I’m grinning. I worked at a middle school library for a while, with a whole bunch of god-awful paperbacks that all needed some serious repair. (When you take YA paperbacks that are at least old enough to drink and pass them through the hands of about ten thousand bored kids, things *happen* to them. Dark things.) Most…

You want to talk about not-so-subtle sexuality in Peter Pan? Go back and look at some of the original Barrie texts— part of the conflict is Wendy’s (and, in some versions, Tiger Lily’s,) budding sexuality and Peter’s inability to even recognize that it exists.

Geez. He specifically said on his headstone (ugh... no pun intended,) that his bones were to be left alone, on pain of some unspecified curse. What more could a poet do to safeguard his grave than lousy doggerel?

I think the meme implies, not necessarily that all men are murderers, which is obviously not true. But rather, the meme says that all women carry the fear of being murdered for the crime of saying ‘no’... and frankly, we do. Is it always reasonable? Of course not. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, things end with at…

Yeah— I read something about Judy Garland, I think it was. As a child actress, the director would tell her that her acting was so bad that she couldn’t have any dinner in order to make her cry for the camera.

I remember an exhibit at the Met a few years back of Van Gogh’s sketches and letters... which were full of sketches, too. They were gorgeous. No other word for it. The man could capture more of the essence of light and atmosphere in a rough pencil sketch than most painters could with a whole studio’s worth of…

I’m not surprised. They probably needed the time slot for NCIS: Dogpatch or yet another appalling sitcom.

As regards the oven mitt, ‘giving someone the mitten’ used to mean dumping them. It, ah, probably doesn’t mean that anymore.

For its time? Compared with other writers of the day, I rather thought he pushed the envelope a bit. At least we agree that MMTC was a crime against TV. :)

Even the writers thought ‘My Mother the Car’ was asinine. First off, it was supposed to be a parody of the play ‘Blithe Spirit,’ so it was supposed to be the wife who came back as the car. The censors thought it was too racy— and if it was based on that play, I can guarantee that it *was* racy— and forced them to…

Far as I can tell, children’s entertainment has been severely aged down across the boards. Grover, Big Bird, and the rest were pitched to kindergarteners. Five, six or so— learning to read, learning social interactions and the like. Elmo and Abby Cadabby and their ilk are a symptom of the drop in age-brackets. It’s…

True, but seeing as how ‘Elementary’ gets full seasons, whereas ‘Sherlock’ gets three hours every two years, it might just take the BBC version a bit longer to get to that point. (Not that I’m bitter about having to wait another decade for more BBC Sherlock...)

I’ve seen at least one internet site (so, take this with the appropriate shaker of salt,) that claims that the show has already been renewed for another season. I too pray to the TV gods that it is so. I adore this show.

Can’t blame her. ‘Princess’ is something she got handed because she was born into (or at least, adopted into) the right family. ‘General’ is something she earned because she was smart, strong, and tough. Easy choice to make.

Personally, I’m just glad to know that the President of the United States of America isn’t going to have any problems more pressing than whether or not people use the phrase ‘Merry Christmas’ as an all-purpose greeting for two months out of the year. All other issues, including an alarmingly fast rate of global…

I have to admit that I’ve enjoyed a lot of the new Muppets show— Kermit’s ‘only sane man in the madhouse’ shtick is as funny as it ever was, the Electric Mayhem still makes me giggle, (Animal’s line in this week’s episode, “Wait- you get paid?!?” was a thing of beauty,) and the hecklers need more screen time. That…

Awww. Just a crossover? I was hoping you meant that Constantine the show was coming back, not just Constantine the character. Let’s all hope really hard that this is a harbinger of better things.

<Grin> Thanks. I had some fun with this one.

Let’s be fair here. I studied archaeology in school and have worked on several digs, so I am coming from a place of some knowledge. And I’m afraid that I have to agree that having an all-female team *had* to have been a publicity stunt of some sort, and does in fact lead to some questions about the validity of their…

Yeah. I really, really dislike looking into a dark mirror. But when you’re staggering to the bathroom in the middle of the night, there are only two choices, neither of them good. Turn on the lights, shock your system, and struggle to get back to sleep, or do what you need to in the dark and wash your hands with your…