my sister and i saw black panther last night, finally. it was a tremendous movie, i liked it a lot, and i totally get why it's gotten so much hype and hooplah. i was completely unspoiled so there were some things that surprised me, in a good way. ( spoilery! )

What I just finished reading:
the last unicorn, which i remembered slightly more of than i was expecting, and which i mostly enjoyed except for the weird way that it was fantasy-ish and fairy-tale-ish in a vaguely british isles/european kind of way, except for non-genre touches like the butterfly that mentions catching the a train, and the prince ( Read more... )

today is the 50th anniversary of the pilot of mr rogers' neighborhood. mr rogers was as special to his costars as he was to his viewers. he was seriously a wonderful human being ( Read more... )

a. i had a dentist appointment first thing this morning, which i thought was just a regular cleaning but turned out to be a descaling/deep cleaning, where they stab your gum with a syringe of anesthetic because they're planning to dig around your gum line. not how i wanted to start my morning! especially since it meant half my face was numb for ( Read more... )

(that's from the magicians. i'm watching the rerun of last night's episode.)

apparently team norway broke out the heart-shaped pink pants for the men's curling yesterday. i was waiting for the return of the funkypants! and there they were! i have no idea what pants they wore today, tho ( Read more... )

do i need to spoiler-cut for olympics? i mean, by now everyone knows chloe kim won the women's halfpipe, right? at seventeen! that's so young. but it was very exciting. apparently kim is "gold" in korean (serendipity!), and arielle gold's father (she won the bronze in halfpipe) told chloe's father " we're brothers". awww ( Read more... )

i finally got to watch some olympics today - about five minutes of the curling mixed doubles, which i didn't even know was a thing until this week. it has only two people on a team, instead of four, which i find so weird. i saw the norway/china match, and the norwegian team wasn't wearing interesting pants! maybe it's only the men's team that ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
the next big one, which i really, really liked. the very end reminded me a little of the very end of 28 weeks later, except without the rage zombies and with slightly more queer boys. i remembered chunks of it but not enough to know where the story was going until i got there, so it was like reading it for the first ( Read more... )

because it was so hot today i called my sister and asked if she wanted to see ghostbusters (for the a/c, you know :D ) and she said a. she just got home, b. she rented a bunch of movies, c. her ankle hurt (she sprained it), so d. why don't i come over, take advantage of her a/c, and watch the finest hours. (aka "casey affleck and chris pine try ( Read more... )

i think this is going to be an all olympics all the time post, because i don't want to talk about politics and you don't want to hear me whine about the weather. (hot. so hot. also humid.) besides, i'm feeling some national athletic pride. the men's saber fencer won silver, the first for the us in that event since 1904. (ibtihaj muhammad, the ( Read more... )