Idolatry

Kitsnaps: Idolatry

I don’t remember which church or cathedral this is (Kate might know–it could be the Kinsale church), but we stood around gapint at the ceiling for quite a long time. This is the…there’s a special word for it, but I donno what it is. The dome above the altar and all. I was looking straight upward to take the picture.

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Picoreview: Emma (Kate Beckinsale version)

Picoreview: Emma (Kate Beckinsale tv movie version, 1997): flawed, but not quite in the right ways. I just re-read EMMA last year, so the narrative is fairly fresh in my mind. The real problem with Kate Beckinsale’s Emma is that with one painful exception, Emma doesn’t come across as nearly as awful as she is in the book. Too much of her meddling and the emotional turmoil thereof is left off the screen for brevity’s sake, so I was left feeling she was more…misguided, rather than downright dreadful, which she…

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Best music video ever.

To quote someone on Twitter, “There’s a man in space posting David Bowie covers to his YouTube account and some people still need hover boards for it to be the future.” Bowie’s response? “CHRIS HADFIELD SINGS SPACE ODDITY IN SPACE! “Hallo Spaceboy…”” Commander Chris Hadfield is the best thing to happen to space exploration in decades, possibly ever. I hope he and his crew come home safely today.

Kitsnaps: Quiet Waters

Kitsnaps: Quiet Waters

This is another one taken while Emily was visiting, in a small town that I can’t remember the name of. Lovely waters, though. :)

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universes collide

One of the people I ran into at the Star Trek party the other night was there with her sister. They were both in costume, and one of them, Susan, mentioned that RTE had interviewed them because RTE was all OOH YEAH SISTERS SO YOU’RE A FAMILY OF TREKKIES RIGHT and stuff. Next morning, another friend of mine, Carol, said, “Hey, my sisters are the first story on RTE’s coverage of the Star Trek party!” WHUT I had no idea they were related. The moment it was revealed, however, it…

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