the result of a week and various electronics
1) I am SO reobsessed w/ Notre Dame de Paris, having actually seen the DVD now. Gringoire's voice = LOVE!!! Actually, the whole thing IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!! It's really different than American musicals. Watch it, y'all. Oh, but I'm really sad, b/c I now know how few songs are on the CD. There are so many other good ones (luckily, you can find them on youtube).
2) Have you ever thought to yourself, "Gee, I wish there was a really great mystery/detective story about some chick who basically wrecked a fandom solely by manipulating varous identities on the Internet, and who was ultimately caught out through IP addresses"? Well, your prayers have been answered: http://www.journalfen.net/users/charlottelennox/
Scroll down to the Msscribe story. For some reason, I was really hooked and spent forever reading this (very comprensive) acount of some crazy who decided it'd be fun to garner a LOT of attention through ingenious sockpuppetry.
3) OMG Northanger Abbey = LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Jane Austen is a genius:
So, basically, Austen spends the whole first chapter telling us about the unlikelihood of Catherine Moorland's being a heroine:
"No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine...
And goes on to recount how her mother did not die giving birth to her, she was middle child in a functional family, grew out of initial tomboyism so as not to be ostracized by society, was averagely smart, pretty, attentive, etc. And then it gets even better, recounting the poor girl's lack of a hero:
"The was not one family among their acquaintance who had reared and supported a boy accidently found at their door--not one young man whose origin was unknown. Her father had no ward, and the squire of the parish no children.
Emily Bronte, I believe you have just been bitch slapped.
4) What does one do when one has finished Mock the Week? Why, discover a new obscure British show on youtube of course. QI is not as amusing but is an interesting trivia show, and is hosted by STEPHEN FRY!!!! Now I know Eskimo's have only four words for snow, but 32 demonstrative pronouns.
Quotage:
"They walk, you know--banana trees"
"Nurse, nurse, he's out of bed again" -QI