Ah, I don't read enough Chandler....
Jan. 13th, 2006 12:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misachanI'm about a quarter of the way through Farewell, My Lovely, and I'd forgotten about the aura of death surrounding poor Marlowe. People just keep falling dead all around him in a way that puts Monk to shame. I don't remember him being so charmingly witty and self-deprecating in The Big Sleep, but that may well be a result of having to speed read that book for class. The bendy, almost backhanded way he uses language...I love it. Marlowe reminds me very much of Holmes in that most of his trouble (at least in this book) comes because he's so freaking bored. Yes, he needs to eat, but if he'd just been able to resist poking his head into Florians his life would be much easier. But then there'd be no book, and he'd be a lousy PI.
Getting away from books, Johnny Weir skates pretty, and it's a shame Ward took that fall; he's the most graceful male skater I've seen in ages. He reminds me of Galindo a bit, but Rudy didn't have Ward's lines and wasn't nearly as limber. On the downside, Michael Weiss continues to contend. He has to be one of the most boring skaters I've ever seen; he has to skate to up tempo music just to keep narcolepsy from sweeping the stands. There's no zip to him at all; Eldridge was no house of fire either, but at least he could spin. Thank the deities of skating and all their sparkly costumes that there are some other men with a reasonable chance of doing well enough at the Olympics to distract from Weiss' vast black hole of charisma.
Also, I give up: I need some kind of simple walk through to understand the new judging system. I've gathered that it doesn't weigh quads nearly as heavily (apparently Goebel was whining about that, filling me with schadenfraude), and skaters now have to change to the inside edges on their spins, but after that I'm lost in the wilderness. Does anyone understand what the new requirements are, or can point me to some helpful site? {big kitten eyes}
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musesfool's .mp3 challenge. I drew "Red Hill Mining Town" by U2, a song I had never heard before but which has a lot of workable imagery and aclear emotional storyline. I feel like I lucked out; I could have drawn something esoteric and strange, but I can work with this. It's a dark song, though, with longing and regret and loss, so at the first I was leaning towards Future!Clex, because I always lean towards Future!Clex. Then I thought about post-Serenity Zoe, then Sirius/Remus, and now I think I know where I'm going with this. It's insisting on present tense, though, despite my best efforts. Sigh.
Getting away from books, Johnny Weir skates pretty, and it's a shame Ward took that fall; he's the most graceful male skater I've seen in ages. He reminds me of Galindo a bit, but Rudy didn't have Ward's lines and wasn't nearly as limber. On the downside, Michael Weiss continues to contend. He has to be one of the most boring skaters I've ever seen; he has to skate to up tempo music just to keep narcolepsy from sweeping the stands. There's no zip to him at all; Eldridge was no house of fire either, but at least he could spin. Thank the deities of skating and all their sparkly costumes that there are some other men with a reasonable chance of doing well enough at the Olympics to distract from Weiss' vast black hole of charisma.
Also, I give up: I need some kind of simple walk through to understand the new judging system. I've gathered that it doesn't weigh quads nearly as heavily (apparently Goebel was whining about that, filling me with schadenfraude), and skaters now have to change to the inside edges on their spins, but after that I'm lost in the wilderness. Does anyone understand what the new requirements are, or can point me to some helpful site? {big kitten eyes}
In fanfic news, I think I have a workable story for
musesfool's .mp3 challenge. I drew "Red Hill Mining Town" by U2, a song I had never heard before but which has a lot of workable imagery and aclear emotional storyline. I feel like I lucked out; I could have drawn something esoteric and strange, but I can work with this. It's a dark song, though, with longing and regret and loss, so at the first I was leaning towards Future!Clex, because I always lean towards Future!Clex. Then I thought about post-Serenity Zoe, then Sirius/Remus, and now I think I know where I'm going with this. It's insisting on present tense, though, despite my best efforts. Sigh.
