Adventures in Briscoe County
So Friday and Saturday were the glorious kinds of days that make you wonder why it is that people stay in New England when other parts of the world have this weather all the time, and we settle for a few short weeks. The sun was bright and warm, almost too warm. They were the kind of days that make you thankful to be alive and fill your heart with hope and happiness. Then, of course, today was cool and rainy. Fitting as we mourn the weekend and prepare for drudgery of work tomorrow.
as i am geriatric in attitude if not so in years, i stayed in watched the season finale of SNL. I am quite heartbroken that Jimmy Fallon is leaving. Farewell Sully and Denise! Good Night and Have a Pleasant Tomorrow, Tina & Jimmy. You're welcome, Nick Burns. (yeah, i know he's not kenneth branagh and his tendency to laugh during sketches borders more on annoying than cute sometimes, but he is adorable.) Also waiting with mixed emotions (again, i know they're only t.v. shows) for the last law and order with jerry orbach as lennie briscoe. even though he supposedly will be on yet another l&o spinoff, the 2-7 just won't be the same without him, although jesse martin is fantastic. Check out some really cool pictures of Mr. Orbach as he films his last scene from Gothamist.
So in a totally awkward transition, i found a really cool turn of phrase that i have never heard before when i was looking up Troilus and Criseyde after watching a show on Troy today. "What really concerns us is that, in this poem, Chaucer, though still playing the part of hermit-crab—in a manner strange to modern notions, but constantly practised in medieval times and by no means unusual in Shakespeare—has quite transformed the house which he borrowed and peopled it with quite different inhabitants." How cool is that?
I also stumbled upon a cogent commentary on the media's fear of being labeled as biased driving reporters to abandon investigation, reflection and analysis of basic factual assertions by the Kerry and Bush campaigns. Check it out at the Columbia Journalism Review.
as i am geriatric in attitude if not so in years, i stayed in watched the season finale of SNL. I am quite heartbroken that Jimmy Fallon is leaving. Farewell Sully and Denise! Good Night and Have a Pleasant Tomorrow, Tina & Jimmy. You're welcome, Nick Burns. (yeah, i know he's not kenneth branagh and his tendency to laugh during sketches borders more on annoying than cute sometimes, but he is adorable.) Also waiting with mixed emotions (again, i know they're only t.v. shows) for the last law and order with jerry orbach as lennie briscoe. even though he supposedly will be on yet another l&o spinoff, the 2-7 just won't be the same without him, although jesse martin is fantastic. Check out some really cool pictures of Mr. Orbach as he films his last scene from Gothamist.
So in a totally awkward transition, i found a really cool turn of phrase that i have never heard before when i was looking up Troilus and Criseyde after watching a show on Troy today. "What really concerns us is that, in this poem, Chaucer, though still playing the part of hermit-crab—in a manner strange to modern notions, but constantly practised in medieval times and by no means unusual in Shakespeare—has quite transformed the house which he borrowed and peopled it with quite different inhabitants." How cool is that?
I also stumbled upon a cogent commentary on the media's fear of being labeled as biased driving reporters to abandon investigation, reflection and analysis of basic factual assertions by the Kerry and Bush campaigns. Check it out at the Columbia Journalism Review.
Labels: briscoe, chaucer, columbia journalism review, gothamist, language, law and order, nerdery, SNL, trojan war
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