a fall that seems like flying
Nov. 14th, 2014 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mockturle06A friend was still bemused at my great disappointment at having braved cyclonic winds on Monday (Auntie Em! Auntie Em!) on various errands, and bringing back some bananas to take into work, the weather still so fiesty it blew several branches in through the door after me, I went and done forgot them. I thought 'I'm feeling a touch peckish, I'll go get that banana I...left on the kitchen table'. Apparently my disappointed face is still giving her mirth at the memory of it nearly a week later.
I did make some friends here. I'll miss 'em when I'm gone. Yep, they finally, finally, finally gave me my exit date. Shit just got real. I told another friend and they burst into tears. It's not too good.
So yesterday I just hit a wall, couldn't write a job app, though researching some of the jazzy jargon they used in the ad wasn't entirely a waste of time, I just couldn't get it going, aside from the old routine jobs that I apparently can do sleepwalking. Ah, I'll miss that, knowing the job so well I can do it on low battery power if need be.
So I took myself off early and went to see the exhibition of prints at the art gallery I'd nearly missed. Oh my gosh, that was excellent, an amazingly cool selection and all hits, no misses. I mean, I've been to print exhibitions before but they tend to err overly on the side of architectural plans or be way too baroque and there's a limit to the number of cherubs I can endure. But this was great. The span from 1500 to 1900 meant every half dozen or so prints (it's a local gallery, our exhibitions are tiny and could fit in the loo of an international gallery) you were onto another century, but I liked that, because I was on the clock and I was very much in the mood for a general oversight rather than in-depth examination, and it was entertaining without being exhausting, and, as I was very satisfied to see, essayed the passing fashions and issues (even if that wasn't the intent) in ways other disappointing exhibitions I've been to this year have really not.
Too bad the catalogue, heavy tome that it is, didn't include the one I was really thrilled to see, being a print of an artist a comic book artist I used to really dig in the 80s/90s had obviously been pretty darn keen on but now I can't remember the name of either artist so it's no use to you but it was a pleasing 'huh' moment for me. I also, belatedly, got a joke from Les Miserables, for the bit where pears scrawled all over Paris went past me entirely until I saw the political cartoon with Le King as a pear. Oh, I get it now. In fact there was a lot of Les Miserables referencing French prints, and one of Victor Hugo himself, so I suspect that wasn't entirely coincidental? In any case, it was nice adjunct to my Victor Hugo excursion (the musical and library exhibition down in Melbourne). There were also prints of Musketeers committing the most appalling war crimes, so that's taken a bit of shine off the Dumas books, though squinting at the tiny, tiny plates reveals that the costume design on BBC's Musketeers is way more spot on than you might think.
There was also some garish Georgian stuff and high Victoriana including my beloved PRB and a neat cartoon from Punch taking the piss out of Spiritualists. There were several Durers, who was a favourite of my father's, and some pretty gruesome medieval stuff, which would have been shocking if I hadn't seen some of them before (down in Melbs, they are prints, after all). Oh, there were also those weirdly Art Nouveau/Art Deco prints of Blake that also made two other women go wtf because he seems to be pre-empting the style by quite a tidy margin.
So that was fun. There I had a quick turn through the old galleries, discovered the Impressionists were out and Picasso and Bacon were in, reflecting current market values, but I missed the dark Victorian stuff, the Sickerts etc., just 'cause, though the damned haystacks were still there (the artistic equivalent of cockroaches, imo).
Then I had to run all the way from the gallery to the end of the wharf at the STC and it might not look that far but it's up hill and down dale and those bloody steps at the end o Kent St are almost vertical (cue Vertigo theme). Red faced and windswept I damn nearly tripped over Josh McConville, whom I rather fancy so that was awkies, as I raced for a) the loo and b) the bar to chug down a cider (yes, barkeep, gimme ice, dammit) while gazing blearily over the harbour while I waited for the Cyrano preview briefing to start (also free, the preview anyway).
So there the cast trouped in, all 16 of them, including the aforementioned Josh McConville, the legendary Bruce Spence, Julia Zemiro and Foxy Roxy (Richard Roxburgh) himself. Lovely. Quite a good briefing. Apparently there's been a lot of bother about the nose, much sword fight training, but no live horses or chickens on stage. Apparently Rox had seen a version in Europe with horses galloping on stage, and he turned to Andrew Upton and almost accused him of having no horses live on stage. No, just the usual minimalist set. Anyway, it was really funny. We were also told about the costuming, the music, the themes of love, being real, and seeing only the surface.
I'm really looking forward to it, because Cyrano, as you might guess, is a character I've related to since I was very young (beneath this hideous facade beats the furious heart of a poet, oh yeah).
So that was all fun, and it helps. I've also wrestled with some weeding, with is a good constructive/desctructive job to do, though weeding the rose garden is like a hardcore game of twister. First blood to the rose. I guess that's why I love roses somewhat less than other folks, as I'm the poor bugger sent to weed them. Ow, ow, ouch, hurty.
Tonight I'm planning to distract myself via arts and crafts, that is, DIY halloween decorations. I know, Americanisation gone mad, etc, etc, but I'm in desperate need of distraction and as Himself is most exceptionally cruelly going to the opening of the pop art exhibition without me (me, who travelled to two Lichtenstein exhibitions last year), I figure I'll take what I can get. So I'm going to attempt to make a skelton out of paper plates and carve a pumpkin, as we've got proper big orange American pumpkins imported now, biosecurity be damned.
Ah, they just played The Cure's A Forest, which reminds me I wore my forest dress last Monday (I must show you the dres sometime, if you don't hear the opening cords when you see it you need to listen to more Cure) to see Calpurnica Descending at the STC.
I was not having a good day so I needed something amusing, and it doesn't get weirder or funnier than...whatever the heck that was. It rather defies description as it starts as a straight (as if?!) play with the meeting of the two divas, in outsanding over the top turns, they circle around each other, and you know exactly where it's going, or you think you do. Then a dancing rat comes out. Then we go to a live action on screen hybrid production where it becomes such a pasitche of 30s/40s diva noir I was gurgling with giigles, and the fact that I knew all the diva noir tropes makes me wonder greatly about the tv programmers in the 80s (just how many Bette Davis films did I really need to see when growing up? Not to mention all those 80s soaps like Dynasty and dallas which also seemed an influence). Never mind, it all served to ensure I got a good deal of the jokes. And then it turneed into a weird dream sequence video game nightmare and well, it certainly was mind blowing. But hey, it's Wharf 2, it's meant to be crazy. I kinda liked it, I really did. I need a big dollop of candy coloured silly in my life.
So that's about it, I think. Still no job, but many, many rejection emails. It's really quite upsetting. I'm doing my best, but it's not easy. I've worked my way through a great many upheavals, but ironically this can't be one of them. Well, I've got plenty of long neglected jobs around the house to throw myself at. That's the plan now, as the job market is about to close down for summer.
Oh, I forgot to try explain why I was so upset about Gough Whitlam's passing. Aside from the fact that he was a visionary political hero of mine, just from a practical level he put in place the reforms that gave me an indoor toilet, a university education, an interest in the arts and places to feed it - he was right there in the beginning of the Belvoir theatre (nee Nimrod) and the TripleJ radio network. Without Gough I'd have never have earned enought to see the Mona Lisa, or cared. I'd have never have heard of New Order or any other band I've liked over my lifetime, let alone seen them on stage. Without Gough I wouldn't have seen that amazing production of The Glass Menagerie. Without Gough I wouldn't be reading the books I'm reading now.
So that's why I was sad, very, very sad. We'll not see his like again. Never, ever.
Aw, heck, Cate, as you might expect, says it way better than I:
Cate Blanchett thanks Gough Whitlam for free education
Later...
So I spent a miserable Halloween entirely alone, having done the washing, ironing, weeding, washing up, etc., etc., and I even made a paper plate skeleton but nope, no trick or treaters. Himself had pointedly gone off to the opening of the pop art exhibition without me, thus proving I'm nothing more than a live in maid, and I was a very, very miserable Cinderella. Worse, someone has foolishly geo-locked the lounge dvd player so I couldn't watch any of my Halloween playlist. Grrr.
By Sunday, one spider too far, I'd given up on yard work and had holed up in my room, which still had a working dvd player and started on Penny Dreadful, which I'd finally got my mitts on (less than a week before Foxtel finally gets around to playing it, harumph).
I kinda liked it. Well, it was ticking the boxes for me anyway. Gothic Victoriana? Check. The League of Public Domain Gentlemen? Check. Actors I like? Check.
I'm only halfway through and I have no idea if the plot is going anywhere other than your standard Buffy Big Bad doomsday scenario, but thats okay. I was just rocking out over the cast. I knew Timothy Dalton was in it (I saw his Jane Eyre at an impressionable age, deal with it) as with Eva Green and Billie Piper. Could take or leave Josh Harnett, but he's serviceable (he's no Captain Homer Jackson but then who is?). But, crikey, the rest of the spots, all taken up with actors I've seen almost exclusively via NT Live, if not the actual West End stage with my own peepers, so that was cool. Now Harry Treadaway has poppped up in a few things I've seen lately, like Dominic Cooper's luridly enjoyable Fleming wankfest (they missed a trick not casting Anna Chancellor as Moneypenny in the films, OMG, and Sam West was the sexy as proto-M), and Olly Alexander has popped up here and there, but I really noticed him as Peter Pan in Peter and Alice, but then there was Rory Kinnear as the monster (proprty of one V Frankenstein) and Helen McCrory as a fortune teller (whee!) and as for Simon Russell Beale, last seen in the NT's Lear, he seems to have based his Egyptologist on Victor Buono's King Tut, and I really don't have a problem with that, though I probably should. Or I would if I was taking it the slightest bit seriously, but I wasn't. I'm the one whining because so far there have been no giant rats in the sewers and wicked Oriental mesmerists (so I saw The Talons of Weng-Chiang at an impressionable age, deal with it).
So far, so enjoying. If you'd showed this to my 13 year old self, I'd have wet myself. Because, man, I was into Hammer Horror back then (and I still am, sort of, with my Neil Gaiman reading, Doctor Who, Ripper Street and Dracula watching).
Oh, and don't start me on Ripper Street. How in the name of Frank Skinner am I going to see it, stranded at the edge of nowhere that I am? Sins of the fathers indeed (put those silver spoons back, you ancestral sticky fimgered c**t, you've no idea the price I'm going to have to pay through geo-locking and 800% markups, not to mention battling a clearly genetically pre-determined impulse to help myself).
So that was belated Halloween viewing, I guess. Still got half the series to go. Still, it's nice to have something to watch that I don't have to struggle to like, and I've less and less patience with that these days. I've abandoned a good many series of late because while I adore Actor X to bitty bits, he is not the saving grace of whatever dross he's appearing in right now. I know, revoke my True Fan card if you must, but come on, life's too short, and those shows, they be dire. (I'm not naming names, but if certain actors I've actullay travelled around the world to see are currently screening in shows I've not even mentioned here, well, yeah, oops).
Anyways, I was only watching because I'd hit the limit of the number of large spiders I can shake off myself without complete freaking out while gardening. I refuse to call it arachnophobic when the garden/jungle plays host to two of the world's deadliest spiders and a few others give nasty bites, I can show you the scars. So that was me, packing up and moving myself, and my spiders, indoors (later, there was a Huntsman incident).
So, yes, Peaky Blinders, Penny Dreadful and The Fall, or the scrapbooking serial killer as I like to call him, are what I'm watching right now, as it's all I'm allowed (no Netflix, no Hulu, no yo ho avast me hearties). Oh, and Supernatural. Which resolved the whole Dean thing rather two quickly. I presume, from anvil sized hints dropped, that Dean will be struggling with the straight and narrow this season? Yawn. What is it with Americans and their rehab in lieu of character development tropes. Yawn again.
Mind you, there's a loud Calvanist within always ready to yell at people to just suck it up and shut up already (which is what I have to do daily, this is my only whinge window).
Still reading the whoa Mary Sue bad fic that is the Outlander series, because I'm living Hugo and Dickens too much right now to read them (and I've exhausted the available Wilkie ouvre). It is just so badly researched and written. Just the names freak me out, she can't even get the names right. Scots have very particular and set naming practices, as most cultures do, and, well, it drives me nuts is what it does. Never mind the 'highlanders' speaking lowland dialect, and on it goes. But it's dribbley fairy floss for the brain, and that's what I need right now. I'll get back to my philosophical texts as soon as I'm mentally upright enough to do so. I've not slept properly since July, you know. I'm ready to pop.
The List of Weird
Sherlock Holmes to Remain in Public Domain After Supreme Court Declines Case
http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/sherlock-holmes-case-decision-public-domain-1201346225/
Cumberhitched! How Benedict broke hearts and baffled men
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11210931/Cumberhitched-How-Benedict-broke-hearts-and-baffled-men.html
Ripper Street preview: season three is bigger in every way
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/nov/06/ripper-street-preview-season-three-bigger-better
Dressing Up a Rover as a Baby Penguin—For Science!
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/penguin-rover/
People in Movies Telling Each Other to Snap Out of It and Pull Themselves Together
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/10/a_supercut_of_movie_characters_telling_people_to_calm_down_and_snap_out.html
What lies beneath London?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-29566275
Gromit! It has been 25 years
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11205587/Gromit-It-has-been-25-years.html
Jensen Ackles & Jared Padalecki Help Celebrate 'Supernatural's 200th Episode at CW's Fan Party!
http://www.justjared.com/2014/11/04/jensen-ackles-jared-padalecki-help-celebrate-supernaturals-200th-episode-at-cws-fan-party/
4-Acre Spider Web Engulfs Building
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/4-acre-spider-web-engulfs-building/
The Leonardo hidden from Hitler in case it gave him magic powers
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29815227
Of Course Robots Will Never Become Our High-Tech Overlords... Or Will They?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/31/scary-robots-video-nine-reasons_n_6071008.html
Elusive Fanged Deer Spotted For First Time In 66 Years
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/02/fanged-deer-kashmir-musk-deer-afghanistan_n_6089996.html
Scale of British war effort in World War One
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29936335
What’s Missing from “The Imitation Game”
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/imitation-game-alan-turing
Bison Mummy Found Frozen In Siberia Dates Back 9,000 Years
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/07/bison-mummy-siberia-frozen_n_6096304.html
Dinosaurs Had Feathers Long Before Any Could Fly, And Now Scientists Know Why
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/07/evolution-feathers-dinosaurs_n_6100020.html
Ghosts created by scientists in 'disturbing' lab experiment
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/11214511/Ghosts-created-by-scientists-in-disturbing-lab-experiment.html
Jensen Ackles Wants Papa Winchester To Come Back To 'Supernatural'
http://www.justjared.com/2014/11/07/jensen-ackles-wants-papa-winchester-to-come-back-to-supernatural/
Going to work is more stressful than ever, poll reveals
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/going-to-work-is-more-stressful-than-ever-poll-reveals-9833602.html
NZ flag debate mocked by US show
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/62911595/nz-flag-debate-mocked-by-us-show.html
15 Incredible Photos That’ll Remind You to Be Awed by Planet Earth
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/calacademy-bigpicture-photos-planet-earth/
Why We’re Just Now Getting the 1960s Batman TV Show on DVD
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/batman-home-video-finally/
Fallstreak Hole: Photographers capture rare cloud formation in Victoria's east
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-03/photographers-catch-rare-fallstreak-cloud-formations-in-victoria/5863482
Boarding Airplanes Takes Forever
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/whats-boarding-airplanes-takes-forever/
Stinky problem forces plane back
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/62919244/stinky-problem-forces-plane-back.html
Coit Tower’s long-hidden murals finally being revealed
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Coit-Tower-s-long-hidden-murals-finally-being-5867664.php?cmpid=nl_top
WIRED Binge-Watching Guide: Doctor Who
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/binge-guide-doctor-who/?mbid=social_gplus
Fantastically Wrong: History’s Most Hilarious Misconceptions About the Elephant
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/fantastically-wrong-misconceptions-about-the-elephant/?mbid=social_gplus
Powerful People Think They Have More Control Over Time (And They Might Be Right)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/05/powerful-people-time-control_n_6107804.html
Aust Post sets up warehouse in US
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/25433158/aust-post-sets-up-warehouse-in-us/
Calpurnia Descending review – Sisters Grimm remix classic movie melodrama
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/australia-culture-blog/2014/oct/14/calpurnia-descending-review-sisters-grimm
Calpurnia Descending review: High-camp theatre pulses with wicked humour
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/calpurnia-descending-review-highcamp-theatre-pulses-with-wicked-humour-20141012-114wqz.html
European prints and drawings 1500-1900
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/european-prints-and-drawings-1500-1900/
The British are born to be miserable, new research finds
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/the-british-are-born-to-be-miserable-new-research-finds-9827442.html
Why have Hollywood’s henchmen turned into incompetent knuckleheads?
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/30/hollywood-henchmen-turned-into-incompetent-knuckleheads
Female academics: don't power dress, forget heels – and no flowing hair allowed
http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/oct/26/-sp-female-academics-dont-power-dress-forget-heels-and-no-flowing-hair-allowed?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Learning to love scales and tails in Brisbane
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/learning-to-love-scales-and-tails-in-brisbane-20141030-11el4j.html
Why Is 'Ping' a Thing?
http://www.citylab.com/tech/2014/10/why-is-ping-a-thing/382070/
Amelia Earhart Plane Fragment May Have Been Identified
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/30/amelia-earhart-plane-fragment-found_n_6069970.html
13 Real-Life Struggles Of Perpetually Forgetful People
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/28/forgetful-people-problems_n_6044404.html
Edwyn Collins heading for home in the Highlands because wife misses Scotland
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/edwyn-collins-moving-back-scotland-4553118
Dr Who's NZ casting call
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/stage-and-theatre/62884551/dr-whos-nz-casting-call.html
Tesco cash point machine offered 'free erections'
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-29809745
Giant pink condom put on 157-year-old statue in Sydney for HIV awareness
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/giant-pink-condom-erected-in-sydney-for-hiv-awareness-9848529.html
Paper Plate Skeleton
http://www.instructables.com/id/Paper-Plate-Skeleton/
Where have all the working-class actors gone? (Ian McKellen)
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/20/where-working-class-actors-funding-cuts-bourgeois-industry
The Hollywood Sellers Club simply doesn't get it
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-24/green-the-hollywood-sellers-club-misses-the-point/5840120?WT.mc_id=newsmail
Dispelling the myths of ageism — older workers are highly employable
http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2024865555_tonyprovineopedantiageismxml.html
Felicia Day's public details put online after she described Gamergate fears
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/23/felicia-days-public-details-online-gamergate?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Tim Berners-Lee: hateful people on the web are 'staggering'
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/24/tim-berners-lee-hateful-people-on-the-web-are-staggering?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Doctor Who recap: series 34, episode 10 – In the Forest of the Night
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/oct/25/doctor-who-recap-series-34-episode-10-in-the-forest-of-the-night
Constantine, review, episode one: 'an endurance test'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/11186291/constantine-review-episode-1.html
What MacGyver star does with his Swiss army knife
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/62659103/What-MacGyver-star-does-with-his-Swiss-army-knife
French World War One bedroom of soldier who never returned
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29740037
What It'd Look Like if Star Wars Spilled Into the Real World
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/thomas-dagg-star-wars/?mbid=social_gplus
Japan: Thousands see Taiwan's 'Meat-Shaped Stone'
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-29729107
Champagne is all a matter of taste – but the taste doesn't really matter
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/26/david-mitchell-champagne-matter-of-taste?CMP=twt_gu
Caravaggio in court: Sotheby's sued over misattribution of painting later valued at £10m (so the man who sold it for £42,000 is not happy)
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/caravaggio-in-court-sothebys-sued-over-misattribution-of-painting-later-valued-at-10m-so-the-man-who-sold-it-for-42000-is-not-happy-9819798.html
How to Write a Sentence - The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/write-sentence
Tech companies haven't gotten past sexism 1.0
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Tech-companies-haven-t-gotten-past-sexism-1-0-5845691.php?cmpid=twitter-desktop
The truth behind America's most famous gay-hate murder
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/26/the-truth-behind-americas-most-famous-gay-hate-murder-matthew-shepard?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
What Your Birthday Says About Your Mood And Personality, According To Science
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/25/birthday-personality_n_6014938.html
Londoners dress up as their favourite characters for Comic Con: in pictures
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/11188848/Londoners-dress-up-as-their-favourite-characters-for-Comic-Con-in-pictures.html
Against the Grain
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/03/grain
Hobbits prepare for epic battle
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/62740690/Hobbits-prepare-for-epic-battle
New fauna discovered during six-year project mapping ocean floor off WA's Kimberley coast
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-26/scientists-map-ocean-floor-off-kimberley-coast/5840426?WT.mc_id=newsmail
Science Graphic of the Week: 3-D Scanned Dodo
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/science-graphic-3d-scan-dodo/?mbid=social_gplus
Tesco's 'penis'-themed buttermilk and other design fails
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/27/tescos-penis-themed-buttermilk-and-other-design-fails?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
There's something about Tesco's new buttermilk design...
http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/theres-something-about-tescos-new-buttermilk-design--ly0l_qXpIl
The battle against confusing parking signs
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29623541
Top 10 ghost towns and modern ruins you can visit
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/oct/27/top-10-ghost-towns-visit-modern-ruins?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Murder, mystery and mayhem: N to Z of the unexplained
http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/527473/Nazca-spider-USS-Scorpion-Spring-Heeled-Jack-The-Zone-of-Silence
The Glass Menagerie at Belvoir St Theatre
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/the-glass-menagerie-at-belvoir-st-theatre-20140917-10hz39.html
'Supernatural's' Robbie Thompson on Felicia Day and the Return of Charlie
http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2014/10/28/supernaturals-robbie-thompson-on-felicia-day-and-the-return-of-charlie/
Stanford researcher explores the truths behind myths of ancient Amazons
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/october/amazons-truth-book-10-28-2014.html
Check Out Marvel's Next 9 Movies, Including Black Panther and More Avengers
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/marvel-next-5-years-of-movies/
Descend Into the Surreal World of Tourist-Friendly Caves
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/austin-irving-show-caves/
How Utah's Bryce Canyon Got Its Bizarre, Beautiful Sandstone Formations
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/bryce-canyon-sandstone/
Two genes linked with violent crime
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29760212
Scientists Finally Crack The Code Of The Ancient 'Phaistos Disk'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/28/ancient-cd-rom-phaistos-disk-code_n_6055178.html
Reclining seats on planes? Here are 10 more annoying traveller habits
http://www.traveller.com.au/reclining-seats-on-planes-here-are-10-more-annoying-traveller-habits-11d5mz.html
Walmart Was Offering A Special 'Fat Girl Costumes' Section In Its Online Store
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/27/walmart-fat-girl-costumes-halloween_n_6054330.html
Walking in New York as a woman
http://media.theage.com.au/news/world-news/walking-in-new-york-as-a-woman-5930136.html
The catcalling video: They edited out the white guys
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/62799602/The-catcalling-video-They-edited-out-the-white-guys
#PaulRuddSavesLives: Social media goes into overdrive over Paul Rudd lookalike
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/paulruddsaveslives-social-media-goes-into-overdrive-over-paul-rudd-lookalike-20141028-11cv2h.html
Antares rocket explodes during launch
http://media.theage.com.au/news/world-news/antares-rocket-explodes-during-launch-5929778.html
Kids' Science Experiments Among Cargo Destroyed In Antares Rocket Explosion
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/29/rocket-explosion-kids-experiments-cargo_n_6067254.html
Chris Evans & Robert Downey, Jr. Put Up Their Dukes & Fight On Stage at Marvel Event
http://www.justjared.com/2014/10/28/chris-evans-robert-downey-jr-put-up-their-dukes-fight-on-stage-at-marvel-event-watch-now/
New-look superheroes: female Captain Marvel joins Black Panther on studio's slate
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/newlook-superheroes-female-captain-marvel-joins-black-panther-on-studios-slate-20141029-11dj4v.html
9 Ways Veronica Mars Was Feminist As Hell
http://www.vulture.com/2014/09/9-ways-veronica-mars-was-feminist-as-hell.html
Fake Seattle Times news story created by FBI provokes outrage at newspaper
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/28/seattle-times-fbi-investigation-link-spy-suspect-outrage
The Saddest Office Cubicles We Could Find
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/saddest-cubicles/
The 13 Most Influential Toys of All Time
http://time.com/3089384/influential-toys/
The Strange, Spooky History of the Ouija Board
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/10/29/roman_mars_99_percent_invisible_the_ouija_board_s_strange_history.html
Red Wine Is the Drink of Choice on 'Scandal' and 'The Good Wife'
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/dining/red-wine-is-the-drink-of-choice-for-powerful-women-on-tv.html
SIMPLIFY.THATSH.IT
http://simplify.thatsh.it/
Neil Gaiman hints at 'slate' of Vertigo comic book films
http://www.digitalspy.com.au/movies/news/a604573/neil-gaiman-hints-at-slate-of-vertigo-comic-book-films.html#~oTmrHIiBdrTtB0
Honor Blackman to appear in Gold's You, Me and Them
http://www.digitalspy.com.au/british-tv/news/a604592/honor-blackman-to-appear-in-golds-you-me-and-them.html#~oTmqq234tey2dl
Gough Whitlam dead: Martyr for a moment, hero for a lifetime
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/gough-whitlam-dead-martyr-for-a-moment-hero-for-a-lifetime-20141021-11931j.html
What did Gough Whitlam actually do? Rather a lot
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/what-did-gough-whitlam-actually-do-rather-a-lot-20141021-11977w.html
Things you didn't know Gough Whitlam did
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-21/things-you-didnt-know-whitlam-did/5830508?WT.mc_id=newsmail
Former Australian PM Gough Whitlam dies - the world reacts
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2014/oct/21/former-australian-pm-gough-whitlam-dies-the-world-reacts?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Tributes flow for 'giant' Gough Whitlam
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-21/gough-whitlam-dead/5828840?WT.mc_id=newsmail
Obituary: former prime minister Gough Whitlam dead at 98
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-10/gough-whitlam/3945026?WT.mc_id=newsmail
10 British Actors Trying Their Hands at Pop Music
http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2014/10/10-british-actors-try-hands-pop-music/
Sleepy Hollow may sound silly but it's scary, self-aware and very, very good
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/oct/15/sleepy-hollow-may-sound-silly-but-its-scary-self-aware-and-very-very-good
The Tragic Medical History Behind That Crazy Knick Finale
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/knick-finale-medical-history/?mbid=social_gplus
5 things you never knew about your accent
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/11167569/british-american-accent-facts.html
Brazilian Wandering spider delivered in Waitrose online shopping
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11172553/Brazilian-Wandering-spider-delivered-in-Waitrose-online-shopping.html
Beautiful maps
http://mapsdesign.tumblr.com/
Ancient fish reveals the roots of sex
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/10/20/4109305.htm
Maps of Australian language – swimmers v cozzies, scallops v potato cakes
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/oct/20/-sp-maps-of-australian-language-swimmers-v-cozzies-scallops-v-potato-cakes
Scotland's paths less travelled – in pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2014/oct/19/scotlands-paths-less-travelled-in-pictures
Here's How You Get To The Real 'Sesame Street'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/19/real-sesame-street_n_5885850.html
Is Being a 'Tough Boss' Different for a Woman Than a Man?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peggy-drexler/-is-being-a-tough-boss-di_b_6008220.html
Artist withdraws 'sex toy' sculpture from Paris square
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/artist-withdraws-sex-toy-sculpture-from-paris-square-20141020-118jzz.html
'How to Be a Victorian': round the clock in 19th-century style
http://seattletimes.com/html/books/2024784941_howvictoriangoodmanxml.html
Rebellious French cross-dresser played an overlooked role in shaping Oscar Wilde's legacy, Stanford scholar says
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/october/rachilde-wilde-discovery-10-21-2014.html
Sophia Loren explains the reason why she gave Jayne Mansfield the side-eye
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/sophia-loren-explains-the-reason-why-she-gave-jayne-mansfield-the-sideeye-20141106-11htgu.html
The superhero bubble is destined to burst. Is Warner Bros. making a mistake?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/10/21/the-superhero-bubble-is-destined-to-burst-is-warner-brothers-making-a-mistake/?hpid=z2
New Banksy earring mural appears in Bristol dock
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/11175837/New-Banksy-earring-mural-appears-in-Bristol-docks.html
12 Creepy Abandoned Places You'll Probably Find Ghosts Living In
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/20/abandoned-homes_n_5997544.html?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000008
Nazi U-Boat, Freighter Found Off North Carolina Coast
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/22/nazi-u-boat-north-carolina_n_6026236.html
5 Plot Holes You Never Noticed In 'Star Wars'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/21/star-wars-plot-holes_n_6015682.html
An Artist Who Paints Portraits With Mold
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/artist-paints-portraits-mold/?mbid=social_gplus#slide-id-1602829
A Scientifically Proven Guide To Ordering A Delicious Chopped Salad Every Single Time
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/22/salad-toppings-best-together-yum_n_6018272.html
A cup of tea is every worker's right
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/a-cup-of-tea-is-every-workers-right-9809311.html
Doctor Who season eight recap
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/doctor-who-season-eight-recap-20141110-11jyy5.html
Mobster-playing actor is suing The Simpsons
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/62627502/Mobster-playing-actor-is-suing-The-Simpsons
'Grimm' Season 4 Preview — David Giuntoli on Nick in the Aftermath of Adalind's Spell
http://tvline.com/2014/10/22/grimm-season-4-preview-nick-adalind-spell-david-giuntoli/
Scientists Say Proof Of Jack The Ripper's Identity Is Fatally Flawed
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/23/jack-the-ripper-identity-dna-wrong_n_6032672.html
How You Expect To Feel At An Art Museum Vs. How You Really Feel
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/22/how-to-act-at-an-art-muse_n_6023610.html
Renée Zellweger's face is her brand – a new look will change her career beyond recognition
http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/oct/22/renee-zellwegers-face-change-surgery-healthy-living-new-look-brand?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Reeva Steenkamp was a victim of male violence. That is the real story
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/22/discussion-of-reeva-steenkamp-killing-has-sidelined-male-violence?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
The Avengers: Age of Ultron official trailer hits YouTube after leak
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-avengers-age-of-ultron-official-trailer-hits-youtube-following-leak-9812584.html?s2email=_email__&utm_source=indynewsletter&utm_medium=email23102014
This Mysterious Dino Looked Like 'Something Out Of A Bad Sci-Fi Movie'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/23/deinocheirus-mirificus-dinosaur-looked-like_n_6030054.html
Wonders of the Ediacaran
http://www.abc.net.au/science/photos/2014/10/22/4109389.htm
20th Century The Evolution of Women's Workwear
http://mashable.com/2014/10/22/womens-workwear-20th-century/?utm_cid=mash-com-G+-main-photo
Striking Portraits Bring the Bizarre Beauty of Marine Invertebrates to Life
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/spineless-marine-invertebrates/
Caravaggio in court: Sotheby's sued over misattribution of painting later valued at £10m
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/caravaggio-in-court-sothebys-sued-over-misattribution-of-painting-later-valued-at-10m-so-the-man-who-sold-it-for-42000-is-not-happy-9819798.html
Matt Bomer Gets Visit from Husband Simon Halls in Savannah!
http://www.justjared.com/2014/10/27/matt-bomer-gets-visit-from-husband-simon-halls-in-savannah/
Matt Bomer Gets Support from 'Magic Mike' Co-Star Joe Manganiello at Savannah Film Festival
http://www.justjared.com/2014/10/26/matt-bomer-gets-support-from-magic-mike-co-star-joe-manganiello-at-savannah-film-festival/
'White Collar' enters the final stretch on Thursday
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/white-collar-enters-final-stretch-thursday-article-1.1992375
'Magic Mike XXL' Cast Chills With Extras After Filming
http://www.whosay.com/articles/5007-magic-mike-xxl-cast-chills-with-extras-after-filming
Matt Bomer in 'American Horror Story: Freak Show'
http://www.justjared.com/2014/10/29/matt-bomer-in-american-horror-story-freak-show-first-look-picture/
Matt Bomer Is Pomped-Up and Leathered in ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ First Look
http://www.thewrap.com/matt-bomer-is-pomped-up-and-leathered-in-american-horror-story-freak-show-first-look-photo/
Matt Bomer's AHS: Freak Show Appearance Joins the Show's Most Shocking Moments
http://au.eonline.com/news/595389/matt-bomer-s-ahs-freak-show-appearance-joins-the-show-s-most-shocking-moments
Matt Bomer Hangs Up His Fedora and Bids a Bittersweet Farewell to White Collar
http://www.tvguide.com/News/White-Collar-Matt-Bomer-Final-Season-1088793.aspx?rss=breakingnews
Matt Bomer's 'White Collar' Starts Airing Final Season
http://www.justjared.com/2014/11/07/matt-bomers-white-collar-starts-airing-final-season/
It's a Wrap! 13 Hot 'Magic Mike XXL' Photos
http://www.whosay.com/articles/5245-its-a-wrap-13-hot-magic-mike-xxl-photos
Matt Bomer talks ‘White Collar’ finale — and what can ‘Freak’ him out
http://nypost.com/2014/11/06/matt-bomer-talks-white-collar-finale-and-what-can-freak-him-out/
Channing Tatum & Matt Bomer Make it a Gun Show on 'Magic Mike XXL' Set!
http://www.justjared.com/2014/11/04/channing-tatum-matt-bomer-make-it-a-gun-show-on-magic-mike-xxl-set/
I did make some friends here. I'll miss 'em when I'm gone. Yep, they finally, finally, finally gave me my exit date. Shit just got real. I told another friend and they burst into tears. It's not too good.
So yesterday I just hit a wall, couldn't write a job app, though researching some of the jazzy jargon they used in the ad wasn't entirely a waste of time, I just couldn't get it going, aside from the old routine jobs that I apparently can do sleepwalking. Ah, I'll miss that, knowing the job so well I can do it on low battery power if need be.
So I took myself off early and went to see the exhibition of prints at the art gallery I'd nearly missed. Oh my gosh, that was excellent, an amazingly cool selection and all hits, no misses. I mean, I've been to print exhibitions before but they tend to err overly on the side of architectural plans or be way too baroque and there's a limit to the number of cherubs I can endure. But this was great. The span from 1500 to 1900 meant every half dozen or so prints (it's a local gallery, our exhibitions are tiny and could fit in the loo of an international gallery) you were onto another century, but I liked that, because I was on the clock and I was very much in the mood for a general oversight rather than in-depth examination, and it was entertaining without being exhausting, and, as I was very satisfied to see, essayed the passing fashions and issues (even if that wasn't the intent) in ways other disappointing exhibitions I've been to this year have really not.
Too bad the catalogue, heavy tome that it is, didn't include the one I was really thrilled to see, being a print of an artist a comic book artist I used to really dig in the 80s/90s had obviously been pretty darn keen on but now I can't remember the name of either artist so it's no use to you but it was a pleasing 'huh' moment for me. I also, belatedly, got a joke from Les Miserables, for the bit where pears scrawled all over Paris went past me entirely until I saw the political cartoon with Le King as a pear. Oh, I get it now. In fact there was a lot of Les Miserables referencing French prints, and one of Victor Hugo himself, so I suspect that wasn't entirely coincidental? In any case, it was nice adjunct to my Victor Hugo excursion (the musical and library exhibition down in Melbourne). There were also prints of Musketeers committing the most appalling war crimes, so that's taken a bit of shine off the Dumas books, though squinting at the tiny, tiny plates reveals that the costume design on BBC's Musketeers is way more spot on than you might think.
There was also some garish Georgian stuff and high Victoriana including my beloved PRB and a neat cartoon from Punch taking the piss out of Spiritualists. There were several Durers, who was a favourite of my father's, and some pretty gruesome medieval stuff, which would have been shocking if I hadn't seen some of them before (down in Melbs, they are prints, after all). Oh, there were also those weirdly Art Nouveau/Art Deco prints of Blake that also made two other women go wtf because he seems to be pre-empting the style by quite a tidy margin.
So that was fun. There I had a quick turn through the old galleries, discovered the Impressionists were out and Picasso and Bacon were in, reflecting current market values, but I missed the dark Victorian stuff, the Sickerts etc., just 'cause, though the damned haystacks were still there (the artistic equivalent of cockroaches, imo).
Then I had to run all the way from the gallery to the end of the wharf at the STC and it might not look that far but it's up hill and down dale and those bloody steps at the end o Kent St are almost vertical (cue Vertigo theme). Red faced and windswept I damn nearly tripped over Josh McConville, whom I rather fancy so that was awkies, as I raced for a) the loo and b) the bar to chug down a cider (yes, barkeep, gimme ice, dammit) while gazing blearily over the harbour while I waited for the Cyrano preview briefing to start (also free, the preview anyway).
So there the cast trouped in, all 16 of them, including the aforementioned Josh McConville, the legendary Bruce Spence, Julia Zemiro and Foxy Roxy (Richard Roxburgh) himself. Lovely. Quite a good briefing. Apparently there's been a lot of bother about the nose, much sword fight training, but no live horses or chickens on stage. Apparently Rox had seen a version in Europe with horses galloping on stage, and he turned to Andrew Upton and almost accused him of having no horses live on stage. No, just the usual minimalist set. Anyway, it was really funny. We were also told about the costuming, the music, the themes of love, being real, and seeing only the surface.
I'm really looking forward to it, because Cyrano, as you might guess, is a character I've related to since I was very young (beneath this hideous facade beats the furious heart of a poet, oh yeah).
So that was all fun, and it helps. I've also wrestled with some weeding, with is a good constructive/desctructive job to do, though weeding the rose garden is like a hardcore game of twister. First blood to the rose. I guess that's why I love roses somewhat less than other folks, as I'm the poor bugger sent to weed them. Ow, ow, ouch, hurty.
Tonight I'm planning to distract myself via arts and crafts, that is, DIY halloween decorations. I know, Americanisation gone mad, etc, etc, but I'm in desperate need of distraction and as Himself is most exceptionally cruelly going to the opening of the pop art exhibition without me (me, who travelled to two Lichtenstein exhibitions last year), I figure I'll take what I can get. So I'm going to attempt to make a skelton out of paper plates and carve a pumpkin, as we've got proper big orange American pumpkins imported now, biosecurity be damned.
Ah, they just played The Cure's A Forest, which reminds me I wore my forest dress last Monday (I must show you the dres sometime, if you don't hear the opening cords when you see it you need to listen to more Cure) to see Calpurnica Descending at the STC.
I was not having a good day so I needed something amusing, and it doesn't get weirder or funnier than...whatever the heck that was. It rather defies description as it starts as a straight (as if?!) play with the meeting of the two divas, in outsanding over the top turns, they circle around each other, and you know exactly where it's going, or you think you do. Then a dancing rat comes out. Then we go to a live action on screen hybrid production where it becomes such a pasitche of 30s/40s diva noir I was gurgling with giigles, and the fact that I knew all the diva noir tropes makes me wonder greatly about the tv programmers in the 80s (just how many Bette Davis films did I really need to see when growing up? Not to mention all those 80s soaps like Dynasty and dallas which also seemed an influence). Never mind, it all served to ensure I got a good deal of the jokes. And then it turneed into a weird dream sequence video game nightmare and well, it certainly was mind blowing. But hey, it's Wharf 2, it's meant to be crazy. I kinda liked it, I really did. I need a big dollop of candy coloured silly in my life.
So that's about it, I think. Still no job, but many, many rejection emails. It's really quite upsetting. I'm doing my best, but it's not easy. I've worked my way through a great many upheavals, but ironically this can't be one of them. Well, I've got plenty of long neglected jobs around the house to throw myself at. That's the plan now, as the job market is about to close down for summer.
Oh, I forgot to try explain why I was so upset about Gough Whitlam's passing. Aside from the fact that he was a visionary political hero of mine, just from a practical level he put in place the reforms that gave me an indoor toilet, a university education, an interest in the arts and places to feed it - he was right there in the beginning of the Belvoir theatre (nee Nimrod) and the TripleJ radio network. Without Gough I'd have never have earned enought to see the Mona Lisa, or cared. I'd have never have heard of New Order or any other band I've liked over my lifetime, let alone seen them on stage. Without Gough I wouldn't have seen that amazing production of The Glass Menagerie. Without Gough I wouldn't be reading the books I'm reading now.
So that's why I was sad, very, very sad. We'll not see his like again. Never, ever.
Aw, heck, Cate, as you might expect, says it way better than I:
Cate Blanchett thanks Gough Whitlam for free education
Later...
So I spent a miserable Halloween entirely alone, having done the washing, ironing, weeding, washing up, etc., etc., and I even made a paper plate skeleton but nope, no trick or treaters. Himself had pointedly gone off to the opening of the pop art exhibition without me, thus proving I'm nothing more than a live in maid, and I was a very, very miserable Cinderella. Worse, someone has foolishly geo-locked the lounge dvd player so I couldn't watch any of my Halloween playlist. Grrr.
By Sunday, one spider too far, I'd given up on yard work and had holed up in my room, which still had a working dvd player and started on Penny Dreadful, which I'd finally got my mitts on (less than a week before Foxtel finally gets around to playing it, harumph).
I kinda liked it. Well, it was ticking the boxes for me anyway. Gothic Victoriana? Check. The League of Public Domain Gentlemen? Check. Actors I like? Check.
I'm only halfway through and I have no idea if the plot is going anywhere other than your standard Buffy Big Bad doomsday scenario, but thats okay. I was just rocking out over the cast. I knew Timothy Dalton was in it (I saw his Jane Eyre at an impressionable age, deal with it) as with Eva Green and Billie Piper. Could take or leave Josh Harnett, but he's serviceable (he's no Captain Homer Jackson but then who is?). But, crikey, the rest of the spots, all taken up with actors I've seen almost exclusively via NT Live, if not the actual West End stage with my own peepers, so that was cool. Now Harry Treadaway has poppped up in a few things I've seen lately, like Dominic Cooper's luridly enjoyable Fleming wankfest (they missed a trick not casting Anna Chancellor as Moneypenny in the films, OMG, and Sam West was the sexy as proto-M), and Olly Alexander has popped up here and there, but I really noticed him as Peter Pan in Peter and Alice, but then there was Rory Kinnear as the monster (proprty of one V Frankenstein) and Helen McCrory as a fortune teller (whee!) and as for Simon Russell Beale, last seen in the NT's Lear, he seems to have based his Egyptologist on Victor Buono's King Tut, and I really don't have a problem with that, though I probably should. Or I would if I was taking it the slightest bit seriously, but I wasn't. I'm the one whining because so far there have been no giant rats in the sewers and wicked Oriental mesmerists (so I saw The Talons of Weng-Chiang at an impressionable age, deal with it).
So far, so enjoying. If you'd showed this to my 13 year old self, I'd have wet myself. Because, man, I was into Hammer Horror back then (and I still am, sort of, with my Neil Gaiman reading, Doctor Who, Ripper Street and Dracula watching).
Oh, and don't start me on Ripper Street. How in the name of Frank Skinner am I going to see it, stranded at the edge of nowhere that I am? Sins of the fathers indeed (put those silver spoons back, you ancestral sticky fimgered c**t, you've no idea the price I'm going to have to pay through geo-locking and 800% markups, not to mention battling a clearly genetically pre-determined impulse to help myself).
So that was belated Halloween viewing, I guess. Still got half the series to go. Still, it's nice to have something to watch that I don't have to struggle to like, and I've less and less patience with that these days. I've abandoned a good many series of late because while I adore Actor X to bitty bits, he is not the saving grace of whatever dross he's appearing in right now. I know, revoke my True Fan card if you must, but come on, life's too short, and those shows, they be dire. (I'm not naming names, but if certain actors I've actullay travelled around the world to see are currently screening in shows I've not even mentioned here, well, yeah, oops).
Anyways, I was only watching because I'd hit the limit of the number of large spiders I can shake off myself without complete freaking out while gardening. I refuse to call it arachnophobic when the garden/jungle plays host to two of the world's deadliest spiders and a few others give nasty bites, I can show you the scars. So that was me, packing up and moving myself, and my spiders, indoors (later, there was a Huntsman incident).
So, yes, Peaky Blinders, Penny Dreadful and The Fall, or the scrapbooking serial killer as I like to call him, are what I'm watching right now, as it's all I'm allowed (no Netflix, no Hulu, no yo ho avast me hearties). Oh, and Supernatural. Which resolved the whole Dean thing rather two quickly. I presume, from anvil sized hints dropped, that Dean will be struggling with the straight and narrow this season? Yawn. What is it with Americans and their rehab in lieu of character development tropes. Yawn again.
Mind you, there's a loud Calvanist within always ready to yell at people to just suck it up and shut up already (which is what I have to do daily, this is my only whinge window).
Still reading the whoa Mary Sue bad fic that is the Outlander series, because I'm living Hugo and Dickens too much right now to read them (and I've exhausted the available Wilkie ouvre). It is just so badly researched and written. Just the names freak me out, she can't even get the names right. Scots have very particular and set naming practices, as most cultures do, and, well, it drives me nuts is what it does. Never mind the 'highlanders' speaking lowland dialect, and on it goes. But it's dribbley fairy floss for the brain, and that's what I need right now. I'll get back to my philosophical texts as soon as I'm mentally upright enough to do so. I've not slept properly since July, you know. I'm ready to pop.
The List of Weird
Sherlock Holmes to Remain in Public Domain After Supreme Court Declines Case
http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/sherlock-holmes-case-decision-public-domain-1201346225/
Cumberhitched! How Benedict broke hearts and baffled men
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11210931/Cumberhitched-How-Benedict-broke-hearts-and-baffled-men.html
Ripper Street preview: season three is bigger in every way
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/nov/06/ripper-street-preview-season-three-bigger-better
Dressing Up a Rover as a Baby Penguin—For Science!
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/penguin-rover/
People in Movies Telling Each Other to Snap Out of It and Pull Themselves Together
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/10/a_supercut_of_movie_characters_telling_people_to_calm_down_and_snap_out.html
What lies beneath London?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-29566275
Gromit! It has been 25 years
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11205587/Gromit-It-has-been-25-years.html
Jensen Ackles & Jared Padalecki Help Celebrate 'Supernatural's 200th Episode at CW's Fan Party!
http://www.justjared.com/2014/11/04/jensen-ackles-jared-padalecki-help-celebrate-supernaturals-200th-episode-at-cws-fan-party/
4-Acre Spider Web Engulfs Building
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/4-acre-spider-web-engulfs-building/
The Leonardo hidden from Hitler in case it gave him magic powers
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29815227
Of Course Robots Will Never Become Our High-Tech Overlords... Or Will They?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/31/scary-robots-video-nine-reasons_n_6071008.html
Elusive Fanged Deer Spotted For First Time In 66 Years
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/02/fanged-deer-kashmir-musk-deer-afghanistan_n_6089996.html
Scale of British war effort in World War One
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29936335
What’s Missing from “The Imitation Game”
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/imitation-game-alan-turing
Bison Mummy Found Frozen In Siberia Dates Back 9,000 Years
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/07/bison-mummy-siberia-frozen_n_6096304.html
Dinosaurs Had Feathers Long Before Any Could Fly, And Now Scientists Know Why
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/07/evolution-feathers-dinosaurs_n_6100020.html
Ghosts created by scientists in 'disturbing' lab experiment
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/11214511/Ghosts-created-by-scientists-in-disturbing-lab-experiment.html
Jensen Ackles Wants Papa Winchester To Come Back To 'Supernatural'
http://www.justjared.com/2014/11/07/jensen-ackles-wants-papa-winchester-to-come-back-to-supernatural/
Going to work is more stressful than ever, poll reveals
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/going-to-work-is-more-stressful-than-ever-poll-reveals-9833602.html
NZ flag debate mocked by US show
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/62911595/nz-flag-debate-mocked-by-us-show.html
15 Incredible Photos That’ll Remind You to Be Awed by Planet Earth
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/calacademy-bigpicture-photos-planet-earth/
Why We’re Just Now Getting the 1960s Batman TV Show on DVD
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/batman-home-video-finally/
Fallstreak Hole: Photographers capture rare cloud formation in Victoria's east
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-03/photographers-catch-rare-fallstreak-cloud-formations-in-victoria/5863482
Boarding Airplanes Takes Forever
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/whats-boarding-airplanes-takes-forever/
Stinky problem forces plane back
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/62919244/stinky-problem-forces-plane-back.html
Coit Tower’s long-hidden murals finally being revealed
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Coit-Tower-s-long-hidden-murals-finally-being-5867664.php?cmpid=nl_top
WIRED Binge-Watching Guide: Doctor Who
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/binge-guide-doctor-who/?mbid=social_gplus
Fantastically Wrong: History’s Most Hilarious Misconceptions About the Elephant
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/fantastically-wrong-misconceptions-about-the-elephant/?mbid=social_gplus
Powerful People Think They Have More Control Over Time (And They Might Be Right)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/05/powerful-people-time-control_n_6107804.html
Aust Post sets up warehouse in US
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/25433158/aust-post-sets-up-warehouse-in-us/
Calpurnia Descending review – Sisters Grimm remix classic movie melodrama
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/australia-culture-blog/2014/oct/14/calpurnia-descending-review-sisters-grimm
Calpurnia Descending review: High-camp theatre pulses with wicked humour
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/calpurnia-descending-review-highcamp-theatre-pulses-with-wicked-humour-20141012-114wqz.html
European prints and drawings 1500-1900
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/european-prints-and-drawings-1500-1900/
The British are born to be miserable, new research finds
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/the-british-are-born-to-be-miserable-new-research-finds-9827442.html
Why have Hollywood’s henchmen turned into incompetent knuckleheads?
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/30/hollywood-henchmen-turned-into-incompetent-knuckleheads
Female academics: don't power dress, forget heels – and no flowing hair allowed
http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/oct/26/-sp-female-academics-dont-power-dress-forget-heels-and-no-flowing-hair-allowed?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Learning to love scales and tails in Brisbane
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/learning-to-love-scales-and-tails-in-brisbane-20141030-11el4j.html
Why Is 'Ping' a Thing?
http://www.citylab.com/tech/2014/10/why-is-ping-a-thing/382070/
Amelia Earhart Plane Fragment May Have Been Identified
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/30/amelia-earhart-plane-fragment-found_n_6069970.html
13 Real-Life Struggles Of Perpetually Forgetful People
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/28/forgetful-people-problems_n_6044404.html
Edwyn Collins heading for home in the Highlands because wife misses Scotland
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/edwyn-collins-moving-back-scotland-4553118
Dr Who's NZ casting call
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/stage-and-theatre/62884551/dr-whos-nz-casting-call.html
Tesco cash point machine offered 'free erections'
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-29809745
Giant pink condom put on 157-year-old statue in Sydney for HIV awareness
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/giant-pink-condom-erected-in-sydney-for-hiv-awareness-9848529.html
Paper Plate Skeleton
http://www.instructables.com/id/Paper-Plate-Skeleton/
Where have all the working-class actors gone? (Ian McKellen)
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/20/where-working-class-actors-funding-cuts-bourgeois-industry
The Hollywood Sellers Club simply doesn't get it
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-24/green-the-hollywood-sellers-club-misses-the-point/5840120?WT.mc_id=newsmail
Dispelling the myths of ageism — older workers are highly employable
http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2024865555_tonyprovineopedantiageismxml.html
Felicia Day's public details put online after she described Gamergate fears
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/23/felicia-days-public-details-online-gamergate?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Tim Berners-Lee: hateful people on the web are 'staggering'
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/24/tim-berners-lee-hateful-people-on-the-web-are-staggering?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Doctor Who recap: series 34, episode 10 – In the Forest of the Night
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/oct/25/doctor-who-recap-series-34-episode-10-in-the-forest-of-the-night
Constantine, review, episode one: 'an endurance test'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/11186291/constantine-review-episode-1.html
What MacGyver star does with his Swiss army knife
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/62659103/What-MacGyver-star-does-with-his-Swiss-army-knife
French World War One bedroom of soldier who never returned
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29740037
What It'd Look Like if Star Wars Spilled Into the Real World
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/thomas-dagg-star-wars/?mbid=social_gplus
Japan: Thousands see Taiwan's 'Meat-Shaped Stone'
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-29729107
Champagne is all a matter of taste – but the taste doesn't really matter
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/26/david-mitchell-champagne-matter-of-taste?CMP=twt_gu
Caravaggio in court: Sotheby's sued over misattribution of painting later valued at £10m (so the man who sold it for £42,000 is not happy)
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/caravaggio-in-court-sothebys-sued-over-misattribution-of-painting-later-valued-at-10m-so-the-man-who-sold-it-for-42000-is-not-happy-9819798.html
How to Write a Sentence - The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/write-sentence
Tech companies haven't gotten past sexism 1.0
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Tech-companies-haven-t-gotten-past-sexism-1-0-5845691.php?cmpid=twitter-desktop
The truth behind America's most famous gay-hate murder
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/26/the-truth-behind-americas-most-famous-gay-hate-murder-matthew-shepard?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
What Your Birthday Says About Your Mood And Personality, According To Science
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/25/birthday-personality_n_6014938.html
Londoners dress up as their favourite characters for Comic Con: in pictures
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/11188848/Londoners-dress-up-as-their-favourite-characters-for-Comic-Con-in-pictures.html
Against the Grain
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/03/grain
Hobbits prepare for epic battle
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/62740690/Hobbits-prepare-for-epic-battle
New fauna discovered during six-year project mapping ocean floor off WA's Kimberley coast
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-26/scientists-map-ocean-floor-off-kimberley-coast/5840426?WT.mc_id=newsmail
Science Graphic of the Week: 3-D Scanned Dodo
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/science-graphic-3d-scan-dodo/?mbid=social_gplus
Tesco's 'penis'-themed buttermilk and other design fails
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/27/tescos-penis-themed-buttermilk-and-other-design-fails?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
There's something about Tesco's new buttermilk design...
http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/theres-something-about-tescos-new-buttermilk-design--ly0l_qXpIl
The battle against confusing parking signs
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29623541
Top 10 ghost towns and modern ruins you can visit
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/oct/27/top-10-ghost-towns-visit-modern-ruins?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Murder, mystery and mayhem: N to Z of the unexplained
http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/527473/Nazca-spider-USS-Scorpion-Spring-Heeled-Jack-The-Zone-of-Silence
The Glass Menagerie at Belvoir St Theatre
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/the-glass-menagerie-at-belvoir-st-theatre-20140917-10hz39.html
'Supernatural's' Robbie Thompson on Felicia Day and the Return of Charlie
http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2014/10/28/supernaturals-robbie-thompson-on-felicia-day-and-the-return-of-charlie/
Stanford researcher explores the truths behind myths of ancient Amazons
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/october/amazons-truth-book-10-28-2014.html
Check Out Marvel's Next 9 Movies, Including Black Panther and More Avengers
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/marvel-next-5-years-of-movies/
Descend Into the Surreal World of Tourist-Friendly Caves
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/austin-irving-show-caves/
How Utah's Bryce Canyon Got Its Bizarre, Beautiful Sandstone Formations
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/bryce-canyon-sandstone/
Two genes linked with violent crime
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29760212
Scientists Finally Crack The Code Of The Ancient 'Phaistos Disk'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/28/ancient-cd-rom-phaistos-disk-code_n_6055178.html
Reclining seats on planes? Here are 10 more annoying traveller habits
http://www.traveller.com.au/reclining-seats-on-planes-here-are-10-more-annoying-traveller-habits-11d5mz.html
Walmart Was Offering A Special 'Fat Girl Costumes' Section In Its Online Store
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/27/walmart-fat-girl-costumes-halloween_n_6054330.html
Walking in New York as a woman
http://media.theage.com.au/news/world-news/walking-in-new-york-as-a-woman-5930136.html
The catcalling video: They edited out the white guys
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/62799602/The-catcalling-video-They-edited-out-the-white-guys
#PaulRuddSavesLives: Social media goes into overdrive over Paul Rudd lookalike
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/paulruddsaveslives-social-media-goes-into-overdrive-over-paul-rudd-lookalike-20141028-11cv2h.html
Antares rocket explodes during launch
http://media.theage.com.au/news/world-news/antares-rocket-explodes-during-launch-5929778.html
Kids' Science Experiments Among Cargo Destroyed In Antares Rocket Explosion
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/29/rocket-explosion-kids-experiments-cargo_n_6067254.html
Chris Evans & Robert Downey, Jr. Put Up Their Dukes & Fight On Stage at Marvel Event
http://www.justjared.com/2014/10/28/chris-evans-robert-downey-jr-put-up-their-dukes-fight-on-stage-at-marvel-event-watch-now/
New-look superheroes: female Captain Marvel joins Black Panther on studio's slate
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/newlook-superheroes-female-captain-marvel-joins-black-panther-on-studios-slate-20141029-11dj4v.html
9 Ways Veronica Mars Was Feminist As Hell
http://www.vulture.com/2014/09/9-ways-veronica-mars-was-feminist-as-hell.html
Fake Seattle Times news story created by FBI provokes outrage at newspaper
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/28/seattle-times-fbi-investigation-link-spy-suspect-outrage
The Saddest Office Cubicles We Could Find
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/saddest-cubicles/
The 13 Most Influential Toys of All Time
http://time.com/3089384/influential-toys/
The Strange, Spooky History of the Ouija Board
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/10/29/roman_mars_99_percent_invisible_the_ouija_board_s_strange_history.html
Red Wine Is the Drink of Choice on 'Scandal' and 'The Good Wife'
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/dining/red-wine-is-the-drink-of-choice-for-powerful-women-on-tv.html
SIMPLIFY.THATSH.IT
http://simplify.thatsh.it/
Neil Gaiman hints at 'slate' of Vertigo comic book films
http://www.digitalspy.com.au/movies/news/a604573/neil-gaiman-hints-at-slate-of-vertigo-comic-book-films.html#~oTmrHIiBdrTtB0
Honor Blackman to appear in Gold's You, Me and Them
http://www.digitalspy.com.au/british-tv/news/a604592/honor-blackman-to-appear-in-golds-you-me-and-them.html#~oTmqq234tey2dl
Gough Whitlam dead: Martyr for a moment, hero for a lifetime
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/gough-whitlam-dead-martyr-for-a-moment-hero-for-a-lifetime-20141021-11931j.html
What did Gough Whitlam actually do? Rather a lot
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/what-did-gough-whitlam-actually-do-rather-a-lot-20141021-11977w.html
Things you didn't know Gough Whitlam did
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-21/things-you-didnt-know-whitlam-did/5830508?WT.mc_id=newsmail
Former Australian PM Gough Whitlam dies - the world reacts
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2014/oct/21/former-australian-pm-gough-whitlam-dies-the-world-reacts?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Tributes flow for 'giant' Gough Whitlam
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-21/gough-whitlam-dead/5828840?WT.mc_id=newsmail
Obituary: former prime minister Gough Whitlam dead at 98
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-10/gough-whitlam/3945026?WT.mc_id=newsmail
10 British Actors Trying Their Hands at Pop Music
http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2014/10/10-british-actors-try-hands-pop-music/
Sleepy Hollow may sound silly but it's scary, self-aware and very, very good
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/oct/15/sleepy-hollow-may-sound-silly-but-its-scary-self-aware-and-very-very-good
The Tragic Medical History Behind That Crazy Knick Finale
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/knick-finale-medical-history/?mbid=social_gplus
5 things you never knew about your accent
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/11167569/british-american-accent-facts.html
Brazilian Wandering spider delivered in Waitrose online shopping
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11172553/Brazilian-Wandering-spider-delivered-in-Waitrose-online-shopping.html
Beautiful maps
http://mapsdesign.tumblr.com/
Ancient fish reveals the roots of sex
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/10/20/4109305.htm
Maps of Australian language – swimmers v cozzies, scallops v potato cakes
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/oct/20/-sp-maps-of-australian-language-swimmers-v-cozzies-scallops-v-potato-cakes
Scotland's paths less travelled – in pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2014/oct/19/scotlands-paths-less-travelled-in-pictures
Here's How You Get To The Real 'Sesame Street'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/19/real-sesame-street_n_5885850.html
Is Being a 'Tough Boss' Different for a Woman Than a Man?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peggy-drexler/-is-being-a-tough-boss-di_b_6008220.html
Artist withdraws 'sex toy' sculpture from Paris square
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/artist-withdraws-sex-toy-sculpture-from-paris-square-20141020-118jzz.html
'How to Be a Victorian': round the clock in 19th-century style
http://seattletimes.com/html/books/2024784941_howvictoriangoodmanxml.html
Rebellious French cross-dresser played an overlooked role in shaping Oscar Wilde's legacy, Stanford scholar says
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/october/rachilde-wilde-discovery-10-21-2014.html
Sophia Loren explains the reason why she gave Jayne Mansfield the side-eye
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/sophia-loren-explains-the-reason-why-she-gave-jayne-mansfield-the-sideeye-20141106-11htgu.html
The superhero bubble is destined to burst. Is Warner Bros. making a mistake?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/10/21/the-superhero-bubble-is-destined-to-burst-is-warner-brothers-making-a-mistake/?hpid=z2
New Banksy earring mural appears in Bristol dock
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/11175837/New-Banksy-earring-mural-appears-in-Bristol-docks.html
12 Creepy Abandoned Places You'll Probably Find Ghosts Living In
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/20/abandoned-homes_n_5997544.html?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000008
Nazi U-Boat, Freighter Found Off North Carolina Coast
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/22/nazi-u-boat-north-carolina_n_6026236.html
5 Plot Holes You Never Noticed In 'Star Wars'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/21/star-wars-plot-holes_n_6015682.html
An Artist Who Paints Portraits With Mold
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/artist-paints-portraits-mold/?mbid=social_gplus#slide-id-1602829
A Scientifically Proven Guide To Ordering A Delicious Chopped Salad Every Single Time
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/22/salad-toppings-best-together-yum_n_6018272.html
A cup of tea is every worker's right
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/a-cup-of-tea-is-every-workers-right-9809311.html
Doctor Who season eight recap
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/doctor-who-season-eight-recap-20141110-11jyy5.html
Mobster-playing actor is suing The Simpsons
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/62627502/Mobster-playing-actor-is-suing-The-Simpsons
'Grimm' Season 4 Preview — David Giuntoli on Nick in the Aftermath of Adalind's Spell
http://tvline.com/2014/10/22/grimm-season-4-preview-nick-adalind-spell-david-giuntoli/
Scientists Say Proof Of Jack The Ripper's Identity Is Fatally Flawed
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/23/jack-the-ripper-identity-dna-wrong_n_6032672.html
How You Expect To Feel At An Art Museum Vs. How You Really Feel
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/22/how-to-act-at-an-art-muse_n_6023610.html
Renée Zellweger's face is her brand – a new look will change her career beyond recognition
http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/oct/22/renee-zellwegers-face-change-surgery-healthy-living-new-look-brand?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Reeva Steenkamp was a victim of male violence. That is the real story
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/22/discussion-of-reeva-steenkamp-killing-has-sidelined-male-violence?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
The Avengers: Age of Ultron official trailer hits YouTube after leak
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-avengers-age-of-ultron-official-trailer-hits-youtube-following-leak-9812584.html?s2email=_email__&utm_source=indynewsletter&utm_medium=email23102014
This Mysterious Dino Looked Like 'Something Out Of A Bad Sci-Fi Movie'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/23/deinocheirus-mirificus-dinosaur-looked-like_n_6030054.html
Wonders of the Ediacaran
http://www.abc.net.au/science/photos/2014/10/22/4109389.htm
20th Century The Evolution of Women's Workwear
http://mashable.com/2014/10/22/womens-workwear-20th-century/?utm_cid=mash-com-G+-main-photo
Striking Portraits Bring the Bizarre Beauty of Marine Invertebrates to Life
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/spineless-marine-invertebrates/
Caravaggio in court: Sotheby's sued over misattribution of painting later valued at £10m
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/caravaggio-in-court-sothebys-sued-over-misattribution-of-painting-later-valued-at-10m-so-the-man-who-sold-it-for-42000-is-not-happy-9819798.html
Matt Bomer Gets Visit from Husband Simon Halls in Savannah!
http://www.justjared.com/2014/10/27/matt-bomer-gets-visit-from-husband-simon-halls-in-savannah/
Matt Bomer Gets Support from 'Magic Mike' Co-Star Joe Manganiello at Savannah Film Festival
http://www.justjared.com/2014/10/26/matt-bomer-gets-support-from-magic-mike-co-star-joe-manganiello-at-savannah-film-festival/
'White Collar' enters the final stretch on Thursday
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/white-collar-enters-final-stretch-thursday-article-1.1992375
'Magic Mike XXL' Cast Chills With Extras After Filming
http://www.whosay.com/articles/5007-magic-mike-xxl-cast-chills-with-extras-after-filming
Matt Bomer in 'American Horror Story: Freak Show'
http://www.justjared.com/2014/10/29/matt-bomer-in-american-horror-story-freak-show-first-look-picture/
Matt Bomer Is Pomped-Up and Leathered in ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ First Look
http://www.thewrap.com/matt-bomer-is-pomped-up-and-leathered-in-american-horror-story-freak-show-first-look-photo/
Matt Bomer's AHS: Freak Show Appearance Joins the Show's Most Shocking Moments
http://au.eonline.com/news/595389/matt-bomer-s-ahs-freak-show-appearance-joins-the-show-s-most-shocking-moments
Matt Bomer Hangs Up His Fedora and Bids a Bittersweet Farewell to White Collar
http://www.tvguide.com/News/White-Collar-Matt-Bomer-Final-Season-1088793.aspx?rss=breakingnews
Matt Bomer's 'White Collar' Starts Airing Final Season
http://www.justjared.com/2014/11/07/matt-bomers-white-collar-starts-airing-final-season/
It's a Wrap! 13 Hot 'Magic Mike XXL' Photos
http://www.whosay.com/articles/5245-its-a-wrap-13-hot-magic-mike-xxl-photos
Matt Bomer talks ‘White Collar’ finale — and what can ‘Freak’ him out
http://nypost.com/2014/11/06/matt-bomer-talks-white-collar-finale-and-what-can-freak-him-out/
Channing Tatum & Matt Bomer Make it a Gun Show on 'Magic Mike XXL' Set!
http://www.justjared.com/2014/11/04/channing-tatum-matt-bomer-make-it-a-gun-show-on-magic-mike-xxl-set/
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Date: 2014-11-14 08:33 pm (UTC)LOL. I feel the same way.
Last week we saw the restored murals at Coit Tower and they are worth the trek (and free to see, amazingly -- to go to the top of the tower costs 8 bucks, though, so we declined).
I'm in the same boat with Ripper Street, grrrrrr. Stupid geographical limitations! I'm hoping it may turn up on BBC America eventually...
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Date: 2014-11-16 04:14 am (UTC)I saw the pics in the article. It looked cute. I do live a 30s mural. One day I'll get back there, one day.
I'm in the same boat with Ripper Street, grrrrrr. Stupid geographical limitations! I'm hoping it may turn up on BBC America eventually...
The Metro (UK free rag) just spoiled me big time, harumph. Really not pleased to be the last person to see everything, as always. By the time we get Netflix you guys will all be on something else....