Comments | greygirlbeast: "They won't follow me. Shadows, they fear the sun."

greygirlbeast

"They won't follow me. Shadows, they fear the sun."

May 27, 2011 13:55

Here in Providence, we've leapfrogged from April, way back on Wednesday, to June. And, actually, four days ago, I had to run the space heater in my office. So! Everything normal here in New England. Last night, at three ayem, the humidity was 100%.

As birthdays go, or, rather, as my birthdays go, yesterday was probably ahead of the curve. I have a ( Read more... )

rift, providence, birthdays, warcraft, insomnia, summer, ian mcshane, rhode island, mermaids

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kylecassidy May 27 2011, 17:59:03 UTC

facebook has the little thingie saying "GGBs birthday is today" hanging on the side of the screen. as a delivery vehicle for birthday wishes, facebook is the superior engine, but it's never going to beat livejournal for doing what you did right here, and for allowing substantive discussions to go on in blog comments.....

greygirlbeast May 27 2011, 18:03:28 UTC

Yeah. I know Facebook gives prompts. But I was impressed that most of the birthday wishes were obviously personalized.

And I don't need to be convinced that, as a medium, LJ is far superior to FB (or that Twitter is almost useless). But LJ continues to dwindle. Birthday wishes are a sort of bellwether, or gauge, I think.

egologic May 27 2011, 18:04:27 UTC

Fellini pizza? Interesting.

I wonder if that would be anything like Almodovar quiche.

Personally, I feel like a Hitchcocksucker.

andrian6 May 27 2011, 18:09:42 UTC

Would linguine Argento come with lots of red sauce?

greygirlbeast May 27 2011, 18:10:59 UTC

Fellini pizza? Interesting.

Yep. We had a pizzaria called Fellini's in Atlanta, and there's also one in Providence. Two different, unrelated restaurants.

Personally, I feel like a Hitchcocksucker.

Cute.

sovay May 27 2011, 18:16:31 UTC

Truthfully, any birthday that includes watching a school of mermaids drag a pirate ship into the briny deep can't be all bad.

I do have to approve of that.

Also, that is a pretty smoking poem rozk wrote.

greygirlbeast May 27 2011, 18:59:10 UTC

Yes, great poem. And you'd truly love the mermaids. Toothsome.

sovay May 27 2011, 20:45:59 UTC

And you'd truly love the mermaids. Toothsome.

Is it worth seeing in theaters for them, or should I wait until it comes out on DVD and I can just watch those scenes over and over?

greygirlbeast May 27 2011, 21:57:53 UTC

Well, that's up to you. But seeing it over and over on DVD would be fine. I'm hoping there will be a release of the four films as a boxed set.

ashlyme May 27 2011, 18:38:10 UTC

Sorry I had to wish you a happy birthday (belated raise of the bottle to you, btw) on facebook. My laptop died, and the net's been shite on this phone too. I've missed this blog.

I've had a thing about Ian McShane since Lovejoy. Did you see that odd series he did called "Kings"? It's too based on biblical myths for me, but he kicked arse in that.

greygirlbeast May 27 2011, 19:00:16 UTC

Sorry I had to wish you a happy birthday (belated raise of the bottle to you, btw) on facebook. My laptop died, and the net's been shite on this phone too. I've missed this blog.

No apology necessary! I was very happy for my FB well wishes.

I've had a thing about Ian McShane since Lovejoy. Did you see that odd series he did called "Kings"? It's too based on biblical myths for me, but he kicked arse in that.

Haven't seen either of those.

ashlyme May 27 2011, 19:27:12 UTC

Lovejoy was a BBC crime/comedy series about a "lovable rogue" (wince) antique dealer. Kings is based on the story of King David, but set modern-day. McShane played a very ambivalent patriarch in it. He was superb, but most of the other characters were cookie-cutter types. It was 'interesting', kind of slipstream, ran to thirteen episodes. I wouldn't recommend it except for him. Too much Old Testament bs.

greygirlbeast May 27 2011, 20:19:15 UTC

I'll have a look at both.

Old Testament bs. New Testament bs. It's all the same to me.