Timelies all!
Healthma to all who need it.
Anya: Are you stupid or something? Giles: Allow me to answer that question with a firing.
'Sleeper'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sheryl - Mar 17, 2011 4:17:50 pm PDT #28933 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
SuziQ - Mar 17, 2011 4:20:04 pm PDT #28934 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I should really finish packing, but my tush is stuck to the couch. As soon as CJ gets home from school tomorrow, we head for the airport! Woot.
And why do I put the effort out to clean the house for the cat sitter and not just for myself? I do hate coming home to a messy house, so maybe that is part of it.
beekaytee - Mar 17, 2011 4:29:57 pm PDT #28935 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Discworld fans, this news is making me feel very torn between squee and fear.
I'm right there with you Holli.
The only hope I have comes from the line about the team involved being the ones who make the SkyOne series.
I loved Going Postal so very much.
I seriously disliked, however, the Colour of Magic and barely tolerated Hogfather.
If Terry is happy, I'm happy, but I might not watch more than the first episode if they don't get it right. The City Watch in my head is nearly perfect. I may not need to see it with my eyes.
amych - Mar 17, 2011 4:32:26 pm PDT #28936 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
The City Watch in my head is nearly perfect. I may not need to see it with my eyes.
This is pretty much where I am. But I once felt the same way about Pride and Prejudice, so.
Polter-Cow - Mar 17, 2011 4:44:15 pm PDT #28937 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I seriously disliked, however, the Colour of Magic and barely tolerated Hogfather.
Susan was the best thing about Hogfather, which I felt was very uneven and didn't seem to strike the right tone. I didn't watch the others.
Kat - Mar 17, 2011 4:45:08 pm PDT #28938 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
As for paying $15 a month for NYT online, I am certainly thinking about it. We read NYT daily, especially my husband. I'm more likely to read NYT online than to read the copy of the LAT that gets delivered to the house. Really, as far as the paper copy goes, the only days I really want to peruse the paper are Thursdays (Food section) and Sundays.
I'm totally doing it. And also contemplating going back to my weekend paper subscription of the NYT. So if I have it, I'll be sure to do a daily link rundown and you all can refer into the articles without it counting against your 20 monthly freebies.
Jesse - Mar 17, 2011 4:47:11 pm PDT #28939 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I might get a paper delivered if I didn't live on the 4th floor of a brownstone. By the time I dragged my ass down there, the paper would be sure to be gone.
beekaytee - Mar 17, 2011 4:50:18 pm PDT #28940 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Susan was the best thing about Hogfather, which I felt was very uneven and didn't seem to strike the right tone. I didn't watch the others.
I totally agree.
The Colour of Magic was as atmospherically perfect as Going Postal, but was very poorly cast.
I think the SkyOne team finally got their feet under them for GP, but we'll see. I sort of can't imagine the much rich, world building in a weekly.
One of the very best bits about GP was that the extras, in large part, were DiscWorld fans from around the world who came with their own wardrobes and basically got paid scale to live in their dream world. Maybe the new series can be like a rotating themepark that way.
Holli - Mar 17, 2011 5:05:36 pm PDT #28941 of 30001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
One of the very best bits about GP was that the extras, in large part, were DiscWorld fans from around the world who came with their own wardrobes and basically got paid scale to live in their dream world. Maybe the new series can be like a rotating themepark that way.
I didn't know that! I'm totally charmed, now. Man, I would love to do that.
Kat - Mar 17, 2011 5:32:47 pm PDT #28942 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Jilli, Tim Burton exhibit at LACMA. Any chance you are going?