I'd be interested to see what Brendan Gleeson (an actually Irish actor) does with the part, but then it also feels like that would somehow taint his greatness. And this is a dude who played Reynaud de Chatillon.

Also rabid classist Anglophiles. I watched it with my mom over Thanksgiving. That said, I got a pretty big kick out of Jeremy Northam's portrayal of Anthony Eden.

Wednesday, a friend of mine (who's also an occasional commenter here) opened her house for people to come by and commiserate. Managing to wrench myself away, I rode down there and found her and her friend watching Bob's Burgers. I actually found myself saying out loud "this is what's best about America." I still have…

Judkins here; apparently AVC legacy accounts are all still down.

"So, you… live around here much?"

"What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this, huh?"

Ah! I thought so. His scene in the warehouse is, for my money, the greatest British cinematic horror moment of the 90s.

Eh. I voted for Reagan in our (Louisiana elementary) school's mock election of 1980. My sole aim was to be different from all the other kids, who were voting for Carter. Wish I'd remembered that lesson twenty years later.

Hee. That reminds me of the biography of nineteenth-century culinary pioneer and superstar Alexis Soyer I read several years back when discussing his famous "Sauce a la Diplomat." Much in demand among the movers and shakers (perhaps crowned heads, even?) of Europe, the author decided to embark on the day-long process…

Libraries are for losers, of course, and eliminates all funding for them.

That's wonderful. Good for your daughter! DA's one of the few heroes I have left, and I'll probably feel like everyone did with Bowie and Prince combined when he goes (knock on wood).

Thoughts of this nature have gone back and forth in the ol' noggin for unrelated reasons the past year, and I always consider that it would be, if not exactly a waste, a failure to appreciate the opportunity to live that so many others hadn't. Really happy these resources are out there, whatever your friend's…

1 and 3 are well covered, but 2's a perennial resolution I need to make permanent, especially for 2017. Thanks for the reminder!

:( It'll be my brother's, too. We both voted Hillary, but I'm alternately anticipating and dreading our conversation (he apparently just got a job in DC with the government, and I'm not sure how yesterday might have affected that). I hope you manage to have a decent birthday regardless.

I just texted my ex with commiserations. Part of it's because she's got an awesome ten-year-old son and I suspect people with kids are hurting in ways I can't imagine partly for your reasons.

THIS. I've been saying for years on Facebook posts and elsewhere that, while it'll never be quite the way it was (both because of changing international politics and domestic demographics), it doesn't have to be as bad as it is now (or almost certainly will become in the coming months).

Yeah, I'll probably come around in an hour or so.

Online hug (Judkins, facing the same Disqus blackout as so many others). Good to see you here and best of luck!

Maybe I'll go swimming tomorrow? Sure as hell ain't happenin' today. Need to keep up my strength for the retirement I'll probably have even less of than I would have yesterday.

*Sigh* Here, take it.