Top 5 Meme!
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Ask me about my top five anythings, food, activities, fandoms etc. Go ahead!
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US immigration bill passes hurdle
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bbcnewsworld_feedA sweeping immigration bill that would offer a chance of citizenship to millions living in the US illegally has taken a stride forward in Congress.
Sundries on a Tuesday night
May. 22nd, 2013 02:06 ambojiMeta on The Name of the Doctor should be up by the end of the week *fingers crossed* if I can watch with my objective and not my emotional hat on. Ha! All things Whovian aside various other things caught my eye, and attention, this past week.
I did tune in to watch the second part of Murder on the Home Front, which I found lack-luster in comparison with the first. A shame, but it was easy on the eye and easy viewing. So too Case Histories - Started early, took my dog. Sunday night's episode was, in my opinion, low on charm (as compared to the first series) and a bit of a muddle as regards plot and pacing. According to reviews (and the interwebs) the novel on which the episode was based had been squeezed and compressed down as if it were toothpaste dregs at the end of a tube. Hopefully next Sunday's will fare better. The previous link takes you to iPlayer, if you missed and want to catch up.
Promoting this, Jason Isaacs is gorgeous and gives mixed fan service in an article you may not have noticed, last weekend in the Independent, from which I quote:phoar fantasy at the time. Am a little gutted in hindsight. In the rest of the article he's rum about fandom. Read with care. The accompanying eye candy is quite lovely though.
In other thespian news the Torygraph, and most other broadsheets, state that Tom Hiddleston will be Coriolanus at the Donmar this autumn. Mark Gatiss will also star in the production. This same autumn season will see both Daniel Mays and Jessica Raine on the Donmar stage - though not in the same production. Obviously we need to start queueing for tickets (particularly for Coriolanus) in about half and hours time! The Independent hints Josie Rourke (current Artistic Director of the Donmar) is in the running for Nick Hytner's job at the N.T. which is all kinds of interesting - maybe.
Talking of things in the paper did anyone notice the article on film posters that didn't make it - i.e. were revised - highlighted in The Guardian last week? From that, I give you a link to the gallery and the poster I adored, and preferred to the finished, chosen version.
Various other bits and bobs of interest:
Buying into a self-created mythology? An article on casting directors showed up in The Guardian and is worth perusing.
I did tune in to watch the second part of Murder on the Home Front, which I found lack-luster in comparison with the first. A shame, but it was easy on the eye and easy viewing. So too Case Histories - Started early, took my dog. Sunday night's episode was, in my opinion, low on charm (as compared to the first series) and a bit of a muddle as regards plot and pacing. According to reviews (and the interwebs) the novel on which the episode was based had been squeezed and compressed down as if it were toothpaste dregs at the end of a tube. Hopefully next Sunday's will fare better. The previous link takes you to iPlayer, if you missed and want to catch up.
Promoting this, Jason Isaacs is gorgeous and gives mixed fan service in an article you may not have noticed, last weekend in the Independent, from which I quote:
- Leading television roles (in ITV's yuppie saga Capital City and Lynda La Plante's 1992 BBC drama about ex-paratroopers, Civvies) followed, as well as playing the gay Jewish office temp, Louis Ironson, in Tony Kushner's Angels in America at the National Theatre, and getting to kiss Daniel Craig every night. "I've played a lot of gay parts, and it's a barrier for me to get over snogging men," he says. "But Daniel was so easy… he's such a sexy man."
In other thespian news the Torygraph, and most other broadsheets, state that Tom Hiddleston will be Coriolanus at the Donmar this autumn. Mark Gatiss will also star in the production. This same autumn season will see both Daniel Mays and Jessica Raine on the Donmar stage - though not in the same production. Obviously we need to start queueing for tickets (particularly for Coriolanus) in about half and hours time! The Independent hints Josie Rourke (current Artistic Director of the Donmar) is in the running for Nick Hytner's job at the N.T. which is all kinds of interesting - maybe.
Talking of things in the paper did anyone notice the article on film posters that didn't make it - i.e. were revised - highlighted in The Guardian last week? From that, I give you a link to the gallery and the poster I adored, and preferred to the finished, chosen version.
Various other bits and bobs of interest:
Buying into a self-created mythology? An article on casting directors showed up in The Guardian and is worth perusing.
That was fun, not
May. 21st, 2013 08:09 pmoursinNot only was there the hanging around Heathrow for delayed flight, there was a longish flight, they'd either not got my special meal or given it to the person in my original seat, and getting through passport control was a nightmare of interminable queuing and always ending up in the slowest line. Only surpassed by the time I was picked for extra checking. Plus, what is it with the cabdrivers never having any idea about location of hotels near O'Hare?
Still, here I am, at last.
Oh, yeah, Hawaii Five 0
May. 21st, 2013 07:06 pmithildinNot a subject I post much about, but I do watch and enjoy the show, and I've been meaning to post this bit of speculation for months. Last night's reminded me I never had (that I recall)
( Not really a spoiler, just my speculative thought.... )
( Not really a spoiler, just my speculative thought.... )
Three Things
May. 21st, 2013 07:01 pmithildinSeen all over:
I currently have 88 works posted on AO3. Choose a random number - no peeking! - between 1 and 88, and I will tell you three things I currently like about that story.
Obviously not all my fic, just newest and what I've gotten around to posting on AO3, but still, a selection :D
Let's see if this can kickstart more fannish type posting, since I can't even seem to work up enough enthusiasm to post about ST:Into Darkness.
I currently have 88 works posted on AO3. Choose a random number - no peeking! - between 1 and 88, and I will tell you three things I currently like about that story.
Obviously not all my fic, just newest and what I've gotten around to posting on AO3, but still, a selection :D
Let's see if this can kickstart more fannish type posting, since I can't even seem to work up enough enthusiasm to post about ST:Into Darkness.
Can China become a hi-tech economy?
May. 22nd, 2013 12:52 ambbcnewsworld_feedCan China harness its millions of cheap graduates?
Afghan interpreters to get UK visas
May. 22nd, 2013 12:47 ambbcnewsworld_feedUp to 600 Afghan interpreters who worked alongside British troops are set to be given the right to live in the UK, under government plans.
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May. 21st, 2013 07:34 pmpeacewishR has been one of my best friends since our freshman year in college. We've known each other for fifteen years, nearly half of which I've spent living on the other side of the country, or in another one altogether. I never worried that I was losing touch with her because we talked all the time, and I never felt like I'd lost a friend.
The past year has changed all that. I moved in with M, and now I live less than ten minutes away from her. Ten minutes away, but I see her less often than I ever did when living on the other side of the city. We never talk anymore, never just hang out. I texted her to ask if we could go see Star Trek together, and her response was, "Already made plans to see it with Shelia." No apology, no invitation to join them. After I swallowed the hurt, I then asked, "Do you want to do anything over the holiday weekend?" To which she answered, "I don't know. My brother and his family will be here." We all went to college together; I've known them for years too. No invitation for me to come over and see them, nothing.
When I looked at my phone screen, I wanted to cry. She's hurt, and angry at me, and I don't know what to do about it. What am I supposed to do? I know she's reached out to me and invited me to a couple of things, over the past six months, but I had to say no. I can't help it; she keeps asking at the last minute. It's not my fault that I have a job and a boyfriend and that I have commitments now when I never used to. At the same time, I resent half the time I spend with my boyfriend because most of it's unnecessary and I find him too clingy and needy, and I would rather be with my best friend. I hate that he makes a face when I leave the house to go spend time with her, and how he sighed when I told him it was time to go to their house and exchange Christmas presents.
My best friend hates my boyfriend, and he hates her. I'm so miserable, and lonely, I don't think I can endure this for another minute. I don't think I should have to choose between them, though I know I'd pick her in a second, but I still shouldn't have to choose. I don't know what's going to happen, but I need to call her now.
The past year has changed all that. I moved in with M, and now I live less than ten minutes away from her. Ten minutes away, but I see her less often than I ever did when living on the other side of the city. We never talk anymore, never just hang out. I texted her to ask if we could go see Star Trek together, and her response was, "Already made plans to see it with Shelia." No apology, no invitation to join them. After I swallowed the hurt, I then asked, "Do you want to do anything over the holiday weekend?" To which she answered, "I don't know. My brother and his family will be here." We all went to college together; I've known them for years too. No invitation for me to come over and see them, nothing.
When I looked at my phone screen, I wanted to cry. She's hurt, and angry at me, and I don't know what to do about it. What am I supposed to do? I know she's reached out to me and invited me to a couple of things, over the past six months, but I had to say no. I can't help it; she keeps asking at the last minute. It's not my fault that I have a job and a boyfriend and that I have commitments now when I never used to. At the same time, I resent half the time I spend with my boyfriend because most of it's unnecessary and I find him too clingy and needy, and I would rather be with my best friend. I hate that he makes a face when I leave the house to go spend time with her, and how he sighed when I told him it was time to go to their house and exchange Christmas presents.
My best friend hates my boyfriend, and he hates her. I'm so miserable, and lonely, I don't think I can endure this for another minute. I don't think I should have to choose between them, though I know I'd pick her in a second, but I still shouldn't have to choose. I don't know what's going to happen, but I need to call her now.
Because Other People’s Dreams Are So Interesting They Must Be Blogged About
May. 21st, 2013 08:48 pmcatvalenteA dream from last night ever-so-slightly too long for Twitter:
Queen Elizabeth had died and a young princess was being crowned Queen Anne. She was certainly not a princess that actually exists in real life. Long, lovely black hair that she wore down for the occasion, swept over her shoulder and flowing down the front of her white dress, obscuring all the medals and sash. She had thin silver crown. I was a flutist playing in the orchestra for the coronation.
Anne started crying in the middle of her coronation speech. A crowd of ministers with pelican heads rushed to console her and guide her away from the crowds. We had to stop playing and wait for her to return. But she didn’t.
Ages went by. We finally started playing just to entertain everyone, anything we could think of. Then no one could think of another song and we all got up and started dancing with our instruments and each other on the floor of Westminster Cathedral until the flute section all turned into crows and flew up to roost on the buttresses. Anne was hiding up there, too. Her black hair flowed under her gown to become big black wings.
And then: alarm clock.
Mirrored from cmv.com. Also appearing on @LJ and @DW. Read anywhere, comment anywhere.
Kameron Hurley! How haz I missed her work???
May. 21st, 2013 07:42 pmithilianaWe Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative by Kameron Hurley
Subscribes to dreamwidth feed, and goes to check out books to buy!
Subscribes to dreamwidth feed, and goes to check out books to buy!
US tax officials deny foul play
May. 22nd, 2013 12:15 ambbcnewsworld_feedUS tax officials tell a congressional hearing they did not know their agency had targeted conservative groups.
Tax and energy to dominate EU summit
May. 22nd, 2013 12:10 ambbcnewsworld_feedEU leaders will seek to curb tax evasion, which costs EU states 1tn euros a year, and bring down energy prices to boost competition.
best overheard conversation of the day
May. 21st, 2013 07:21 pmmarcicat“Ain’t no such thing as a perfect day.”
“If it was too perfect, I’d wonder what the hell was wrong.”
Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.
IRS Official In Charge Of Nonprofits Declines To Testify
May. 21st, 2013 08:01 pmnpr_news_feedLois Lerner, who heads the IRS division dealing with nonprofits seeking tax-exempt status, will not testify on Wednesday despite a congressional subpoena, her attorney says.