That smile is sending my temperature straight back up, just when I'd started to get it down.

Meet Bandersnatch Cummerbund.

At last, at last, at LAST the sequel to Wolf Hall is out! I've been waiting for ages.

And what a deliciously macabre title! Last I heard, they were going for The Candle and the Mirror or something like that. But Bring Up the Bodies does sound a bit more appropriate for the Tudor era.

I turned on the TV this morning to check the weather, and there was Colin Firth announcing that he's just recorded an audiobook version of one of my very favorite novels ever.

What on earth did I do to deserve such a treat?!

I guessed Irene's password before Sherlock Holmes did!

What do I win? :-)

Still haven't gathered enough mental energy to start the 100 Things meme, but I still hope to do it one of these days. In the meantime, let's have a movie meme! Got this off Tumblr.


( Consider yourself tagged if you want! )

"E! is developing a new a 'modern-day "Mr. Smith",' by which we presume they mean 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,' as a scripted drama series. . . . Gerken’s modern-day 'Mr. Smith,' E! said Monday, is about 'a self-made billionaire with a penchant for hooking up with lobbyists in the nation’s capital.'"

E! Network, you get your grubby little paws off my classics RIGHT NOW. I mean it.

I know nothing whatsoever about Tumblr . . . but I just started one anyway.

Have you ever seen a Shakespearean bathroom? blackeye_galaxy has one. Might not be the kind of thing you'd expect to find in a bathroom, but the effect is really very cool. Shakespearean prints on the walls, a quote stenciled near the ceiling, a little sculpture or figurine or something -- don't know what you'd call it -- that looks like a pile of Shakespeare's plays, all kinds of interesting little touches like that. I was over at her house the other night and it got me thinking, maybe it would be fun to do a Dickensian bathroom. :-) These prints would be a great place to start!

That . . . pretty much blows my mind. I mean, I adore those two (see icon), but can you really see them chasing each other through the sewers??