dear Hogfather, for Hogswatch I want...

[freckles_and_doubt]

OMG! Sky is making a TV version of Hogfather! One that is (a) Pratchett-approved, (b) talks continually about being faithful to the book, and (c) has, judging by their pictures, an almost pitch-perfect cast. Which reminds me, has anyone actually seen the animated versions of Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters? Were they any good? *wishlists on the offchance*

I feel that my experience at the Friendly Psychologist's birthday party last night is a metaphor for something, although I'm not quite sure what. Standing in a corner and working up the courage to talk to strangers, I found myself fingering the hem of my new Indian cotton top with the traily sleeves. Strangely, there were little bumpy things all over the inside. Intrigued, I repaired to the bathroom and removed said top, only to discover that the little bumpy things were sequinned patterns and that, blissfully unaware of them, I'd been wearing the damned thing inside-out since I bought it. I realise this may come across as a more than usually egregious case of academic absent-mindedness, but there are factors in mitigation: not only is all the hemming with fancy machine-embroidery actually reversible, but the shop had the blouse inside-out on the hangar, and, as a clincher, the size tag is sewn cheerfully onto the outside. I feel that this basic confusion, or rather ineradicable conflation, of surface with substance is both intrinsically postmodern, and horribly indicative of my life at the moment. Clothes, so important.

Good party, though.

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[egadfly.livejournal.com]

There are posters all over the Underground advertising Hogfather. I'd assumed it was a big-screen movie, and was starting to sqweep with anticipation. Still, a for-TV Pratchett movie which, as you say, seems Worthy, is more than enough for anticipatory sqweeping. *sqweep!*

[khoi-boi.livejournal.com]

oooh, I see Hustle's Danny Blue is playing Teatime. I like him. And a lot of the rest of the cast are familiar to me. Seems good.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Marc Warren was also brilliant in the Doctor Who episode called "Love and Monsters" - played an ELO-fan geek with incredibly hopeless nerdy charm. But, strangely, I can also see him doing the disturbing/freaky edge to Teatime very well. In fact, generally, I'm impressed by how well the looks of each of these actors fit the characters.

OMG! The guy they've cast as Sideney was Neil in The Young Ones! Coolness!

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[pinkthulhu.livejournal.com]

Whoa, good cast. David Jason, Tony Robinson, Joss Ackland, just for starters. The production shots do look cool.

I'm sure a certain Queen Rowling is cursing into her magic mirror... ;-)

I've noticed that recent trend of sewing shirt tags onto the outside, and find it vaguely strange.

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[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Sewing shirt tags to the outside makes a certain sort of horrible consumerist sense when it's all about branding, but not when it simply says "52." What is that, even? I refuse to believe I wear a size 52. Am undecided whether the manufacturer was drunk, incompetent or trying for some horrible sort of practical joke.

Not that it's an issue any more, since one of the pleasant side effects of dressmaking is the possession of what strawberryfrog used to call my miniature, collapsible, vaccuum-baked, plastic Bohemian ear-spoon, more commonly known as an unpicker or quick unpick. The tag, she is no more, and surface/interior order is restored.

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[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

strawberryfrog can be very odd, sometimes.

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[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Aargh! I've just re-read my own comment, and "vacuum-baked" should, of course, read "vacuum-packed." Typing with a headache will do that...

He's not as odd as all that. The end of a quick unpick does actually resemble a miniature version of a Bohemian ear-spoon, which is a particularly nasty kind of pole-arm found in the D&D manual and possibly also in reality. And my quick unpick is collapsible: the handle is a transparent plastic bit that can be removed and put on the other end to protect the sharp bits. It's all perfectly logical if you know the context :>.

I should admit up-front and now that, even if I spend all the rest of the day in fiendish chapter wrangling (which is The Plan), I will not be taking myself off to see Casino Royale tomorrow, as the morning has been well and truly frittered away. Sigh.

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[origamitiger.livejournal.com]

Nahhhh he is odd but in a delightful way.