Blackpool, Olympic Ends, Moving Talk, Reviews and Worrying News

[misscam]

Thank you all for birthday wishes and birthday fics. Much appreciated. And got your card, the_grokster. Unexpected surprise, thank you.

Now... Blackpool is crack. Serious, serious singing crack. But enjoyable crack and David Tennant is hot. Yes, sparklechick268, your package has arrived. Thank you :) (Mmm, David. Lick things some more. And take your clothes of some more. In fact, why do you do both at once?)

In other news, Olympics nears the end and I am sad. Sniff. It's been a rather bad Olympics for Norway. Last one we got 13 golds. so far, we've got two. But I've quite enjoyed it anyway, particulary watching underdog wins. (Italian speedskating team kicking the American ass, Fabris beating both Shani Davis and Chad Hedricks - whom I've really devolped a dislike for - French guy winning the biathlon pursuit, even if he beat a Norwegian.)

Me and Mum driving to get some plants picked up:
Mum: And when the Olympics are over, we can go see that gay western.
Me: Yeah, sure.
Mum: I also heard things about the McCarthny era movie.
Me: With George Clooney, yeah. Mmm, that's doable.
Mum: And that native American girl movie got good reviews...
Me: Pocahontas? They made another Pocahontas movie? It's not a Disney movie, is it?
Mum: Would I take you to see a Disney movie? More importantly, would I take me to see a Disney movie?
Me: ... Point well put.

I went to see the Pride and Prejudice movie the other day. Yes, I know, I know, it ain't the BBC version. And it certainly wasn't. However, I found myself unable to hate it. It has parts that were quite all right. Wickham and Mr Collins were shadoes of themselves and all, but there were several other minor characters I enjoyed. And hey, Penelope Wilton. She pops up the oddest places I look these days.

And then of course I come home to read that South Dakota moves to ban most abortions (probably trying to get Roe vs Wade overturned). Oh joy. It's starting. And I see not even women raped or pregnancy as the result of incest will be allowed. Am suddenly very glad I live in little Norway, where the "pro-life" movement (in my book, you have to show for a little more than being anti-abortion to stop me rolling my eyes at the "pro-life" title) is two nutty priests.

Meanwhile, CSI fanfic writers seem to wander away a bit. (With wanky banners, yo.) Humhum. Course, I have wandered away a bit myself, but not due to reviews or lack thereof. (If I was in it for the reviews, I would've kept writing OFUM for the rest of my life.) I simply got distracted. Still, fanfic writers do feel better nutured with reviews. I know I don't review as much as maybe should, but I can be fairly snobbish and critical and you can never quite know how a writer will take it. However, if you are willing to take it, feel free to drop a link here if there was something you really wanted feedback on. I can't guarantee I'll have time for all, but you never know.

Maybe there ought to be feedback week?

In other news:
State of emergency declared in the Philippines
Olympic woes for US
Irving to appeal three year jail sentence
Can Doctor Who bring down another HP ship?

Comments

[sparklechick268.livejournal.com]

Hee! I'm glad you like it.
I agree - It is serious singing crack. That scene done to These Boots Were Made For Walking in the first episode had me rolling on the floor with tears of mirth. :)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I was still trying to wrap my head around the random singing then. I gave up and decided to just sing along.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Blackpool is so the best thing ever. It has singing, dancing, Tennant, a singing and dancing Tennant (with added oral fixation and at times minus clothes), what more could one want from a TV show?

*icon solidarity*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Um... Oiled Tennant?

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

...

*is dead from mental images*

[jadekirk.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!!

And who can resist David Tennant? Especially in Blackpool!! I agree with the above posters.

Jade

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)

Um, those who prefer their men non-Scottish and non-ruffable, I suppose.

[aervir.livejournal.com]

Have you already watched all the Blackpool episodes?

It's crack!TV indedd -- I think I spent a whole week-end trying to get through the show and ending up with a headache after staring at my tiny laptop screen for six hours. IMHO, the narrative drive started flagging a bit after the first half, and the second half of the mini-series was rather tedious. But due to the many Tennant scenes, I certainly won't complain about the whole show. Casanova's still funnier, though.

And I saw the new item about South Dakota in my paper at breakfast. My blood pressure went up even without the coffee...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I have. I was too busy watching the tongue to much mind narrative, though. And we shall see about Casanova. It's next on the player.

I can imagine the urge was more to toss the coffee at the state than drink it.

[aervir.livejournal.com]

I was too busy watching the tongue to much mind narrative, though.

*snerk*

It's not as if I failed to notice that, especially not in the scene with the ice-cream cone... But there must be some tiny little alien in my head that can't stop analyzing everything, even everything including highly shaggable actors. :)

And we shall see about Casanova. It's next on the player.

Oooh, have fun!

I can imagine the urge was more to toss the coffee at the state than drink it.

Yes -- and then to throw my cup and coffee-pot and breakfast plates right after it. What those guys are planning to do is not "pro-life" in any kind of respect. It's about "pro-fucking up women's lives.

For example, it would be interesting to know if those same guys who support the "pro-life" bill are in favour of things like welfare money for poor single mothers or state-financed child-care etc. I bet not...

[irian.livejournal.com]

State of emergency declared in my country and I wasn't even in the country when it happened. Oh well. The word "revolution" is starting to sound more and more like a travesty with each new "EDSA revolution" people stage to overthrow yet another incompetent Philippine president.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Are they all horrid, or something?

[irian.livejournal.com]

Rule of thumb is that some of the people's tax money usually ends up in the presiden't (and his favorites') pockets. The working concept is that they have to "recover" ther losses from the massive electory campaign they staged (this includes the usual election materials and the vote-buying) in order to win.

And the past EDSA revolution that overthrew President Estrada was engineered by the oposition (President Arroyo's political party) so they could install her in the presidency since she was VP at the time. Some of the rallyers who show up in EDSA (this includes the failed EDSA 3 that was one of the earlier attempts to overthrow President Arroyo) were part of the lower income bracket groups (i.e. squatters) who were paid per head to show up at EDSA and cause a ruckus.

The first EDSa was historical, the succeeding ones are circuses. hat's Philippine politics for you.

[chicklet73.livejournal.com]

Blackpool! You've seen it! That's fantastic!

Isn't D.I. Carlisle just the most intriguing fellow? Scruffy, sarcastic, smart, sexy, and occasionally vulnerable...he fascinates me.

I'd love to see YOU write a Carlisle-fic. You're such a brilliant writer...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Oh, he's decidedly shaggable. And I don't mean just in the looks department. A man can be shaggable for many reasons, oh yes.

There is Blackpool fic????

[chicklet73.livejournal.com]

Yep. I've actually made a couple humble attempts at it...

[b2wm.livejournal.com]

We are sliding nicely into our own little political hell, aren't we here, US? Nevermind all those abortions that happen naturally, without any help from doctors, or all the scared women who would try to do it outside a clinic if you don't provide them with a safe, legal atmosphere, or how the hell you're planning on enforcing all this, but life in potentia is much more important than those already alive. Them, we can let Cheney shoot at.

But, at least our female olympic skiers have good sense in tacky accessories, so we've got that going for us.

But feedback week sounds like love. I try to say something intelligent if I read a good fic, or even a bad one, but there are times when I just can't come up with anything. (Mostly because it's the third writer in a row who's left a note saying "no flames!1!" I probably wouldn't have flamed the material on its own, but with a snotty opener like that, I can't concentrate on your writing. Therefore, I'm hitting back without reviewing.)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

THat's quite what boggles me about some "pro-life" movements. They seem to think a blub of cells is more important than every other stage of life, judging by how they throw their weight and money around. *shakes head*

[roguem.livejournal.com]

Am kind of dissapointed by the Olympics, yes. But there has been a lot of illness, so.

Blackpool is fun, only seen bits and pieces. Funny.

Enjoy the movies! :)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was our time to get smacked some, eh?

You should see more. Yes.

[roguem.livejournal.com]

Evidently. Maybe next time. :)

I think so, yes.

[siraj.livejournal.com]

The Olympics have been interesting to watch (though it seems every time I change the channel to it, it's been nothing but figure skating...)

Re: South Dakota: Sweet Anubis, grant me the patience to not kill these assholes... yet...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Americans seem obsessed with figure skating. Oh well. To each their own.

[siraj.livejournal.com]

Give me hockey any day... at least there I can watch a good Olympic sport, and get my daily dose of international asskicking, considering that our sports channels don't show much footie, and they don't show cricket at all.