Sky One presents: The Twelve Days of Hogswatch. And squee, for some reason I thought it was actually airing on Christmas! It’s going to be the 17th and 18th of December instead. The main site is here.
Finished Cursor’s Fury, third book in Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series. Great googly moogly, that was fabulous! It may be popcorn, Jim, but it’s really, really, really, really good popcorn.
Um, everyone should read The Dresden Files! Of which this book is not a part, but still.
Tonight was also our last Feminist Fairy Tales class, and the Rice Krispie Treats I made for the occasion went over quite well! I learned to my shock and horror that Ko had never seen a Rice Krispie Treat made by actual humans, only those packaged and sold premade. Is this a cultural thing? A “Ko was homeschooled” thing? A “Ko is just a freak, what loser has never made Rice Krispie Treats” thing? Or god forbid, a “Priscilla is just a freak, what nerd still makes Rice Krispie Treats in this day and age” thing? Ticky-box?
Anyone know when House, Veronica Mars, and Studio 60 return?
Also, I thought BSG returned January 21st, after the premiere of The Dresden Files. Am I mistaken? Is this just their move to their new timeslot, and new episodes don’t begin again until April?
Help a fangirl out!
*returns to reading Cursor’s Fury*
Ooh! I forgot to mention that Ko and I saw Happy Feet the other day. Oh my gosh, I want five tiny penguins to follow me around and glorify themselves in outrageous accents. Robin Williams totally carried that movie. And I want the soundtrack. Go see it! Feel-good movie of the decade.
Also, my birthday gift from Renata arrived today! It’s a plush Albert Einstein to match Renata’s plush Lincoln and Keith’s plush… some historical figure I can’t remember at the moment. I fail at life. But Einstein wins, so it all balances out. YAY for the Sappy Lincoln Narratives Road Trip 2007!
Ugh. One of our assignments for Fairytales class this week is an online novel called The Ice Puzzle, which makes my brain bleed and my eyes roll back in my skull for the sheer badness of it. It’s perplexing. I’ve enjoyed (and often adored) all the other books we read this semester with the exception of The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, and at least in that case I could recognize the craft of the book and appreciate the larger metaphors. And the operas themselves were pretty awesome. I just loathed all the characters.
Whereas this? Drivel. Flowery, repetitive drivel with a dire case of metaphor abuse. Ko and I have been reading particularly egregious lines out loud and alternately laughing uproariously, groaning in sympathy, and marveling that Veronica–who has displayed impeccable taste so far–would assign this and have it not be a joke.
I’m so glad Jim Butcher’s Cursor’s Fury comes out tomorrow. I’m really going to need to purge my mind after reading this. Urgh. 12 down, 13 chapters to go. It burns us, precious!
Renata sent me a belated birthday card with Pirates of the Caribbean stickers on it! If there’s anything more awesome than this card around, I want it caught and shot now.
When does/did the musical episode of Scrubs air? Because this is fabulous. Of course, I shouldn’t expect anything less, seeing as how the songs were written by the Avenue Q team. *googles* Okay, looks like January 18th at 9 EST on NBC.
This is approximately reason number five trillion why I love Howard Dean.
Amusing: Rejected Wii Games
Dear Entire Country Where It Is Snowing, Icing, Sleeting, Hailing, or Precipitating Some Other Form of “Wintry Mix,”
It’s almost 70 degrees in Philadelphia.
HAW HAW,
Priscilla
I just slept for tweeeeelve houuuuuurs.
Life is nice sometimes.