Me: You know the BBC Pride and Prejudice and the Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy wet shirt in the lake scene?

Her: Yes.

Me: Want to see it recreated with Cumberbatch?

Her: YES!

Me: Here you go.

Her: Oh. That's... that's lovely.

Can you tell any reason at all why my office mate and I are such wonderful friends?

What do you do with items that are ruined in one way but still perfect in every other respect ( Read more... )

I've decided to change things around a little bit again as I keep running out of time to get the post finished most weekends. I'm going to try to stick with every two weeks for downloads but separate out downloading and what I've listened to into two separate posts and maybe only do listened once a month or whenever the mood strikes me to right ( Read more... )

OMG, y'all!! There's going to be a BBC Radio adaptation of Good Omens! Hooray!!

Armageddon tale Good Omens, written by Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, is set to be adapted for radio for the first time.

The six-part drama, which will star Mark Heap and Peter Serafinowicz, will air on BBC Radio 4 in December.
Source and a bit more info.Given ( Read more... )

I finished a game box insert, my second one, for Agricola (my first insert - for Small World - is here). Agricola is a fairly standard worker placement game which, as is often the case with worker placement games, has lots of little bits and pieces shared by all players and lots of little bits and pieces exclusive to each individual player. That ( Read more... )

More pictures from the Lego convention. This post is just random geeky stuff. It includes Batman, Ghostbusters, Video Games, Harry Potter Quidditch, Simpsons, Munchkin, Thriller zombies, and whatever else I've forgotten. There are more pictures than last time ( Brit Comedies post here) so I've posted smaller sized ones here but you should be able to ( Read more... )

I'll get more Lego pics up, hopefully tomorrow. Tonight I went to see Only Lovers Left Alive, which came out ages ago but never came to a local big theatre and just came to my local artsy theatre. For those who don't know, Only Lovers Left Alive is an atmospheric, moody film about a vampire couple living in modern Detroit and Tangiers with Tilda ( Read more... )

Listened To: Blocked pilot, Bleak Expectations 4, and Nebulous 2

Coming Up: Lots of dramatizations including Dark Tower (the Browning poem not the Stephen King series), a Dickens (Our Mutual Friend), a Virginia Woolf (Lighthouse), and the complete Pepys diary collection.
Lots of good radio plays or adaptation of stage plays by some of my favorite ( Read more... )

I'm working my way through the Lego convention photos. I started with Brit Comedies as it was a smallish set. Winchester Tavern from Shaun of the Dead, apartment from Spaced, Fawlty Towers Hotel, and a Monty Python's Holy Grail diorama. You can click on any pic to embiggen ( Read more... )

I've got a new craft to go with an old hobby: making game box inserts to organize all the pieces. My first project was Small World. Small World is a game with lots of little bits and pieces to represent the many different fantasy races and their powers that players can be and they all need to be kept separate for ease of play.

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