Fish, Shows and Books.
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muccamukkRemember how a couple years back I was at Chatham Point, and the keeper I was replacing kept swinging by and giving me fish that she'd caught, like whole fresh salmon? So I spent weeks and weeks trying to eat all this fish (by myself) before it went bad? Then whenever someone came by I'd be like, Thank God you're here! Have a fish!
Okay, possibly no one remembers but me.
Anyway, it's Revenge of the Chatham Point Salmon this week. As I was leaving, the same keeper gave me a whole soft-smoked salmon, which I then froze. A couple weeks ago, I was poking through the freezer and decided we should probably eat it before it got burned. Since then, we've had smoked salmon poached in white wine, smoked salmon and scallop bisque (twice), smoked salmon on pizza, and smoked salmon, wild rice and corn griddle cakes. Plus eating it for breakfast and lunch. If we have it on pizza again tomorrow night, we may just use the last of it. I was explaining this situation to Brother, and he seemed notably unsympathetic. Something to the effect of, oh, that we should all have your problems.
I'm continuing in my haphazard Pros watching. I really liked "Hunter, Hunted" and "The Purging of CI5," mostly liked "Man without a Past" and "Discovered in a Graveyard," and outright disliked "Close Quarters." (Yes, this is a really random watching event thing.)
It occurs to me that Pros slash is on about the same level of sappiness as Starsky & Hutch canon, which is probably why I enjoy the fic so much. It is, however, rather more sappy than actual canon, which I'm mostly fine with, save that I get low grade whiplash when in the episode Bodie drops by Doyle's hospital room to not bring him grapes, hit on the nurse, and wander off to visit his girlfriend in the next room over, and in fic there's bedside vigils and weeping.
Is anyone interested, I can rec fic I've liked. My reading has been almost as haphazard as my watching though.
I've recently read Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon, which was an elegantly laid out Alternate history where the Jewish State was in Sitka, Alaska, not Isreal. Well, it was actually a noir action adventure comedy romance set in an elegantly laid out Alternate history where the Jewish State was in Sitka, Alaska, not Isreal. Highly recommended for humour alone, and for several moderately awesome women and Tlingit characters.
I also just finished, When She Woke by Hilary Jordan. This is a modern take on The Scarlet Letter and/or A Handmaid's Tale, which I think I would have unreservedly adored when I was a teenager, and really ought to be YA. It's set in a near-future USA where the radacle Christians have basically taken over the South, and most of the rest of the country as well. Our Heroine has an abortion, and then horrible, horrible things happen to her in the Name of Jesus. It's more a survival story than anything, and is well played for that. Good world building, and I really like the heroine, and secondary characters, but found the plot a little straight forward and slightly didactic. I really appreciated the differing views on religion though, and a fairly diverse, female-driven cast. Would warn for People Being Horrible in the Name of Jesus, and threatened sexual violence (though not excessive, and handled well).
Mowed the lawn today. And So It Begins.
Okay, possibly no one remembers but me.
Anyway, it's Revenge of the Chatham Point Salmon this week. As I was leaving, the same keeper gave me a whole soft-smoked salmon, which I then froze. A couple weeks ago, I was poking through the freezer and decided we should probably eat it before it got burned. Since then, we've had smoked salmon poached in white wine, smoked salmon and scallop bisque (twice), smoked salmon on pizza, and smoked salmon, wild rice and corn griddle cakes. Plus eating it for breakfast and lunch. If we have it on pizza again tomorrow night, we may just use the last of it. I was explaining this situation to Brother, and he seemed notably unsympathetic. Something to the effect of, oh, that we should all have your problems.
I'm continuing in my haphazard Pros watching. I really liked "Hunter, Hunted" and "The Purging of CI5," mostly liked "Man without a Past" and "Discovered in a Graveyard," and outright disliked "Close Quarters." (Yes, this is a really random watching event thing.)
It occurs to me that Pros slash is on about the same level of sappiness as Starsky & Hutch canon, which is probably why I enjoy the fic so much. It is, however, rather more sappy than actual canon, which I'm mostly fine with, save that I get low grade whiplash when in the episode Bodie drops by Doyle's hospital room to not bring him grapes, hit on the nurse, and wander off to visit his girlfriend in the next room over, and in fic there's bedside vigils and weeping.
Is anyone interested, I can rec fic I've liked. My reading has been almost as haphazard as my watching though.
I've recently read Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon, which was an elegantly laid out Alternate history where the Jewish State was in Sitka, Alaska, not Isreal. Well, it was actually a noir action adventure comedy romance set in an elegantly laid out Alternate history where the Jewish State was in Sitka, Alaska, not Isreal. Highly recommended for humour alone, and for several moderately awesome women and Tlingit characters.
I also just finished, When She Woke by Hilary Jordan. This is a modern take on The Scarlet Letter and/or A Handmaid's Tale, which I think I would have unreservedly adored when I was a teenager, and really ought to be YA. It's set in a near-future USA where the radacle Christians have basically taken over the South, and most of the rest of the country as well. Our Heroine has an abortion, and then horrible, horrible things happen to her in the Name of Jesus. It's more a survival story than anything, and is well played for that. Good world building, and I really like the heroine, and secondary characters, but found the plot a little straight forward and slightly didactic. I really appreciated the differing views on religion though, and a fairly diverse, female-driven cast. Would warn for People Being Horrible in the Name of Jesus, and threatened sexual violence (though not excessive, and handled well).
Mowed the lawn today. And So It Begins.
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Date: 7 Feb 2012 05:03 (UTC)Pros slash as equivalent to S&H canon makes sense too as an explanation for why S&H slash is that much more sappy. I mean, golly, when your canon has Starsky dipping Hutch in-character as a Latin dancer...
That summary of The Yiddish Policeman's Union makes me want to read it! I don't know why I got the impression that it was set in New York (like every other novel).
I actually flipped through A Handmaid's Tale in the bookstore one of those nights in December when I was bookshopping for your Christmas present. It was both similar to and different from what I expected. I liked the pseudo-historical documentary tone, and that the epilogue seemed to be about a time when Gilead was all in the past and no longer running things.
Lawn between here and children's consignment store has been gravelled over, but the sun was up (or on its way) at 7:30 this morning, which is distinctly different from the last time I did that shift in December. \o/
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Date: 7 Feb 2012 09:57 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8 Feb 2012 06:35 (UTC)Or all that hugging... There's very little hugging in Pros. I would go so far as to say there's none, though casual contact is common.
Yiddish Policman's Union is great. It's a wonderful setting.
Yeah, the story is in first person as a memoir by Offred, whose real name we never learn, but then there's the neat historical bit at the end, which gives some hope that she made it out alive. I liked it.
That's been gravelled over since like September, hasn't it? I went on a hike today, and we didn't get back until 5:30 and it wasn't even dark yet!
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Date: 7 Feb 2012 05:47 (UTC)I find that there's a the Professional bigbang coming, and it may produce more fic you like
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Date: 8 Feb 2012 06:46 (UTC)