Stuff I love!

[jlh]

Sometimes I get a little wistful, even woeful, when it seems like the big new thing isn't really my thing. And oddly, on the other side of that, I'm very shy to be like, "I like this thing that isn't the big thing" for a variety of reasons that at the end of the day aren't that interesting.* So instead, and as a sort of answer to a conversation ziggy1278

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[jlh]

and David Burke as Watson is ♥ ♥ That idiotic Watson is why I can't watch the Basil Rathbone films.

[sistermagpie]

LJ is so weird about that entertainment thing--I mean it makes you weird about it. I guess part of it is that people seem to "subscribe" to an lj because of a common interest and if that interest changes you feel like you're talking to people who don't care what you're saying. Like, the whole thing in fandom is that you go there to talk about your interest the way you can't in real life. But if you start posting about the "wrong" fandom...well, now it's like you might as well be prattling on about Smallville to your grandmother who's never heard of it.

But still I remember when people would post about being annoyed at people constantly posting about their new thing they didn't care aobut and it was just like...well, it's Sophia Petrillo's line to the rescue again: I'm sitting here, drinking a cup of tea, talking. You're looking at me like you paid sixty dollars to see Phantom of the Opera."

[jlh]

I think that's one thing that LJ has as an advantage over other blogs because people talk about such a range of things, often, and so you can make a real personal connection with people, such that you maintain a general interest even if that person's actual topic isn't one you are particularly interested in.

I always dislike those "I wish everyone would stop talking about X" posts, because they're just petulant! But the people I still know who make those distant-but-entertaining posts always make me uncomfortable. Even though I'm their friend, I feel that I've been put in the position of a fan, so I tend to not comment and often not read. On facebook, I don't friend people's professional facebooks, only their personal ones, for the same reason.

Nice use of Golden Girls!

[sisterpandora]

Darlin', I love you to pieces so I'm clearly biased, but frankly, if people don't like what they read here, they know where to find the door.

[jlh]

Yeah, but it's the internal editor that I'm trying to get rid of. My PTSD, let me show you it.

[sisterpandora]

Ah gotcha. That one can be a bitch. *nods*

[piperki]

I love cooking shows SO MUCH. So much that I have the Scholar record Nigella for me so I can feel better when things are really going badly everywhere else. I just imagine I'm in Nigella's living room having drinks after a huge, buttery dinner.

On LJ I love other people's stories, either because they're like my story or because they're not anything like my story. I don't really do fandom at all but it makes me happy to see people get so wrapped up in their thing, whatever it is.

The witty facade thing...not something I'm all that interested in.

[jlh]

Nigella has a permanent place on my TIVO for precisely that reason. I adore her rejection of cheffiness. We moved and on our new cable we have a digital PBS channel that shows cooking/home improvement/gardening shows all day, and I'm reconnecting with some old favorites.

Witty facades are very popular! But I find them very distancing.

[amyamy]

See, I love the very idea of this post, particularly as a lot of the time I won't talk about stuff that I'm in to for assorted (different from yours) reasons.

But, as for things I love, just off the top of my head, have you ever read any of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mysteries? I think you would like - the mysteries are clever and challenging but rarely impossible (I don't usually figure out what happened until the big reveal, but I can always follow the reasoning in the reveal and go back and see 'yes, it was totally all there! bravo!'), the characters are well written and engaging (Archie Goodwin is totally one of my fictional boyfriends), and it's all set in 1930s New York City with the clothes and the places and the dialog. They're brilliant

[jlh]

I need to read more Nero Wolfe books! I've read a few and really liked them, but I haven't made it a goal to read more yet. I also need to read more Ngaio Marsh, because I adore her as well.