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Oct. 23rd, 2012 12:10 am1. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century is back in the rotation on Jaroo, so if defrosted Sherlock Holmes fighting futuristic crime with the assistance of Inspector Lestrade's great-...-granddaughter and a robot that thinks it's Watson sounds like something that you might find amusing (in any of several possible ways), here's your chance. Try to stick it out for at least the first three episodes, as they form a mini-plot-arc setting up the various bits of the series premise. (Also, the third episode is not half bad.) The first episode is only going to be up for a few more days, I think, but if you miss it I'll be happy to give you a brief synopsis of the key points so that you can carry on from episode two; this might in fact be preferable to actually watching the episode.
2. Australia's latest TV panel game is The Unbelievable Truth, based on the British radio panel game of the same name (which airs here on Radio National) in which contestants give lectures that consist almost entirely of lies, and the other contestants have to identify the implausible-but-true bits. Graeme Garden, co-creator of and regular contestant on the radio version, appeared in the second episode, and trounced everybody handily. I'm not sure so far that being on TV has added anything to the format, which after all is basically built around people talking, but allowing for it being early days yet it's not significantly worse either.
3. The same day I finished re-reading The Dragon Hoard, something happened to remind me of another of my favourite books since childhood, John Masefield's The Midnight Folk, so I'm re-reading that now. It's occurred to me that I've had one of Masefield's adventure stories for adults, Odtaa, lying around unread for a couple of years now, and I've been told that it and its sequel Sard Harker have connections to The Midnight Folk by way of shared characters and settings, so perhaps I'll read that next.
4. I mentioned in my last entry that I was unwell. I'm quite better now. I bring this up only because apparently nothing else more noteworthy has happened to me lately.
5. Random musical video link (via): Singer-songwriter duo Lou & Peter Berryman explain that since they've been touring across America, they've become conscious of the fact that all their sentimental songs are about their home state of Wisconsin. To redress the balance, they've written a sentimental song with spaces left blank to be filled in as appropriate.
Sometimes when the grass is blown by the breeze
There's a far-away look in the leaves of the trees
A memory returns, heart-breakingly clear
Of a place I call home, [your state's name here].
2. Australia's latest TV panel game is The Unbelievable Truth, based on the British radio panel game of the same name (which airs here on Radio National) in which contestants give lectures that consist almost entirely of lies, and the other contestants have to identify the implausible-but-true bits. Graeme Garden, co-creator of and regular contestant on the radio version, appeared in the second episode, and trounced everybody handily. I'm not sure so far that being on TV has added anything to the format, which after all is basically built around people talking, but allowing for it being early days yet it's not significantly worse either.
3. The same day I finished re-reading The Dragon Hoard, something happened to remind me of another of my favourite books since childhood, John Masefield's The Midnight Folk, so I'm re-reading that now. It's occurred to me that I've had one of Masefield's adventure stories for adults, Odtaa, lying around unread for a couple of years now, and I've been told that it and its sequel Sard Harker have connections to The Midnight Folk by way of shared characters and settings, so perhaps I'll read that next.
4. I mentioned in my last entry that I was unwell. I'm quite better now. I bring this up only because apparently nothing else more noteworthy has happened to me lately.
5. Random musical video link (via): Singer-songwriter duo Lou & Peter Berryman explain that since they've been touring across America, they've become conscious of the fact that all their sentimental songs are about their home state of Wisconsin. To redress the balance, they've written a sentimental song with spaces left blank to be filled in as appropriate.
Sometimes when the grass is blown by the breeze
There's a far-away look in the leaves of the trees
A memory returns, heart-breakingly clear
Of a place I call home, [your state's name here].
