trying to look at the stars
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cosmolinguistSoggy and sore from hobbling too fast to catch a train. It was raining hard.
(Andrew tells me I'll make a good old lady: determined and ready to hit teenagers with my stick. "In my day we didn't have hairstyles!" he impersonates future-me. Probably won't take that long into the future though; I'm already curmudgeonly.)
Still, was worth it to go out to the theah-tah though. A last-minute ploy to cheer Andrew up after a really hard week. I didn't even recognize the name of Lady Windemere's Fan but I recognized "a cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" and "we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars." Andrew had jellybabies and I had a glass of wine and we shared an argument about what other candy jellybabies are or are not like and to what degree. He tried to make me taste one but I refused on the grounds that the bag gave off that horrible smell that bags of Haribo do when you open them. "They're not that sugary!" he protested but we checked the bag: 71% sugar, and the next thing on the list of ingredients was glucose syrup. About as appetizing as if they'd been in the gutter.
Andrew's going to Liverpool tomorrow to see his little Beach Boy friends. I've got no plans so he said I should watch The Talons of Wen Chiang and write his blog post about it. He's nearly sold me on it too! He said it's like a Hammer horror with jokes. And it's got that "can something problematic still be good?" thing because it's got a Yellow Peril type character in it, in yellowface. Oh joy. O tempora o more and etc. Also the terrible effects that made the ridiculous Steven Moffat (if slagging off Haribo doesn't lose me friends, not liking Steven Moffat will!) say that Robert Holmes is "not even a good hack." Ha!
Sore and soggy. Man, I wish I had a bathtub.
(Andrew tells me I'll make a good old lady: determined and ready to hit teenagers with my stick. "In my day we didn't have hairstyles!" he impersonates future-me. Probably won't take that long into the future though; I'm already curmudgeonly.)
Still, was worth it to go out to the theah-tah though. A last-minute ploy to cheer Andrew up after a really hard week. I didn't even recognize the name of Lady Windemere's Fan but I recognized "a cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" and "we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars." Andrew had jellybabies and I had a glass of wine and we shared an argument about what other candy jellybabies are or are not like and to what degree. He tried to make me taste one but I refused on the grounds that the bag gave off that horrible smell that bags of Haribo do when you open them. "They're not that sugary!" he protested but we checked the bag: 71% sugar, and the next thing on the list of ingredients was glucose syrup. About as appetizing as if they'd been in the gutter.
Andrew's going to Liverpool tomorrow to see his little Beach Boy friends. I've got no plans so he said I should watch The Talons of Wen Chiang and write his blog post about it. He's nearly sold me on it too! He said it's like a Hammer horror with jokes. And it's got that "can something problematic still be good?" thing because it's got a Yellow Peril type character in it, in yellowface. Oh joy. O tempora o more and etc. Also the terrible effects that made the ridiculous Steven Moffat (if slagging off Haribo doesn't lose me friends, not liking Steven Moffat will!) say that Robert Holmes is "not even a good hack." Ha!
Sore and soggy. Man, I wish I had a bathtub.
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Date: 2012-05-19 12:25 am (UTC)(might have some forms that need attention)
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Date: 2012-05-19 06:38 am (UTC)Hope you're less sore this morning. (Am assuming you're likely to be less soggy.)
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Date: 2012-05-19 08:35 am (UTC)The leg only hurts when I'm standing or walking on it, so it's not sore now either.
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Date: 2012-05-18 11:48 pm (UTC)I had wondered if that was mere rumour or wishful thinking on the fans' part.
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