| overheard in the Castiron household |
[Jun. 24th, 2009|08:09 am] |
...on second thought, you don't want to know. Let's just say that "steampunk" and "Medela pump" are perfectly good concepts independently but rather frightening in combination. |
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| North and South |
[May. 31st, 2009|12:57 pm] |
Just finished watching the DVD of the BBC 2004 version of North and South; I saw it for the first time a few weeks ago while visiting family and decided it was worth getting my own copy. (At some point, I need to read the book again; the movie stands on its own, but I can't remember the book well enough to judge it as an adaptation.)
It gives the character interest of a Jane Austen movie (and the period costumes and settings), but with the addition of social and economic issues that aren't as blatant in an Austen production. And the textiles person in me keeps trying to figure out what exactly they're doing with different machines. I greatly enjoyed it.
I have to ask, though, is the public affection at the end something that would've been tolerated in period, or is it there for the modern audience? I'd have bought it more if they'd waited until they were in the train....
(also posted on the Bog of Lost Scholars) |
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| overheard in the Castiron household |
[May. 2nd, 2009|12:04 pm] |
[on mishearing a Pete Seeger song]
Spouse: "Where have all the young men gone, all turned into unicorns"? Huh??
Castiron: If you turn a non-virgin into a unicorn, do they explode? |
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| Goodreads? |
[May. 2nd, 2009|11:22 am] |
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I have a Goodreads account (as Castiron), though I don't use it much -- I logged in today for the first time in two years, and I still find the interface a little annoying. Anyway, if you have an account and are okay with me friending you, let me know what your userid is there. |
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| First Dreamwidth Post |
[May. 1st, 2009|05:17 pm] |
I write this as my autistic son pinches my forearm for no apparent reason (other than possibly that of getting a reaction, which I am working on training myself not to do; by the time he's an adult and off in a group home somewhere, I will be ready for employment at the CIA as a spy, as my resistance to torture will have greatly increased [someday I will have to write a post on what I have learned from rearing an autistic child, but not today {though this is a great excuse for using extensive nesting parenthetical characters}]).
Anyway, I'm sure other Doctor Who fans have seen this, but today I just discovered this video: Catherine Tate and David Tennant in a sketch for Comic Relief 2007.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxB1gB6K-2A
It's quite entertaining, with appropriate Shakespeare quotes. |
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| overheard in the Castiron household |
[Apr. 18th, 2009|10:21 am] |
[as Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me theme starts to play on the radio]
Spouse: Hey, Wait Wait, Don't Tase Me is starting.
Castiron: Now, that'd be a different show.
Spouse: Well, if they decided to go for the stick instead of the carrot.... It's the show with Peter Segal's evil alternate universe self.
[Castiron wonders afterward what that show's Carl Cassell would say on the winner's home answering machine.] |
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| Random Drink Question |
[Mar. 22nd, 2009|10:44 pm] |
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If a screwdriver is vodka and orange juice, what would a Phillips screwdriver be? |
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| overheard in the Castiron household |
[Dec. 23rd, 2008|07:05 pm] |
Castiron: Hey, you keep saying I should make the baby a hat. What about this Dalek pattern? That'd go over well at folk dance, wouldn't it?
Spouse: Can you imagine a Dalek as a dance caller? "BALANCE AND SWING! HEY FOR FOUR! EXTERMINATE YOUR PARTNER!" |
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| overheard in the Castiron household |
[Nov. 19th, 2008|07:28 pm] |
Me: TIE-dye Fighter. Why has no one thought of this concept before now?
Spouse: And how would you make Darth Vader into a hippie? Stormtroopers in pastel colors would be easy to Photoshop.... |
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| Dear Yuletide Santa |
[Nov. 12th, 2008|10:19 pm] |
After taking a year off, I decided to get off my rear and do Yuletide again this year, because I need something to drag me into writing. (And my assignment is something different and challenging for me, which is all to the good.)
( Dear Yuletide Santa: ) |
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| general U.S. election thoughts |
[Nov. 3rd, 2008|10:35 pm] |
If your preferred candidate wins, may he be at least half as good for the country as you think he'll be.
If your non-preferred candidate wins, may he turn out to be a lot better for the country than you expected.
In either case, four years from now, may all us USA folks be thinking "yeah, there's plenty of things I want to change about this country, but on balance we're in good shape and I'm proud to be part of it". |
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| Dear Subconscious: Huh? |
[Oct. 30th, 2008|07:50 am] |
Okay, I can see where my brain would get the individual pieces, but putting them together into a dream that an art photographer is recreating xkcd strips by posing auto mechanics in the repair shop? Huh?
So now for something completely different. Here -- have a song that spouse & I affectionately call the Romanian earworm, which has a very odd video.
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