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1. Hee -- Jon Snow emails 23&Me for DNA and then proceeds to argue with them about his results - from McSweeny's.
2. Apparently Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are adapting Rivers of London for Television
3. Hmmm...I'm beginning to wonder if putting off seeing Endgame to May 18th was wise? The media has gone nuts. Can't see it this weekend in any event -- getting tv.
Flist has a million articles on Endgame -- okay, granted they are mainly only two or three people. The majority of my flist doesn't post -- only about five people do continuously. Everyone else, lurks.
( Read more... )
My kitchen sink keeps making weird grumbling noises. It does that from time to time, I'd think it was possessed -- but I don't believe ghosts reside in kitchen sinks.
4. Television
* Killing Eve
Me: So someone online decided that Killing Eve was basically Buffy and Dru going off on a wild affair, while Angel and Darla oversee them. Buffy is skipping out on her hubby Riley.
Mother: Don't see it. The shows are completely different. It's comparing an apple to an orange. No similarities at all.
Me: Well, some people like comparing apples and oranges.
Mother: And get garbage.
Sigh. I actually can see it -- although I think it's more Giles and Ethan, hanging out in the background. With Xander (Nikko) flirting with the Teacher (Anya) in the background. But I admittedly think differently than my mother does.
I give my mother a pass, she is recovering from a bad cold. My father is better though. So there's that. He's enjoying his art classes and wandering about with a cane. Which, hmmm, could be dangerous, now that I think about it.
Anyhow back to Killing Eve. I'm enjoying it, but I do find the plot hare-brained at times.
* I gave on Riverdale finally. Just didn't appear to be really headed anywhere.
* Still enjoying 9-1-1, is anyone watching this but me?
5. Books
Gave up on Wake of Vultures -- too dark and depressing, not to mention graphic. And went back to fluffy romance. I have to read the news every day and deal with crazy-ass workplace, I've got my limits.
Picked up some comics -- via comixology (which is as dangerous as the Kindle for similar reasons -- it was better when I had to go out of my way for the things). Intended to just get The Uncanny X-men issue 16, but ended up picking up Boom!Comics Angel 0, along with Prisoner X #3. Still haven't read Issue #2 of Prisoner X.
I got curious about Angel 0 -- the description is the vampire with a soul discovers that he can get his humanity back if he kills a certain vampire slayer (who he hasn't met), will he? And I'm thinking...okay..wait...WHAT? And also WTF are these crazy writers doing with this series? ( Read more... )
Also picked up another Kindle Daily Deal -- this one isn't a romance novel, if anything it's the opposite. It's a mystery novel, entitled "The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massy. (It's no longer on sale, sorry. I got it for 1.99, but it's back to 9.99...you have to be quick. Hence the reason I have 622 books I haven't read, I keep clicking on Kindle Daily deals. Yes, I'm nickle and diming myself to death with book deals.)
Anyhow..
Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes women's legal rights especially important to her.
Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. But as Perveen examines the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have signed over their full inheritance to a charity. What will they live on? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the widows has signed her form with an X—meaning she probably couldn't even read the document. The Farid widows live in full purdah—in strict seclusion, never leaving the women's quarters or speaking to any men. Are they being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? Perveen tries to investigate, and realizes her instincts were correct when tensions escalate to murder. Now it is her responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that no innocent women or children are in further danger.
Inspired in part by the woman who made history as India's first female attorney, The Widows of Malabar Hill is a richly wrought story of multicultural 1920s Bombay as well as the debut of a sharp new sleuth.
What can I say? It looked different.
2. Apparently Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are adapting Rivers of London for Television
3. Hmmm...I'm beginning to wonder if putting off seeing Endgame to May 18th was wise? The media has gone nuts. Can't see it this weekend in any event -- getting tv.
Flist has a million articles on Endgame -- okay, granted they are mainly only two or three people. The majority of my flist doesn't post -- only about five people do continuously. Everyone else, lurks.
( Read more... )
My kitchen sink keeps making weird grumbling noises. It does that from time to time, I'd think it was possessed -- but I don't believe ghosts reside in kitchen sinks.
4. Television
* Killing Eve
Me: So someone online decided that Killing Eve was basically Buffy and Dru going off on a wild affair, while Angel and Darla oversee them. Buffy is skipping out on her hubby Riley.
Mother: Don't see it. The shows are completely different. It's comparing an apple to an orange. No similarities at all.
Me: Well, some people like comparing apples and oranges.
Mother: And get garbage.
Sigh. I actually can see it -- although I think it's more Giles and Ethan, hanging out in the background. With Xander (Nikko) flirting with the Teacher (Anya) in the background. But I admittedly think differently than my mother does.
I give my mother a pass, she is recovering from a bad cold. My father is better though. So there's that. He's enjoying his art classes and wandering about with a cane. Which, hmmm, could be dangerous, now that I think about it.
Anyhow back to Killing Eve. I'm enjoying it, but I do find the plot hare-brained at times.
* I gave on Riverdale finally. Just didn't appear to be really headed anywhere.
* Still enjoying 9-1-1, is anyone watching this but me?
5. Books
Gave up on Wake of Vultures -- too dark and depressing, not to mention graphic. And went back to fluffy romance. I have to read the news every day and deal with crazy-ass workplace, I've got my limits.
Picked up some comics -- via comixology (which is as dangerous as the Kindle for similar reasons -- it was better when I had to go out of my way for the things). Intended to just get The Uncanny X-men issue 16, but ended up picking up Boom!Comics Angel 0, along with Prisoner X #3. Still haven't read Issue #2 of Prisoner X.
I got curious about Angel 0 -- the description is the vampire with a soul discovers that he can get his humanity back if he kills a certain vampire slayer (who he hasn't met), will he? And I'm thinking...okay..wait...WHAT? And also WTF are these crazy writers doing with this series? ( Read more... )
Also picked up another Kindle Daily Deal -- this one isn't a romance novel, if anything it's the opposite. It's a mystery novel, entitled "The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massy. (It's no longer on sale, sorry. I got it for 1.99, but it's back to 9.99...you have to be quick. Hence the reason I have 622 books I haven't read, I keep clicking on Kindle Daily deals. Yes, I'm nickle and diming myself to death with book deals.)
Anyhow..
Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes women's legal rights especially important to her.
Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. But as Perveen examines the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have signed over their full inheritance to a charity. What will they live on? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the widows has signed her form with an X—meaning she probably couldn't even read the document. The Farid widows live in full purdah—in strict seclusion, never leaving the women's quarters or speaking to any men. Are they being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? Perveen tries to investigate, and realizes her instincts were correct when tensions escalate to murder. Now it is her responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that no innocent women or children are in further danger.
Inspired in part by the woman who made history as India's first female attorney, The Widows of Malabar Hill is a richly wrought story of multicultural 1920s Bombay as well as the debut of a sharp new sleuth.
What can I say? It looked different.