there's a lot in this post
i feel like i haven't posted in forever. oy. stuff happened, people came to visit, i'm already behind on my nanonovel.... and illinois legalized same-sex marriage! gay illinoisans (illini? what do you call someone from illinois?) can get married starting next june! confetti for all!
that's pretty exciting, i have to say.
in other exciting news, the old state house in boston had a banner across its second-floor balcony today that said, basically, "yay sox!" with a picture of samuel adams (you know, the beer guy :D ) (ok, and rabble-rouser and patriot) wearing a knitted red sox hat. hee.
on saturday i went out for brunch with tamalinn and one of her friends, who is on lj but i don't know his username, and then we walked into harvard square and tamalinn went looking for a good professionalish shirt and i went to the comic shop (new sandman! holy carp!), and we met up with her friend again and, er, had lunch. >.< (sort of. i just had fries and a shake. yum.) and then they headed off and azewewish and idiosyncratic joined me in the square and we walked around (are you seeing a theme? it was a very walky kind of day) and found a fedex place so they could ship some stuff - ok, pacific rim jaegers :D - and we walked thru hahvahd yahd harvard yard and sat on the library steps and admired the view, by which i mean there were some attractive people wandering around. we walked and we talked and i wasn't the best tour guide but brenda at least knows to expect that from me. mostly it was just fun to hang out with them again. then they headed off for dinner and i went home(ish) to where tamalinn and lbmango and one of their friends who may or may not have an lj were sitting in front of the t station playing cards against humanity. :D which i joined briefly until we, uh, went back to harvard square for burgers. >.< eventually i went home and tried to make some headway on my nanonovel.
sunday i met the family unit for brunch and then went to the museum of fine arts for the hippie chic exhibit, which seemed to be veryvery late 60s and veryvery early 70s. some nifty clothes, some clothes i would actually wear, some "oh my god my eyes are you blind". some really cool shoes. there was also an exhibit of photos by arab women, which was very interesting - iranian women, egyptian, moroccan, palestinian, all with different approaches and different subjects and different styles, and almost all of them focusing in one way or another on muslim girls and women. fascinating stuff.
and my team won in curling! i made one perfect shot (exactly one) and fell on my ass twice, but hey, we still won. yay. :D
can we talk about sleepy hollow? let's talk about sleepy hollow. i may or may not have flipped my shit slightly when we learned that katrina is a quaker witch nurse - really, show? really? - who appears to abbie while abbie is driving down a dark road - SERIOUSLY, KATRINA, DO YOU WANT TO KILL ONE OF THE WITNESSES? - but at least we got abbie and ichabod at a baseball game, which is quite the cutest thing. i loved how her explanation of why she liked baseball led to him exercising his freedom by heckling the umpire (and the catcher - "basket face!"). you didn't know that we fought the revolutionary war for a person's right to heckle at team sports? :D they are so cute i cannot handle it. i also liked that irving was all "i'm a cynical cop and i don't buy into this sin eater stuff" until abbie countered with "i am the least superstitious person ever but i think this is a lead", and then he was all "yeah, ok, go investigate". even her boss listens to her. love! and john noble! (who i pegged as "that guy from fringe", even tho i never watched fringe.) and james frain! as a freemason? there was zero tension in ichabod's potential death, tho - did the ptb really expect us to seriously entertain the possibility that they'd kill off one of their main characters halfway thru the first season? yeah, i didn't think so. i'm not a fan of the crippled-by-angst self-sacrificing-so-others-may-live character, but i did really like that abbie just sat with ichabod after she realized that he really was going to drink the poison. and of course the sin eater came to the rescue. abbie sez "next time you're going to listen to me" and ichabod sez "yes, yes i am" and they hug and it is glorious.
and also? jenny referred to him as abbie's husband, and i just giggled because it felt like the adult version of "abbie and ichabod, sittin' in a tree", like jenny was teasing her about the boy she's always talking about. i really like how they handle the sister relationship on this show - it's prickly and difficult and there's so much history and bad blood, but abbie is trying to make amends and jenny is kindofsortof letting her. and they're knowledgeable in different but complementary ways, and they can use each other.
i don't really have an opinion on the actual case/mytharc parts other than pretty much everything about katrina seems egregiously ahistorical and i liked that the "traitor" and printer of incendiary pamphlets was a freed slave and i didn't realize this until i read the recap on the mary sue, but ichabod's british commanding officer tarleton was played by haldir from lotr! craig parker. i thought his voice was familiar. ("tarleton" made me think of the redheaded tarleton twins from gone with the wind, tho. not demonic shapeshifters.)
i met gnomi for lunch and we talked about all manner of fannish and writerly things, and i have to say, i really love that i live so close to - and can spend regular time with - a fellow fan who likes to talk about the same kinds of meta-ish fannish things.
and now for the links!
some crazy compound german words from a dictionary - i can't tell if it's an actual dictionary of actual german words, or kind of a spoofy dictionary. in any case, i have a strong geheimgangsverlockung.
the curiosity rover battling a t-rex. on mars, natch.
yet another adorable small child in a fantastic halloween costume - ie, lucy skywalker on a tauntaun. her dad made her costume AND her tauntaun. holy shitballs. O.O
chainmaille dress. 'nuff said.
that's pretty exciting, i have to say.
in other exciting news, the old state house in boston had a banner across its second-floor balcony today that said, basically, "yay sox!" with a picture of samuel adams (you know, the beer guy :D ) (ok, and rabble-rouser and patriot) wearing a knitted red sox hat. hee.
on saturday i went out for brunch with tamalinn and one of her friends, who is on lj but i don't know his username, and then we walked into harvard square and tamalinn went looking for a good professionalish shirt and i went to the comic shop (new sandman! holy carp!), and we met up with her friend again and, er, had lunch. >.< (sort of. i just had fries and a shake. yum.) and then they headed off and azewewish and idiosyncratic joined me in the square and we walked around (are you seeing a theme? it was a very walky kind of day) and found a fedex place so they could ship some stuff - ok, pacific rim jaegers :D - and we walked thru hahvahd yahd harvard yard and sat on the library steps and admired the view, by which i mean there were some attractive people wandering around. we walked and we talked and i wasn't the best tour guide but brenda at least knows to expect that from me. mostly it was just fun to hang out with them again. then they headed off for dinner and i went home(ish) to where tamalinn and lbmango and one of their friends who may or may not have an lj were sitting in front of the t station playing cards against humanity. :D which i joined briefly until we, uh, went back to harvard square for burgers. >.< eventually i went home and tried to make some headway on my nanonovel.
sunday i met the family unit for brunch and then went to the museum of fine arts for the hippie chic exhibit, which seemed to be veryvery late 60s and veryvery early 70s. some nifty clothes, some clothes i would actually wear, some "oh my god my eyes are you blind". some really cool shoes. there was also an exhibit of photos by arab women, which was very interesting - iranian women, egyptian, moroccan, palestinian, all with different approaches and different subjects and different styles, and almost all of them focusing in one way or another on muslim girls and women. fascinating stuff.
and my team won in curling! i made one perfect shot (exactly one) and fell on my ass twice, but hey, we still won. yay. :D
can we talk about sleepy hollow? let's talk about sleepy hollow. i may or may not have flipped my shit slightly when we learned that katrina is a quaker witch nurse - really, show? really? - who appears to abbie while abbie is driving down a dark road - SERIOUSLY, KATRINA, DO YOU WANT TO KILL ONE OF THE WITNESSES? - but at least we got abbie and ichabod at a baseball game, which is quite the cutest thing. i loved how her explanation of why she liked baseball led to him exercising his freedom by heckling the umpire (and the catcher - "basket face!"). you didn't know that we fought the revolutionary war for a person's right to heckle at team sports? :D they are so cute i cannot handle it. i also liked that irving was all "i'm a cynical cop and i don't buy into this sin eater stuff" until abbie countered with "i am the least superstitious person ever but i think this is a lead", and then he was all "yeah, ok, go investigate". even her boss listens to her. love! and john noble! (who i pegged as "that guy from fringe", even tho i never watched fringe.) and james frain! as a freemason? there was zero tension in ichabod's potential death, tho - did the ptb really expect us to seriously entertain the possibility that they'd kill off one of their main characters halfway thru the first season? yeah, i didn't think so. i'm not a fan of the crippled-by-angst self-sacrificing-so-others-may-live character, but i did really like that abbie just sat with ichabod after she realized that he really was going to drink the poison. and of course the sin eater came to the rescue. abbie sez "next time you're going to listen to me" and ichabod sez "yes, yes i am" and they hug and it is glorious.
and also? jenny referred to him as abbie's husband, and i just giggled because it felt like the adult version of "abbie and ichabod, sittin' in a tree", like jenny was teasing her about the boy she's always talking about. i really like how they handle the sister relationship on this show - it's prickly and difficult and there's so much history and bad blood, but abbie is trying to make amends and jenny is kindofsortof letting her. and they're knowledgeable in different but complementary ways, and they can use each other.
i don't really have an opinion on the actual case/mytharc parts other than pretty much everything about katrina seems egregiously ahistorical and i liked that the "traitor" and printer of incendiary pamphlets was a freed slave and i didn't realize this until i read the recap on the mary sue, but ichabod's british commanding officer tarleton was played by haldir from lotr! craig parker. i thought his voice was familiar. ("tarleton" made me think of the redheaded tarleton twins from gone with the wind, tho. not demonic shapeshifters.)
i met gnomi for lunch and we talked about all manner of fannish and writerly things, and i have to say, i really love that i live so close to - and can spend regular time with - a fellow fan who likes to talk about the same kinds of meta-ish fannish things.
and now for the links!
some crazy compound german words from a dictionary - i can't tell if it's an actual dictionary of actual german words, or kind of a spoofy dictionary. in any case, i have a strong geheimgangsverlockung.
the curiosity rover battling a t-rex. on mars, natch.
yet another adorable small child in a fantastic halloween costume - ie, lucy skywalker on a tauntaun. her dad made her costume AND her tauntaun. holy shitballs. O.O
chainmaille dress. 'nuff said.