catching up on the first morning of a lovely three-day weekend

[innie_darling]

Hi, everybody!

I'm temping at a place that has blocked access to gmail and many other websites (though not John Finnemore's blog, on which I'm all caught up), so I'm feeling very out of the loop. I've been meaning to make a post in any case, but this will have to be short(ish) because I want to spend today making edits to my casestory fic

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[oxoniensis]

Did you know there was a livejournal feed for John Finnemore's blog? http://johnfinnemore.livejournal.com/profile

I love The Lady's Not for Burning - I think I still have a cassette recording of a radio version of it, unless it suffered one of my clearouts. Glad you enjoyed your theatre experiences so much!

[innie_darling]

No, I didn't - thank you for the link!

And now I want to read lots of Christopher Fry - the language was so striking. I can imagine the play doing very well on the radio.

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Lee Pace has been brilliant in the few things in which I've seen him, but I've never seen him live!

[innie_darling]

My top three Lee Pace roles (in no particular order - they're all tied) are Ned the Piemaker in Pushing Daisies, Calpernia in Soldier's Girl, and Roy Walker in The Fall. Have you seen all of those? Tell me what you love him in!

He's super cute onscreen, but live, he's just GORGEOUS. I can totally believe that story that Amy Adams told of having to send him out of the room while she did a scene for Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day because his hotness was distracting her from across the room!

[aelfgyfu_mead]

I haven't seen Soldier's Girl. I first noticed Lee Pace in Wonderfalls, where he was a fairly minor character (Jaye's brother Aaron) but really stood out in my mind for what he did in the scenes he had. (Have you seen that? I loved that show. I was crushed when it was canceled.) Of course we watched Pushing Daisies because of his performance in the earlier Bryan Fuller show, and The Fall and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day because by then we were tremendously impressed with him. (I am blessed with a husband who shares my enthusiasms for certain shows and actors.)

I hadn't heard that Amy Adams had to send him out of a room!

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Oh, and you know Lee Pace has been cast as Elven King Thranduil in The Hobbit, right? (Found a random blog entry about the casting here; there are lots of news items, but they're mostly brief notices with a sentence or two.)

[girl_wonder]

COMMUNITY! What did you think of the finale?

[innie_darling]

That finale was amazing! I liked the first part better than the second, but there was nothing bad about any of it. I especially appreciated the Annie/Abed and the fact that Britta and Shirley - especially Shirley - got to shine. And Dean Pelton is possibly the greatest secondary character ever.

How about you?

[girl_wonder]

I loved the first part - Annie was an incredible badass and it hit every single one of the spaghetti western images from my childhood.

Whoever said that wasn't eating my beans.

Lucky I am armed. Because here I am. Eating your beans.

[innie_darling]

"Hey, Bean Allergy."

[enigel]

No Gmail? D: That's evil!

Where I used to work they were blocking LJ - they started with primitive methods, easy to circumvent for those who know some basic network stuff, and then became really proficient, but never did they dare block popular webmail platforms.

And then, after a long time, there were only banned keywords that would completely block a page - and none of the methods of circumventing it worked, because even with a proxy, if the word is there, that's that. Amazingly (or not), blocking out "sex" and "porn" made my LJ flist unreachable on most days. *g*

[innie_darling]

Yeah, the no gmail thing really threw me for a loop - I've become so dependent on it. Automatic notifications for job openings, building stuff, emails from out-of-town friends and family - not accessible during work hours. The firm is a financial firm, and it seems they decided to block all email sites so that no one could send or receive insider info, but with the advent of smartphones and texting, that's hardly a foolproof solution. What they should do is unblock email and make me happy. Clearly.

[enigel]

Clearly, what they *will* do next is... ban people from bringing their smartphones. >.< Well, not really, I hope, but some people need to be hit with a clue bat to learn that we *are* living in the future.

I would feel entirely cut-off from the world without at least email! D:

[innie_darling]

Oh, they had just better not! Though, really, I am only temping, and surely I'd be out of there before any such heinous measures were enacted.

[veronamay]

Jim Parsons! Mordant's Need! The Good Wife! I approve very much of your recent activities. :D

[innie_darling]

I don't know how much patience I'd have for TBBT, but Jim Parsons is clearly a true talent. And oh, man, did The Good Wife kick it up like seven notches, or what?

[veronamay]

I love Jim Parsons just for existing. I'm wildly jealous that you got to see him on stage.

I am shamefully several eps behind in TGW, but I look forward to catching up. One of the best shows I've ever watched, no question.

[innie_darling]

JP is the only comic relief in a very sad-making play, and he can do things with a hip-cock that are surely at a post-doctorate in comedy level.