So I started to take a survey about Sherlock Holmes fans. By someone who claims to be in touch with the culture and who claims to be doing this under the aegis of a school for academic reasons ( Read more... )

Engaging would be the world's most pointless use of my time, but I do have to come here to vent a little bit about having seen Molly Hooper dismissed as "we know little about her except ... she doesn't mind dead bodies" and that everything else came from Lou Brealey, not the script ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Scintillation of Scions. I would love to run in (tired) circles squeeing about how well the raffle did, or the wonderful wide diversity of panels/panelists, and the fun of the Basil Rathbone Birthday B&W dinner ( Read more... )

Total (current) cost of furlough to US taxpayers: $24 billion

Projected cost to taxpayers: unknown

Total (current) cost to me: $612.60 If my calculations are right, that's roughly how much my next paycheck should be short. (You know. The one I get on the first, when all the bills are due.)

Projected cost to me: another $612.60 and 5 month's ( Read more... )

I'm not waiting for the next link roundup to pass this one on because it articulates everything I hate about the Moriarty character, from canon onwards: I'd Prefer Less MoriartyIt's hard to sample the article and not just copy the entire thing, but here is the meat of it ( Read more... )

I have health insurance. I have fairly *good* health insurance. I have health insurance that saw me through emergency surgery last year and a mystery sore throat over the change of years and an emergency room run and even the therapy that I've needed for years. None of the companies have pulled skunky little games of "you filled that paper out ( Read more... )

With apologies to Austen, for what do we live but to make sport for our fellow fans and laugh at them in our turn? In the last two days, I’ve gone from being lukewarm about the concept of Elementary (CBS’ take on modern Holmes) to being 100% enthused about its premiere. Not because I’m expecting it to be brilliant, but because Holmes fandom - the ( Read more... )

Have you ever noticed when it comes to anti-abortion legislation and activism, it's phrased with lots of heartfelt appeals to "family" and "innocent life" but take a look at the actual *result.* Especially with the two latest go-rounds hitting the news. No matter how much discussion there is of babies and innocence, the actual point of the ( Read more... )

It doesn't even exist yet, and I'm already pissed off at the number of guys who are blowing off the notion of a 7" iPad as stupid. And they're all guys so far, because it takes someone who doesn't carry a purse to bitch that something that's roughly 7 x 5 inches "is too big because it can't fit in a pocket." (As opposed to the current iPad, which ( Read more... )

Cheezewhiz, I leave the Internet for a weekend and wank breaks out all over. I haven't got anything deeper to say about the latest failure of humanity on F-W aside from "transbashing is NOT COOL." Moral high ground != trashing gender identity ( Read more... )