Went to see Cabin in the Woods; Gave a urine sample for a drug test;
These two things in a row made me laugh heartily.
PiBaby is DARLING!
20K of plumbing?! HO. LEE. SHIT.
Just got back from grocery store. I have been rockin' productivity like a rockin' thing today, so I am pretty happy about that.
Also, I am doing a series of guest blog posts for a local KC company, so I'm pretty jazzed -- the first post went up today: [link]
I'm finishing up and will soon email my interview questions for Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant. OMG FUN!!! But I have to pare it down. SO MANY POSSIBLE QUESTIONS.
Now if I can just manage that, putting up and finishing the loads of laundry I have in and a shower, I will be able to go to sleep happy. Oh, and Eureka tonight!
I didn't know Gillian Anderson was Great Expectations!
She is a fully wackadoo Miss Havisham. It should be streaming on pbs.org.
NO WAY. Oh, I have to see that.
Here's Part 1: [link] It's one hour, part 2 is two hours.
These two things in a row made me laugh heartily.
Well, the shopping came between them briefly. I had to shop quickly because I had drunk a bottle of water during the movie in anticipation of the test.
Wait, Gillian Anderson is old enough to play Miss Havisham?
::weeps::
OK, I'm not saying the Masterpiece "Great Expectations" is necessarily worth watching, but if you enjoy the sight of a pillowy-lipped young man being taught to dance by another young man, you might might watch the beginning of the second hour. IJS.
And if the pillowy-lipped young man has INCREDIBLE bone structure and the young man teaching him was in a Dr.Who 2-parter that you quite enjoyed? Even better.
t /cleared some backed-up Masterpiece from my DVR this weekend.
Also playing Miss Havisham: Helena Bonham Carter. Maybe between the two performances, the common impression of the character will shift from the very elderly old-movie versions back toward Dickens's 50-ish?
Wait, Gillian Anderson is old enough to play Miss Havisham?
I saw her talk about this on Graham Norton, and she made it very logical that Miss Havisham doesn't have to be THAT old. (Disclaimer, still haven't read the source material). But, depending on how old she was when she was engaged and how long after she was...disappointed she decided to adopt Estella, she could be late thirties/early forties at the start of the story pretty easily, I think.
OK in terms working Moms thing - I just feel like I was misread. Stephanie Cutter one of Arom's defenders said something along the lines of "no one works harder than a stay at home Mom" which is insulting to woman who work outside the home AND take care of kids, and is part of housewife romanticization, something that has zero to do with proper respect for stay-at-home mothers or housework. Amanda Marcotte has more on this.
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