Yesterday was actually a sunny day, and I met the St. James pelicans on my way through the park ( Read more... )

Following advice, I marathoned the John Adams miniseries starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, based on David McCullough's biography. It's really very well made, both performance and script wise, informative for someone like yours truly who had her information about American history from that era from post school secondary sources. Best of all, ( Read more... )

As I won't get to watch the new Fringe until the 21st or thereabouts, have some links collected over the last week referring to other interests instead:

Sherlock and Doctor Who:
A Scandal in Fandom: Stephen Moffat, Irene Adler and the fannish gaze: probably the best post on the matter I've read so far, blessedly unpolemical, and great with ( Read more... )

Fandom: I'm so jaded observations of the day:

1.) I watched and enjoyed Thor, and watching it, I knew already that this version of Loki was going to prove fangirl catnip, resulting in cries of woobie! and mass adoption, complete with Loki/everyone pairings. So colour me completely unsurprised that this is exactly what happened. (What did me ( Read more... )