sundries

[rm]

Food yesterday: 1 cherry bakewell tart without the maraschino cherry (which I gave to Patty because I think they are gross), 1 vitamin water (defense flavor), 1 fruit roll-up, 9 mini chicken tacos with salsa, 1 strawberry frozen yogurt with chocolate sprinkles and coconut, a handful of chocolate covered pomegranate jelly candies, 1 slice of swiss cheese, 1 slide of cheddar cheese, 2.5 bratwursts with mustard (no bun), spinach cooked with garlic, shallots and sweet peppers, 1 glass of apple raspberry juice, more of the pomegranate candies.

Poor Patty has jury duty today.

If you want an abortion in Okalahoma, even if you've been raped, you will now need to watch an ultrasound of your pregnancy and basically be told how cute your baby is. Not cool.

Lovely article from a straight, cis-woman engaged to a transman that gets to so many things about gender and love and expectations and everything else. via usullusa.

Mississippi high school pretends that lesbian who wore a tux in her senior photo never existed. The school claims there is legal precedent to support its decision.

Haiti, now that we've started to forget.

New York City as a lab for nearly-lost languages.

I'm messing around with ad.ly in Twitter. We'll see if it's good/evil/weird/useful. I do like that I can approve or deny each individual advertiser, versus just the category battles I have with Adsense.

Last night it was back to Angel Yet again, the guy who plays Wesley is such a good actor. I feel like he got cast in Buffy because he was funny and looked just right for the part and then they discovered he was AMAZING and he sort of became the go to guy when the whole thing with Glenn Quinn went down. Because SO AWESOME. He can turn on a fucking dime.

Meanwhile, the problem with the Darla plotline is that I don't actually care about her, nor do I care about Angel's obsession with her. I do care about Wes and Cordelia having to put up with Angel's obsession with her, however.

I thought "The Trial" was extremely well done, but in the last test thought it got kind of obvious. Of course it was about accepting death to win life. Whether that was the right call (eventhough it worked) for Angel to make though is highly debatable. The tester wasn't wrong that Angel probably has a greater contribution to make and while a man can't decide who's life is more valuable, someone who is Leading a Team Against Evil -- well that's his fucking job, you know? But that all worked out.

EXCEPT IT DIDN'T! Holy crap, I thought Darla accepting the symmetry of her life and death was so lovely and then fucking Dru shows up! Holy crap.

Also: I hate Cordy's new haircut, but the Wolfram & Hart slimeball's new haircut is awesome sauce.

Finally: Why is David Boreanaz a better actor when he's playing Angel acting, than when he's just playing Angel?

Comments

[eandh99.livejournal.com]

Naked. We could have pics of them naked on stage together. That's how the play used to open, them in bed.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Wait. WHAT?

[eandh99.livejournal.com]

You did not know this story? Barrowman tells it - how the play opens with him and Denisof in bed, he gets out of bed naked and spends much of the first act that way. So Scott got to see the merchandise as it were before they met (introduced by a mutual friend in the dressing room, Barrowman again naked). I can look up the exact text when I get home, I own his biography. Yeah, fangirl, sue me.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oh, I knew all of that, except the part where Denisof was in it too. That's so bizarre.

[eandh99.livejournal.com]

Other than a few b/w pics, there seems to be very little record of this play, and yet given the cast: ASH, Denisof, Barrowman, there really should be more out there.

[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

It was Chichester Festival Theatre and it looks as though they changed the cast bigstyle when it transferred to the West End; not sure if that was because of them having other commitments or of none of the cast being that well known at the time (ASH was still "the man from the Gold Blend coffee adverts" in 1993)

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

And me with my TARDIS out of order. Darnit!

[bugeyedmonster.livejournal.com]

Darnit, I wanna go too!

[bugeyedmonster.livejournal.com]

Sory gbut hte image of nekiid Denisof and Barrowman has metled my brian and I can no longer psell...

[eandh99.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know, the mond biggles doesn't it?

[bugeyedmonster.livejournal.com]

And my reading ability goes as well. I'm like "what wiggles? Oh the mind boggles... ergh."

Oh, did you ever hear Eve Myles talk about that bit where Gwen walks in on Ianto and Jack in the hothouse? lol (Y'know, that scene where she appears to have trouble looking up and keeps looking down. lol!)

[eandh99.livejournal.com]

Yes, and the story about the quarry scene - where both Eve's and Gareth's faces are priceless, partly because of what John is using to protect his feet from the stones.