@missy   Love the kids and the coffee, and I have a horrible suspicion that they call me “Susan” because I’ve let my hair grow lately, and it makes look Susan-ish — ?  I’ve worn it short for years, but haven’t been able recently to find someone who can give it a decent cut, so piff.  Also, I’m curious to see if it changes at all now that the ro…[Read more]

@puroandson  Yes, purosolo, it does seem as if whatever you give them and no matter high the quality, they (that disdainful mob) really wanted something *else* — “fun” in its most familiar form, “magic” only if it doesn’t dance with not science, but an idea of science “appropriately” SFnl, but not too far-out, you know.  Bah.  They’re im…[Read more]

@missrori  Oh, ugh, sorry to hear about your disappointment at Comicon.  The thing is, I think, that however much comic books have “grown up” in recent decades (see Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series, for example, or the point at which the comic book Batman took a characterological dark turn that was supposed to change superhero comics forever), most c…[Read more]

@badwolf11  On Vestra’s veil — Moffat and his writers often use something that, to me, goes back to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books: the idea that people generally see what they’re used to seeing and expect to see, and miss the unexpected or misinterpret it as the expected anyway.  In a science fantasy show that works really well, of course, h…[Read more]

@missy  Thanks; of course!  See you over there.

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@missy  Hugs and all; it gets a but rocky up here in the mid-plus seventies, but f**k it, I ain’t dead yet!  2 miles on the treadmill at the gym Friday, that much at least tomorrow, trying to get the bones back in shape after lots of calcium loss.  Sleeping life away, as calcium is a soporofic, so . . . dopey, sleepy, lotsa coffee (great little sh…[Read more]

@missy  Gawd, sounds awful — a flu-like thing, is it?  Ugh.  Sympathies, especially for the depression after-gloom.  One good thing about having been officially grounded for most of this year (by post-op medical considerations) is not gadding about and coming home with illnesses from hot spots elsewhere in the country.  It’s been a healthy year…[Read more]

@pedant   But the puerile comments section was fun!  Wow, what a flame war over definitions of class, and over having flame wars about class.  I thought Guardian readers were supposed to be *smart* or something . . . Well, apart from venom-crazed DW anti-fans, that is.

@missy  I’d want to visit planet Earth as far into the future as it would tak…[Read more]

@janetteb  @blenkinsopthebrave  Yes yes yes about our companion animals; a deal is struck when you put down that food and water, and it’s a real deal or it’s nothing much, IMO.

@puroandson  Bronchial Pneumonia, *away with you!!*  There.   That should help?!!  Or, alternatively, good chicken  soup, made with bones and veg and lots of garlic and a nice big puffy and garlicky dumpling in the middle.

Now I’m hungry; at 10:30 pm, and whose fault is that, I ask you!

I looked up Existentialism, since it’s a long long time…[Read more]

@puroandson  “Coarse language” won’t hurt you.  It’s *lies* that do that . . . IMO.   Aaarrgh.  I want more Leftovers NOW.  Grump, growl.

Well, that gets me nowhere, doesn’t it.

puroandson   What mistakes?   If there are some, no biggie — everybody makes ’em, fortunately . . .

@mersey  I really like your gobelin — my kind of color scheme, or a major one of them.  I used to do needlepoint, and often worked with dark, dark blues and purples, with shimmers of pale in white, pale lemon, etc.

@puroandson   Gods yes, that scene is frightful — what it called up for me is the stabbing scene at the end of an Italian film about the Fascist period in Italy — years ago, and I can’t remember the title now, but it was bloody awful, the brute-physicality of it, unstoppable til it’s over and the awful deed is done.  I love the title sequence, t…[Read more]

@puroandson  — YES!  The Leftovers was also a recce from me, though maybe at a different time.  I love that show inordinately, can’t wait for the new season.  At last, something so barefacedly itself that it’s not predictable, but as wildly erratic as life itself, full of gob-smacking surprises that just have to be met and coped with by cha…[Read more]

@missy  @thedentistofdavros  Still watching, actually, 5th episode today, I think.  I’m not expecting any singing and dancing, but the story is, as Dentist says, very good and very well done.

Then, as recommended, I’ll watch some DW, and start smiling again.

@janetteb  Depressing?  You want depressing?  Anybody here watching a UK show called “River”, with Stellan Skarsgard as a detective in modern London trying to find out who shot his (probably unreliable) partner dead in the street.  Ghosts keep showing up, various dead folks (including the dead partner) — and not only do they not tell him sec…[Read more]