We are reading Suetonius and discussing bronze because someone's found some tabula aenea in the "Caesar ought to have known the end was near; check out all these omens" section.
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I was poking about on the new OTW wiki thingy and somehow I stumbled across information on dvd_commentary, the DVD Commentary challenge ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've been in a fandom with a lot of monofannish people; I kind of assume everyone's a fannish butterfly who's at least read something in any fandom where they think they can tell the characters apart, or even when they can't. (I can never keep Napoleon and Illya straight -- wait, I think I've got it this time, is Illya the ( Read more... )

Since I know you all care, quotes nobody got ( Read more... )

I stole this from lysimache:

* Pick 15 movies you love.
* Go to IMDB and find a quote from each movie.
* Post them on your blog for everyone to guess. Fill in the film title once it’s been guessed.

I have the odd feeling I've done this before, and have probably used the same quotes too. It's mostly, um, sci-fi. And 80s. And 80s sci-fi. Only some of which lysimache ( Read more... )

lysimache has been on a Duncan/Methos kick lately, so I seem to have found myself watching all the Methos episodes of Highlander. So far, we're just done with the Dark Quickening. (And I just have to say, dude, Duncan, if you know your friend is evil due to a Dark Quickening, why is your solution to kill him and thereby become evil yourself? Surely there ( Read more... )

I finished the 70s lesbian book, and it was pretty awesome and occasionally cringeworthy. In addition to learning that butches are evil destroyers of the sisterhood and male chauvinist pigs, I learned that the first big gay bar raid (in the 50s), which was big enough to get the ACLU defending the arrested people, happened in my district of my ( Read more... )

The other day the grocery store was having a sale on cherry pie ($3 rather than $4), so we purchased one, and took it home. We had some last night, and, well, it didn't taste that great, I thought. Really not very cherry at all. So I thought that, you know, it was just some bad cherry pie.

This morning we went to have some more pie, and lysimache said, "I ( Read more... )

Hooray, five-day weekend! (My Monday classes have all been moved.) In the past short week I have not accomplished much schoolwork (that's my weekend goal), but I have watched Heroes, House, and disc 1 of Season 3 of the L-Word, which is really quite addictive. Also I have had avocado and bacon pizza. It's sort of like eating pizza with ricotta, but ( Read more... )

I don't know if you guys are watching Jeopardy this week, but you should. Because it's Celebrity Jeopardy. And, man, I thought the SNL skits were exaggerating, but apparently not.

On last night's Jeopardy, one of the Double Jeopardy categories was Shiny Things. Yes. Shiny Things. Which was apparently too hardContestant: "I'll take Shiny Things for ( Read more... )