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Inhumans, Musketeers, and other things.
There really is a lot of really good TV happening at the moment. It's making winter much more bearable!
Agents of Shield
( Mid-season finale (yes, I only just watched it!) ) -
The Musketeers
I feel like The Musketeers has really stepped up its game this season. Season One was mostly frothy, inconsequential fun. Much as I enjoyed it, it occasionally veered into nonsense territory and there were too many minor characters doing BBC Bit Part acting (see, many gurning peasants in Merlin.) The creators knowing that the show was going to be ( Read more... ) -
It's baaaaaack!
The Musketeers is back tomorrow in a slightly weird Friday night slot, and I've been celebrating by spending the last couple of days rewatching season one.
( Season one ramblings ) -
Top 10 books of 2014
These aren't ten books written in 2014 because... I very rarely buy books as soon as they come out. But onwards!
The Dyke and the Dybbuk - Ellen Galford
A warm and witty story about a Jewish lesbian London cabbie, her rambunctious family, and the dybbuk that haunts her.
Flora Segunda of Crackpot Hall - Ysabeau S Wilce
Although I thought the later ( Read more... ) -
Some recent comics reading
Bitch Planet #1 - Kelly Sue Deconnick's new SF women's prison story. I like this a whole lot. It has a tense, dystopian atmosphere and it's explicitly feminist in a way that feels really exciting. There are two characters (Penelope & Kamau) that I already love, and I'm fascinated to see where the story is going to go.
Secret Six #1 - a shake-up of ( Read more... ) -
Can it be the Christmas hols now?
I am knackered. I've been up stupidly early the last couple of days to clear out of the way before the boiler guys arrive (boring heating update: I have new radiators! They just...aren't connected to anything.) And tomorrow I have to go on a three-day residential work event, which I'm sure will be fine, but which the introvert in me isn't ( Read more... ) -
You gotta live a little
Last night I roasted a chicken with a sort of peri peri rub, and now I have a lot of delicious chicken left-overs. Unfortunately, while I was searching for flour to make the gravy, I discovered that a lot of my dried goods had been eaten by the Giant Rats of Sumatra (OK, the Tiny Mice of South London), who had also taken the opportunity to shit all ( Read more... ) -
Mockingjay part 1
I went to see Mockingjay at West India Quay last night (side note: that area is currently full of life-size models of trees made out of fairy lights, and is looking seriously gorgeous at night) and I mostly really liked it.
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This turned into a five things post
I went to see Frank (frnk!) Iero and his band play last week, and had an awful lot of feelings. It was a tiny venue, and when he came on and started singing he briefly sounded so much like Gerard that I had to sort of clutch at sandwich_armada hopelessly. At one point a dude in the audience yelled "stop being so cute!" at him, which I think about ( Read more... )