books! also ship models!

[tsuki_no_bara]

What I just finished reading:
"lord john and the haunted soldier", in which the haunting is psychological and there aren't enough ghosts. i still gave it two thumbs up.

also jem and the holograms: dark jem, in which the story is kind of silly but the art is cute and occasionally kind of nuts.

What I am reading now:technically nothing, since i

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[nomercles]

woot, new TV!

how do you get a personalized improv show?

[tsuki_no_bara]

i can watch my shows live again! it's so exciting.

the improv group must have gotten some information about the company ahead of time, and when they needed prompts for the sketches, they asked us kind of business-targeted questions - where do people hang out in the office, you just got an email what's the subject heading, where do you go after work, what could make your job difficult (one of the tax associates called out "auditors!" which made the other tax people giggle), that kind of thing. it's probably not a whole lot different from a non-targeted improv show, just the details were us-specific.

[amnisias]

As long as your books did not get soaked...

[tsuki_no_bara]

it did not! it was a little damp, but everything was damp.

[ext_3905456]

I helped edit a book two years ago by Greg King and Penny Wilson called LUSITANIA (shameless plug, but it's really very good). The film you saw may have been propagandistic because of when it was made, but the sinking of the ship really was 1) horrific and 2) unwarranted --- to say nothing of stupid, because it handed the Allies more "look what those bloody Huns do to babies!!!!" propaganda. And Winsor McKay? I am totally driving down this weekend to see this exhibit!

[tsuki_no_bara]

in retrospect it was dumb of the germans to sink her, but if she really was carrying arms to the uk, that wasn't bright either. i think i was just more surprised than i probably should have been to see such clear propaganda. there was a poster, too, showing a woman holding a baby sinking in the water. to be honest, an animated short from 1915 is cool as hell, regardless of what it's actually about.

it's a good exhibit - full of super cool stuff - i highly recommend it. and i'm only partly saying that because the peabody essex is my favorite massachusetts museum.

[ashbet]

Ohhhhh -- I adore the ship models! I'm a huge fan of miniatures, and those are beautiful :)

I would LOVE to see that animated Winsor McKay short!

<3

[tsuki_no_bara]

they were so nice! the only thing missing was a good cutaway so we could see what they looked like inside. i mean, for the size of the queen elizabeth they could've shown us a dining room or some state rooms or something.

propaganda aside, an animated short from 1915 was pretty fucking cool.

[amberdreams]

I never thought I'd be interested in an exhibition about cruise liners but that was fascinating!

[tsuki_no_bara]

it really was fascinating. and there was so much neat stuff.