When I first saw the image of this newly-discovered monkey, my mind immediately skipped to the old iconography/paintings with the long noses, wide eyes and sad faces. I saw this icon of Mary on Pinterest and stuck them together. See what I mean?

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OMG I CAN"T WAIT! It looks GORGEOUS! Ann Hathaway sounds amazing. Everyone sounds amazing. They're already giving me the shivers. And I can't wait to hear Russell Crowe doing Javert's low bits. EEEEEeeEEeeeEEEEEEE!

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I can't... This makes me so happy! From the books to the saving of such a beautiful piece of architecture OMGAWESOME ( Read more... )

Voting day today in HK. There's been some tricky fiddling with the number of people in government and lip service about lessening the voting power of the corporations (weird legacy of colonial rule), so everybody has to vote twice today ( Read more... )

What other show gets this kind of approval from EVERY top critic (spoiler: all but 1 gave it 100/100)

http://www.metacritic.com/tv/breaking-bad/season-5/critic-reviews

And now I have to go and watch The Wire. Apparently.

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This is the first time I've ever seen the observatory PREDICT A LOOP-THE-LOOP track for a typhoon!


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It's nice to see everybody relaxing after their BBBs - it's been pretty quiet round here for a few weeks ( Read more... )

Hmmm.... there's a treefrog in my living room behind the curtain. Quite a big one. Advice on getting it out pleeeez?? I don't want to hurt it - frogs are my favourite! But there's nothing for it to eat in here!

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1. I caught up with commenting on BBB fics (only 20 left to read! ... uh. Slow reading FTW). I kinda left the longer ones till last. Must force myself to finish those before I start on the next wave ( Read more... )

ETA: ^&(** you Soundcloud and your crappy embedding

http://soundcloud.com/modulogeek/walking

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