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My All-Around Favorite Thing of 2010
Sherlock
PSSSSSSSSH.
Why even ask?
It defies all categories. It defies all words that attempt to describe how beautiful, glorious, and all-around awesome it is. So I’m not even going to try.
Also, I’m thoroughly convinced that it has one of the most incredibly cool, most bizarre, and most inescapably creative fandoms in the world, a fandom I am proud to be an active observer a...
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My Favorite Album of 2010
The Age of Adz by Sufjan Stevens
And now for something completely different …
Oh, God, do I adore Sufjan Stevens. But my reaction to hearing about his latest album was mixed, at best—all reviews said that he had moved away from his banjo-driven breathily-sung depressing Americana story-ballads that I thought I loved so much. And they said that Adz was more of a mix between his...
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My Favorite Song of 2010
“Club Can’t Handle Me” by Flo Rida
Yeah.
Not my usual taste in music, I’ll admit.
I used to (still frequently do, actually) get this song stuck in my head while I was at work, at which point I would be overcome with the irresistible urge to dance. Which is really awkward when you work at a library and your co-workers already think you are excessively strange. I...
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My Favorite Television Show of 2010
Doctor Who
Yes, I have been an avowed fan of Doctor Who for the past two years. But Steven Moffat’s re-imagining and reworking of the show made it feel like a completely different show. It’s new everything—new Doctor, new companion(s), new TARDIS, new logo, new titles screen, new logo, even a new version of the theme song.
And somehow, it’s all better than the old to...
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DAMN STRAIGHT PBS TAUGHT ME EVERYTHING ABOUT LIFE.
ladyhistory:
READING RAINBOW. WISHBONE. SESAME STREET. MR. ROGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD. ARTHUR. CARMEN SANDIEGO. RANDOM AMAZING DOCUMENTARIES.
*HUGS CHANNEL*
TRUE.
Also adding: Kratt’s Creatures, Between the Lions, Nova, Doctor Who, and Sherlock (which have both taught me very important lessons in how to be awesome).
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A Winnowing Fork: The Charcoal We Cherish →
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About twenty minutes from where I live there is a road with mansion after mansion spread out amidst a towering canopy of mature, hardwood trees. This road is respectably referred to as “Pill Hill,” since only a doctor would have the means to buy such a splendid home. I happened to be driving…
Dear Winnowing Fork,
You might be my best friend, but sometimes I hate you. ...
December 2010
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My Favorite Musician of 2010
MIKA
I’ve noticed that my musical tastes have changed a lot within the past year. I’ve gone from listening to mostly hippie rock/1960s rock and roll in middle school to diversifying it a bit in high school by throwing in some seventies and eighties rock and pop (and some of the world’s most god-awful cheesy love songs—we’re looking at you, Paul McCartney) in high...
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My Favorite Person of 2010
Steven Moffat
Again, easy.
As a sort-of writer, I naturally admire writers very greatly. I’d always loved Moffat’s scripts during the Russell T. Davis years more than chocolate or video games or snow days or basically most things in the world, so I was more than a little excited when I found out that he was going to be the new showrunner for Doctor Who. And he DID NOT disappoint...
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My Favorite Movie of 2010
Toy Story 3
Easy.
Funny, impossibly sweet, deeply touching. My childhood revisited, just as I’m starting to become an adult.
Plus, I saw, like, three movies in the theaters in 2010, and Toy Story 3 was by far the best written, the best directed, and the best acted.
Clearly, I don’t get out enough.
Just watched it again tonight—oh, I weeped. And I am not a crier.
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My Favorite Thing I Learned To Do in 2010
DECOUPAGE!
I FREAKING LOVE TO DECOUPAGE!
DECOUPAGE ‘CAUSE THAT’S ALL I KNOW!
Seriously, though. Decoupaging is kind of amazingly fun. And I only started within this past month.
It started out when I tried to get crafty for Christmas this year and make my best friend (she’s The Winnowing Fork, if you’d be interested in giving her nice new shiny tumblelog a read) a...
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My Favorite Book of 2010
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer and Johannes Cabal the Detective by Jonathan L. Howard (Because, really, did you think I could pick just one?)
I am an English major. I really should have something more literary (or, at the very least, something less obscure) as my favorite book of 2010. I really should be saying:
My favorite book of 2010 was George Eliot’s brilliant The Mill on the...
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Just another brick in the Wall
Got home from work at the local library not too long ago (where I mostly just shelve books). I had completely forgotten that in the few short days between being off for Christmas and being off for New Year’s they were building a Wall. IN the library. It’s part of what is probably a futile attempt to prevent the demonic toddlers who get left in the children’s section to play...
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That moment when you realize you just wasted...
We’re looking at you, George Eliot.
(Note that Ernie is amused by the death of Maggie Tulliver.)
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That moment when you realize you just wasted...
We’re looking at you, George Eliot.
(Note that Ernie is amused by the death of Maggie Tulliver.)
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So, apparently, I'm an idiot.
And I still don’t know how to work Tumblr right.
That last post was supposed to be put up on New Year’s Eve, with all my favorites posts (as yet unwritten) following after it at various times during the day. OBVIOUSLY, I FAILED AT THAT.
Because I really don’t know how the queue and stuff is supposed to work, and don’t have the patience to learn properly, so I’m...
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My Favorite Things of 2010
Looking back at the past year the week leading up to New Year’s Eve, I am creating a list of my favorite things (love the generic terms) of 2010. After all, if Oprah can have a “Favorite Things” list, why can’t I? The biggest difference is that I will not be giving my audience all of my favorite things for free, because some of them are more ideas than material things,...
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My Favorite Things of 2010
Looking back at the past year the week leading up to New Year’s Eve, I am creating a list of my favorite things (love the generic terms) of 2010. After all, if Oprah can have a “Favorite Things” list, why can’t I? The biggest difference is that I will not be giving my audience all of my favorite things for free, because some of them are more ideas than material things,...
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Today marks my two year anniversary of becoming a devout Doctor Who fan. To celebrate, I am currently staying up WAY TOO LATE in order to watch “A Christmas Carol,” which I haven’t seen yet because my parents don’t have premium cable or satellite packages.
Hell, they don’t even have cable or satellite at all. IT’S LIKE THE FLIPPIN’ STONE AGE.
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Crowley
An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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Something old, something new, something borrowed,...
So, after a couple of glasses of wine about a week ago, I came up with this idea for a Christmas card. Which I then sent to a good friend of mine, because I thought she might appreciate it.
Which she did.
Holmes: Brilliant! Yes! Ah, four serial suicides and now a note. Oh, it’s Christmas!
Watson: No, Holmes, that’s nothing like Christmas. Christmas is the one with Mary and...
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Brotherly Love, the Brothers Cabal Style
Horst: With all the best will in the world, Johannes, you're as much fun as a leper at an orgy.
Johannes: Why are all your similes sexual? That always irritated me.
Horst: You've just answered your own question.
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“I endeavored to cheer and amuse her by reminiscences of my adventures in...”
– Dr. John Watson, The Sign of Four
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Oh, Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream
Had the strangest but most adorable dream last night.
The first one I’ve had to date, that I can remember, about Sherlock. Which is really surprising.
But then, I’ve not been able to remember my dreams for a long time, which is disappointing, because I love dreaming. So perpetually fascinating, what your mind, the subconscious pairing with the wildest bits of the imagination (yes,...
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Johannes Cabal is Sarcastic
Old Man: Neat, eh? Goes down a bomb at parties.
Cabal: Really? I'll have to hold a soiree just to impress my friends.
Old Man: You haven't got any friends.
Cabal: I'm not holding a soiree, either. You have a problem with sarcasm, don't you?
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The Blog at the End of the Universe.: So,... →
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So, apparently, December 20th was the day that My Grand State, South Carolina, first seceded from the Union in 1860. The event that basically started the Civil War, which resulted in the death of several thousand people and the virtual destruction of a very young country’s fledgling economy, and…
I really love it when people have no respect for the history or...
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So, apparently, December 20th was the day that My Grand State, South Carolina, first seceded from the Union in 1860. The event that basically started the Civil War, which resulted in the death of several thousand people and the virtual destruction of a very young country’s fledgling economy, and nearly said young country itself.
And people are out, bloody celebrating this event tonight. ...
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We will never stop making fun of Billie Piper's...
Rose Tyler: (on the television screen) Planet Earth . . .
Me: Planet which was that?
Brother: I think she said "planet Urf." You know, U-R-F.
Me: OH. And where, exactly, is planet Urf?
Brother: God only knows . . .
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Brother of Mine on Granada Sherlock Holmes
Brother: HI. WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Me: Watching "Sherlock Holmes." Would you like to join me? Even though you hate Sherlock Holmes.
Brother: Sure, I'll join you, watching the boring British people. "Oh, this is so boring, Holmes." "Tut tut, I do agree my dear Watson, I am bored indeed." And then the maid starts crying, she's so bored.
Me: (shame-faced because it's true) It's not boring. Leave me alone.
Brother: No.
Me: Then stop making fun of it! Why don't you go do something else?
Brother: No one around this house is drunk enough or high enough to be any fun.
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Accomplished today?
Finished two books
Started two more books
Christmas lunch at grandparents (I’m still pretending that this didn’t happen)
Made a very silly Christmas card for a friend
Played WAY TOO MUCH “Machinarium”
Photocopied an Ugly Doll (the result, fyi, looks like a mug shot)
Watched some Granada Holmes
Decorated my bed for Christmas
Still need to do?
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“What you do in the world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what...”
– Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet
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“Hoity-toity, Mr. Godlike Smarty-Pants.”
– Rizzio the Rat to Gonzo the Great Charles Dickens, in The Muppets Christmas Carol
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The fundamental interconnectedness of all things
I’ve spent nearly half of my life wishing ardently I was British. To a dissatisfied American, I just suppose everything seems better in Great Britian—the name does imply it, after all.
The National Health, the gun control (gasp—did I just get political?), the accents, the music, the pawky humor, the swear words (okay, I use those anyway), the books … Just everything.
But...
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A note about the title
It’s basically a Doctor Who-inspired riff off of Douglas Adams. In short, I can claim absolutely no credit for it.
Douglas Adams once wrote a book, as part of his hilarious Hitchhiker’s Trilogy, entitled The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Which end of the Universe this restaurant was located at is still a matter of some debate among fans.
Furthermore, the third season of...
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We are not what you say we are--we are golden
So.
I had this idea about nine months ago—I became metaphorically pregnant with it, so to speak. And I figured, given that the usual gestation period is nine months, it was about time that I had my baby.
And my baby happens to be this blog. Yay.
And I figured that the only proper way to start off with my (undoubtedly idiosyncratic) blogging was to, perhaps, basically kind of outline...