Tears of Flame picture links

Thanks for the links, TOF.

A set of epe 509 'elevator' pictures. (opens in new window)
Link: 509 pics #1 here, plus others...

Last 15 pictures of '509' also here:

Tears of Flame picture link #2 (opens in new window)
Link: TOF's 509 LWord pics #2

Tina: 'Men are boring'...

Tina hits the bigtime on Youtube

It made me laugh, anyway.

TWoP notes on 506

(sent via email link)

And why leave at 4am?   No reason to unless Tina lives -really- far up the valley.  Or maybe Jodi needs the extra bucks and has hired out as Angie's nanny and will be there at 5am

*That's a couple of significant things on TLW that have happened at 4am - were IC's twins born at 4am?

I have to admit...when I saw that zoom on the clock after Sex 2, I was terrified that IC had pulled a Pam/Bobby on us and that Tina had dreamed the -bizgirl

Woo, never thought of that - a definite soap opera twist.

Re; Music for sex#2 - such a retread I'm surprised IC didn't underscore it with 'Auld Lang Syne'...  (and re: that Feist song... of all the 1000's of songs in the world, that one wouldn't have made my top 10 for that scene)

We've talked before about the impact that tibette.com et al had/will have on the final outcome of Bette's romantic history... and I've said before that if the Emmy voters had given the trophy to Jodi, or if Jobette was lauded by Hollywood then Jobette would have been the LTR.  But what if the outspoken group was ,say, a bunch of Lisa Gay Hamilton fans that had gotten ahold of the deleted scenes? (Bette's first affair, from s1, cut scene) Would that have had any impact?

Jodi: I have my work. And, most importantly, I have you. So I'll be fine.

 

Fine is definitely not the word Bette's thinking right now.
  It's the right number of letters, though. -Scribe

I definitely didn't see Jodi's resignation coming... seems out-of-character.
(then again, seems Jodi was due for her TLW personality transplant)
Also... how long will it be before Molly happens to remember that as she arrived at Mom's party she saw 'good example' Bette leaving with a blonde who looks nothing like 'Partner Jodi'?...

William: Well, if there's anyone who can take a fragile person and glue them back together, I think that would be you.

Fine, but will all the parts be in the right places? -Scribe  LOL

t&B have their  'matching baggage' line - find in quotes?

 

Did this work? GA talking JA

 Trying to have blog links open in new window:

 

Link to Gillian Anderson talking about Jane Austen

(testing sending a link to the blog via email)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B60vTmhdCMU

Warning: S5 TLW Spoiler set

another set of spoiler pictures, in a video.

*FYI: material in clips is R-rated.

Why is it that I can avoid spoilers that are written out, and I can avoid actual spoiler videos... but I succumb to looking at still pictures? Maybe I just enjoy the challenge of having a puzzle in the form of an image that represents a moment, but without the dialogue to clue me in as to what is actually going on. (Or is it that I can't stand the idea of hearing what could be earworm-dialogue ahead of time?)

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'Life' for Carmen, 'Limbo' for Dana

Looking around for 'Carmen' and 'Dana's new shows:
Sarah Shahi's 'Life' appears to be just on hiatus
due to the writer's strike, but it looks like Erin's
still in limbo; Fox hasn't placed hers anywhere.

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Another Youtube Link test:

This time it should start automatically.



Update: 'or not...'

'Just ask Alice'

'What L Word Character Am I?
... Nice to meet you,
I'm Alice, apparently.

Hey, why not Tasha?... or perhaps DDLC?...

*Maybe when they update, its an old quiz:

What 'L WORD' Character R U?

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Also: two TLW video links below:

(1st) embedded, showing S5
'reggae' mix of 506, 508 spoiler pics:

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(2nd) 'L2 Convention 2006', - opens in a new window

Link: L2 video

* This is the one where LuH and MK fake that kiss.

At L2: Leisha Hailey, Laurel Holloman, Mia Kirshner, Kate Moennig

TLW references an obscene song?

Hearing KM/Shane continue her line:
''...how old is she - ten?''
disturbed me because I wondered what the hell
TLW was doing referencing an obscene song*
that talks about sexually abusing girls.

I was hoping it was just an accident, yet
privately I was thinking that doing so
was right up EZsomeone's alley...

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Updated to add:
And of course EZ penned ep.507,
Bette's 'self-abuse'/'Jodi-abuse' moment.
- How charming.

And speaking of 'charming', below are the
offensive lyrics that Shane seemed to quote:

Absurd Conflict
'Sex For A Few Marks' *

Real sex of your imaginations,
- under your own direction?
Throw away the mask of a satisfied husband,
Gratified by the grey of commonplace sex?
You have money and pleasure can be bought

Sex for a few marks
There is no taboo

The choice is large
To grasp something young
Fragile and naive
Shake by excitement, the passion can't be hidden

You're holding her
She is yours now
Your bloodless brain does not register

You've got only one goal
Delight, pleasure, ecstasy
A total satisfaction at any cost
Who cares about the hell she's going through

You've bought her, the money wipes out all respect
The school girl is yours for a few moments

What do you feel like?
Oral? Anal? Piss or Sado?
She has to submit - You've bought her

You stink of sweat, you gaze into her face,
...how old is she - ten?
Your daughter is the same age
No! No! This is different, you've bought this one
Just like the others

Who cares about who sold her to you
- a brother, a school mate
Or fucking parents
Who cares, you've paid for it,
she's yours...

Be glad if you've never heard this song.
* wouldn't post these openly for obvious reasons

Emma Thompson speaking as Jane Austen

Link to Emma Thompson (at the GGlobes) speaking as Jane Austen

(testing sending a link to the blog via email)

 

Emma Thompson via Youtube

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Time gap due to deleting a bunch of unrelated test posts.
Not that I still don't have other interests... but I'm limiting myself to only a couple at a time so I don't overdo and burnout on blogging.

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Anyone know how to have a 'blogger blog' keep
from making the main page too long and ungainly?
I've run into a few that take forever to load
just because they are only one -gigantic- page.

I've limited my blog to 30 posts/page and hopefully that will do the trick. But if you're reading this and the page took a really long time to load... let me know!

Jane Austen critiqued

Doing some more BlogPosting practice,
and borrowing some more quotes re: Jane Austen.

* Why Jane Austen? Well, because she'd be noticed on TWoP if she'd ever bother to set up her own blog anywhere! ('Just kidding' for you literal types.) JA is here, because (a) I need to practice-blog, (b) her series (on PBS) got me interested, and (c) I found unique comments about her penned by notable authors, that I thought others might like to see. (via Wikipedia)


Negative views of Austen have been notable,
with severe detractors frequently accusing her
writing of being unliterary and middle-brow.

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Charlotte Brontë criticized the narrow scope of Austen's fiction:
"Anything like warmth or enthusiasm, anything energetic, poignant, heartfelt, is utterly out of place in commending these works: all such demonstrations the authoress would have met with a well-bred sneer, would have calmly scorned as 'outré' or extravagant. She does her business of delineating the surface of the lives of genteel English people curiously well.

There is a Chinese fidelity, a miniature delicacy, in the painting. She ruffles her reader by nothing vehement, disturbs him with nothing profound. The passions are perfectly unknown to her: she rejects even a speaking acquaintance with that stormy sisterhood… What sees keenly, speaks aptly, moves flexibly, it suits her to study: but what throbs fast and full, though hidden, what the blood rushes through,
what is the unseen seat of life and the sentient target of death - this Miss Austen ignores… Jane Austen was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman, if this is heresy - I cannot help it."

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Mark Twain's reaction was also negative:
" Why, I go so far as to say that any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book."
"When I take up one of Jane Austen's books,... such as Pride and Prejudice, I feel like a barkeeper entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so."

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Rudyard Kipling felt differently, going so far as to write the short story "The Janeites" about a group of soldiers who were also Austen fans, as well as two poems praising "England's Jane" and providing her with posthumous true love.

Austen's literary strength lies in the delineation of character, especially of women, by delicate touches arising out of the most natural and everyday incidents in the life of the middle and upper classes, from which her subjects are generally taken. Her characters, though of quite ordinary types, are drawn with such firmness and precision and with such significant detail as to keep their individuality
intact through their entire development, and they are uncoloured by her own personality. Her view of life seems largely genial, with a strong dash of gentle but keen irony. Some contemporary readers may find the world she describes, in which people's chief concern is securing advantageous marriages, unliberated and disquieting.

During her time, options were limited, and both women and men often married for financial considerations. Female writers worked within the similarly narrow genre of romance. Part of Austen's reputation rests on how well she integrates observations on the human condition within a convincing love story. Much of the tension in her
novels arises from balancing financial necessity against other concerns: love, friendship, honor and self-respect. It is also important to point out that, at the time, romance novels were seen as a clever modern variation on the knightly romances of medieval times; these were damsels engaged in adventure, seeking their fortunes and carrying out quests.

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FYI: There are two museums dedicated to Jane Austen.

The Jane Austen Centre in Bath is a public museum located in a Georgian House in Gay Street, just a few doors down the street from number 25 where Austen stayed in 1805. And the Jane Austen's House Museum is located in Chawton cottage, in Hampshire, where Austen lived from 1809 to 1817.

I like handy things

Still road-testing my first ever blog.

And I might use this post to add handy links
since I'm not ready to add yet another sidebar.

Opens a link to Wikipedia in new window:
Wikipedia

A link to Google, also opens in new window:
Google

'Top Chef' (Bravo show, starts March 08) opens in new window:
'Top Chef' forum

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eta:

Good News: I have found out how to do code to open my links as new tabs,(not new windows) which conserves your PC's memory while browsing.
Bad News: This code is new-ish, so some browsers will send back an 'error' on use if I incorporate it.

So for now, *right-click* any links you want to open in a new -tab-.

'Lara' and her big 'Lie'

Lauren Lee Smith's movie 'Lie With Me'

I hated the way S3's Lara character was written, so I'm
glad LLS got another acting gig that she hopefully found
profitable and fulfilling.

Soup chef 'Lara' (from seasons 1-3) in a movie I missed:
FYI: parts of these clips are R-rated material.
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