Damn. Left my portable drive at Slen's. Must make him bring it when he comes round this evening.
It's Slen's birthday! I have bought him things! Slen is very spoiled brat!
(zzzz Last night had recurring epiphany that what I need in a partner is someone whom I can be control-freakish with and spoil rotten. i.e. basically a dog. The four-year-old me is on the line from 1986 and would like to confirm that baby brothers are an excellent substitute.)
Speaking of control freaks and being spoiled, Paul got me the complete Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes on DVD for my birthday (which was last month). YESSSSS. Watched a bit of ASiB at Slen's this morning before getting bus to work. (Hey, I wasn't even cheating, it really was the first ep on the first disc in the box.) Can I just say hell to the yes. Ree, expect clips or screenies or general squeeing Irène rawr. OMD she wears a top hat. WHAT. ♥
Also from Paul, Of Mice and Aliens, a children's book pertaining to Asperger's: I was interested in it, hence it being on my wishlist, and it's pretty good. Read it in a few minutes last night and had a few chuckles over Aspergerisms in it. I'll show my mother, who teaches special needs kids - I reckon she should lend it around, actually.
1 Pilot and Holmes in a room together = Mutt might actually die of awesome.
Need Holmes icon. Nurse, break out the Pagets.
WTF! WTF! WTF! WTF! WTF! WTF! WTF! WTF!
Nooo, Watson, I'll protect you from the nasty Madonna-toyboy.
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Even now, in the stillness of death, the huge jaws seemed to be dripping with a bluish flame and the small, deep-set, cruel eyes were ringed with fire. I placed my hand upon the glowing muzzle, and as I held them up my own fingers smouldered and gleamed in the darkness.
"Phosphorus," I said.
"A cunning preparation of it," said Holmes, sniffing at the dead animal.
Glow in the dark pups aid science
("Critics argue it's playing god, but scientists point out that what we're looking at is in fact playing dogs.")
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The "original" ending to The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Quite good, if silly. The Americanisms hardly show. The various neologisms are rather more pronounced.
Also, Sirius > Betelgeuse.
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I think I have the complete Canon as radio plays now. This is extremely cool and I have been listening to some of them on the walk to and from work.
It's someone called Clive Merrison playing Holmes. He's fine at it, and most impressively, he did a complete run (recorded all of the Canon stories—and, indeed, some extras). Wikipedia says he's the only person to have done so. This makes Merrison cool on a par with David Suchet (who, IIRC, has signed on with ITV to do the complete Hercule Poirot). He also looks cool: here he is with Andrew Sachs, who played Watson after the original Watson died.
Also, Irene Adler fans should go here.
I'm glad to have finished tagging and cataloguing the mp3s, anyway. It's kept me up far too late for two nights on the trot.
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On my commute today, I have been mostly listening to Sherlock Holmes v Dracula. This is cool and I am secretly delighted every time I hear Holmes say the name "Mina".
What do you think of literary mashups, crossovers, pastiche-hybrids and the like? Do you find the idea excruciating (cross puns lol) or do you enjoy them in a spirit of absurdity?
Normally I'm the former, on this occasion the latter, because it's well written and fun.
Which characters do you think should never ever meet — not because their settings or genres are incompatible, but because it would be a really bad idea to get them in the same location?
Discuss.
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We have a film crew in Manchester at the moment for one of the new Sherlock Holmes films.
(Apologies, as ever, for patronising presenter and pointless vox pops and general lack of information.)
I can exclusively reveal lie that that giant doll in the background is going to be the scene of the final showdown.
If I can, I might head along to the Northern Quarter and see if I can see anything cool.
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Probe your ports, madam? No? Oh well, have an asexuality article.
Despite this thing calling me an uneducated poor woman, guess why I like it.
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(Disquieting minds want to know, that's why. All right, the topic just came up in chat.)
(Written for work's newsletter.)
Frequently Barked Questions
18 July 2008
Thus far I've no sightings of hounds to report,
nor ominous howls in the night.
No shoes have gone missing, no threatening notes,
no relatives perished from fright.
I'll not move to Dartmoor; I'm not keen on bogs.
A city pooch still, after all—
and I keep my address, for my housemates have baulked
at restyling it "Baskerville Hall".
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Eeeeeee, my album arrived! The Hound of the Baskervilles by Clive Nolan and Oliver Wakeman. I'm listening to it for the first time and enjoying it, even though I don't normally like songs with talking over them.
Coincidentally, I was watching a Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes that I'd recorded off the telly. This had me shouting at the television. People were talking in the Diogenes Club! It wasn't too impressive in other ways, and anyway the PVR cut off the last few minutes, as is its wont. Huh.
Really liking this progressive rock. Also, I want a dog. I could pretend that attempting to inherit a mysterious curse just so I could have a doggie had nothing to do with recent naming events, but this would be stretching the truth to whining point.
Slen's just arrived and told me Clive Nolan did the keyboard solo on DragonForce's Disciples of Babylon. Very nice!
edit for coolness: Slen's just pointed this out. Guitars: Arjen Lucassen.
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And another little piece of my life slides into my control...
I made a little gathering of it. It requires two witnesses, but I had three: two of my immediate family and Paul, my good friend since childhood. It was nice.
I was kinda surprised at the straightforwardness (relatively speaking!) of the legalese. I was expecting more "spinster of the parish" and stuff.
My name is... Hi, I'm... Hello there. The name's...
Yes, this will take some getting used to—not having to hesitate any more before admitting my 'name', but instead self-confidently giving my name.
(There's another injoke in the picture. It's the typeface. Another nice thing about this DIY job.)
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Dutch cat suckles abandoned red panda
That cat is suckling its DOOM. Pandas are so much cuter! We will prevail!
Ergonomics: not just for humans! Dog dinner time hits the big time
HugX ergonomic dog bowls (check out their expensive model. WTF?)
Dog choir forming to pay tribute to a dog. I HAVE to see this. And steal the idea, except I already had.
Worm-eating slug found in garden. This is so beautiful. Look, Thad, killer mollusc!
Flock shocked by 'tramp' minister - great story.
Brazil MPs reject abortion reform
Past science papers stump pupils
There is no doubt that the clever pupils are as sharp as they ever were, but most are being stifled by an educational system that does not encourage more detailed problem-solving and rigorous thinking.
RecycleBank - making waste pay. Do want.
Q&A: Anglican Church divisions
How to pronounce Anglican terminology. (If you want me to record these for you in my semi-posh English accent, vote here.)
Can one manufacture good character?
How do you win a Booker prize? Be a worldbuilder, have a cracking story and tell it well!
And finally, the Iron Man actor is playing Sherlock Holmes. And apparently there are two films; Guy Ritchie is directing this, while the other is a mickeytake starring Sacha Baron Cohen.
If you want a good and unusual take on Holmes, try Hammer's 1959 Hound of the Baskervilles. Some dude called Peter Cushing stars as Holmes and plays up his irritating side wonderfully. You get a shrewd sense, as you don't when you read the stories in Watson's extremely partial narration, of how impossible the genius is to live with. And Watson, who is just as important (it's canon! Holmes said so!), is also well played by André Morell, who doesn't bumble at all. (I think this is a screengrab from the film. But I'm not sure, because it was definitely in colour.)
Also, there's a DOGGY and it's GORGEOUS and I want one. </frustrated dog-lover>
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Sacha Baron Cohen to star as Sherlock Holmes
D: And the other guy is worse. That's no Watson.
Looking further, it seems Guy Ritchie is directing and The new Sherlock Holmes will be less stuffy and more adventurous than previous screen incarnations
, so I don't even dare look up whether they'll be covering A Scandal in Bohemia.
Remember dude, you got through I, Robot by repeating to yourself "That isn't Susan Calvin, it's just some woman with her name". You can handle this.
Hidden abuse of domestic workers in the UK
On-the-run skunk Pepe caught out
Gallery of sawn-in-half cameras
Notes of one of the first forensic pathologists are being sold.
Floridian builds flying saucer—which is not a UFO, because it's clearly identified. This is awesome partly because, far from being a spaceship, it couldn't move itself anywhere in a vacuum.
Drunken Facebook scallies pwned by police.
Awww, it's Da Vinci! Cute! (video)
'Super Spam Me' experiment (video)
Nellie named Heroic Hearing Dog
Pets saved from smoke-filled home
US tycoon left $8bn to dog welfare
(not news) "The 8 PG-Rated Movies That Should Not Have Been Rated PG"
That Wizards clip is bad. In every sense. It comes with every warning ever.
A journalist volunteers to be waterboarded. He says it's not much fun.
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