*taptap* This thing on? Okay, I've tried doin' the blog thing twice and lost interest faster than a fat guy like me confronted with a salad bar. Maybe the third time'll work.
Today's Kvetch Event: the 200-meter Don't Say It Unless You Mean It. I think we can each supply a metric asston of our own examples, so I'm not going to sully your day by dumping my freshest experience with jackassery on you. Just picture your own and I'll say, "Yeah, it's pretty much like that."
Extra Bonus Kvetch: The What Are You, A Reptile? relay. Ninety degrees in the shade here, with a heapin' helpin' of Hephæstus-humpingly high humidity slopped all over it. Not a fit day out for man nor beast. So what do I hear on the radio? Some lizard proclaiming it to be "gorgeous weather". Seriously? Are you cold-blooded? Is the circulation in your extremities zero?
FEH.
In the non-medal events: If you're reading anything posted anywhere by me, chances are good we share at least something in the reading-preferences department. Sci-fi, fantasy, something under that geekbrella. I'm not ordinarily a reader of stuff that doesn't at least resemble that übergenre; I'm not bashing other stuff, mind you, just admitting that most other things leave me a bit cold. Period pieces? Meh. Jargon-heavy stuff? Even with a college background in physics, megahard SF generally annoys me; if you can't work the hard science into the story less baldly, you need to fix that. So it'll come as something of a surprise to find that I'm thoroughly sucked into the Aubrey-Maturin series (the books that gave rise to the Master and Commander movie). Twenty frakkin' books (which is another thing I tend to stay away from; super-long series usually stumble horribly, in my experience)... and here I am, almost halfway through it.
It's so good that I've gone beyond my usual nebulous mental image of characters and planted myself firmly in Ideal Casting mode. As much as I enjoyed Paul Bettany in the movie's Maturin role, I can't help but see Jonny Lee Miller in the role now (yes, largely influenced by the description of Maturin's appearance, but I'm firmly convinced he can pull off the elevated snark that makes Maturin so enjoyable; Miller's work in Elementary entertains the snot out of me). And Diana Villiers? Jaime Murray, absolutely. I would watch HELL out of a serial with those two in those roles.
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