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DRACULA: Naturally. You're known throughout the world.
BUFFY: (smiles bashfully) Naw. Really?
DRACULA: Why else would I come here? For the sun? I came to meet the renowned ... killer.
BUFFY: Yeah, I prefer the term slayer. You know, killer just sounds so...
DRACULA: Naked?
BUFFY: Like I ... paint clowns or something. I'm the good guy, remember?
~~Buffy vs Dracula~~
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| I realize that I am no longer as on top of media stuff as I used to be, but how did I not know about this until today: here's the teaser trailer for The Thomas Crown Affair starring Michael B Jordan and Adria Arjona!!! GIVE IT TO ME!!!! * - Tags:movies
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| Still on decreasing amounts of steroid. My inner being has morphed from annoyed Mama T-Rex to annoyed occasional velociraptor, but the critter has somehow found my sense of tact and is playing with it and slowly returning it to me. For example, when my Older Cousin Who Has Never Had An Allergy And Doesn't Take Any Meds put that in a comment attached to my FB post about the steroid drawdown, I waited to reply, and my replies were a great deal less heated than they might have been.
(I am grateful at the moment that I blocked from my FB the other cousin who worked in a hospital as an admissions clerk for years (if that's the term) who, when my husband nearly died last year and was in the hospital, commented when he got out that they probably needed the bed for someone else. Not one word about him or how he was doing. Or how I was doing. grrrrrrr)
I am grateful, also, for my head not being in the right place when I watched episode two of Strange New Worlds, because it made much of it less intense for me. I am not in the right place for that kind of intensity today.
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SPIKE: Oh, who cares? What matters is now he's back! Now it's four against one, which are the kind of odds I like to play.
DRUSILLA: (leans toward Angelus) Psst. We're going to destroy the world. Want to come?
~~Innocence~~
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| People are frustrating me. I'd ask why people are so frustrating? But I figure it's just the natural order of things. Meditation does help - at least in getting me out of my own head, and calming me down considerably. [I'm talking about people at work and on my commute and sigh, the jury duty system - which remains uncertain and chaotic, better, but still chaotic.] I've spent way too much time following the endless discourse over Nolan's film version of the Odyssey on Threads and Twitter (X). It's shifted from Emily Wilson's scathing review of Nolan's film version of the Odyssey to how we should review or critique others works. Joyce Carol Oates unexpectedly ripped into Wilson's review, and pin-pointed what has been annoying/triggering me about Wilson. ( Read more... )I agree with Oates. (Which is surprising to say the least, I'm not a fan of Oats, and outside of her short stories, barely get through her works. That doesn't mean she's not a good writer? She's just not to my personal taste.) ( Read more... )The weird thing about all of this - is I have no interest in seeing the Odyssey? I don't like the cast (not a fan of Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson...) and it is gory and violent. I know the story - I studied it in more than one month long 1980s seminar course in undergrad. (My minor was cultural anthropology, with an emphasis on ancient mythology.) Also I did have an interest in reading the recent translation - but I currently despise Wilson, who appears to possess all the attributes of the snobbish upper class East Coast Ivy League academia that irritates me to no end. There's a reason my niece is going to graduate school in Montana and wants to go to British Columbia to get her Ph.D. (Inbreed scholary nepotism with a slice of egotistical elitist snobbery.) It's had many iterations? The film "The Warriors" is based on The Odyssey. So too is James Joyce's Ulysses, the novel Circe, various films, mini-series, etc. Co-worker: Are you planning on seeing The Odyssey? ME: On the big screen? No. I'm not a fan. (also I've seen multiple versions, most recently Armand Assante's in the 1990s, which Joyce Carol Oates reminded me of. And I've read multiple versions.) It's a horror noir story. Co-worker: A horror story? Me: It has a graphic body horror sequence - one of the most graphic ever filmed, of people turning into animals. I don't need to see that in 70mm IMAX, my 55 inch television screen will do nicely. I can fast forward or leave the room. Are you? Co-worker: It's not on my list. So no. Me: You don't like Greek Myths. Co-worker: nope. My brother saw The Return and liked Wilson's translation, which he found easy to read. This is Oats take on Wilson's translation: ( Read more... )Wilson disparages Nolan's use of dialogue, stating he can't write it, and other critics on Threads state Nolan's dialogue is abysmal. I disagree. I've seen all his films but this one? But I didn't have any issues? And I'm kind of an expert on dialogue? I have an ear for it? More of one than an academic who writes translations and in formal speech. Nolan's films are more visual than dialogue heavy for the most part, which is probably why I didn't notice. Oppenheimer was actually nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay, and won best movie. So professional screenwriters nominated that script. Wilson is a translator not a playwrite nor a screenwriter? She doesn't write dialogue, she translates epic poems. And in film - dialogue is often less important than the visuals. Film is a visual medium in most cases? The discourse on Nolan's film makes me want to see it, when previously I had no interest at all. It's an example of how negative reviews can help a film. Odd too, because I want to see Nolan's film, but if I read Emily's translation - it will be for free. (Not that she's making all that much money off of it from my purchase or lack there of. And she's hardly using the funds for nefarious purposes like JKR.) | |
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| I have been gathering stuff for my vacation next week - sunscreen and bug spray and so much allergy medication (3 different kinds! Just in case!) - and getting excited about the possibility of a visit from Baby Miss L while I am pet-sitting, though looking at the weather, it doesn't seem like it's going to be great pool weather? But so much can change over the course of a week. I'm going to try to get in as much pool time as possible anyway, and I will be thrilled to see her and Alyssa even if we don't go in the pool. Friend L may also stop by? She wanted to go to dinner in the city next week and I was like, no can do! But it turns out she's already going to be out east for the weekend, so she could visit on her way back into the city? Idk, idk.
For the first time, I'm planning to bring my own pillow, since I like to sleep with at least 3 and I'm lucky to get 2 at other people's houses. (One of many things I love about hotels - just an excess of usable pillows on the bed.) Plus my special ginormous hair towel and my special hairbrush that is the best for detangling, and a hat and and and... Thankfully, I think the clothes will not take up much room in my bag. *wry* I sent off a bunch of laundry this morning and so will have the full array of clothes to choose from when I pack, though I will mostly just bring easy dresses and t-shirts and shorts. *hands*
I'm also emptying my fridge, which is odd - I keep thinking I need to update my grocery order but I don't have one for this week - I just gave a list to my sister-in-law and she is buying various stuff for me to eat for meals that I don't order in. I am looking forward to a grandma pizza, for sure.
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Jhiera: “In Oden Tal – what you call personality – our passions – those impulses - sit in an area of the body we call the Ko.”
Angel: “And your pursuers they want to take this from you?”
Jhiera: “From the women, yes. When the females come of age, Ko controls our physical and sexual power. – It even signals when we are aroused and have met desirable mates. But when it’s removed...”
Angel: “You’re more easily controlled.”
~~Angel Episode #13: "She"~~
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- FREQUENCY Ch. 47 (Buffy/Faith, E) by Zin Wilder (Zin_Wilder)
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- Bound Not in Blood Ch. 6 (Buffy/Giles, E) by nothingeverlost
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| After two renewals, I've finally managed to make it through Kerstin Hall's fantasy adventure Asunder. This book concerns Karys Eska, a young woman who bound herself to an efferit (demon) in exchange for the power to speak to the dead. She has somewhat unintentionally bound herself to a dying young man, Ferain, who now exists as her shadow. The main plot is trying to separate them without killing either of them. Please excuse misspellings of names, places, and terms--I listened to the audiobook so I'm guessing here. Asunder starts from a relatively strong place, and its world-building is very interesting. I think it does a neat thing with the competing sources of magical power, which gives real weight to the opposing schools of magic. The OG magical powers-that-be, the bhatuma, have been overthrown in Karys' home country, and folks like Karys can now compact with and draw power from the new kids on the block, the efferete. You all know I don't care much for hand-holding in SFF, and Hall does make you learn as you go with her complex world, but I think it works and I never felt truly lost or unable to understand the plot. There are lots of fun fantasy things, like the giant hand elevators, and the dimension-warping spiders, that are simply never explained, and I enjoy that. What's fantasy if everything is explained? That's just science! However, there are a lot of other things that just fell flat for me. ( Read more... ) | |
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| I am watching "Pompeii: Out of Time" with Tom Hiddleston (it is excellent, btw), and thinking about my Italian great-grandmother. When she was quite elderly she lived with my grandparents and helped take care of the children. Dad was the fourth child, and Grandma was already busy with three children within 7 years, so Grandma Rosato took care of him.
And she told him stories, of which I have only fragments over the decades.
She and her family had lived in a small house on a hillside in the area of Gaeta or Elena (neighboring municipalities) north of Naples along the sea, and she had a small garden facing south. And in the 1850s, while she was working in her garden, she watched Vesuvius erupt, watched the cloud of ash rise and tracked the wind for which direction it would blow.
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| I'm reposting a lot at FB and Bluesky -- my crow self is saying, "Shiny things! Shiny things! Must share!" Chalk it up to the gradual decrease of the steroid. For those of you who haven't had a personal encounter with prednasone, it hits the body like a seductress, taking away troubles, and then hangs on like a WWF wrestler and beats you up -- it plays with your heartbeat and your ability to think and gives you full-color dreams that do not make rational sense. ( the rest behind cut ) | |
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XANDER: Now, we let him stew in his own juices for a bit, then we give him the hard brace.
ANYA: Right! (Buffy comes out of her room) What's the status with your guy [Spike]?
BUFFY: (tired) He's not talking yet. We'll get there. How's your guy [Andrew]?
ANYA: (excited) The weasel wants to sing. He just needs a tune.
XANDER: (enthusiastic) He's primed. I'll be pumping him in no time. (Buffy and Anya both give Xander a concerned look)
XANDER: (quieter) He'll give us information soon.
~~Never Leave Me~~
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| My boss is on vacation this week, so I've got a chance to do a few things that have been hanging around needing to be done (i.e., stuff I've put off), plus our annual compliance and cybersecurity trainings, which I understand are necessary, but did I really need to watch 5 separate videos explaining what phishing is??? I know, I know, we still have staff who click on fishy links, or who send around fake invoices in a panic to get them paid, etc., so they want to reinforce the message, but oy.
Anyway, I was hoping for a quiet week but of course first thing this morning I had an email from her with an absolutely genuinely urgent thing needing to be done, so I got that off to the appropriate people for handling, but it really wasn't the easy start to the week I was hoping for! I did manage to cross one of those lingering tasks off my list though, at least.
In other news, I finally watched Ride or Die, the new Prime show with Hannah Waddingham as an assassin and Octavia Spencer as her best friend, and reader, I loved it so much! I mean, it's not reinventing the wheel or anything - if you've watched a movie, you'll figure out the plot way ahead of the characters - but it was so fun, and it let both Waddingham and Spencer be hot and badass and vulnerable and funny and their friendship felt totally lived in and real. I really hope they get a second season.
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| Tried out new shoes today - the commute is the ultimate test. And, interesting results? They grip the pavement better - making it actually easier to go down stairs, also providing better balance while walking. At first my feet were a little uncomfortable sitting at work - but after a while, they were fine. It's kind of like being barefoot but with shoes on. Also they are attractive shoes. May get a pair for mother. Came home did exercises, inclusive of marching/Tia chi walking with weights. Listened to audio book during all of this. I know I should do them more often during the day - but honestly, don't have either the time or the wherewithal. And I can't get myself inspired to work out at a gym near my workplace. Been there done that have the checkbook scars. Gym memberships tend to add up and are ridiculously hard to get out of. Why I need to stay off of Threads: Wil Wheaton whined about the loss of blogs and journals on the internet and how much he missed them. John Scalzi gently reminded Wheaton that Scalzi's coming upon his 25th anniversary of his blog. (I'm hitting the 23rd anniversary of mine - although it did change platforms around 2016. I reminded Wheaton a week ago that there are still blogging platforms out there.) Meanwhile... ( things have changed a great deal since I owned/raised cats...also the cats vs dog ownership conundrum )And.. Variety : Translator Emily Wilson Slams Christopher Nolan's Bad Writing for the Film OdysseyPoster 1: The irony. The translator hates the film. Poster 2: What a way to trash the film that's turning your translation into a cash cow. Just sit back and enjoy getting more readers? I wonder if she knows there's another film adaptation of the Odyssey that was released in 2024, and nominated for various awards, entitled The Return? And not based on her adaptation? [I feel sorry for the folks involved with The Return - they really didn't have Nolan's marketing skills. It's all about how you package and market things folks. Hint? It helps if you piss off the alt-right in the process.] ( Read more... )Sometimes the internet bulletin boards can feel like chinese water torture? I go on them out of curiosity - you can get some news of upcoming books, movies, and television series from them. *** Breaking Bad asked me if I wanted to go a training seminar on PPP. Me: What is PPP? ( what is PPP )I agreed to go with the caveat that I had jury duty next week. They are coordinating it for September. I'm bored - at least it should be interesting and a new skill. I'm learning about infrastructure economics whether I want to or not, apparently. *** Question a Day Meme - July26. Mick Jagger was born today in 1943. Do you have a favourite Rolling Stones song? I really love Paint it Black and Sympathy for the Devil - which scream Stones, whenever I hear them. Those are my favorite Stones songs. 27. It’s National Whisky Day! The first evidence of whisky production in Scotland comes from an entry in the Exchequer Rolls for 1494, where malt is sent “To Friar John Cor, by order of the king, to make aquavitae”, enough to make about 500 bottles. Do you like whiskey (Scottish, Irish or neither)? Nope. Not a whiskey drinker. Although I have been known to do hot whiskey toddy's when I had a cold - when I was much younger. | |
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BUFFY: Run off, huh? Afraid to face a true warrior?
She gets up and sees the sword.
BUFFY: Ooh, shiny.
~~S6E14: Older and Far Away~~
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- Bring Me To Life : A Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel Crossover Event, Chapter 89 (Many ships, unrated) by Jean_theGuardian
- Those the Dark Could Not Have, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Obi-Wan Kenobi, M, Star Wars xover) by Angelinasway
- TO THE STARS AND BACK (20TH ANNIVERSARY AUTHOR'S EDITION), Chapter 7 (Buffy/Faith, E) by Zin Wilder (Zin_Wilder)
- Rounding the Bases:, Chapter 320 (Many Ships, E) by VladimirHarkonnen (TheLightdancer)
- It's The End Of The World (And You've Come Back To Me), Chapter 2 (Spike/Buffy, M) by ethstrain
- Satisfaction Brought Her Back, Chapter 11 (Multiple Ships, E) by Shenandoah76209
- Ashes to Amber, Chapter 38 (Buffy/Jacob Black, unrated, Twilight xover) by Aya1600
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| 1. Some entertainment links from the San Diego Comic Con - which has become the big one, with all the big studio announcements. Oh? Apparently the Comic Con closes now with An Interactive Viewing of the BTVS episode Once More with Feeling complete with sing-a-long. It has taken the place of Rocky Horror Picture Show interactive sing a longs and cosplaying at comic con. I'm rather amused. Everything Announced at the Comic Con movie related..Coyote vs. Acme - the Final Trailer2. Dungeon Crawler Carl television series for Peacock (they hired the guy who narrates and does the voices on the audio books to voice "Princess Donut" and the fans of the audio books are over the moon about it. I'm on the fence - the book has two lead roles? Carl and Princess Donut (a fluffy show-winning Persian cat). Giving both leads to men - seems kind of....but it's a small thing, and I've admittedly not listened to the audio book yet.) Do I like Dungeon Crawler Carl? I think it's overrated and very much slanted towards a young RPG video game playing readership? It very much makes me think of John Scalzi writing a Stephen King novel. If Stephen King and John Scalzi were to have a child? It would be Matt Diminnion. It has their sense of humor and writing style. If you don't like those writers? Probably best to skip. If you do - no guarantee you will like this. That said, I am enjoying it - and was reading it most of the weekend. It's hard to put down. Well the first part of it is at any rate, around the 30% mark, it gets a bit repetitive and reminds me of why I don't stick with video games for very long? ( Read more... )The writer definitely has something to say about our world. And for the most part I agree with him - at least at this point, that could change. ( spoiler )3. Someone on Threads queried as to why for the first time in over 20 years, there was no new announcements about Star Trek films or television series in the franchise. If you know anything about the group that bought Paramount and is currently trying to buy Warner Brothers - you will know why and it won't surprise you. ( why boycotting Paramount is a good idea )I'm not telling anyone else what to do? But I cancelled Paramount Plus when they bought it, and am actively boycotting CBS. I find it amusing folks cancelled Disney for firing Jimmy Kimmel - then they rapidly rehired him, but did zip about CBS firing and cancelling the Stephen Colbert Show. I think it's because Skydance was clever about it - and did it slowly and insidiously. 4. Also been engrossed in the Elizabeth Peters Vicky Bliss audio books, which dare I say? I like even better than the actual books. Barbara Rosenblatt is an excellent narrator - and can do multiple voices and accents with seemingly ease. The fact she was doing them from 1983-1990s, is exemplary. Apparently they had great audio book readers back then. I'm on my favorite right now - Night Train to Memphis. Peters employs the unreliable narrator trope quite well - the reader is so engrossed in the narrator's perspective that we don't pick up on things. Even though I've forgotten a bit of it (it's been a while since my last re-read?) - I am picking up on a few things now that the narrator doesn't see. It's also a gothic, and once again the narrator is suspecting her occasional lover/co-detective/crook of nefarious doings. This would have made a great television series - missed opportunity there. (But no...instead we get Dungeon Crawler Carl? The Vicky Bliss mysteries would have been so much easier to do. Ugh. None of the book series I want made into films and television shows are ever adapted, no, it's always the ones that I wish weren't adapted, because I do not want to watch that on screen or don't understand the appeal of either the books or the series.) *** 5. Today's Health Report I did more exercises today. Also took a walk in the morning for groceries, as opposed to the afternoon - went to Met Fresh as opposed to the more expensive Food Coop and Farmers Market. (Ironic, I know, but there it is.) And some fixing/cooking of meals. I'm doing a good job of healthy eating. Becoming gluten intolerant, and having to do a health cleanse in my forties helped tremendously. ( the fixing of meals ) | |
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| Something I've been considering while reading all the commentary about Nolan's 'Odyssey' is how limited our view of ancient Greece is.
Most of what we know that has come down to us is from Athens, and some of its allies. We know Athenian laws, Athenian philosophers, Athenian customs (certainly MAGAts would love to take us back to the Athenian custom of women having no presence in public society), and from the larger Attica area around Athens, the very different laws in Sparta (but we don't study them the same way), the Dephic Oracle who spoke what Apollo told her to say. We do not treat in the same way the works of those who lived in, say, the Greek-run colony of Syracusa, though Plato tried very hard to help some of its rulers live and rule more ethically. The only knowledge of the culture of the island of Lesbos that we have is that its name became used for women who love each other, lesbians. And since Athenians didn't think women mattered, other than Sappho's poetry we have nothing from there. Do we know anything of the customs of the people of Delos? or of Thessalonika? Was Thessalonika considered Greek or Macedonian at that time?
Granted, there have been several thousands of years of wars between Plato's time and now, not counting the wars he lived through. What we do have of ancient Greek culture comes to us mainly through what was salvaged by Persian and later conquerors who saw some value in it, in bits and pieces, and kept it.
And don't forget that the fall of Troy took place something like 3000 B.C. (inexact, but closer to then than to now, and long enough ago that Homer's tales were legends as much as anything else. It took until Schliemann's archeological dig in the 1800s to prove that there really was a Troy, that long ago, that perished in fire and conquest.
Homer is the closest spokesman we have for that time, and he was centuries away from it.
So everyone who says Nolan's not being historical is both right and wrong. He's not. But it's not history. It's legendary recollection of an historical event, and for all we know it's as accurate as the newspaper accounts of several speeches at Gettysburg Cemetery after the Civil War, in which the lengthy speeches of senators received a lot of copy and "President Lincoln said a few words."
At the moment I'm going back to reread Emily Wilson's translation of the tale of the man who was complicated, which is honestly the single best description of him I've ever seen.
ETA: I have a minor bone to pick with anyone who argues that the seas in Greece are not "wine-dark". The ancient Greeks made their wine from very dark blue grapes, and thinned it with water for drinking. Have you ever seen the first-pressed juice from deep-blue grapes being bottled? It is that dark, it is the sea in its mysterious depths. I have witnessed this, since both my grandfather and one of my uncles made wine at home, and with the same passed-down hand-cranked wine press. | |
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| I'm apparently not done with posting for tonight. Thanks to colls, I discovered this lovely little essay: Legendary artist Sheila Hicks - I found that I related to it a great deal, and felt oddly seen by it. It also may help me break my artist/writer's block of late. ( excerpt )Below is Shelia Hicks' Fiber Arts Video - and how the 90 year old woman approaches art or views art: She just takes every day as it comes. And her love of textiles and fabrics reminds me of my sisterinlaw and her textile boutique language of the birds. *** Masters of the Universe - the 2026 version - is not a good film. It was a flop at the box office. Yet has James Purevoy, Idris Elba, Camilla Mendes, Nicholas Galiztine, and Jared Leto in the cast. But alas, it's written by five people. And low budget. And not the greatest source material? It is however funny in places. And feels almost like a satire in others. *** Dungeon Crawler Carl - reminds me of a lot of RPG video games that I've flirted with? It's kind of a satire on it. There's a lot of world building and a sizable informational drop in the beginning of it - but it's handled well. And in an amusing manner. The characters curse, the style is conversational causal, and a lot of pop culture slang - and male humor. Also, much like Scalzi's Starter Villain, the most intelligent creature is a female cat - who is a bit of a pampered princess. Her name is Princess Donut. *** This keeps getting advertised to me? Pulse of Potential - I'm eyeing the red panda, although they think I should get the jersey cow. *** And these are my new shoes... Hike Footwear - HF Cloud Black - in my quest for knee pain and foot pain and back pain relief. ** Tonight's dinner was Lentil Vegetable Soup, Seeded GrainFree Crackers, and Cheddar Cheese, with Oatly Chocolate Ice Cream, Pumpkin Seeds for dessert. I also had matcha latte - this afternoon, which may have been a mistake. I'm a little more awake than I should be? | |
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| Some days, not often, I miss the big screened in porch that I had as a child. In the bygone days of the 1970s, in Chester County, Pennsylvania. We lived in a rural suburban area, where houses had green back yards filled with woods. The highway lay on the other side. Across from the house, a two story colonial style, typical of the 1970s, and most likely built during the late 1960s, early 70s - we were by no means the first family to live there nor the last - lay more woods, a creek, and beyond that more houses. We'd pick wild raspberries and blackberries in the summer - enough for my mother to make pie with them. And would have the occasional errant horse, cow, or rabid raccoon terrorize the neighborhood. On summer knights - we'd see the fruit bats flying high over head. And catch fireflies in jars with holes poked in the lids. I was small enough to climb trees and the street sign at the front of my driveway. Also to fit into many a tunnel that run beneath many a roadway connecting creeks. That is until I grew fearful of spiders, and got lost in a network of tunnels. Now? I can't bear the thought of them, but as a small child - I was far too curious for my own good - yet at the same time had a healthy enough sense of caution to keep myself out of deadly danger. My brother wasn't quite as bright - and got in trouble for almost setting the creek on fire with his friends, and throwing rocks (again with friends) at an old shed. Ah, but those summer days, way back when were the stuff of dreams and magic. We didn't have the gadetry that we do now, nor the technological distractions. The most - we had were radios, record players, stereos, and box television sets with maybe six channels (often in black and white, with unreliable reception and that went blank at midnight). So we played outdoors, exploring the woods, having picnics across four backyards, with games and prizes, sleep overs in tents or tree houses, until our scary stories thrust us back inside. I remember the musky smell of my father's pipe and his booming laughter, as a ballgame played on the radio, while he sat on the porch. Or the huge white Bunny Rabbit we kept out there, on the table - in a cage, scaring our Siamese Cat, yet at the same time attracting the big tom abbey cat that had run away ages ago and only liked me, and would only allow me to pick him up. (I get along well with animals.) We didn't need air conditioning back then. And once or twice, when it rained - the creek would over flow, leaving us stranded, and often flooding our basement. We had neighborhood dogs that patrolled the block and chased the trucks, and drove my mother crazy by jumping about in her flower beds. I remember making mud pies, and raising frogs from tadpols in the little pounds between our driveway and the neighbor's driveway. One year, when I was six - I lost a brilliant ruby red sandal in a creek bed, trying to cross a tree - dared by other larger kids to do so. We'd just gotten the sandals, and my feet being larger than most children my age - it had taken forever to find them. I don't remember my mother's reaction? But it couldn't have been good - she doesn't appear to remember either. ** The sky outside my window is slowly dimming to a dark shadowy blue between the trees, with a pale orange gray light beyond the rooftops, evidence of sun sinking below the horizon. I've heard rumors that the Federal government is passing a bill to make daylight savings time permanent in the US, although only the House has gotten around to getting it passed. And not all the states are on board. NY's State Legislature did not pass it last year, for example. Having slept late this morning, the day feels far from over. I let myself sleep until almost 9am. My normal weekday wake up being 5:55 am. I like sleeping late on weekends. But not too late - or the day slips away from me, as it has today. It is almost 9pm now or well on its way. Accomplishments are few - all things considered? I ate. I read Dungeon Crawler Carl. I listened to and completed Trojan Gold on audio books. I got new shoes (from HIKE) in the mail and broke them in (rather successfully) on walk around my neighborhood. I watched a movie (Masters of the Universe) - I didn't say it was a good movie? I watched more episodes of X-men '97 (the Wolverine episode is basically Wolverine, Sabertooth, and Yukio run into Alien:Earth). And I talked to mother (twice). It's dark now in my apartment, with just the light of the computer and the blue lights of various gadgets in the room, plus the light of the moon and nearby houses streaming through the window. I have no blinds or curtains on my living room windows (I don't need them since I have the trees in the summer, and no direct sunlight - just indirect.) Question a Day Meme23. Were your grandparents all still around when you were growing up? Did you learn anything special from any of them? Yes. My grandfather's died when I was in college, my grandmothers after I moved to NYC and in my late 20s/early 30s. I learned a great deal from them. ( Read more... )24. Today is International Self-Care Day, which was first celebrated in 2011. It was established by the UK-based organisation, International Self-Care Foundation (ISF). With the important theme of encouraging everyone to be attentive to taking care of themselves. What could you do (or did you do) today to care for yourself? ( what I do )25. It was in 1993 that the Romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle," starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan and co-written and directed by Nora Ephron, was released. Have you ever seen it? Yes. I know I'm in the minority? But I didn't like it. But, I also didn't like the old movie it referenced, which I also saw. (aka An Affair to Remember). Found both movies to be insanely frustrating. Also I preferred An Affair to Remember. Nora Ephron - I found to be a bit overrated as a screen writer? ( Read more... ) | |
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| The Spanish Tragedy: The Civil War In Perspective by Raymond Carr An overview of the Spanish Civil War, from its outbreak to the end. Epilogues on post-war Spain. ( Read more... ) | |
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XANDER: C'mon. It'll be fun!
CORDELIA: I don't know. I just thought we were gonna do something… you know, classy?
XANDER: What's classier than bowling?
CORDELIA: Apart from everything ever?
~~BtVS 3x08 “Lovers Walk”~~
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