Soooo, I just watched the trailer for the new Sherlock Holmes flick and I believe I'll still go see it, but that's not Sherlock Holmes.  That's Robert Downey Jr. being a kookier Victorian version of Robert Langdon.  Seriously, it looks like the Da Vinci Code.  Again.  Come on, Guy, be realistic.  Holmes was not so much about action sequences as he ( Read more... )

So I'm back from my fabulous vacation to Chicago for the Jane Austen AGM where literature geeks from across the nation gather to inspect the banal details of a wonderful writer, dress like fools, act like fools, and feel pretty good about it.

( Full details of my nerdiness here )

Inane things I heard about this week:

One can still be excommunicated by the Catholic Church, and for of all things, money.  What's up with that?  I can understand if you're a repeated Commandment offender or something like that, but seriously, investing unwisely will get you thrown out of God's house?  If you're funding a drug running outfit or  ( Read more... )