In which there are miles to go before I sleep, Supermen, an ode to coffee, and sweet talk

Nov 18, 2015 12:16

- A mile marker on the Greenwich peninsula, looking across the Thames towards the Isle of Dogs, London.




- Best logo infringement award: to Al Rehab's "Superman" perfume oil, lol.

- J.S. Bach's "Kaffeekantate" (Coffee Cantata): Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (BWV211), 28mins, utu (I recommend listening without watching) and an English translation of the libretto ("If I couldn't, three times a day, / be allowed to drink my little cup of coffee, / in my anguish I will turn into / a shriveled-up roast goat."), because
kore reminded me and it's for the lolz.

- Reading, books 2015, 142.

141. Talk Sweetly To Me, Brothers Sinister vol.4.5, by Courtney Milan, is a cute romance novella set in mid-Victorian London with middle class protags who are Black British and Irish British. Our Black British Heroine is a maths nerd / geek and an astronomical computer. For anyone who thinks the idea of non-white / multiracial Irish(-ish) British Catholics living in London in the 1880s is "unrealistic": welcome to my family's history! (4/5)

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