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I'm back at work today, still a little giddy and breathless, but in desperate need of catching up, so we'll see how we go.
But that's not what I'm posting to tell you. Actually, this is mainly for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xparrot, naye and gnine, as well as other Man from UNCLE folks out there.
Solo behind the Iron Curtain
I really hope you guys can stream BBC Radio 4! Summary:
Tracy Spottiswoode's thriller is based on real events in 1968.
Actor Robert Vaughn, famous at the time as TV spy Napoleon Solo, is making a movie in Prague with several other Hollywood stars. Filming stops abruptly, however, when Russian tanks roll into Czechoslovakia. Cast and crew find themselves trapped. The Man from UNCLE must find a way to escape, and quickly.
Starring Robert Vaughan as himself (and in an awesome picture at the website, but that's by the by). I haven't listened yet, so it could be awful, but I wanted to flag it up before it disappears. According to the site, there are 5 days left to listen. Enjoy!
But that's not what I'm posting to tell you. Actually, this is mainly for
xparrot, naye and gnine, as well as other Man from UNCLE folks out there.Solo behind the Iron Curtain
I really hope you guys can stream BBC Radio 4! Summary:
Tracy Spottiswoode's thriller is based on real events in 1968.
Actor Robert Vaughn, famous at the time as TV spy Napoleon Solo, is making a movie in Prague with several other Hollywood stars. Filming stops abruptly, however, when Russian tanks roll into Czechoslovakia. Cast and crew find themselves trapped. The Man from UNCLE must find a way to escape, and quickly.
Starring Robert Vaughan as himself (and in an awesome picture at the website, but that's by the by). I haven't listened yet, so it could be awful, but I wanted to flag it up before it disappears. According to the site, there are 5 days left to listen. Enjoy!
The subject line explains the spamming. Apologies to the flist, and I promise to use "ETA" from now on.
We all know that my general klutziness is one of the things that makes me a danger to myself and others - an inability to walk through doors rather than into them, a tendency to forget to swipe open locked doors and hence bash my nose on them, and a complete ignorance as to where the exact edges of the bookcases are all mean that I really, really wish all the sharp corners of the world should be padded. And while I'm usually covered in bruises, today is the first time the books have drawn blood. I scraped my hand along the corner of a book and have a nice graze, right along the knuckle, just enough to make typing really, really painful. Ow!
Also, the second part of Stephen Fry's series on the English language is about Quotation, and is just as brilliant as the first. As Dorothy L Sayers puts it "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought" and therefore I absolutely love it. My brain retains quotations much more easily than anything else, which is both useful and annoying (remembering my PIN would be a whole lot more helpful). I'm perfectly capable of holding entire conversations almost entirely in quotations, mostly from Buffy and the Discworld, and it's incredibly useful when you can't think what else to say. There should be a link to the programme from the Radio 4 website.
So tell me, oh wise and wonderful flist, what's your favourite quote? Or your top three? I'm hard-pushed to choose, but if I have to?
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
ETA: I'm going to update as we go, so come and add yours!
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson viadarththalia
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
"Walden" Henry David Thoreau's viapwcorgigirl
"I've never met a chocolate I didn't like"
Deanna Troi, Star Trek Next Gen viaaeron_lanart
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
Mark Twain viaaeron_lanart
Humans need fantasy to be human... to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape
Hogfather, Terry Pratchett viasmithy161
We all know that my general klutziness is one of the things that makes me a danger to myself and others - an inability to walk through doors rather than into them, a tendency to forget to swipe open locked doors and hence bash my nose on them, and a complete ignorance as to where the exact edges of the bookcases are all mean that I really, really wish all the sharp corners of the world should be padded. And while I'm usually covered in bruises, today is the first time the books have drawn blood. I scraped my hand along the corner of a book and have a nice graze, right along the knuckle, just enough to make typing really, really painful. Ow!
Also, the second part of Stephen Fry's series on the English language is about Quotation, and is just as brilliant as the first. As Dorothy L Sayers puts it "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought" and therefore I absolutely love it. My brain retains quotations much more easily than anything else, which is both useful and annoying (remembering my PIN would be a whole lot more helpful). I'm perfectly capable of holding entire conversations almost entirely in quotations, mostly from Buffy and the Discworld, and it's incredibly useful when you can't think what else to say. There should be a link to the programme from the Radio 4 website.
So tell me, oh wise and wonderful flist, what's your favourite quote? Or your top three? I'm hard-pushed to choose, but if I have to?
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
ETA: I'm going to update as we go, so come and add yours!
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson via
darththaliaI would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
"Walden" Henry David Thoreau's via
pwcorgigirl"I've never met a chocolate I didn't like"
Deanna Troi, Star Trek Next Gen via
aeron_lanartOf all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
Mark Twain via
aeron_lanartHumans need fantasy to be human... to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape
Hogfather, Terry Pratchett via
smithy161
This is why I pay my licence fee
Jan. 29th, 2008 06:40 pmI don't watch that much TV as TV - I mostly watch DVDs and stuff online. But I'd pay my licence fee just for Radio 4. Nothing exercises my brain as well.
Specifically, the PM programme. I didn't tune in until 5.30, but I heard:
- a piece about mixed sex hospital wards. While I agree that it'd be good to do something about it, I got really cross with the commentator who said it was 'third world standards'. What? They have a hospital. They're already a step up. Get some perspective, people.
- a piece about the BBC's new Gaelic service, which sounds really good. Only the man they'd brought in to argue the 'no' side of the case was rubbish. A good argument would have been "spending £20m on 100,000ish people isn't great value". "If there was demand, there would be a Gaelic satellite channel" is not a good argument. Nor is saying people lied to the survey. Personally, I think it sounds great. But I'm a language addict, so I would.
- a piece about cauliflower. No, really. Cauliflower. Complete with recipe.
Gotta love Radio 4 :)
I'm now 10 episodes into Firefly - it's like mainlining the shiny and I'm loving it. While I'll go trawling through the pit if I have to, I was hoping that someone could point me in the direction of some good fanfic communities or writers, apart from the ones on my flist. I've only got 4 episodes to go, and I'm going to need something to plug the gap...
Specifically, the PM programme. I didn't tune in until 5.30, but I heard:
- a piece about mixed sex hospital wards. While I agree that it'd be good to do something about it, I got really cross with the commentator who said it was 'third world standards'. What? They have a hospital. They're already a step up. Get some perspective, people.
- a piece about the BBC's new Gaelic service, which sounds really good. Only the man they'd brought in to argue the 'no' side of the case was rubbish. A good argument would have been "spending £20m on 100,000ish people isn't great value". "If there was demand, there would be a Gaelic satellite channel" is not a good argument. Nor is saying people lied to the survey. Personally, I think it sounds great. But I'm a language addict, so I would.
- a piece about cauliflower. No, really. Cauliflower. Complete with recipe.
Gotta love Radio 4 :)
I'm now 10 episodes into Firefly - it's like mainlining the shiny and I'm loving it. While I'll go trawling through the pit if I have to, I was hoping that someone could point me in the direction of some good fanfic communities or writers, apart from the ones on my flist. I've only got 4 episodes to go, and I'm going to need something to plug the gap...
