Is that because Raúl Esparza is bi? Because I think Esparza’s being bisexual has coloured my thinking about Barba.

You’re not alone. The only ‘ship’ I ever felt in the L&O ‘verse was duing the later years of the lamented Mothership: Rubirosa and Lupo. They seemed to hint at it but dropped it.

Interesting. If I run out of the stuff I brought back from my last trip home in Nov 2019 before my next trip I may need to buy from Walmart/Amazon (though I’m loath to buy from either, TBH). I make a point of hitting Boots or some other chemist whenever I’m back just to stock up & I’m not sure if I’ll be back in ’21.

Many years ago, I worked with a guy who had been in a downtown NYC punk band. Madonna stole their drummer, which my former co-worker was kind of okay with. What really pissed him off was the studio time she stole from them. Apparently this was what she did: walked into a studio and claimed ‘squatters’ rights’ on the…

There’s this stuff called Sudocrem. I’ve only ever seen it in Ireland. Madge has a tub of it on her sink/counter. It’s the little grey tub over her left shoulder. #IrishTwitter has gone all:

And to think Cressida got a promotion after her involvement in the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes by the Met Police.

There’s a guy I follow on Twitter -Fergus Craig- who does voicework. He’s got this character Detective Roger Le Carre (he’s writing a Le Carre novel) who’s based in Exeter.

Music recommendations thread. The tunes linked below have been helping keep me (somewhat) sane these past few weeks.

Oh, and while we’re on the subject of odds, what are the odds that we’re heading into a Symbionese Liberation Army-style redux era of abductions, ransoms, and other means of direct class warfare in the absence of working people’s needs being met??????????

So, if we’re all to use the restroom which corresponds to the gender we were assigned at birth, Laverne Cox is to use the men’s room?

Harron, for the next 29 days you can listen to BBC6's Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone tribute to SOPHIE from yesterday (21 Feb 2021).

This reminds me of an Old Lady I Know. You may have heard of her, she Swallowed A Fly.

He really said the quiet part out loud there didn’t he?

This reeks of “nice guy” behaviour that really isn’t so nice.

So, I recall reading that when a person goes through a psychological trauma, part/s of that person stops maturing at the point of the trauma. Sometimes this manifests itself by a grown woman continuing to speak as she did when she was a child. (I know that parts of me stopped maturing when my Mum died when I was 13; I…

And the other one is connected to Jeffrey Epstein.  I’m sensing a theme.

“Tweeting vitriol” needs a neat Portmanteau. How about “Tweetrioling”?

Of course cases will spike! Because -for the most part- people are stupid and we can’t have nice things such as a reduction in case #s.

Hope is wonderful! I’m needing all I can get so I’ll vicariously live through yours.

“May they all be swarmed from the fleas of a thousand camels” is going to be my go-to curse from now on. I’ll cycle it with the Irish: