linkspam is a sad Warriors fan

[cofax7]

The Idle Woman reviews one of my very favorite novels: Rosemary Sutcliff's Sword at Sunset (which is the book that forever ruined all other Arthurian adaptations for me).

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I wish I had access to this at work.

Speaking of work, Corporette provides an overview to developing a capsule wardrobe for the office. I have to admit, I rather like the

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[rednikki]

Let the Spy franchise continue for as many movies as The Fast and the Furious!

[cofax7]

One can hope!

[rednikki]

Say, BTW, what was that series of novels that you said read kind of like SG1 1920s fic?

[cofax7]

Order of the Air by Melissa Scott and Jo Graham, start with The Lost Ones. And it's not like, it's really damned obvious.

[heliopausa]

Re: sale of museum holdings vs later usefulness for research: why not sell a life interest in the artwork - $500,000 buys you possession of [insert name of desirable artwork here] for the period of your life, but then ownership reverts to the museum? Purchasers would have to have hyper-hyper high security, though.

[ropo]

Did you stay to the END of the end credits on "Spy?" That veeeery last thing was added since I saw it before. So funny.

Yay "Hunger Games." I mean, the last one was kinda crazy but I appreciate that they went where the books went even though it made the last movie seem so different from the first two.

[cofax7]

... I think so? I can't remember. What was it?

[ropo]

*** SPOILERS JUST IN CASE SOMEONE CLICKS IN ERROR ***

The first bit in the credits is when we see her in bed with Statham, and then they come BACK to it at the very end and she says... Gosh, I can't remember now but she says something ridiculous about butt sex or something, and it's an outtake where he goes, "You actually said it!?" she says "I actually said it!" and they crack up. It was just goofy fun.

[sartorias]

The article on Napoleon was interesting, but I think it was dead wrong. It totally ignores Napoleon's expensive and twice built then twice abandoned military plans for the invasion of England, around the time of the so-called Peace of Amiens (1802-4); it also ignores the Talleyrand effect, which was to rein in Napoleon's constant urge to make war. That's what he did best. That was what he wanted to do. After 1804 when Talleyrand gave up (for a while) it was all war all the time, and the compromise at the Congress of Vienna before Waterloo was a result of Talleyrand's masterly politicking. (Talleyrand had his own issues, but making war was not one of them.)

I also think the writer oversimplifies the relationship between Napoleon and Josephine. It really was a love affair, between two very dysfunctional people. He died with her name on his lips.

[cofax7]

Ahah, see? This is why I love LJ because I would not have known any of that!