• Wed, 22:01: Saw a bit of Vivid last night, or, as I call it, the Festival of Fairylights. The projections were very cool. The twinkly things, quaint.
• Wed, 22:11: Sherlock home saved from developers | Radio Times: http://t.co/gsesscOf
• Wed, 22:22: Fixed up my profile and got 3 new followers. I think they're all bots but hey ho. At least I'm tryin'.
• Wed, 22:23: I really do miss the boy who used to bite so readily at all my baiting. If only I could find a truly trashy article to fling at him. Sigh.
• Thu, 02:09: Facebook not such a turn-on, says report http://t.co/7Ga3jWr2
• Thu, 02:09: Does anyone know a good site/service for posting fic on? Please answer.
• Thu, 05:11: Elvis Crypt Up for Auction http://t.co/7sdMLrQE
• Thu, 05:18: If I keep supporting projects, does this make me a patron of the arts? http://t.co/l4Sv3qez

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• Tue, 22:07: SMO course yesterday with @SilkCharm. Bracing - I have so much work to do now. So much to fix. But good to know where I was going wrong.
• Tue, 22:11: Of course it doesn't help, working behind a massive firewall. I can't even try anything I learnt yesterday. Sigh. But learn I did.
• Tue, 22:18: Ok, yes to Officeworks delivering this the very next day. Too cute (but I still hate the new louder than a 747 PC): http://t.co/Zo6kMXSW
• Wed, 02:32: American parity tour 2012 - part 4: walking around New York, not taking photos, strange encounters and odd sights http://t.co/8Vv6ETR7
• Wed, 02:34: American parity tour 2012 - part 5: trains, planes, buses, trams, wagons (and the Belvoir) http://t.co/qrnJGnnL

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So it was off to another session in the Philosophical Concepts in Film series at Sydney Uni. I enjoy these so much, and yes, it is becoming a bit like a bookclub, but at least, just for once, I had a ready answer for what I'd been up to since last time, and folks actually wanting to hear about my adventures across America (yes the train trip was cheating as I took it right through, but I would have only really been tempted to get off at Flagstaff or Albuquerque) so that was fun, for me, at least.
( more: rakes and thieves )

Tags: channing tatum, doctor who, grimm, hex, hugo weaving, jane austen, magazine scans, matthew bomer, michael fassbender, supernatural, theatre, white collar

So it was off to another session in the Philosophical Concepts in Film series at Sydney Uni. I enjoy these so much, and yes, it is becoming a bit like a bookclub, but at least, just for once, I had a ready answer for what I'd been up to since last time, and folks actually wanting to hear about my adventures across America (yes the train trip was cheating as I took it right through, but I would have only really been tempted to get off at Flagstaff or Albuquerque) so that was fun, for me, at least.
( more: rakes and thieves )

Tags: theatre, travel

• Mon, 21:17: There's something about a hard won day off, even though I have to get up early and go to a course, that makes me happy in absentia.
• Mon, 21:55: Squee! At last!!!! http://t.co/ooVJ1QJ8

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• Sun, 21:57: Finally turned on new PC. It's so damn loud it gave me industrial deafness. I can't use it at all. Misery now at 10 and rising.
• Mon, 08:48: Ack, 24hr nosebleed. Anyone want Scanner PC??? It melted what little brain I had left and it's now dribbling out my nose.
• Mon, 08:49: In other news, I love you Mr P.J. Adams, but if you spoil me on GOT again I'll be over in Toronto with a pair of blunt safety scissors...
• Mon, 08:51: Fassy hagiography http://t.co/Rc9E0gLw
• Mon, 08:52: I really, really hate this new PC. Seriously, a rec for one that won't drive me mad?

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Seeing the sights. A tale of bloody bandaids and sunburn. I mean, 44F and wet, so the interwebs told me. So my first day, and it's 88F and sunny. I'd not packed for 88F. So there was some shopping done, and hey, that Kmart is still there where I remembered it, and the little checked shirt and matching t-shirt I bought did me well. I still have them. I also picked up a sundress I was less pleased with, but needs must.

So, armed with all my maps, in hand to hold, yes, really sweat proof and waterproof, from bitter experience, I set off on what I thought were to be street photography walks, but the camera failed me, both of them, but I also failed myself. I just cannot take people. And it's a pity, because I saw some get me an A grade stuff, like the three young ballerinas up on pointe in Madison Square Park, Elmo, crossing the road diagonally in Times Square (ended up in a queue at a deli with Donald Duck, New York is surreal), and a homeless gent, shaving himself in the reflection of a glamourous fashion shop. Stunning photos all, but I could not invade their privacy, and, well, now I know they'd not have saved anyway.
( more: pink elephants and pimpernels )

Tags: matthew bomer, travel, white collar

• Sun, 01:32: American parity tour posts. Usual warnings re opinions and stupidity are my own. http://t.co/Mk8VVpFF

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Museums and galleries, oh my. Where to start? At the very beginning, I suppose, it's a very good place to start, so I'm told. Ahem. Anyhoo, did not frag myself trying to do the Met in a day, as usual. In fact, my first day, being a Monday, was entirely museum free, and I just spent it walking around Chelsea, Greenwich Village, Soho, back up through Gramercy and back to the hotel at last. But more on the walks later.

Weirdly, the first stop was the UN, which wasn't really a museum or a gallery, but it did have a tour, and while I'd been there once before in '96, that was a long time ago and it was a lot like going for the first time as I have precious little memory of the '96 tour (I only know I must have been cause I have photos and souveniers).

This was after, yes, doing the Roosevelt Island tram because, well, whee, you know me and cable cars and I couldn't let that one go unchallenged, and besides, pretty views. Then I noodled around midtown on one of my walks, popping into a few kirks and the Trump tower for a tea and pee, since they had facility. I was desperate for a comfort stop, so in this one instance, and only this once, Donald Trump's existence was useful. I took many photos, none of which survived. Insert the sound of my jaw grinding itself to powder here.
( more: lions, tigers and bears, oh my, and things, wonderful things... )

Tags: museums, travel

So to the theatre. Managed three out of four of the productions I'd gone to see, which isn't bad, all things considering, and how fast and loose I was playing with my plans (walking and looking, yes, photos and writing, not so much). Stuff came up that seemed important at the time, ain't it always the way. It was stuff that sent me to New York in the first place, still fuming like an over-ripe volcano over being denied my trip to Blighty last year. When I heard that One Man, Two Guvnors was transferring to Broadway, it was on. If the UK wasn't to be, then maybe I could sneak off to America? Thus begins the most anglophile trip to New York since my ancestors were sent packing (God Save the King!).

( more: horses for courses )

Tags: travel