Only a bit left to go before season 3 of Sherlock. I have to say, I'm looking forward to it. Much as I enjoy poking at its flaws, it's really a good show, and a pleasure that I love sharing with other people. As with season 2, there are some specific things that I'm really looking forward to. I don't know if all my wishes will be granted, but, ( Read more... )

Watched a mediocre show yesterday that gave me An Idea. I now have . . . a Mycroft headcanon, I guess. ( Want to hear it? )

But I just wanted to chat a little about my latest culinary adventures.

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Got some time to kill before Colloquium, and I was just kind of wondering . . . what kind of tropes do you folks find yourself either really liking to read or really liking to write ( Read more... )

Swiped from littlelinor!

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In the week that I've been on winter break, I've begun to have those interesting Character Rumblings in the back of my mind again. A character who might, eventually, want to have fic written about him . . .

Of course, being me, I'm immediately looking at a rather less-than-popular angle here. Specifically, I'm thinking about a character from ( Read more... )

While watching this movie, a thought came to my mind, and the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that I'm on to something:

Over the course of centuries, a couple of William Shakespeare's plays have been lost, possibly forever. The Merchant of Venice is one of these lost plays.

( Whaddaya mean *lost*, Pargo? Isn't this post going to be a review of that very play? )

We've spent part of Hebrew class this quarter watching selected episodes of this hit Israeli TV series, BeTipul. You might be familiar with this, since HBO optioned it and is making an American version called In Treatment. It's about this shrink and his patients, and part of the genius of the show is that each patient is an individual storyline ( Read more... )

( There will be spoilers. Read at your own risk. )

Ah, gotta love YouTube, the second greatest time-waster ever invented after computer solitaire. I've spent plenty of time there revisiting some of the sillier aspects of my childhood, including the old Saturday-morning Dungeons and Dragons cartoon. Like most kids, I had my preferred lineup of Saturday morning cartoon shows, but I think that ( Read more... )