Books and Emmerdale

[anogete]

Good grief, I've not posted in forever.

I went to the library and checked out two books. One of them is Philip Pullman's new novel, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. I'm sure it is fantastic since I have so much love for Pullman and his take on religion. The other book I picked up was David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with

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[bleedtoblue]

I'm a sucker for a Scottish accent.

[anogete]

Scottish accents are so lovely. I told him to go get a book and just record himself reading it to me. I melt. My melting is made all the worse by him being a genuinely nice guy. He received many e-mails from me during the Tom debacle in which I sounded like a manic lunatic. And he gave me things to think about without directing my thoughts too much. He's just a fantastic person. And he reminds me of James Callis when he's all scruffy and Baltar-ish. I would so break my no-man-zone rules for Scott.

[marasmine]

I haven't watched Emmerdale in years! It is a long running soap opera about a small farming community in Northern England and was originally called Emmerdale Farm. I think it's been going for something like thirty years.

I had trouble with a Scottish accent tonight. I had a phone call from the satellite TV company and it was difficult to work out what the woman was saying...