My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Great fun read, and Amoruso seems like she would be the funnest person to hang out with. Her sheer drive and wit and energy are inspiring – it’s just a shame that Nastygal itself seems to have crashed and burned, judging by the news stories. Still, I’m sure that Amoruso will rise from the ashes. (I just hope she’s managed to hang on to some of the money, after all her hard work.)
I’ve begun another poem – about weddings, and matrimony, and men – and that’s all right. Except I just got a little way in, three lines or so. Then I thought, “Ooh, I haven’t watched this week’s ep of iZombie, yet. Hmmm…”
So pursuing the poem was put on hold. Of course, halfway through the episode, I had a stray thought about the poem. Followed by another, and another, then a complete epiphany about the direction it should take, then a whole slew of verses alighting full-formed in the old addle-pated cranium.
But I held on, strong-minded, determined. It was a jolly fine episode, you see. And anyway, if I just mentally repeated these lines that had come to mind – gold, pure gold – then it wouldn’t be a problem. Would it?
My eye, it wouldn’t. Can I remember any of it now? Can I cobblers. Gosh darn.
I’ve posted up the beginning on Wattpad, anyhow, here. Perhaps if I put my skull in a bag and give it a good old shake, perhaps…
P.S. That isn’t moi up above. I don’t normally write in a state of undress. ( Well, maybe on Christmas Day, drinking before lunch.)
Also I’m not a nineteenth-century French top bird. Oiseau supérieure?
Image – Wilbouchewitch, Nageotte, no known copyright restrictions.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Of course it’s impossible to give Mansfield Park five stars. Even though I exasperatedly love Fanny, and love-hate Mrs Norris, and disapprove-of-at-the-same-time-as-I’m-charmed-by the Crawfords, Henry and Mary both.
Because Fanny marries Edmund, and how can anyone five-star that? Oh, Jane, what were you thinking?
With every re-read, it’s like heading towards the tunnel, awaiting the oncoming train with horrified anticipation. And yet hoping – praying – against all knowledge and experience, that maybe it’ll be different this time.
Oh, please, Fanny! Just this once, for me, run off with delightful, deplorable Henry Crawford! For me!
Fanny is underrated, I’ll just note. Compared to Elinor Dashwood, Fanny is half Beyoncé and half Patti Smith, a soft-hearted sex-minx with a nice nature, a cultured mind and a passionate heart.
Image – public domain.
I don’t know who Arcturus is, but check out the rack. I mean. As an area of outstanding natural beauty. it’s purely an aesthetic appreciation.
oh hell. I do love Teal though.
ETA – that outfit is almost criminally flawless and stunning, though. My admiration is at least half about style.
It’s got to be hard not to hate someone that much prettier than you.
ETA: yeah, I went looking for a more lilac-tinted vid. It’s the age of purple aquarius unicorns. I think.
I don’t have very high standards for what I’ll watch on Netflix in the last hour or so before I toddle off to bed. Really anything that’ll quiet my mind and lull me pleasantly with a few laughs or a little light romance is fine. So this fit the bill perfectly the other night, I thought: what looked to be a subpar 2006 romcom featuring Jennifer Garner and Timothy Olyphant.
I selected ‘play’, settled back and prepared to zone out. And it was…
Good. Quite good. I don’t mean to sound amazed. Jennifer Garner has been in good films before. But it was… funny. And the setup was dark as heck, and there was a lot more comedy involved than romance. Even though TO and JG were hot as hell together.
Timothy Olyphant, though. Can we talk about Timothy Olyphant? I had to check how old he was in this on IMDB, because I couldn’t believe the evidence of my eyes.
38. He was thirty-fucking-eight. 48 now, 38 then.
He could have been playing 23, for God’s sake. I didn’t look that well at 18, never mind thirty-fucking-eight. (eta: and in a Dead Kennedys tshirt, too! TO is just unfair to… the rest of us. How are we supposed to compete?)
The complete barsteward. Genes are an absolute swizzle.
Apart from that grizzling aside, the rest of the cast were also aces, especially Juliette Lewis and Kevin Smith. Well worth the price of… well, the price of the popcorn you smuggle into your own living-room, I suppose. Bargain, esp. with all the sensitive vulnerable manpain on display. Jennifer Garner’s finest moment since 13 Going On 30, and I do not say that lightly.
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Purple and lilac hair are glorious, that’s all. I got no other justification.
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I have loved this book for years now, but… honestly, what a cad Rochester is. I know it’s not precisely an original observation, but still. Jane deserved better. And only a blinkered Charlotte, with exactly the narrowly circumscribed inculcated nineteenth century notion of a woman’s lot she ascribes to Jane, could possibly think that ending a happy one.
And yet, it’s still one of barely a handful of books in my lifetime that have reduced me to feeling off my head while reading it, light-headed and nutty and unsteady as if I’d had a drink or two. What can you do? A massively annoying permanent classic.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Great fun read, and Amoruso seems like she would be the funnest person to hang out with. Her sheer drive and wit and energy are inspiring – it’s just a shame that Nastygal itself seems to have crashed and burned, judging by the news stories. Still, I’m sure that Amoruso will rise from the ashes. (I just hope she’s managed to hang on to some of the money, after all her hard work.)
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