an affront to heterosexual women

[freckles_and_doubt]

Wheeee! four-day weekend. This is not a job I want in the long-term if I feel so good about a minor break from it. Said four-day break was ideally ushered in by a slightly belated Salty Cracker last night at Cargill's, which is warm and small and intimate and slightly off-beat, and provides truly excellent food. Including duck. Eventually my Seekrit Mission to have ranked the duck in every restaurant in Cape Town will be accomplished. (Cargill's is currently in the top 3).

On the even further upside, my Thursday was utterly made by the Pajiba report on the latest bit of gossip from the Sherlock Holmes movie, featuring the slashy pairing of RDJ with Jude Law, together with an unbelievably oblivious and bigoted response to same. The tone of the Pajiba article is wonderful - that's quality sarcasm, that is. The comments are also enormously entertaining and not a little scurrilous. Also, I'll be in my bunk.

Am I alone, incidentally, in finding a slashy subtext to Sherlock Holmes entirely inevitable from the Conan Doyle originals? Holmes is such a desperately iconoclastic eccentric, I don't think it would surprise me to find that his list of indulgences included Turkish boys and flogging as well as cocaine and the violin.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Not alone. In fact, I always thought Julian Sands might make a good Sherlock.

[khoi-boi.livejournal.com]

...that was me

Julian Sands as Mr Holmes

[egadfly.livejournal.com]

Hm, yes, I think that would work very well.

Re: Julian Sands as Mr Holmes

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I like the Jude Law quote where he talks about Guy Ritchie's view of Holmes and Watson - "They’re both mean and complicated". This works for me. I agree on the probable awesomeness of Julian Sands in the role, but in fact I'm dying to see what RDJ makes of it, he has the necessary intensity and basic no-holds-barred iconoclasm. Also, RDJ with a British accent makes me curl up my toes in fangirly glee.