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| Sunday, July 12th, 2009 | | 8:31 pm |
Hot (and I mean HOT) rec: Torchwood/Robin Hood crossover, Jack/Ianto/Guy
Since when has the Rift started spitting out fictional characters?This is clever, well-written, true to both canons (all of RH; up to the end of S2 for Torchwood) and manages to make a meta character unexpectedly moving. I was laughing at the beginning, and tearing up near the end. Complete success. Excerpt: Jack whistled quietly, and Ianto sighed. Over the radio Gwen's voice was impatient. "Can you see him yet?"
"Oh yes." Jack was smugly lecherous. "I can definitely see him. Ianto, can you get us any nearer?"
"No!" Ianto turned off the ignition. "You can see the poor sod quite well enough from here."
"So what does he look like, then, boys? Come on!"
"He looks magnificent." Jack murmured. "He looks heroic, and dangerous, and just a little bit mad. He looks.."
"Like Richard Armitage." Ianto interrupted. "Because it is Richard Armitage."
"Bloody hell!" from over the radio. "I think you'd better bring him in."
"Richard Armitage?" Jack was looking at Ianto, bewildered.
"Yes. Guy of Gisborne. From Robin Hood. You know, the BBC one."
"Kids' stuff." Jack waved a dismissive hand. "Never seen it. "
Ianto bridled slightly, let it go. "Well, that is Armitage, playing Guy, Third season."
Jack opened the car door, slid out. The man in the headlights lifted his sword and charged and Jack was back in his seat with the door slammed shut before Ianto could blink.
"That is not Richard Armitage." he said, firmly.
"How would you know? You never saw the show, you said?"
Gwen's voice said, somewhat plaintively, "I'd settle for someone who looked like Richard, if that's all that's going."
"Be quiet, immoral woman. You're happily married, and we're working here." Jack peered through the windscreen again at the still figure outside. "I have seen Armitage in other things, you know."
"Like what?" Ianto's eyes didn't leave the dark figure with its back to the alley wall.
Jack murmured something, muffled. "What did you say?" Ianto turned to look at his partner.
"I might have seen Spooks, Once or twice. Research purposes. Anyway, why would Richard Armitage be trying to decapitate me?" True to Life, by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) unsentimentalf. Go read! Go read! Shoo! Current Mood:  enthralled | | Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 | | 1:59 am |
Star Wars/Torchwood rec. Oh, and it's Captain Jack/Chewbacca. What, you think I'm kidding?
SRSLY. Someone - frostfire_17, actually - went and wrote a hilarious, lovely, COMPLETELY in CHARACTER story in which Captain Jack picks up Chewie in a bar. Excerpt: "I like your hair," said Jack Harkness. "I knew this guy once, he had hair almost like yours--longer, though, and it was blue--same color as my drink, actually--and he said he never understood how I walked around naked all the time. I thought that was really sexy."
Also, humans were never as funny as they thought they were. At all.
"Chewie's a nickname. My full name is Chewbacca," Chewbacca said.
"I like it," said Harkness. "And you can call me Jack. Since I'm trying to get you into bed and all."
"Right," said Chewbacca. "Jack. And what brings you here, besides the blue drinks and the attractive Wookiees?"
"Well, I wouldn't need any more reason than that," said Jack, "but you know, I have these friends," he waved towards the other two humans, "and they like to travel around and get into other people's business."
Chewbacca tensed. "How into other people's business?"
"Oh, they won't do anything unless you're in trouble. Or getting someone else in trouble. Or if you look like you're going to get into trouble or get someone else in trouble." Jack sighed. "So, if you're in the business of getting people in trouble--maybe put it on hold until you don't see us around anymore?"
Chewbacca thought about this. "Han doesn't like people who stick their noses into other people's business," he said finally.
Jack gave him a quick, penetrating look. "Oh yeah? And what do you think?"
"He's the captain," said Chewbacca.
Jack leaned onto the bar, looked down into his drink. "Right. I know how that works. Get caught up in something, meet this guy, suddenly you're flying around with him in his ship, doing what he does, except whoops, by the way, he's fucking crazy."
Chewbacca couldn't help it; he started to laugh. You still here? You can deal with NC-17 Chewie/Jack? Go read! Go read! | | Friday, July 3rd, 2009 | | 1:51 pm |
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| | Sunday, June 28th, 2009 | | 1:23 pm |
Getting rid of BOOKS
... well, getting rid of books to make space for MOAR books, obviously. But still. Not easy. The "useful" books you never know when you'll need. I binned a biography of Martine Aubry at least 10 years ago, and the dratted woman is now secretary general of the Socialist party. There's a dozen essays I can't imagine opening ever again - and by "opening again" I do NOT mean I ever read them cover to cover, ohhh no. These have usually been inscribed. I now tear off the flyleaf without a qualm. A book about DOG HERALDRY, for Goofy's sake. Written by a nice woman, mind you. Dog Heraldry? Freecycle, here I come... Current Mood: dusty | | Saturday, June 27th, 2009 | | 6:14 pm |
Reason #59674 why I love my iPhone (and OS 3.0)
Now that Notes syncs with my Outlook notes, and cut 'n paste has been introduced, I can type a text message in notes on my computer, than cut 'n paste it into the iPhone from Notes to send without bothering with the virtual keyboard. Heh. | | 3:53 pm |
TOURIST CAT IZ TOURISTY
So yesterday afternoon I was lecturing on cultural differences for a bunch of alumni from a [insert Ivy League B School name here] graduate program, themselves coming from a dozen different countries. We all had a good time and they invited me to share their evening activities, which included dinner at a yummy Thai restaurant I'll be going back to very soon, and that touristy staple of every Paris visit, the bateau mouche Seine cruise. Which, believe me, is still one of the great ways to see the city. Here be PIX, taken on the iPhone so not particularly good, but which ought to tempt you to give it a try next time. I was born in this city, and it still manages to take my breath away.     (Académie Française; Gare/Musée d'Orsay; Conciergerie; Mr Eiffel's little hobby ( MOAR bad pictures this way ) | | Friday, June 26th, 2009 | | 2:38 pm |
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WAI U NO FEED ME????
Fausta eats more slowly than Metrobius, so I set her bowl up on the kitchen counter and stop him from stealing her kibble after he's WOLFED down his. Here you see him demonstrating what a MARTYRED kitty he is. (Taken with the iPhone, so not terribly good quality, but isn't his look PRICELESS?)  Current Mood:  HUNGRY CAT IZ ALLUS HUNGRY | | Thursday, June 25th, 2009 | | 10:19 pm |
Important Tweet
If you use Twitter, set your location to Tehran & your time zone to GMT +3.30. Iranian security forces are hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more people at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut down Iranians' access to the internet. Cut & paste & pass it on. hattip to juliet_winters and carbonelle Current Mood:  Free Iran! | | Saturday, June 20th, 2009 | | 6:31 pm |
I am NOT happy
... with the confirmed spoilers for the S3 Robin Hood finale. YO! RH SCREENWRITERS! To quote the excellent ccr1138 , This is your brain: [ ] This is your brain magnified 10,000,000 times: [ . ] Those are your RATINGS for [select the blank space if you want to be SPOILED. I mean it. SRSLY SPOILED.]the Guy-less season 4: [ . ] I'm off, you wankers. No Guycandy? No moi. Current Mood:  fuming | | 3:12 am |
Techno-meh
Have ugraded Shiny the iPhone to OS 3.0. It feels weird. O Flist, what do you use of the new functionalities? | | Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 | | 3:46 pm |
So selenak is visiting, at long last meeting the cats & staying at the WonderFlat. The ostensible pretext for her coming is a performance of Baroque music tonight in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles which enabled me to Make Her An Offer She Couldn't Refuse. She arrived on Sunday and has been doing the Tourist Thing with the kind of thoroughness she applies to her academic and literary research (see her LJ post!) while I spent most of my time at the office. However at night we've been tripping the (City of) Light(s) Fantastic, on Monday  at the Lido - a selenak family perennial which, as a native Parisienne living two streets away (and born four streets away) from the place, I'd never been to - and yesterday at the Opéra, for a lovingly-restored curio,  Niccolo Jommelli's Demofoonte, conducted by Riccardo Muti and elegantly staged in the 1770 version, which is 3 hours and change, and could have benefited from more than a few cuts. ( Attaway for the REALLY picture-heavy opera post! ) Current Mood: musical | | Friday, June 5th, 2009 | | 6:44 pm |
Awwwwwwww!!!!
Gay penguin pair raising chick
Males incubated abandoned egg for a month and continue to care for chickBERLIN - A German zoo says a pair of gay male penguins are raising a chick from an egg abandoned by its parents.
Bremerhaven zoo veterinarian Joachim Schoene says the egg was placed in the male penguins' nest after its parents rejected it in late April. The males incubated it for some 30 days before it hatched and have continued to care for it. The chick's gender is not yet known.
The happy foster parents guarding the entrance of their cave, where the chick lives. | | Saturday, May 30th, 2009 | | 2:25 pm |
One of those Saturday idle questions
Dear flist, I need your advice re: sheets. (What can I say? It's Pentecost Saturday. On long May week-ends I feel the irresistible urge to buy bedlinens. Perhaps I should be stopped?) So, assuming I do splurge, which do you prefer?   ( Larger views behind the cut! Clicky-clicky! )The pinkish bedspread at the foot of the first set is not included, and I wouldn't buy it. Also, I don't use bolsters. (If you want to know who makes these, it's Linvosges, a nice old textile company from Eastern France. Their PDF catalogue can be downloaded here.) | | Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 | | 9:47 pm |
Fashion victim
Have just spent the national debt of Peru at the Issey Miyake Pleats Please sale on place des Vosges, for, let's see, two dresses (one bronze, one a Chinese-lantern red print), four jackets (dull gold lamé, bronze, purple, red), one coat (bronze; goes with one of the dresses) and two tank tops (gold lamé, purple; go with two of the jackets; can also be coordinated with other bits. In fact pretty much everything can go with most everything else. And look good.) "Everything was reduced 40%" has become my new mantra whenever I think of the actual credit card slip. Oh, and "you'll wear it for 20 years." And, "Look, all the rest you buy at Marks & Sparks." [*]      * I do, I really do! This jacket most recently. | | Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 | | 10:39 pm |
Rupert Penry-Jones with an American accent???
... to my relatively untrained ear, he's no Hugh Laurie. So, my 'murrikan friends, convincing or not in this trailer? (For those of you not familiar with Spooks/MI5, Whitechapel or Cambridge Spies, Rupert Penry-Jones here is Alex, the blond guy who comes in midway through, with the evening's case. His natural habitat is the minor public school-educated London middle class. The trailer is for a new Jerry Bruckheimer-produced series apparently picked up by ABC for the fall, The Forgotten and described as "sort of a Without a Trace , but with amateurs.") | | Saturday, May 16th, 2009 | | 10:00 pm |
Pretty handwriting fonts time!
As most of you know, I am a bit of a font addict, and have recently started collecting 19th century handwriting typefaces. Some look extremely good in banners, icons, etc. Here's my latest collection - any of you wants one or several, ask away (they're mostly for PC only, alas.) The first word of each line is the name of the font. The two names came from trying to match a North and South wallpaper.   | | 1:35 am |
Worldwide street virtual studio!!!!
This is one of the most amazing and heart-warming things I have seen in a long time. To quote Gizmodo: ...This cover of Stand By Me was recorded by completely unknown artists in a street virtual studio all around the world. It all started with a base track—vocals and guitar—recorded on the streets of Santa Monica, California, by a street musician called Roger Ridley. The base track was then taken to New Orleans, Louisiana, where Grandpa Elliott—a blind singer from the French Quarter—added vocals and harmonica while listening to Ridley's base track on headphones. In the same city, Washboard Chaz's added some metal percussion to it.
And from there, it just gets rock 'n' rolling bananas: The producers took the resulting mix all through Europe, Africa, and South America, adding new tracks with multiple instruments and vocals that were assembled in the final version you are seeing in this video. All done with a simple laptop and some microphones... Go watch. NOW. Current Mood: rockin' | | Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 | | 2:32 am |
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