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I should really stop re-watching Ballykissangel. It makes me weepy. You try to forget that Assumpta dies, but it's always in the back of your mind. Poor Father Clifford. It's even more tragic than Rick and Ada in Bleak House, and that's about as tragic as they come.
On a non-tragic note, I went to hear George Takei from Star Trek speak about human rights at the University three days ago, and I got a picture with him and an autograph. For someone who grew up watching Star Trek, that's pretty surreal. My mom seriously loves Star Trek, and I grew up with it always around. So to go outside of the auditorium the other day to get some air before it started, and to see Mr. Sulu four feet away, on the same balcony, looking out at the view of the opposite hill just like I was, was a pretty freaky trip. But cool. And we didn't even have to pay a billion dollars and wait in a line for hours like we would if we went to a Star Trek convention! I love my Star Trek, but I never want to go to a convention. People dressed as Klingons selling over-priced memorabilia in an overcroweded convention center just isn't my idea of fun.
(They're apparently making a second series of Miss Marple to air later this year though, which IS my idea of fun. Yay!)
Currently reading the Annotated Brothers Grimm, which is full of cool stuff for someone who's into folklore and fairy tales, but also lots of disturbing crap too. It is the Brothers Grimm, after all. This book's got a whole section at the back of stories that were cut out of later editions of the original book because parents objected to them, and they're the creepiest of the creepy. I always liked fairy tales with princesses and castles, thank you very much. And it's so funny the way scholars are always trying to read stuff into fairy tales that half the time isn't there. If you believe the 'scholar's' opinions presented in the footnotes, "Little Red Riding Hood" is all about sex, not the importance of keeping the hell away from strangers in the woods because they'll kill you. And you don't even want to know what they said about "The Frog Prince". Everything has to do with sex in the scholarly view. Sometimes, no actually ALL the time, I think Freud did modern psychology more harm than good.
On a non-tragic note, I went to hear George Takei from Star Trek speak about human rights at the University three days ago, and I got a picture with him and an autograph. For someone who grew up watching Star Trek, that's pretty surreal. My mom seriously loves Star Trek, and I grew up with it always around. So to go outside of the auditorium the other day to get some air before it started, and to see Mr. Sulu four feet away, on the same balcony, looking out at the view of the opposite hill just like I was, was a pretty freaky trip. But cool. And we didn't even have to pay a billion dollars and wait in a line for hours like we would if we went to a Star Trek convention! I love my Star Trek, but I never want to go to a convention. People dressed as Klingons selling over-priced memorabilia in an overcroweded convention center just isn't my idea of fun.
(They're apparently making a second series of Miss Marple to air later this year though, which IS my idea of fun. Yay!)
Currently reading the Annotated Brothers Grimm, which is full of cool stuff for someone who's into folklore and fairy tales, but also lots of disturbing crap too. It is the Brothers Grimm, after all. This book's got a whole section at the back of stories that were cut out of later editions of the original book because parents objected to them, and they're the creepiest of the creepy. I always liked fairy tales with princesses and castles, thank you very much. And it's so funny the way scholars are always trying to read stuff into fairy tales that half the time isn't there. If you believe the 'scholar's' opinions presented in the footnotes, "Little Red Riding Hood" is all about sex, not the importance of keeping the hell away from strangers in the woods because they'll kill you. And you don't even want to know what they said about "The Frog Prince". Everything has to do with sex in the scholarly view. Sometimes, no actually ALL the time, I think Freud did modern psychology more harm than good.
