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Quick note on Clash of Kings
Aug. 17th, 2011 05:21 pmSpoiler-cut even though I've only gotten about two or three chapters in. ( I just wanted to say! )
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Jul. 22nd, 2011 09:48 amAnd for a companion to my last post have an article from the NYPost on how JKR is sexist against men but also believes that men rule, I'm not really sure what the message is. But it's, um, very virulent.
I may have a job lined up - I had an interview at the Yankee Candle in the mall, and I absolutely killed. And Old Navy called me back for one as well. And my back unemployment pay came through a little while ago so I'm at least not strapped for cash (and may get my car's air conditioning fixed, it's very uncomfortable in this heat). And I was paid $20 for hemming someone's skirt for the museum's Silver Gala.
I've started reading Game of Thrones for real this time! And I'm loving it. I do think GRRM goes overboard with how young the characters are, though. I think I love Tyrion even more in the book. I have a weird thing going on there I like some of the names - Eddard, Cersei, Tyrion, Sansa, Sandor - and hate some of the others - Catelyn will never not read as too modern to me, Jaime ought to be pronounced "Jame" or the Spanish way. And I'm not fond of the "Ser" for "Sir" convention.
I may have a job lined up - I had an interview at the Yankee Candle in the mall, and I absolutely killed. And Old Navy called me back for one as well. And my back unemployment pay came through a little while ago so I'm at least not strapped for cash (and may get my car's air conditioning fixed, it's very uncomfortable in this heat). And I was paid $20 for hemming someone's skirt for the museum's Silver Gala.
I've started reading Game of Thrones for real this time! And I'm loving it. I do think GRRM goes overboard with how young the characters are, though. I think I love Tyrion even more in the book. I have a weird thing going on there I like some of the names - Eddard, Cersei, Tyrion, Sansa, Sandor - and hate some of the others - Catelyn will never not read as too modern to me, Jaime ought to be pronounced "Jame" or the Spanish way. And I'm not fond of the "Ser" for "Sir" convention.
I haven't posted about Game of Thrones in a while, but that's because after my initial dissatisfaction I fell in love with it.
( Things I Love )
I'm not into Jaime, though. IDGI, people are always talking about how they started to find him interesting after the first ep, but as soon as I finally get over Bran he attacks Ned and I am just not on board with all this.
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What is wrong with me? I'm rereading the Shoebox Project.
( Things I Love )
I'm not into Jaime, though. IDGI, people are always talking about how they started to find him interesting after the first ep, but as soon as I finally get over Bran he attacks Ned and I am just not on board with all this.
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What is wrong with me? I'm rereading the Shoebox Project.
Several different subjects
May. 2nd, 2011 08:16 pm( Game of Thrones and the Borgias )
Last night I cut out the pieces for my shift and started sewing; unfortunately, I made the sleeves the weensiest bit too tight, so I took them apart and pieced a bit in to make them a little wider. I worked a bit more on that while I watched the above.
Tomorrow I am going to go to the TKTS book at Times Square and get a seat at How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which is a great show in and of itself and also stars DanRad, so. I've been a bit weird-feeling all day, I think because of anticipating the social strain of standing a line for an hour or so and then actually going to an actual show on my own.
Linda Baumgarten* says in What Clothes Reveal that a bride today "might still don a wedding dress with long, full hoopskirts based on fashions of a century earlier" in explaining fossilization of forms in court dress, but I have no idea why. Bridal gowns have always fit what fashion said skirts could do. With English court dress, women wore 1740s hoops for about a century, even when regular dress was tall and slim. That is fossilization. Wedding dresses have basically been regular dresses in white until fairly recently, and you see them all through the 1920s, '30s, and '40s with slender skirts. Anyway. It puzzles me why she used that as an example.
For this month on eMusic, I bought two CDs of music hall/vaudeville songs. They're making me want to go back to the novel I started writing for my first NaNo, which involved a soprano who topped the bill at a small theater in New York, and a comedic stage magician who was actually a real magician and the younger son of a society family. (It may have a been a little influenced by Mairelon the Magician.) I only did three pages (hey, I was a freshman) but in my head it got interesting.
IS THAT MEGAN FOLLOWES ON HOUSE???
* ETA: I knew spelled her name all wrong when I was going to sleep. I was quite tired last night.
Last night I cut out the pieces for my shift and started sewing; unfortunately, I made the sleeves the weensiest bit too tight, so I took them apart and pieced a bit in to make them a little wider. I worked a bit more on that while I watched the above.
Tomorrow I am going to go to the TKTS book at Times Square and get a seat at How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which is a great show in and of itself and also stars DanRad, so. I've been a bit weird-feeling all day, I think because of anticipating the social strain of standing a line for an hour or so and then actually going to an actual show on my own.
Linda Baumgarten* says in What Clothes Reveal that a bride today "might still don a wedding dress with long, full hoopskirts based on fashions of a century earlier" in explaining fossilization of forms in court dress, but I have no idea why. Bridal gowns have always fit what fashion said skirts could do. With English court dress, women wore 1740s hoops for about a century, even when regular dress was tall and slim. That is fossilization. Wedding dresses have basically been regular dresses in white until fairly recently, and you see them all through the 1920s, '30s, and '40s with slender skirts. Anyway. It puzzles me why she used that as an example.
For this month on eMusic, I bought two CDs of music hall/vaudeville songs. They're making me want to go back to the novel I started writing for my first NaNo, which involved a soprano who topped the bill at a small theater in New York, and a comedic stage magician who was actually a real magician and the younger son of a society family. (It may have a been a little influenced by Mairelon the Magician.) I only did three pages (hey, I was a freshman) but in my head it got interesting.
IS THAT MEGAN FOLLOWES ON HOUSE???
* ETA: I knew spelled her name all wrong when I was going to sleep. I was quite tired last night.
