Cash, all good wishes for your mother.

ita !, that's all terrifying, and your amazing friends sound like superheroes to me. Also, what kind of SUV was he driving?

Gud, that is an excellent photo! Wow.

Castles are beautiful to look at and misery to own. I love old homes, but for actual living in, I'll take a modern house over a quaint and charming old one any day.

Working from home means that coughing your face off and feeling like crap isn't a reason to not go to work. Alas.

Actual quote just said to me "What the fuck is tiramisu?"

It's "pick me up with those delicious, coffee-dusted ladyfingers, baby" followed with a clarification that Marscapone is not a fish.

I'm reluctant to use that as a barometer of how godforsaken an area is, because I had to explain it to my parents a couple of years ago.

To be fair, they do regard Italian as an exotic foreign cuisine.

Okay, completely off topic, but Sleepy Hollow is awesome! Ichabod Crane and Abbie Mills are the BEST.

Is anyone else thrown by the fact that Washington Irving has been written out of existence in this show? I guess I was expecting more of a reaction to "Hi, I'm Ichabod Crane" (Beyond just "Hi, I'm from the 18th century.") How does Sleepy Hollow not have The Legend of Sleepy Hollow? The actual town has an actual Headless Horseman bridge!

I think I saw someone explaining that since they're *in* the story, they don't know anything about it. There was no story or legend, this is just set 250 years after the initial battle we saw.

I'm reluctant to use that as a barometer of how godforsaken an area is

not godforsaken, there is lots that is awesome here, just an abundance of limited knowledge, exposure and us-ness. The person who said it to me is 24 years old and not living in the small town he grew up in, but still not exposed to much.

Also, what kind of SUV was he driving?

Range Rover, which got entirely legit. I may never own an SUV if I'm not going to go offroad like he went offroad. Good and bad. This is him [link] carrying my camera bag after he'd driven us out through the Rift Valley through numerous segments where the only other animals we could see were flamingoes and us three. Excellent cell reception everywhere.

Is anyone else thrown by the fact that Washington Irving has been written out of existence in this show?

I'm guessing you didn't notice the name of the police Captain. It's a coy show, and that's why I enjoy it. I think there's a Headless Horseman bridge because of the real horseman and Ichabod's actions, not because of a story.

I was gonna say that's like asking why no one watches Supernatural in Supernatural, but...asked and answered. It is the story.

I'm quite enjoying Sleepy Hollow as well. "There's more than one shot?" And the Sarah-Connor-esque sister in the asylum.

Thinking about this show is not good. For example, the battle of Lexington was not planned in a Hudson River Valley basement. It was not planned at all. It occurred before there was a Continental army.

Sleepy Hollow/Tarrytown was in a no-man's land between the British and Continental armies, so the tunnel idea actually makes some sense.