My love for Sherlock Holmes falls slightly outside my usual run of interests. (My usual run of interests, for those of you new to the blog, being more along the lines of attractive desperate women and stories about consequences.) Yet Holmes is a character I almost always adore. 1. In the currently-running BBC series Sherlock [...]
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1. I truly do not understand the disapproval and ire I saw on Twitter and blogs about the Superbowl performance of the Black Eyed Peas. I mean, clearly their monitors weren’t working right and they could not hear themselves or each other. And whoever was mixing them was doing an incredibly bad job. But neither [...]
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1. I finished Irrepressible yesterday. For those of you keeping score at home, that’s the biography of Jessica Mitford. Let me just say, it is decidedly odd to be reading a biography of a person who lived in history — you know, all those years before I was born — and then their bio starts [...]
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I watched the first episode, “A Study in Pink,” of the new Sherlock Holmes series Sherlock on the PBS website yesterday. The show is well-made, I like the technical quirks of updating it, I like the actors, and the cinematography is good. I look forward to seeing half-recognized actors from other British shows appearing in [...]
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