(schmaltzy English version of the incredibly sexy song sung by Dietrich in The Blue Angel, which in German went, far less schmaltzily, "I am made for love from head to foot, and that's my world, nothing more than that
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Trying to "look on the bright side of life" after a pretty catastrophic election - Australia is now looking at at least three years of (1) asylum seekers being sent back to a number of Asian countries of varying degrees of poverty (2) the carbon tax being repealed (today, in EARLY SPRING, there were bad bushfires near Sydney, where the temperature
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Half-full glass: have reorganised (again?!) my books and papers, and now I can find things almost straight away. Also, have snagged one of the last tickets to a Joan Baez concert in August. And my son is alive and well in Poland, with his Polish-Australian gf. And gym is going passably well. And I have borrowed Tony Judt's Memory ChaletHalf-empty
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Am in Turin, after an academic conference in Ferrara (small, but very good), spending lots of time in libraries, occasionally happy when I find stuff, occasionally frustrated with the disorganisation
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I have been talked into watching Elementary and I am quite enjoying it. Lucy Liu is so cool and desirable, and this Sherlock is less over the top than the BBC one. And I am feeling little tentative frissons at the thought of Sherlock/Captain Gregson. There must be other weird people like myself around - does anyone know of any relevant communities
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Title: Don't Hang Around Author: mcicioni Pairing: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, as played by James Garner and Jason Robards in the 1967 film Hour of the Gun, directed by John Sturges
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