Foolish Friday Frippery

[susie_flo]

Dear fiends, the new Doctor Who is confusing me... I can't work out whether he is attractive or ugly. What do you think?




[Poll #1540077]

Moving on...

Tomorrow I'm heading to Sidmouth for a long weekend visiting G's mum. In time-honoured fashion, the weather forecast predicts rain. This happens EVERY time G and I head towards Sidmouth, even in the middle of summer.  We clearly haz power over the weather... in the most rubbish way possible. (If any of you have special days planned that would be ruined by rain, you'd better let me know so that I don't plan a Sidmouth trip).

For some reason I'm taking FOREVER to get into the third Steig Larsson book...  my mind keeps wandering so I have to re-read paragraphs. The chapters focusing on Salander are gripping, which makes it jarring every time we have to switch back to Blomkvist and Berger and the internal politics of their rather smug-sounding magazine.  I hear it has some dazzling twisty turns so I guess I just need to get past all of the set-up chapters dealing with the back-stories of new characters.

Anyhoo, I hope you lot have fabulous weekend plans. 

Feel free to tell me something interesting.   My brain is starved...

Comments

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

In response to Siobhan... do you really fancy someone called Jethro?

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I think I'd call him by his surname instead - but yes it is the character Jethro Gibbs as played by Mark 'really quite delicious' Harmon in NCIS.

I like to think I bring a whole new depth to the word shallow.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

The shallower the better, so say I!

I can't even think of a sexy-sounding diminutive that might improve Jethro. neither 'Thro nor Jeth does it for me. (Anything beyond that is entering the terrble realm of things like "Jetthers", "J-ster!" and "J-man!")

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Me and Mr Pops are off to Bletchley Park at some godforsaken hour in the morning. I have to be up and dressed and ready for 7am...on a saturday.

As for interesting - (well interesting to me anyway) Liberace's mother worked in a cookie factory to support him and pay for his piano lessons when he was little.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'd quite like to go to Bletchley Park... (though not at 7am!)
Would be interested to hear about it when you get back.

As for Liberace, having a poor mother working for his piano lessons somehow makes him sound like an bigger prima donna :-)

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I don't know how you can use the phrase 'prima donna' to describe Saint Liberace of Diamonds, Sequins and Facelifts To Look More Like Me If You Are My Unmentionable Boyfriend. ;-)

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

And Elton John is in NO WAY the Liberace du jour. Not at all.

[tvted.livejournal.com]

Do not despair on the Stig book 3 front. It is a completely different book to the other 2. Its much more about dialog and intweeg than action. The Berger sub-plot did bug me though in a way but there are a couple of super great twists. The other thing was that a number of people had similar sounding names so I had to keep track of who was who all the time.

I finished this book called the Cemetary of Secrets set in Venice. I LOVED IT! I was gripped from start to finish.

Onto the new Dr....he is an odd one and I am hoping he doesn't try to be David Tennant's Dr Who or that will get on my t!ts big time. Wonder if they will ever have a stay at home cuddling a few kittens and watching TV Dr Who? Oh yeah...that would be me!...

Well back to doing some faux work

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Ok, I will have faith and stop tutting every time I have to read a Berger sub-plot. She always seems a bit superfluous... but I will wait and see.

I quite fancied the idea of Patterson Joseph as The Doctor... (but deep down I was really just amused by the idea of him being played as Johnson from Peep Show)

[tvted.livejournal.com]

I quite fancy Patterson full stop!

[childeric.livejournal.com]

X Too young and with strange hair

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I know what u mean, though according to a Times Review I spotted today he manages to somehow gain gravitas by the end of the first episode.

[steer.livejournal.com]

"Oh my god doctor, the artificial gravitas has failed! We're drifting out of control."

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I do hope that gravitas is by the addition of concrete weights to his ankles and being dropped in a canal. I've only seen him onscreen for about 5 seconds but that was enough for me to decide he was decidedly yuck and I probably won't bother watching.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Have to confess I initially had the same reaction to Ecclestone and Tennant, but then I ended up quite liking both of them against my initial judgement.

So I'm trying to be more open minded about the new boy (even though they should have given it to someone lovely like Anthony Head instead of wasting him on that crap evil headmaster episode.)

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I really quite fancied Eccleston from the word go - and still do (apart from he has a beard and looks rubbish) and I liked Tennant at first but then his facepulling school of acting got on my nerves - well that and the increasingly silly storylines. I wish Catherine Tate was still in it though - she was v good indeed.

My brother describes RTD Dr Who as a 'sh+t sandwich without the bread' and I think he might have a point.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

There are times when I am tempted to agree with your brother, but in fairness to RTD I think he did some good for the series, via the whole reboot. His 'comedy' episodes are generally unforgivable though.

I tend to prefer Moffat's episodes, but I'm a bit concerned upon hearing that he plans to bring back the statues from 'Blink'. (I'd far prefer it if he left well alone and had a new idea instead.)

As for Ecclestone... ewness! You could put me in solitary sex-starved confinement for 20 years and then introduce him as the last man on earth and I still wouldn't find him attractive.

(PS - I agree with you re: Tennant/face-pulling school of acting)

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I loved Blink too:-)

Yay for you not liking Mr Eccleston - as this means I won't have to come to some kind of timeshare arrangement with you like Jane and I have re David Mitchell.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

I really quite fancied Eccleston from the word go

Bernie Ecclestone?

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

LOL - Isn't he tiny enough to fit in your handbag or is it that his wife is very tall?

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Both, I believe.

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

You could always make him stand on his wallet though ;-)

[stimpy-lfs.livejournal.com]

I would never choose to watch Doctor Who but being the parent of a six year old, its hard to avoid endless episodes, and I've sat there time after time watching David Tennant gurning through all those stupid dilemmas. He gurns more with each series. He'll spend his retirement gurning through a horse harness thing I reckon.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Well yes, but we've all been that in our time.

[sara-lou.livejournal.com]

If you want to drop in for lunch / coffee / afternoon tea on your way there or back, let me know!

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (Let me confer with G about our timings and I will let u know).
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