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finefoxyladies1) Because I am going on a little jaunt "down south" this weekend, I need to put away my Pennywise wreath (mostly because I don't want my catsitter to see it) and to update my mug tree (because I won't be drinking coffee at my kitchen table Sunday morning to do it then and bask in my dozens of IG likes). But instead I'm sitting here writing about how I need to do these things while also not packing my bag.
2) There is a fandom art show happening in November! An artist I discovered during one of my many... many... maaany craft fair visits over the summer will be exhibiting. That artist painted a Taika as Viago that I now have as a print in my office, so who knows what kind of devilish nonsense she will be showing that will be WAY too spendy for me to even think about.
3) My November shows are Company (remember way back right before the pandemic when all I could think about and talk about and dream about was my visit to NYC to see Patti LuPone sing the part of Joanna? Oh yeah you probably don't because I stopped writing at DW around then/maybe only sometimes Tweeted about it) and Mean Girls. Also going to see How Did This Get Made? live for maybe the last time because holy buckets were those tickets spendy. I'm paying less to see Company! On the plus side, we're going to watch a Michael E. Knight movie, which I am hopeful will inspire at least one of the crew to share things about soap operas.
4) I still haven't picked up a book since Martha's Vineyard. I think we can put the blame squarely on Our Flag Means Death. But what a way to be illiterate, eh? I joke, but also, seriously. Between my burning love and my post-series occasional dabblings in reading fic--and I gotta say, while the impulsive 'shippy perv in me maybe thought I wanted to know What Happened When The Sheer Curtain Closed, I have quickly realized maybe the OFMD bit of talking about amazing fight sequences they didn't shoot is onto something. Maybe imagining is better! And more budget friendly! (I KNOW that's gotta be why that gag started.)
I do still think I'd like to read a more gen story about Stede pitching the crew on Ed's return "for one night" to the ship that devolved into a rice sack onesie and a cat collar. And maybe Ed has to explain what a handy is. JUST EXPLAIN IT.
5) In other TV news, I'm halfway through Deadloch, which I assumed was a riff on True Detective but is apparently about Broadchurch. Despite not being familiar with Broadchurch, I'm having a ball watching it. It's LOL funny and also a compelling mystery. And several times I've laughed thinking about the FotC episode where Jemaine dates a thuggish Australian lass (looks at Eddie Redcliffe).
I'm still watching Lower Decks (yay!) and Bob's Burgers (...it's fine... I think I'm entering my S13 Simpsons era where it's not that it's bad, I'm just maybe tired of it for now). I'm also slowly picking at Moonlighting. Goes to show how strong preadolescent hormones are: young Jessie reveled in Bruce Willis's singing. An older wiser Jessie just looks at him and thinks, "Le sigh. So handsome. Please, please stop singing."
Oh and I finished Fall of the House of Usher, which ruled hard. Flanny fan 4 Lyfe here. It didn't emotionally engage me the way the others did, but it was definitely "a hoot and a half" as Glen Weldon said of it on Pop Culture Happy Hour. And I'll never forgive my friend for pointing out that Henry Thomas is doing Donald Trump Jr as Frederick Usher. I'll never unsee it.
2) There is a fandom art show happening in November! An artist I discovered during one of my many... many... maaany craft fair visits over the summer will be exhibiting. That artist painted a Taika as Viago that I now have as a print in my office, so who knows what kind of devilish nonsense she will be showing that will be WAY too spendy for me to even think about.
3) My November shows are Company (remember way back right before the pandemic when all I could think about and talk about and dream about was my visit to NYC to see Patti LuPone sing the part of Joanna? Oh yeah you probably don't because I stopped writing at DW around then/maybe only sometimes Tweeted about it) and Mean Girls. Also going to see How Did This Get Made? live for maybe the last time because holy buckets were those tickets spendy. I'm paying less to see Company! On the plus side, we're going to watch a Michael E. Knight movie, which I am hopeful will inspire at least one of the crew to share things about soap operas.
4) I still haven't picked up a book since Martha's Vineyard. I think we can put the blame squarely on Our Flag Means Death. But what a way to be illiterate, eh? I joke, but also, seriously. Between my burning love and my post-series occasional dabblings in reading fic--and I gotta say, while the impulsive 'shippy perv in me maybe thought I wanted to know What Happened When The Sheer Curtain Closed, I have quickly realized maybe the OFMD bit of talking about amazing fight sequences they didn't shoot is onto something. Maybe imagining is better! And more budget friendly! (I KNOW that's gotta be why that gag started.)
I do still think I'd like to read a more gen story about Stede pitching the crew on Ed's return "for one night" to the ship that devolved into a rice sack onesie and a cat collar. And maybe Ed has to explain what a handy is. JUST EXPLAIN IT.
5) In other TV news, I'm halfway through Deadloch, which I assumed was a riff on True Detective but is apparently about Broadchurch. Despite not being familiar with Broadchurch, I'm having a ball watching it. It's LOL funny and also a compelling mystery. And several times I've laughed thinking about the FotC episode where Jemaine dates a thuggish Australian lass (looks at Eddie Redcliffe).
I'm still watching Lower Decks (yay!) and Bob's Burgers (...it's fine... I think I'm entering my S13 Simpsons era where it's not that it's bad, I'm just maybe tired of it for now). I'm also slowly picking at Moonlighting. Goes to show how strong preadolescent hormones are: young Jessie reveled in Bruce Willis's singing. An older wiser Jessie just looks at him and thinks, "Le sigh. So handsome. Please, please stop singing."
Oh and I finished Fall of the House of Usher, which ruled hard. Flanny fan 4 Lyfe here. It didn't emotionally engage me the way the others did, but it was definitely "a hoot and a half" as Glen Weldon said of it on Pop Culture Happy Hour. And I'll never forgive my friend for pointing out that Henry Thomas is doing Donald Trump Jr as Frederick Usher. I'll never unsee it.
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Date: 2023-11-03 05:09 am (UTC)If anyone up there would know anything about aka Ted Orsini, I'm betting on Tall John.
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Date: 2023-11-04 10:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-11-03 09:46 pm (UTC)Hahaha, yes! I started trying to write a little bit of fic-shaped banter about both the origins of the rice sack onesie and cat bell ensemble, and then later Ed's probation finally being lifted and saying farewell to that lil' look, because it just comedically obsesses me. Neither of these fics actually sparked to life, though. I'm awful at actually wanting to write OFMD fic -- I think I just love it too much as a canon entity? I just want to see more canon in front of my eyes! -- so I did not keep going, but gosh, it's fun to daydream about. I keep fantasizing about DVD sets with The Office levels of deleted scenes. You know so many amazing antics had to have been cut for time!
And several times I've laughed thinking about the FotC episode where Jemaine dates a thuggish Australian lass (looks at Eddie Redcliffe).
KEITHA FOREVERRRRRRR
I'm so glad you're watching Deadloch, it's just so great! Also, if you ever want to feel really depressed, while simultaneously wanting to draw World's Cutest
CoupleInvestigative Partners hearts around Olivia Colman and David Tennant, watch Broadchurch!Fall of the House of Usher SLAPPED! I am right next to you in the Flanny Fan 4 Lyfe Club. It was kind of fun to have one of his that was less emotionally engaging and more hoot-and-a-half!
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Date: 2023-11-04 10:42 pm (UTC)Who was your fave Usher villain? Mine was the white-haired PR weirdo whose name I cannot recall but who was played by Mrs Flanny.
And do think I'll be moving on to Broadchurch next so... thanks again probably?
Oh AND your recent Tumbl about Joey Fry and Sarah Snook being slated to be in Persuasion before Dakota Johnson blew my freaking mind.
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Date: 2023-11-06 01:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-11-06 10:48 pm (UTC)