sovay: (Sydney Carton)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2018-02-21 10:53 pm

I was so young when I was born

Tonight I had dinner at Machu Picchu with two friends who are not on Dreamwidth. There was ceviche and beef heart and papa a la Huancaína and wide-ranging conversation. It was really nice.

1. Courtesy of [personal profile] moon_custafer: Saint Valentine and his army of husbands. Occasionally I wonder if these stories of misapprehension are built up for the internet and then I remember that I always hear the hook of the Rick Springfield song as "I wish that I was Jessie's girl."

2. Courtesy of [personal profile] spatch: James Mason's cats. See also this article. I had no idea James Mason either loved cats or could draw. I am charmed by both.

3. Courtesy of [personal profile] handful_ofdust: Ida Lupino in white tie and tails and Janelle Monáe in several sharp suits. You want to put them in the same movie, I'm fine with that.

4. It's no use longing for a teleporter since I am contracted to spend this weekend in another city, house-sitting for friends' cats, but this year's theme at the Kansas Silent Film Festival is "Women in Silent Film" and the program looks great. Louise Fazenda, Colleen Moore, Alice Guy-Blaché, Lois Weber, Dorothy Gish, Mary Pickford, Mabel Normand, Alla Nazimova, female writers, actors, and directors I've never heard of, and genderqueer sky pirates to boot.

5. I cannot remember when or how I found the video for George Harrison's "Crackerbox Palace" (1976), but I'm really fond of it. Also of Harrison's eyebrows, which minus the moustache and with the mop-top grown out really come into their own.
nenya_kanadka: Reality has a homoerotic bias (@ homoerotic bias)

[personal profile] nenya_kanadka 2018-02-23 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
I *think* the icon is from US politics RPF fandom circa 2008; it's definitely a riff on either Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert's "Reality has a liberal bias."

I find myself using it a lot. :D