brompton, ontario
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gurdonarkToday I feel much better, and the weather was much warmer. I had a vigorous and good work day. Then I came home to find that the mailpersonnel had delivered a little saddlestitch bit of documentation for a mail art show in which I entered a piece. The show was in the Art Gallery of Peel, in Brompton, Ontario. The "temporary curator" wrote the nicest little essay about the 350+ participants in the show. I was so energized by the whole good-heartedness of it all. I must submit more mail art, as I always enjoy those events. I think as artists go, I remain much better at mowing lawns. But I still weedeat my way along. The booklet was enchanting, and made my day.
I watched as much of Mr. Bush's speech as I could, until the flaws in the Iraq portion drove me to LiveJournal. I wish we could spend even more money on fighting AIDs in Africa--much more money.
Before Mr. Bush began speaking, I watched the repeat of the Buffy episode, in which the seer girl knows all sorts of things. I won't get deeply into it, in recognition that it may be a spoiler for my foreign friends. But I will make the comparison that if this were Babylon 5, such a character would essentially map out the next five seasons. In Buffy, we can rest assured that we are a season or so from learning what the musings mean. I miss Babylon 5, big-haired aliens and flawed final season and all. The episode "War Without End" of that show remains one of my favorites of all shows. I must get that entire series on DVD, but only after I have gotten the entire Lord Peter Wimsey series on DVD.
I cannot believe that Forsyte Saga was on public TV, and I missed the chance to see it again.
When I was young, I got hooked on Masterpiece Theater. The first series I watched was Tom Brown's School Days. I loved every episode of that one, but I soon was watching Wimsey; Upstairs, Downstairs, Strangers and Brothers, and a world of other novels that I carry with me in my heart and mind. I know that it is much more literarily correct to say that one got one's love of great literature from Swann's Way or Gravity's Rainbow. I got my love of literature from Classics Illustrated and Masterpiece Theater.
Any port in a middlebrow storm.
My life's great travel ambition now is to visit Brompton, Ontario.
I watched as much of Mr. Bush's speech as I could, until the flaws in the Iraq portion drove me to LiveJournal. I wish we could spend even more money on fighting AIDs in Africa--much more money.
Before Mr. Bush began speaking, I watched the repeat of the Buffy episode, in which the seer girl knows all sorts of things. I won't get deeply into it, in recognition that it may be a spoiler for my foreign friends. But I will make the comparison that if this were Babylon 5, such a character would essentially map out the next five seasons. In Buffy, we can rest assured that we are a season or so from learning what the musings mean. I miss Babylon 5, big-haired aliens and flawed final season and all. The episode "War Without End" of that show remains one of my favorites of all shows. I must get that entire series on DVD, but only after I have gotten the entire Lord Peter Wimsey series on DVD.
I cannot believe that Forsyte Saga was on public TV, and I missed the chance to see it again.
When I was young, I got hooked on Masterpiece Theater. The first series I watched was Tom Brown's School Days. I loved every episode of that one, but I soon was watching Wimsey; Upstairs, Downstairs, Strangers and Brothers, and a world of other novels that I carry with me in my heart and mind. I know that it is much more literarily correct to say that one got one's love of great literature from Swann's Way or Gravity's Rainbow. I got my love of literature from Classics Illustrated and Masterpiece Theater.
Any port in a middlebrow storm.
My life's great travel ambition now is to visit Brompton, Ontario.
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Date: 2003-01-28 07:39 pm (UTC)The argument that North Korea has nuclear weapons because the US negotiated with North Korea; therefore, we must kick Saddam Hussein's ass before he does the same thing. I actually laughed. Nice scare tactic there.
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Date: 2003-01-28 09:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-28 09:57 pm (UTC)Oops sorry about the double post, Livejournal was not the cousin for me at that time.
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Date: 2003-01-28 07:44 pm (UTC)The logic that North Korea has nuclear weapons because we tried diplomacy and failed; therefore, we must kick Saddam's @ss.
And he kept saying the UN said this. Where exactly did he get this information anyway?
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Date: 2003-01-28 07:54 pm (UTC)i loved to watch Masterpiece Theater. don't know many who remember that show. thanks.
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Date: 2003-01-28 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-28 07:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-28 09:12 pm (UTC)totally unrelated topic
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Date: 2003-01-28 10:16 pm (UTC)My favorite Masterpiece Theater production was "Lillie" - about Lillie Langtry. Because of that series, I developed a fascination for Oscar Wilde and Whistler - and my love of Whistler developed into studying Art History in England. Thank you, Alistair Cooke!
Poldark, Upstairs Downstairs, Danger UXB, Flambards, Love For Lydia, Three Men In A Boat, Brideshead Revisited ... my adolescence spent in front of a television.
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Date: 2003-01-29 04:29 am (UTC)Remember Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh doing Olivia Manning's Balkin and Levant trilogies? That was way back when they each seemed to take acting more seriously than themselves, which is not to say that they're less than wonderful now, but they were so good then.
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*sigh*
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Date: 2003-01-28 10:41 pm (UTC)I loved The Duchess of Duke Street!
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Date: 2003-01-29 04:30 am (UTC)I like that as these older things hit DVD, they'll all be much more sensibly priced over time than the "hot off the presses" stuff.
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Date: 2003-01-29 09:35 am (UTC)she was just recently the nemesis in a "Mystery" episode on PBS!!!
she's a doll and i always seek her out in british cinema
she also had a part in Gosford Park, in charge of the help
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Date: 2003-01-29 05:35 am (UTC)When you do, be sure to take with you the sweet, sad Nick Cave song "Brompton Oratory" which has nothing to do with Brompton so far as I know but which at least has a cheeky title.
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Date: 2003-01-29 07:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-29 09:38 am (UTC)'twas my initiation and long past
i'm proud of you for participating in the event and glad it brings you pleasure
i've watched Masterpiece Theatre every week for years, the Forsyte Saga was grand
i'm also a huge fan of Mystery and the Midsommer Murders
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Date: 2003-01-29 05:48 pm (UTC)