2012-05-02, 10:04 a.m.: I can't stop thinking about the lighthouse kitchen scene in 'Battle Royale' and am relishing the anticipation of watching it again. I'll put it off and draw it out just a while longer. Because that is the best thing. I just watched 'The Lives of Others' for the second time, and the wait was long and so worth it. I don't want to ruin that film by over-viewing.
And we just finished re-watching the third season of 'Avatar: The Last Airbender,' which is as perfect as a perfect television series could be, and I'm glad we waited so long. For one thing, the kids had completely forgotten having ever seen it at all. For another, they're old enough to relish all the different strengths, the masterstrokes, of the show (funny, moving, multi-layered, witty, self-referencing in the best way, visually stunning). I said to Atticus, "Remember when Oppa got up on his hind legs and started talking to Aang?" and we all three laughed and laughed and took turns imitating Oppa's dream-voice.
2012-01-08, 1:53 p.m.: A little spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. She was tending her "sides" like a veteran, but after I took the photo, the overseer came up and said in an apologetic tone that was pathetic, "She just happened in." Then a moment later he repeated the information. The mills appear to be full of youngsters that "just happened in," or " are helping sister." Dec. 3, 08. Witness Sara R. Hine. Location: Newberry, South Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine. (From the Wikipedia Commons page)
Watching the BBC version of 'North and South' (by 'Mrs.' Gaskell, aka Elizabeth Gaskell), and nothing seems to capture the essence of the thing, and its age, more than the above photo.
The severing of fingers was a danger, but what the workers mainly died of was so-called brown lung (byssinosis).
Stormsongs (aka the guy who most torments and obsesses over GRRM - yes! there is someone out there more obsessive than you when it comes to ASOIAF)Translationista
2011-12-27, 11:16 a.m.: It's the day after Boxing Day and so of course we are re-watching "The Lord of the Rings" in full ... or have started to at least.
2011-07-11, 12:21 a.m.: What's weird is finding old Bathsheba, vintage Bathsheba, on the Wayback Machine. Because the internet never goes away. At least it doesn't seem to be incriminating (and you can see the evolution of my HTML/design skills and sensibility):
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