: Stonehearst Asylum. Long and the short, it's about a young doctor (Jim Sturgess) who travels to the remote eponymous insane asylum in December 1899 to study the methods being used to help the inmates there. He finds Dr. Lamb (Ben Kingsley) trying a new experiment of treatment of the mentally ill: treating them like people.
It's a fair thriller of a movie, and it's interesting to note that while it condemns the obviously inhumane-by-modern-standards way the mentally ill were treated in the Victorian era
(hysteria, how we do not miss you), it doesn't exactly work out perfectly for Lamb, either. Mainly watched this for the cast, though, which also includes David Thewlis, Jason Flemyng (kinda briefly), Michael Caine, and Brendan Gleason.
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BUT! Escapade is next week! I managed to grab some alt programing space to talk about Vikings (Friday at 11am! Please stop by!), and my boss is back from two weeks out and I can get some things off my desk (and get re-buried with her stuff).
*
I'm assuming all have seen the sad news about Leonard Nimoy. It's not surprising--he'd been ill, and he was 83--but still sad to lose another figure that was such a large part of my childhood. And my adulthood, let's be honest.
Nimoy as Spock is, of course, what I remember most. My mother has always been a huge feral fan and Trekkie, and there was rarely any time when the show wasn't on when I was growing up, and the pro novels were my first introduction to any kind of fanfic.
The thing is, Leonard Nimoy is also indelibly linked in my mind from my childhood as the voice of In Search Of.... It had all of these strange places and ideas, and as wacky as much of it was, I don't think any other show led me to check out more books from the library when I was between 5-10-years-old.
RIP, Mr. Nimoy.
I'll be over here, watching Dante's Prayer, and crying.
*
Still having thoughts about this week's Vikings and PoI, all good. Was going to post about the season finale (hopefully not series finale, though I am presuming it will be renewed) of Agent Carter, but mostly I just want to go \o/, so there you are. I'm also looking forward to the return of AoS, and interested to see where they're going as we near the premiere of Avengers: Age of Ultron.
I did miss a movie recap from last week: Stonehearst Asylum. Long and the short, it's about a young doctor (Jim Sturgess) who travels to the remote eponymous insane asylum in December 1899 to study the methods being used to help the inmates there. He finds Dr. Lamb (Ben Kingsley) trying a new experiment of treatment of the mentally ill: treating them like people.
It's a fair thriller of a movie, and it's interesting to note that while it condemns the obviously inhumane-by-modern-standards way the mentally ill were treated in the Victorian era
(hysteria, how we do not miss you), it doesn't exactly work out perfectly for Lamb, either. Mainly watched this for the cast, though, which also includes David Thewlis, Jason Flemyng (kinda briefly), Michael Caine, and Brendan Gleason.
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DW comments. Please comment at Dreamwidth if possible.