* Thank you to everyone who responded to my last post about fannish grad programs. Advice is still most welcome.

* Don "Mr. Wizard" Herbert has died. Man. :( I grew up on that show, settling in with my dad to watch him make glue out of milk curds, talk about the colors different chemicals make as they burn in fireworks, fill a jar to the tippy-top ( Read more... )

Next-to-last RSL audio book available from the county library consortium, and this time we have lots of topics to cover.

( 'The Light in the Forest': Summary and some commentary. )

Two more Robert Sean Leonard-narrated audio books. Perhaps the only advantage of a long commute.

( 'Disobedience': Freudian issues abound )

I was prepared to not like this movie. I did not really want to like this movie. I put it in the DVD player and kept my hand on the remote, ready to fast-forward from meager RSL scene to meager RSL scene. But I never used it. Well, not till the end, and that was to skip back and watch parts of it again. And again.

( The review, or, How and why 'Chelsea Walls' won me over. Spoiler-free. )

( Real-time thoughts about tonight's pair of reruns. )

Best. Weekend. Ever.

Well, a very, very good weekend, anyway, and one which seems that much more wonderful when compared to the stress of life lately.

Why, you ask? Let us see.

( I. In which she awakes one morning to find herself famous. )

There has been some tux-squeeage in the fandom this week following "All In"; therefore I am now procrastinating on four important tasks by hard-coding a table full of RSL photos for you so we can discuss what we find sexy in men's formal wear, if by "men" we mean "Wilson" and by "formal wear" we mean "suits as seen in two episodes." *wistful sigh* ( Read more... )