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castiron ([personal profile] castiron) wrote2012-02-05 10:26 pm

sundry and various

1. This was not a year I remotely cared who won the Super Bowl.

2. One of the best times to go grocery shopping in the U.S. is a half hour after the Super Bowl starts.

3. On the way home from our lunch outing yesterday, younger son recited the entirety of this episode of Pocoyo. Which means that a. we're letting him spend far too much time watching stuff on the computer, b. his memory is pretty darned good, c. I need to listen to other stuff he's saying and see if he's doing this with other shows -- older son often echos lines from movies, but that's the autism there, and d. if he ever does it with the right accent, I'm signing him up for acting classes when he's old enough.

4. Why am I drawn to punk and heavy metal music lately? What is it about loud thrashing fast music that's so damn satisfying? Is it psychic caffeine, an outlet for rage, or what?

5. Shiner's current seasonal brew, Dortmunder Spring Ale, is pretty good.

6. I hope they're going to do the Ruby Redfruit again for this summer. Beer brewed with grapefruit juice and ginger -- sounds weird, but turns out to hit the spot when it's 102F out.

7. Does there exist a fic where Sally Donovan and Martha Jones go out for a pint and a debate on how best to cope with annoying geniuses?

8. Have been spoiled, but haven't actually seen that bit; summary data inclines me to suspect that I might have done the same thing in the character's shoes, but we'll see what I think when I actually watch it and find out how much of their actions were based on evidence and how much on seeing what they wanted to believe.

9. Speaking of spoiled, I really need to get back to watching DW season 6.

10. I clearly do not talk much about fandom with the spouse, as he had never heard the term "slash" before. (The topic came up because he was seeing homoerotic subtext in an episode of Thomas the Tank Engine. Make of that what you will.)

11. Now I want to request Thomas/Diesel 10 for next Yuletide. Which is simply Wrong.

12. But not as wrong as the new Thomas episodes where the trains' faces move. That's so wrong it makes kitten trees look right.

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