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Long Weekend Report
Aug. 6th, 2018 07:55 pmGot my hair cut Saturday in an asymmetric style that’s sort of a pixie cut on my left side and an angle bob on my right. Was going to have lunch with the folks on Sunday, but they decided they weren’t up to travelling in the predicted heat and humidity. Andrew and I went down to the Sunnyside Cafe instead and lucked into a table in the shade.
Watched more versions of The Makropulos Affair/Case and this morning some ideas for a fic began falling into place — I’d been trying for a Liquid Sky /The Hunger crossover, but I think the story is going to be more The Hunger/Ghostbusters and a few other things. Among other possibilities, this means that there are two characters who look like Susan Sarandon, who might get mistaken for each other at crucial moments (and since Dana is a cellist she might well know John Blaylock....)
There was a quote on Tumblr the other day, from some time in the 1940s, that iirc went “People say that life is just one damn thing after another. This is inaccurate. The damn things overlap.”
Just found this YouTube vid: interviews from 1929 with people who were eighty or older at the time. It fuels my belief that a visual and vocal stereotype for “old person” got set down in this period and held sway until at least the end of the twentieth century — I remember seeing comedy skits throughout my childhood in which the costume for old ladies was invariably a high-collared print dress and hair up in a bun, even though the octogenarians of the day had come of age in the 1920s (and from what I can remember, had odd short perms like dandelions that may have been the result of hairdressers attempting marcel waves with 1980s styling technology).
The Willow Tea Rooms have been restored and reopened. As I said on Facebook, this is both awesome and likely to lead to another assignment for Sapphire and Steel: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-45019383
Watched more versions of The Makropulos Affair/Case and this morning some ideas for a fic began falling into place — I’d been trying for a Liquid Sky /The Hunger crossover, but I think the story is going to be more The Hunger/Ghostbusters and a few other things. Among other possibilities, this means that there are two characters who look like Susan Sarandon, who might get mistaken for each other at crucial moments (and since Dana is a cellist she might well know John Blaylock....)
There was a quote on Tumblr the other day, from some time in the 1940s, that iirc went “People say that life is just one damn thing after another. This is inaccurate. The damn things overlap.”
Just found this YouTube vid: interviews from 1929 with people who were eighty or older at the time. It fuels my belief that a visual and vocal stereotype for “old person” got set down in this period and held sway until at least the end of the twentieth century — I remember seeing comedy skits throughout my childhood in which the costume for old ladies was invariably a high-collared print dress and hair up in a bun, even though the octogenarians of the day had come of age in the 1920s (and from what I can remember, had odd short perms like dandelions that may have been the result of hairdressers attempting marcel waves with 1980s styling technology).
The Willow Tea Rooms have been restored and reopened. As I said on Facebook, this is both awesome and likely to lead to another assignment for Sapphire and Steel: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-45019383
