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Moving
A bit of vagueposting regarding the state of LJ in the larger world...
The country that owns LJ may be shutting off Internet access soon. Not sure how that might affect LJ use, but I'm also over at DreamWidth, and plan on starting to post there in the future ( Read more... ) -
Goodness Gracious Me
Not really a trailer for this series, but this is their best know skit, "Going for an English".
This is some early work from Sanjeev Bhaskar, that ran from 1998 to 2001 on BBC Two. It's a skit show featuring British Asian actors, often reversing the roles with white British characters. The title comes from a comedy song of the same name ( Read more... ) -
Nightmare Alley (2021)
Guillermo Del Toro's latest is based on the 1946 novel of the same name, and is the second adaptation after a 1947 film. Del Toro always has a thing for monsters, but there are no literal ones in this one. As always, the human ones are the worst monsters ( Read more... ) -
The Indian Doctor (2010-2013)
I started watching this because I'd enjoyed Sanjeev Bhaskar's work in Unforgotten, and I'm rather charmed with it so far. Classic fish out of water type story, with the NHS in the 1960s recruiting doctors from countries that were current or former parts of the British Empire. So we have Prem Sharma, an Indian doctor, and his wife, Kamini, arriving ( Read more... ) -
Uranium glass 2
I posted last month about figuring out I had a uranium glass bowl after owning it for ~40 years. Since we didn't go anywhere for Christmas, I wasted a good amount of time online. Stumbled on a forum for people who collect uranium glass, and many were sharing pics of recent hauls and Christmas gifts ( Read more... ) -
Black Friday Bust
For several years now, I've set aside about 1/3 of the library's DVD budget to be spent during Black Friday sales. This year, that's $300. It's now the day after Black Friday, and I've spend less than $100. Last year there was the pandemic induced delay for, well, everything, so there just wasn't much newish stuff to go on sale, but this year is ( Read more... ) -
The latest in the Culture Wars
If you're in the US, or even watching the news about the US, you know about the so-called Culture Wars. Conservative media makes the claim that "traditional values" are under assault, such as saying that store employees are forbidden to say "Merry Christmas" to customers, which isn't true, but it makes their viewers angry and gets the media ratings ( Read more... ) -
Uranium glass
Back in the early 90s, I worked in a town that had several antique shops. One had a display of uranium glass, with a UV light that would cause it to glow. It was fascinating to me, but I never looked into buying any because I didn't have much money or space to keep what's essentially a knickknack ( Read more... ) -
LEGOmania
We had our first LEGO Club yesterday, with 10 kids from elementary through high school age attending, but the big news was a donation. Two LEGO tables (they have base plates on top) as well as an unbelievable about of LEGO. I'm taking a guesstimate based on the number of set instructions I found, but it's easily $500+ worth of product. That's the ( Read more... ) -
What did you do at work this week?
We're starting a STEM Club for our homeschool families, so I built a catapult out of craft sticks, rubber bands, and a plastic spoon. Also been showing co-worker our example crafts that were STEM related from the last few summer programs, and she's showing some interest. May see if she wants to present the program, at least some of the time. ( Read more... )
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