But Leigh... starving is so much more fun if you've got lots of happy reading to look back on.
-sigh- the eternal debate...food vs pornliterature. How am I expected to choose between the two loves of my life? I can't help but think that Buffy "I'm made out of cookie dough" Summers wouldn't have this problem. ( The white-font is very vague dialogue-spoiler snark from BtVS 7.22)
So, the UK has just seen the first two eps of
Firefly.
("Serenity", in two parts but following directly on from one another). And I really DO love it as much as I thought I would. Quite possibly more. In fact, were it not for the depressing knowledge that it got suffocated by the good people of Fox, and that falling head over heels in love with it would be sheer craziness, then it would be in danger of quickly becoming my very favourite show.
Curse those Fox Bastards. Darn them. Darn them all to heck.
Better to have loved and lost, Fay.
That's what I've been telling myself, because Firefly? I love it. Lots. In many ways. But I know its going to be cruelly ripped away from me.
C'mon! Who cancels a show with britches? Crazy people, that's who.
That's what I've been telling myself, because Firefly? I love it. Lots. In many ways. But I know its going to be cruelly ripped away from me.
Now that you know its fate, don't go into it thinking of it as a continuing series. Think of it as a nifty finite series. Maybe that will help.
Fay, I think when it was airing in the US I described it as falling in love with a compulsive parachutist: any day might be the day your beloved went splat. Alas that it did.
The chef in *Edwardian House* is straight out of Wodehouse.
My husband found his Website:
[link]
Looking at the menus and seeing:
Smoked guinea Foul with Cranberry Chutney
Personally I prefer Fowl.
(I presume this was a typo and not a britishism.)
Westerners--are incredibly odd, with our strange ideas..., our idea of sex as a completely mutual activity between two (or more) equal subjects, and so on.
Larry Niven really put a twist on this by designing species with nonsentient females... wish I could remember what effect this had on their society. I know he worked out some interesting consequences.
The Kzin - and it turned out it was more complicated than that. The females were not really non-sentient. And the whole Kzin society and genetic traits were a result of a primitive tribal society getting hold of genetic engineering and remaking themselves in the image of their folk tales.
Larry Niven really put a twist on this by designing species with nonsentient females...
Is this one of those weird male fantasies that I just don't get, like the one about being a disembodied head in a jar?