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queer_fest prompt claiming should be opening soon. I've done my usual thing of ranking the prompts I'm interested in. There's one in particular I want to write, I think, so I'm hoping that doesn't get snaffled but I have back-up ones too. I'm going to be good and probably only claim a prompt in the second week, since there's about 8 others that I also have reasonably solid ideas for.
Other than that, and in no way related, I've got three fics (well, two and a half) which require me to know something about the application process for Oxford and indeed how the collegiate system works there. I never applied to Oxford, none of the courses interested me, so I am hoping the internet will provide me with details.
For similar reasons I am also looking up Czech / Czechoslovakian history between the years 1945 - 1975 so if anyone has any books they'd like to recommend, now would be a good time.
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F1
Half of Ferrari's race pace was much better. I'm not sure if Alonso was out-performing the car, or if Massa was underperforming it.
Other than that, Australia was a fun race, lots of over-taking and excitement. Kimi-Kimi is back with a vengeance, him vs Kamui Kobyashi for the rest of the season will be great fun. Daniel Ricciardo was lovely (as per) and if Evil Lotus and Mercedes could actually produce reliable cars the mid-field battle this season will be epic in the traditional use of the term.
Poor Pastor Maldonado and Grosjean, and the HRT guys. Karthikeyan is saying that the major issue the HRT had was with cooling and he's not expecting good things from Malaysia.
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Rugby
So Saints sacked Royce Simmons or he jumped before he was pushed. Not unexpected, whatever non-Saints fans say. Worst run of form in many years (23 according to the BBC), probably not helped by the new stadium, and the first time Bradford have beaten us in Bradford for 5 years. All of the Saints fans I know have said that Royce Simmons was a really nice man, he was just the wrong man for the job at this time. Part of the problem is that we've lost Jamie Graham who is pretty irreplaceable (see Sculthorpe and Long on the problem - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/georgeriley/2012/03/st_helens_stutter_in_season_st.html) more in terms of captaincy than as a player, not that he wasn't a stonkingly good player too. There is still something amazing about someone coming through from the youth team to being internationally recognised as one of the top players in his position.
Films
I think I ought to thank you all for not telling me that Michael Bay is messing with my beloved Turtles. Why is the horrible explody man messing with my Turtles? He will do terrible things.
Before anyone says I'm judging before the film is even made, well, yes, can you remember a good fight scene from any of his films that involves hand to hand combat? The fight scenes are integral to the Turtles.
Prometheus looks very well made, like all Ridley Scott films. I shan't be watching it, because it also looks scary.
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Links
Well, more link - Concealed shoes: Australian settlers and an old superstition - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16801512 - basically buried or interred artefacts found in old Australian buildings. Mostly I'm amused at the tone of the article, as though this sort of thing is all in the past, because obviously, no one has tried to curse stadiums by putting rival team shirts in the foundations (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/14/usa.ussport) recently, nor do we still put pennies in purses given as gifts because to do otherwise brings bad luck.
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Shakespeare Meme - Day #6: Your favorite villainess
Slight delay due to a lack of option, because in Titus Andronicus, for all that Tamora does terrible things, it's not like the Romans didn't start it. I still say that, after Edmund and Cornwall, Lear is the major villain of his own play, but that might be because I have zero tolerance for bloody idiots.
Which means we are left with she, Lady Macbeth, who is an interesting mix of ambition, bloody (the other sense of it) -mindedness and guilt.
( Other Days )
queer_fest prompt claiming should be opening soon. I've done my usual thing of ranking the prompts I'm interested in. There's one in particular I want to write, I think, so I'm hoping that doesn't get snaffled but I have back-up ones too. I'm going to be good and probably only claim a prompt in the second week, since there's about 8 others that I also have reasonably solid ideas for.Other than that, and in no way related, I've got three fics (well, two and a half) which require me to know something about the application process for Oxford and indeed how the collegiate system works there. I never applied to Oxford, none of the courses interested me, so I am hoping the internet will provide me with details.
For similar reasons I am also looking up Czech / Czechoslovakian history between the years 1945 - 1975 so if anyone has any books they'd like to recommend, now would be a good time.
~~~~
F1
Half of Ferrari's race pace was much better. I'm not sure if Alonso was out-performing the car, or if Massa was underperforming it.
Other than that, Australia was a fun race, lots of over-taking and excitement. Kimi-Kimi is back with a vengeance, him vs Kamui Kobyashi for the rest of the season will be great fun. Daniel Ricciardo was lovely (as per) and if Evil Lotus and Mercedes could actually produce reliable cars the mid-field battle this season will be epic in the traditional use of the term.
Poor Pastor Maldonado and Grosjean, and the HRT guys. Karthikeyan is saying that the major issue the HRT had was with cooling and he's not expecting good things from Malaysia.
~~~~
Rugby
So Saints sacked Royce Simmons or he jumped before he was pushed. Not unexpected, whatever non-Saints fans say. Worst run of form in many years (23 according to the BBC), probably not helped by the new stadium, and the first time Bradford have beaten us in Bradford for 5 years. All of the Saints fans I know have said that Royce Simmons was a really nice man, he was just the wrong man for the job at this time. Part of the problem is that we've lost Jamie Graham who is pretty irreplaceable (see Sculthorpe and Long on the problem - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/georgeriley/2012/03/st_helens_stutter_in_season_st.html) more in terms of captaincy than as a player, not that he wasn't a stonkingly good player too. There is still something amazing about someone coming through from the youth team to being internationally recognised as one of the top players in his position.
Films
I think I ought to thank you all for not telling me that Michael Bay is messing with my beloved Turtles. Why is the horrible explody man messing with my Turtles? He will do terrible things.
Before anyone says I'm judging before the film is even made, well, yes, can you remember a good fight scene from any of his films that involves hand to hand combat? The fight scenes are integral to the Turtles.
Prometheus looks very well made, like all Ridley Scott films. I shan't be watching it, because it also looks scary.
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Links
Well, more link - Concealed shoes: Australian settlers and an old superstition - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16801512 - basically buried or interred artefacts found in old Australian buildings. Mostly I'm amused at the tone of the article, as though this sort of thing is all in the past, because obviously, no one has tried to curse stadiums by putting rival team shirts in the foundations (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/14/usa.ussport) recently, nor do we still put pennies in purses given as gifts because to do otherwise brings bad luck.
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Shakespeare Meme - Day #6: Your favorite villainess
Slight delay due to a lack of option, because in Titus Andronicus, for all that Tamora does terrible things, it's not like the Romans didn't start it. I still say that, after Edmund and Cornwall, Lear is the major villain of his own play, but that might be because I have zero tolerance for bloody idiots.
Which means we are left with she, Lady Macbeth, who is an interesting mix of ambition, bloody (the other sense of it) -mindedness and guilt.
( Other Days )
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