things!
1) ...apparently there's going to be a new Israeli thriller TV show about mermaids. I am kind of... super curious. I haven't watched any Israeli TV in a long, long time (bad citizen!), and though this looks... potentially terrible? Or awesome? I have no idea. From the trailer it looks probably influenced by The Bridge and Orphan Black, who even knows. But I think I will give it a shot.
2) The nice thing about hockey fandom is that many of the fandom narratives are built on the foundation of sports media, which is basically sports journalists being huge, gigantic shippers. Sure, the story of the renaissance of the failing Dallas Stars can be an interesting one, but it's much more interesting when instead it's actually a story about the relationship of two boys: the introverted newly-nominated team captain, and the disgraced trouble-boy traded away from his former team, whose chemistry on and off the ice is revolutionizing Texas hockey.
I'm not even into this ship, okay, but I'm still pleased and amazed when we get articles like the one we got from ESPN earlier this week: Seguin-Benn clicking on, off the ice; The Stars' version of Batman and Robin taking the team to new heights.
It includes quotes like Seguin looks up and casually plucks a piece of lint off the back of Benn's shirt
and
For Benn, Seguin and, indeed, the entire Dallas Stars franchise, things will never be the same, the trade creating something that is, like some sort of long forgotten chemistry lesson, greater than the sum of the two parts and, at the risk of entering into flat-out hyperbole, creating something that often approaches the magical.
and
When Seguin bought a house this past offseason, about a month later Benn bought one about three blocks away. In spite of the fact that the two live near each other, Benn is contemplating buying a bike to make the travel time shorter between the two homes, something Seguin delights in sharing and ribbing Benn about.
"Jamie wants to buy a bike," Seguin said with a grin. "He doesn't feel like wasting energy and walking to my house, even though he can. So he still hasn't gotten around to buying a bike because he's that lazy."
Too close to drive, Benn explains with a shrug that might be a little sheepish. He doesn't like the walk.
and
"It's gotten different over time," Seguin said. "He was very much more quiet when I first arrived here, I feel like, than where we are now. He's opened up a bit more. I have a very outgoing personality. He brings things out in me, like just his work ethic and being around a person like that, and I kind of bring out the social side of him, I guess you could say."
Basically - I am very thankful for professional hockey media, as they so often are, this entire piece is a delight.
3) I was going to take a visiting colleague to Jerusalem on Friday, but with everything going on, I'm glad I decided not to. Instead I took her to Caesarea, on a day that happened to have beyond perfect weather, and the sea bluer than I've ever seen it here.
Five photos of the ocean being obnoxiously beautiful:
View from the cliffs in Gaash, just south of Caesarea
I don't like walking on shell beaches, but there's no denying they're gorgeous
Ruins of a Roman villa; I'm standing on the main sitting room, overlooking their lower rooms, atrium and heated swimming pool. Because style.
so so so so blue.
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2) The nice thing about hockey fandom is that many of the fandom narratives are built on the foundation of sports media, which is basically sports journalists being huge, gigantic shippers. Sure, the story of the renaissance of the failing Dallas Stars can be an interesting one, but it's much more interesting when instead it's actually a story about the relationship of two boys: the introverted newly-nominated team captain, and the disgraced trouble-boy traded away from his former team, whose chemistry on and off the ice is revolutionizing Texas hockey.
I'm not even into this ship, okay, but I'm still pleased and amazed when we get articles like the one we got from ESPN earlier this week: Seguin-Benn clicking on, off the ice; The Stars' version of Batman and Robin taking the team to new heights.
It includes quotes like Seguin looks up and casually plucks a piece of lint off the back of Benn's shirt
and
For Benn, Seguin and, indeed, the entire Dallas Stars franchise, things will never be the same, the trade creating something that is, like some sort of long forgotten chemistry lesson, greater than the sum of the two parts and, at the risk of entering into flat-out hyperbole, creating something that often approaches the magical.
and
When Seguin bought a house this past offseason, about a month later Benn bought one about three blocks away. In spite of the fact that the two live near each other, Benn is contemplating buying a bike to make the travel time shorter between the two homes, something Seguin delights in sharing and ribbing Benn about.
"Jamie wants to buy a bike," Seguin said with a grin. "He doesn't feel like wasting energy and walking to my house, even though he can. So he still hasn't gotten around to buying a bike because he's that lazy."
Too close to drive, Benn explains with a shrug that might be a little sheepish. He doesn't like the walk.
and
"It's gotten different over time," Seguin said. "He was very much more quiet when I first arrived here, I feel like, than where we are now. He's opened up a bit more. I have a very outgoing personality. He brings things out in me, like just his work ethic and being around a person like that, and I kind of bring out the social side of him, I guess you could say."
Basically - I am very thankful for professional hockey media, as they so often are, this entire piece is a delight.
3) I was going to take a visiting colleague to Jerusalem on Friday, but with everything going on, I'm glad I decided not to. Instead I took her to Caesarea, on a day that happened to have beyond perfect weather, and the sea bluer than I've ever seen it here.
Five photos of the ocean being obnoxiously beautiful:
View from the cliffs in Gaash, just south of Caesarea
I don't like walking on shell beaches, but there's no denying they're gorgeous
Ruins of a Roman villa; I'm standing on the main sitting room, overlooking their lower rooms, atrium and heated swimming pool. Because style.
so so so so blue.
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