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How is it March already?
Mar. 4th, 2010 08:56 am A couple of things. Sadly, my crit partner ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
woodrunner is not going to be attending Norwescon this year as she had planned. She has two pre-New Year priced memberships up for grabs over on her journal. ie, $50 apiece instead of the door price of $60.
Criminal Minds was an exceptional episode last night. This show is so often so very good. In related news, I am so pleased all my shows are back. :)
I'm mid-way through S4 of Babylon 5. I had a conversation with someone recently, trying to explain how really awesomely good this show is. They shrugged, and said "Yeah, I've seen an episode or two. It's okay." To which I really wanted to grab them and shake them, and say "But you don't know. It's like Farscape. You can't watch an episode or three out of order and base your opinion on that. You have to watch it from the beginning, in order."
But I didn't. Because she wouldn't get it no matter what I said. *sigh*
CSI: NY really does not benefit by following Criminal Minds. It sort of highlights the glaring differences in quality of story and writing between the two shows.
woodrunner is not going to be attending Norwescon this year as she had planned. She has two pre-New Year priced memberships up for grabs over on her journal. ie, $50 apiece instead of the door price of $60. Criminal Minds was an exceptional episode last night. This show is so often so very good. In related news, I am so pleased all my shows are back. :)
I'm mid-way through S4 of Babylon 5. I had a conversation with someone recently, trying to explain how really awesomely good this show is. They shrugged, and said "Yeah, I've seen an episode or two. It's okay." To which I really wanted to grab them and shake them, and say "But you don't know. It's like Farscape. You can't watch an episode or three out of order and base your opinion on that. You have to watch it from the beginning, in order."
But I didn't. Because she wouldn't get it no matter what I said. *sigh*
CSI: NY really does not benefit by following Criminal Minds. It sort of highlights the glaring differences in quality of story and writing between the two shows.
I have totally failed
Feb. 17th, 2010 07:23 pm ...on my vow to routinely read/post to LJ, post my layoff.
*clears throat*
Hi LJ! I've missed you. I've had several things I've thought about posting, from sprouted flour/bread, to the fantabulous birthday a friend had recently, wherein I got the treat of being spoiled right along with her (at a really real spa. A women's only spa. With scrubs, and massage, and moisturizing wraps, and these rooms that are heated and lined with things like charcoal, or salt, or jade. It was pretty much the most awesome thing ever.) I've thought about it, I've even opened a post window a few times, and something always pulls me away before I write it.
So, on the sprouted flour front - it's interesting stuff! I do think it has a slightly different flavor, all by itself, and it's expensive, so my recent breadmaking has been using 1 cup of sprouted flour to 3 cups of regular. This produces a loaf that looks, tastes, and feels like regular white bread, but 1/4th of it is this sprouted flour that has the chemical make up of a vegetable, not a starch. I think this is a compromise I can live with, health and expense-wise.
I have been working on the last of the edits for Nemesis lately. I'm so close to being done...and yet magically, it seems there is always another few chapters til the end.
I'm almost done w/S2 of Babylon 5. ( Does this really require a spoiler tag? )
Also, the husband and I have been working our way through S2 of Damages. We've decided it's like The Shield, except with lawyers, a little less sex, and a little less horror, but just as many twists, turns, excellent characters, gripping drama, and train wreckage, in its own way.
Don't get me wrong; The Shield is one of the best written, best acted, best done shows from pilot to series finale ever done. This is not a bad comparison. But I would never, ever, be tempted to re-watch it. Once was quite enough. It still has the most traumatizing finale to a season of television I have ever seen. I am watching Damages, and thinking "So, will S3 or 4 of this show be like that?" Because it feels like it totally could be.
It's an awesome show. If you like shows like...like Dexter, or Deadwood, you should pick up Damages.
I'll try to check in here more regularly. I miss all of you guys. I think about you, even when I'm not logging on, and I'm reading more often than I'm posting (which isn't hard, truthfully.)
*clears throat*
Hi LJ! I've missed you. I've had several things I've thought about posting, from sprouted flour/bread, to the fantabulous birthday a friend had recently, wherein I got the treat of being spoiled right along with her (at a really real spa. A women's only spa. With scrubs, and massage, and moisturizing wraps, and these rooms that are heated and lined with things like charcoal, or salt, or jade. It was pretty much the most awesome thing ever.) I've thought about it, I've even opened a post window a few times, and something always pulls me away before I write it.
So, on the sprouted flour front - it's interesting stuff! I do think it has a slightly different flavor, all by itself, and it's expensive, so my recent breadmaking has been using 1 cup of sprouted flour to 3 cups of regular. This produces a loaf that looks, tastes, and feels like regular white bread, but 1/4th of it is this sprouted flour that has the chemical make up of a vegetable, not a starch. I think this is a compromise I can live with, health and expense-wise.
I have been working on the last of the edits for Nemesis lately. I'm so close to being done...and yet magically, it seems there is always another few chapters til the end.
I'm almost done w/S2 of Babylon 5. ( Does this really require a spoiler tag? )
Also, the husband and I have been working our way through S2 of Damages. We've decided it's like The Shield, except with lawyers, a little less sex, and a little less horror, but just as many twists, turns, excellent characters, gripping drama, and train wreckage, in its own way.
Don't get me wrong; The Shield is one of the best written, best acted, best done shows from pilot to series finale ever done. This is not a bad comparison. But I would never, ever, be tempted to re-watch it. Once was quite enough. It still has the most traumatizing finale to a season of television I have ever seen. I am watching Damages, and thinking "So, will S3 or 4 of this show be like that?" Because it feels like it totally could be.
It's an awesome show. If you like shows like...like Dexter, or Deadwood, you should pick up Damages.
I'll try to check in here more regularly. I miss all of you guys. I think about you, even when I'm not logging on, and I'm reading more often than I'm posting (which isn't hard, truthfully.)
